Bibliography

• General
• List of Atlases Used
• List of Books Used
• List of Reference Works Used
• Recomendations
• War Statistics

General:

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.

Atlases:

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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