Historical geography of the world. Tutorial. 3rd edition. Maksakovsky V.P.

This Textbook has no analogues both by the latitude of the coverage of the material chosen by the topics and the structure of the presentation, and the special style of presentation, which involves the fully “humanization” of the educational material.

The most general task of the work is to show the history of the formation the modern political map of the world, the modern world economy, the modern population of the world, including its growth, movement, structure, material and spiritual culture. Being a perfectly thought out textbook on the one hand, the book at the same time in its genre is closer to popular science publications. This implies the widespread use of various kinds of fascinating descriptions and interesting facts, a support on fiction, lively, in style, which ultimately reflects the author’s credo, which can be expressed in the words: “Learning should be interesting!”

The book is designed to expand and deepen the humanitarian education of students of geographical specialties of universities, as well as for everyone who is interested in geography and history.