Bibliography
It's very difficult to footnote a map. I can't think of a way to point to
this border or that town and say where I got this information from. For
example, in order to compile the series of maps illustrating
systems of government, I had to read at least one
political history of every country in the world. Because all I wanted to know
was whether they had fair elections or frequent coups, I only had to skim the
surface. I did not have to read in-depth studies of voting patterns or palace
intrigues, but I still had to consult a different source for every country, and
there's no easy way to list them all in context.
Naturally, I made heavy use of previous atlases, but I did my best to follow
the cartographer's first rule of ethics: "Don't just trace the
other guy's map; that's stealing, plain and simple. Do something different."
I've always tried to put a unique twist on my maps that none of the others have
tried yet.
The ones I have in a big pile beside my desk and therefore use quite
frequently:
- Barraclaugh, Geoffrey, ed., The Times Concise Atlas of World History :
Revised Edition (1991)
- Blundin, Caroline & Elvin, Mark, Cultural Atlas of China (Facts
on File, 1983)
- Channon, John The Penguin Historical Atlas of Russia (Penguin,
1995)
- Greiss, Thomas E., ed., Atlas for the Great War (West Point
Military History Series, 1986)
- Hammond's Universal World Atlas (1950)
- Haywood, John, Atlas of World History (1997)
- Keegan, John, ed., Harper Collins Atlas of the Second World War
(1997)
- Kidron, Michael & Segal, Ronald
- The State of the World Atlas (Pluto Press, 1981)
- The New State of the World Atlas (Pluto Press, 1984)
- The New State of the World Atlas, 4th edition (Pluto Press, 1991)
- The State of the World Atlas, 5th edition (Pluto Press, 1995)
- Kidron, Michael & Smith, Dan
- The War Atlas : Armed Conflict - Armed Peace (1983)
- The New State of War and Peace (1991)
- Kinder, Hermann & Hilgemann, Werner, The Anchor Atlas of World
History : Volume II (1978)
- Life World Library : Atlas of the World (1966)
- Messenger, Charles, The Chronological Atlas of World War Two
(Macmillan, 1989)
- Moore, R. I., ed., Rand McNally : Atlas of World History (Rand
McNally, 1984)
- O'Brien & Palmer, Martin, The State of Religion Atlas (Pluto
Press, 1993)
- Oxford Economic Atlas of the World (Oxford University Press, 1972)
- Overy, Richard, ed., Hammond Atlas of the 20th Century (1996)
- Palmer, R. R., ed., Rand McNally : Atlas of World History (Rand
McNally, 1957)
- Serryn, Pierre, Nouvel Atlas Bordas : Historique et Geographique
(1973)
- Smith, Dan, The State of War and Peace Atlas, 3rd edition (Pluto
Press, 1997)
- Seagar, Joni, The New State of the Earth Atlas, 2nd edition (Pluto
Press, 1995)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Historical Atlas of the
Holocaust (MacMillan, 1996)
The atlases I have to go to the library to consult:
- Dockrill, Michael, Atlas of Twentieth Century History (Ilex Publ.,
1991)
- Hartman, Tom, and John Mitchell, A World Atlas of Military History
1945-1984 (Lee Cooper, 1984)
- Natkiel, Richard Atlas of the 20th Century (Facts on File, 1982)
- Pluvier, Jan, Historical Atlas of South-East Asia (1995)
Other books I have in a big pile around my desk:
- Davies, Norman, Europe A History (Harper Collins, 1998)
- Gilbert, Martin, A History of the Twentieth Century (Avon)
- Volume One: 1900-1933 (1997)
- Volume Two: 1934-1951 (1998)
- Grenville, J. A. S., A History of the World in the Twentieth Century
(The Belknap Press, 1994)
- Gunther, John,
- Inside Africa (1955)
- Inside Asia (1939)
- Inside Latin America (1941)
- Harris, Marvin, America Now (Simon & Schuster, 1981)
- Hobsbawm, Eric, The Age of Extremes (Vintage, 1994)
- Keegan, John, The Second World War (Penguin, 1990)
- Johnson, Haynes, Sleepwalking Through History (Anchor, 1992)
- Johnson, Paul, Modern Times (Harper & Row, 1983)
- July, Robert W., A History of the African People (2d ed.,
Scribners, 1974)
- Laquer, Walter, Europe Since Hitler : The Rebirth of Europe (1982)
- Monmonier, Mark, How to Lie with Maps (University of Chicago,
1991)
- O'Rourke, P.J., Holidays in Hell (1992)
- Our Times: The Illustrated History of the 20th Century (Turner
Publishing, 1995)
- Pakenham, Thomas, The Scramble for Africa (Avon, 1991)
- Palmowski, Jan, A Dictionary of Twentieth Century World History
(Oxford University Press, 1997)
- Service, Robert, A History of Twentieth-Century Russia (Harvard
Univ. Press, 1997)
- Shirer, William L., The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (Fawcett
Crest, 1960)
- Skidmore, Thomas E. and Peter H. Smith, Modern Latin America, 4th
ed., 1997
- Smith, Whitney, Flags Through the Ages and Across the World
(McGraw-Hill, 1975)
- Solzhenitsyn, Alexandr I. The Gulag Archipelago (Harper & Row,
1973)
- Spence, Jonathan, The Search for Modern China (Norton, 1990)
- Traeger, James, The People's Chronology (1992)
- Wallechinsky, David, Twentieth Century : History With the Boring Parts
Left Out (Little, Brown, 1995)
- Wolpert, Stanley, A New History of India, 4th ed. (Oxford
University Press, 1993)
Narrative histories from the library:
- Bulloch, John and Harvey Morris, The Gulf War : Its origins, history
and consequences (Methuen, 1989)
- Laffin, John
- War Annual 1, (1986)
- War Annual 2, (1987)
- War Annual 3, (1989)
- War Annual 4, (1990)
- War Annual 5, (1991)
- War Annual 6, (1994)
- War Annual 7, (199)
- War Annual 8, (1997)
Dull reference books I have on hand which are full
of Statistics:
Many of my maps make heavy use of statistics, but these too came from a
vague variety of sources. The UN has been publishing a statistical yearbook
since its inception, although it only includes countries that are organized
enough to have a fact-gathering bureacracy. Before that, I've had to scrounge
numbers from various almanacs, encyclopedias and chronicles from the first half
of this century.
These are the ones I actually own:
- Britannica Book of the Year 1950
- Britannica Book of the Year 1960
- Britannica Book of the Year 1992
- Information Please Almanac 1991
- World Almanac and Book of Facts 1975
- World Almanac and Book of Facts 1984
War Statistics:
I've set aside a special series of pages for
these.
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