History: From the Dawn of Civilization to the Present Day

Six hundred pages. Every continent. Five thousand years. DK’s History: From the Dawn of Civilization to the Present Day is the most ambitious single-volume history ever published — a comprehensive, visually spectacular account of the human past that manages to be both genuinely comprehensive in its scope and genuinely accessible in its presentation. From the first cities of Mesopotamia through the empires of antiquity, the medieval world, the age of exploration, the revolutions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the catastrophes and achievements of the twentieth, every major event and every major civilisation receives authoritative, clear treatment.

Maps, timelines, profiles of key figures, and thousands of photographs and illustrations make the historical narrative vivid and memorable. The visual approach is not a simplification — it is a way of making complexity comprehensible, connecting events and periods that conventional narrative histories can leave isolated from each other.

The essential one-volume history of the world — an indispensable reference and a magnificent object. Published by DK.