Each site has an entry explaining its historical and cultural significance, with a description and location map.

"... features 100 examples of architecture ..."--Inside flap.

This lively, accessible guide to the main characteristics, movements and regional variants of a millennium of Western architecture, from the early Romanesque to the most recent ...

Examines archaeological sites in Africa, Europe, Asia, the Near East, and the Americas, discussing each site's history, aspects of its past civilization, and details of its ...