Grant, Neil

The history of Palestine from the 1917 Balfour Declaration, promising Jews a national home, through the 1947 partition into Arab and Jewish Provinces.

Presents full-color illustrated photographs and drawings describing the history and culture of the Viking civilization including their religion and methods of burial, shipbuilding, Viking raids and fortifications, daily life, and much more.

Provides an attractive, interesting, easy-to-use, and chronolocally-arranged view of world history, from the earliest human beings to the year 2000.

Chronicles the history of theatre from antiquity to the present, profiling popular playwrights and their works, actors and actresses, and critics and theorists from all corners of the globe.

A biography of the Holy Roman Emperor whose reign influenced almost every important event in Western history between 1516 and 1556.

Maps and text depict major areas and routes of exploration from about 6000 B.C. to the present.

Describes the religion, clothing, housing, sports and games, work, and other aspects of life in eighteenth-century Europe.

Discusses early explorers and the effects of their exploration on the cultures and economies of both old and new worlds.