This is a full-color, reasonably priced booklet of historical maps from every major age and civilization. It would be a worthwhile to every library - public or private. Here is a complete list of the larger two-page maps contained in this book (there are numerous smaller maps as well):

• Human Emergence on the Changing Face of the Earth: Growth of Civilization to 200 A.D.
  
• Alexander's Empire 336-323 B.C.
  
• Roman Republic 31 B.C.
  
• Roman Empire about 120 A.D.
  
• Roman Empire about 400 A.D.
  
• Easter and Southern Asia About 750 A.D.
  
• Islamic World c. 800 A.D.
  
• International Trade 1350 A.D. - 1450 A.D.
  
• Europe and the Crusader States about 1140
  
• Asia at the death of Kublai Khan (1294)
  
• Europe (about 1360)
  
• European Civilization during the Renaissance
  
• Europe's Age of Discovery 15th-17th Centuries
  
• The Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal Emipres in the 16th and 17th centuries
  
• East Asia 16th Century
  
• Eastern and Southern Asia about 1775
  
• The Holy Roman Empire after the Peace of Westphalia 1648
  
• Europe in 1721
  
• Native America
  
• Revolutions in the Atlantic World 1776-1826
  
• Westward Expansion 1800-1850
  
• Latin America about 1790
  
• Latin American 1800-1900
  
• Latin America after Independence: 1821-1929
  
• Expansion of Russia in Europe
  
• Languages of Europe in the 19th Century
  
• European Partition of Africa: 19th Century
  
• Resistance to European Colonialism: 1870-1917
  
• The World about 1900
  
• Asia 1900
  
• Europe 1922-1940
  
• World War II
  
• Easter Mediterranean Area: 1945-1990
  
• and Current World and Political and Physical Maps

There is a great deal of fascinating and informative details in many of the maps, including such things as: routes of exploration, trade, crusades and conquest; information about significant battles in various wars (including American Revolution, Civil War etc.); major products of trade; languages; birthplace of major historical figures and the positions of various countries at a particular time (such as Europe in 1810 at the Height of Napoleon's Power). I could spend hours and hours poring over these maps. It is a good resource to pull out during family or classroom discusssions of history and a good way of getting a better picture of what was going on in the world at specific periods of history.