World and Its PeoplesIncorporates 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 examine the 50 countries, dependencies, and states of the European continent, putting into perspective this enormously influential center of commerce and culture. |
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Contents
GEOGRAPHY AND CLIMATE | 148 |
HISTORY AND MOVEMENT OF PEOPLES | 166 |
Government | 192 |
Government | 201 |
Cultural Expression | 226 |
Daily Life | 245 |
Economy | 269 |
Monaco | 278 |
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