Download or read book A Dictionary of Nineteenth Century World History written by John Belchem and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1994-06-06 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary serves as a first point of reference for all aspects of political, diplomatic, military, social and economic history, and provides overviews of the cultural and artistic developments of the period. The century was one of change, and the book's 800 entries chart these changes in all parts of the world. In contrast to earlier reference works, this dictionary focuses a considerable amount of attention on the role of women, on African-American and native American figures, and on areas that fall outside the European-North American axis. Its many biographical entries provide key facts about the significant figures of the century, all of them cross-referenced to thematic entries where appropriate. The historical span of the dictionary is 1800-1900, although some entries range beyond these dates to give a comprehensive coverage of long-term or continuous developments. There is a selection of maps and a full index.
Download or read book A Dictionary of Nineteenth century History written by John Belchem and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative and wide-ranging dictionary covers historical events, themes and personalities. Containing over 800 entries written by experts in their fields of study, it gives global coverage of political, diplomatic, military, social and economic history, as well as providing overviews of the artistic and cultural history of the age. A time of rapid change, the 19th century saw developments in every sphere of activity, from population growth to changes in the nature of scientific knowledge and research. The Industrial Revolution initiated the ongoing process of economic growth that was to transform the Western world. Politics saw the advent of socialism and liberalism. The growth of nationalism led to European conflicts, while revolts in South America marked the first examples of internal nationalist revolution against European domination.
Download or read book Dictionary of Nineteenth century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland written by Laurel Brake and published by Academia Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 1059 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A large-scale reference work covering the journalism industry in 19th-Century Britain.
Download or read book The Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History written by A. Iriye and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 1267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written and edited by many of the world's foremost scholars of transnational history, this Dictionary challenges readers to look at the contemporary world in a new light. Contains over 400 entries on transnational subjects such as food, migration and religion, as well as traditional topics such as nationalism and war.
Download or read book The Whole World in a Book written by Sarah Ogilvie and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019-12-11 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-century readers had an appetite for books so big they seemed to contain the whole world: immense novels, series of novels, encyclopaedias. Especially in Eurasia and North America, especially among the middle and upper classes, people had the space, time, and energy for very long books. More than other multi-volume nineteenth-century collections, the dictionaries, or their descendants of the same name, remain with us in the twenty-first century. Online or on paper, people still consult Oxford for British English, Webster for American, Grimm for German, Littr� for French, Dahl for Russian. Even in spaces whose literary languages already had long philological and lexicographic traditions-Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Persian, Greek, Latin-the burgeoning imperialisms and nationalisms of the nineteenth century generated new dictionaries. The Whole World in a Book explores a period in which globalization, industrialization, and social mobility were changing language in unimaginable ways. Newly automated technologies and systems of communication expanded the international reach of dictionaries, while rising literacy rates, book consumption, and advertising led to their unprecedented popularization. Dictionaries in the nineteenth century became more than dictionaries: they were battlefields between prestige languages and lower-status dialects; national icons celebrating the language and literature of the nation-state; and sites of innovative authorship where middle and lower classes, volunteers, women, colonial subjects, the deaf, and missionaries joined the ranks of educated white men in defining how people communicated and understood the world around them. In this volume, eighteen of the world's leading scholars investigate these lexicographers asking how the world within which they lived supported their projects? What did language itself mean for them? What goals did they try to accomplish in their dictionaries?
Download or read book CELEBRITIES OF THE CENTURY written by Lloyd Charles 1857 Sanders and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 1086 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Dictionary of Victorian London written by Lee Jackson and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wonderful A–Z of the fascinating world of Victorian London, full of amazing facts and curious humour.
Download or read book A Dictionary of World History written by Edmund Wright and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-10-12 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This invaluable, wide-ranging reference work contains over 4,000 entries on all aspects of international history, from prehistory right up to the present day. An ideal quick reference work for students, and a fascinating source of historical information for the general reader.
