Cultural Atlas for Young People: Must Be Ordered Under Individual Volumes

by Gillian Evans (Editor)

From the Mycenaean society of ancient Greece to the Aztec Empire of fifteenth-century Mexico, the Cultural Atlas for Young People set provides a systematic, cross-disciplinary overview of the world's important cultures. Young readers will learn, for instance, not just about the geography and history of ancient Greece, but how geography and history interrelate -- and how they influence daily life, language and lore, and art and architecture.An Exploration of the Pivotal Ideas and Institutions of the Past

Through a brilliant integration of cartography, illustrations, and text, each volume guides young readers on exciting voyages through ancient towns and villages and inside homes and gardens to introduce the people, customs, and institutions of bygone civilizations.

Each atlas
-- Full-color maps, supported by explanatory text and illustrations, enhancing coverage
-- Charts, tables, and chronologies that provide ready reference to significant events and periods
-- Special feature spreads focusing on particularly interesting facets of a civilization and its centers that can still be visited today
-- Full-color reconstructions of what life was like at the time that enable young readers to understand the evidence on which history is based.

Hardcover

About the author

Gillian studied social anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies before completing her Master's and PhD degree in the Social Anthropology of Children and Child Development in the Centre for Child-Focused Anthropological Research (CFAR) at Brunel University. In 2006, Gillian published an ethnographic monograph based on her PhD research about the post-industrial docklands of Southeast London, entitled Educational Failure and Working Class White Children in Britain.

Gillian held a Temporary Lectureship at the University of Manchester in 2006 and now holds a Research Council Fellowship from
2007-2012 in the Centre for the Study of Social and Economic Change (CRESC). She is undertaking a long-term ethnographic study of the planning and delivery of the Olympic Legacy in the post-industrial East End of London.