World and Its Peoples: Europe: Database

Learn all about the closest allies and toughest competitors of the United States in this fourth part of Marshall Cavendish’s monumental resource on world geography, history, and culture. Europe past and present is home to many of the ideas and peoples that have made America great. This one unique resource presents the full story from the ground of geography to the spirit of each nation’s song and dance, employing the highly acclaimed and recommended format established in three predecessor works on Asia and the Americas.

ARRANGEMENT
 ? 12 volumes of regional and country coverage
 ? Volume indexes and guides to further research
 ? Additional index volume with multiple indexes and other resources
 ? Regional coverage in each volume includes:
 ? Geography and Climate
 ? History and Movement of Peoples
 ? 44 countries receive separate discussions of:
 ? Government
 ? Modern History
 ? Cultural Expression
 ? Daily Life
 ? Economy
 ? 6 other dependencies and states receive short coverage, including maps
 ? Over 200 maps
 ? Over 1,000 photos
 ? 50 flags
 ? Vital statistics, chronologies, city profiles

SCOPE
In its well-established, standard, and popular format, incorporates every conceivable focus of interest from holidays to health care, national anthems to gross national product, natural resources, ethnic groups, voting age, performing arts, provincial capitals, leaders of the past and present, native plants and animals, and far more. Newly commissioned political and geophysical maps represent past and present realities. The thirteen volumes of this set examines 50 countries, dependencies, and states of the European continent, putting into perspective this enormously influential center of commerce and culture.

INDEX Volume 13 contains:
 ? Comparative statistics
 ? Glossary
 ? Comprehensive guide to further research
 ? 6 thematic indexes:
 ? Place-names index
 ? Ethnic and religious groups index
 ? Landscape and climate index
 ? Historical index
 ? Cultural and artistic index
 ? Economic index
 ? Comprehensive index

BENEFITS
In one incomparably rich and authoritative reference work find the detailed facts, the geographical and historical context, and the visual resources needed to place the world an its peoples in perspective.