Download or read book A Dictionary of Twentieth Century World History written by Jan Palmowski and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Greenwood Dictionary of World History written by John J. Butt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-12-30 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greenwood Dictionary of World History is an indispensable, handy, and easy to use A-to-Z first-stop ready-reference resource providing essential information on over 2,000 of the most studied and important people, events, places, and ideas in world history from prehistoric to modern times, from all regions and epochs. Selection of entries—which are truly global in their range—was based on the guidelines and recommendations of organizations and agencies such as the National Council for History Education, the National Center for History in the Schools, the World History Association, the College Board World History Advanced Placement Test, and many of the state standards for history education. The content of the entries has been kept brief and concise to provide a definition or fundamental facts.
Download or read book Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century written by John Clark Ridpath and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-06-12 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century: Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World, in a Series of Short Studies This little volume constitutes one num ber of the Christian Herald Library series. For I 896 - 97. The title indicates the scope and purpose of the work. Of heavy read ing the reader of to-day no doubt has a sufficiency. Of light reading, that straw and-chafl' literature that fills the air until the senses are confused with the whirlwind and dust of it, he has a suficiency also. Of that intermediate kind of reading which is. Neither so heavy with erudition as to weigh us down nor so light with the flying folly of prejudice as to make us distracted with its dust, there is perhaps too little. The thoughtful and improving passage for the unoccupied half hour of him who hurries through these closing years of the century does not abound, but is rather wanting in the intellectual provision of the age. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World written by John Clark Ridpath and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2023-02-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century; Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely retyped, revised, and reformatted. The text is readable and clear because these books are not created from scanned copies.
Download or read book The Hutchinson Dictionary of World History written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 5,000 A-Z entries. Key people. Events. Major movements. Terms. More than 100 chronologies of world history. Feature articles. Detailed history of every country. More than 70 maps. Tables of dynasties, emperors, popes, kings, and queens. Quotations.
Download or read book The Wiley Blackwell Dictionary of Modern European History Since 1789 written by Nicholas Atkin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-05-23 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wiley-Blackwell Dictionary of Modern European History Since 1789 is an authoritative and accessible reference guide to the major people, events, and issues that have shaped the development of Europe from the French Revolution to the present day. Features almost a thousand alphabetical entries on modern European history Offers extensive cross-references to enhance clarity and reveal historical links and connections, and a series of maps charting the evolution of modern European states Covers the whole of continental Europe, as well as relevant aspects of the British experience Written by a trio of distinguished historians of the period
Download or read book Sixteenth Century English Dictionaries written by John Considine and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-08 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first of three volumes offering a new history of lexicography in and beyond the early modern British Isles. This volume focuses on the period from the end of the Middle Ages to the year 1600, exploring the first printed dictionaries, Latin and foreign language dictionaries, and specialized English wordlists.
Download or read book Islamic Societies to the Nineteenth Century written by Ira M. Lapidus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-22 with total page 795 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1988, Ira Lapidus' A History of Islamic Societies has become a classic in the field, enlightening students, scholars, and others with a thirst for knowledge about one of the world's great civilizations. This book, based on fully revised and updated parts one and two of this monumental work,describes the transformations of Islamic societies from their beginning in the seventh century, through their diffusion across the globe, into the challenges of the nineteenth century. The story focuses on the organization of families and tribes, religious groups and states, showing how they were transformed by their interactions with other religious and political communities. The book concludes with the European commercial and imperial interventions that initiated a new set of transformations in the Islamic world, and the onset of the modern era. Organized in narrative sections for the history of each major region, with innovative, analytic summary introductions and conclusions, this book is a unique endeavour.
Download or read book The Dictionary Wars written by Peter Martin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Martin recounts the patriotic fervor in the early American republic to produce a definitive national dictionary that would rival Samuel Johnson's 1755 Dictionary of the English Language. But what began as a cultural war of independence from Britain devolved into a battle among lexicographers, authors, scholars, and publishers, all vying for dictionary supremacy and shattering forever the dream of a unified American language.
