Every day, Stéphane Place offers you a literature break, in partnership with the Librairie Mollat de Bordeaux. This Tuesday, "World Historical Atlas" by Christian Grataloup.
"World Historical Atlas" by Christian Grataloup
The simple term of atlas can awaken more or less good memories of our schooling. We all worked on cards, trying especially to memorize them for the written interview that we faced with colored pencils in hand. The atlas we are talking about this Tuesday brings together 515 maps, with the key to a promise, a completely original ambition: to tell us the history of humanity. The march of the world, from its origins to today, an invitation to travel through time at a glance. A "World Historical Atlas" recommended by Jean-Baptiste Garros, bookseller at Mollat.
It is the most historian of geographers, Christian Grataloup, who selected and commented on these 515 maps.
"But let us not imagine holding one of these haughty atlases ... it is quite the contrary to make an image of a history attentive to the accidents of ground, to the scruples of the men, or to the hesitations of the events" , this is what historian Patrick Boucheron writes, who signs the introduction to this historical world Atlas.
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