The great works of mankind : a visual history /
Boudet, Jacques,author.
Manceron, Claude,author.
Ostier, Jacques,author.
London : Bodley Head,
1962.
Giza and Babel: the sun rises on the east -- The first pyramids of Egypt: Meidum and Saqqara -- Mesopotamia: the ziggurats -- Giza -- The wonders of Egypt -- The colossi of Memnon -- Rameses II and the temples of Abu Simbel -- Jersualem: the temple -- Athens and Nara: order and beauty -- The golden age of Greek building -- Bamiyan: the valley of Buddha -- The Great Wall of China -- Great works of Rome -- Sacred grottoes of China: Lung Men -- The Forum -- The golden age of Indian building -- Machu Pichu and Granada: sanctuaries and citadels -- Masterpiece of the ancient Mayas -- Teotihuacan ad Oaxaca -- Angkor, city and temple -- Machu Pichu of the Incas -- The Maya renaissance -- The Alhambra, Granada -- Pekin, the imperial city -- Isfahan and Versailles: the monarchs as builders -- Rome: Saint Peter's -- The flowering of Islam -- The palace of Versailles -- Bangkok, functional city -- Suez and Manhattan: the new iron age -- The awakening of North America -- Crystal Palace -- The Suez Canal -- The past reconstructed: Viollet-le-Duc and Gaudi -- Brooklyn Bridge -- The Tay Bridge -- Rio and Dnieproges: the age of confidence -- The Statue of Liberty -- The Eiffel Tower -- Oakland Bridge -- The Panama Canal -- The Empire State Building -- The dykes of Holland -- The awakening of the U.S.S.R. -- Essen and An Shan: all the world a workshop -- Great works of the U.S.A. -- Hoover Dam, Tennessee Valley, Grand Coulee -- The Golden Gate -- European achievements -- Great works of Russia -- Great works of China -- Oak Ridge and Vostok: from the atom to the cosmos -- The Channel Bridge and the Mont Blanc Tunnel -- The Saint Lawrence Seaway.
Architecture
Building
Engineering