Everything Explained That Is Explainable: On the Creation of the Encyclopaedia Britannica's Celebrated Eleventh Edition, 1910-1911
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The publication of the Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica in 1911 marked the last stand of the Enlightenment and a turbulent end to an era. The Eleventh Edition summed up the high point of optimism and belief in human progress that dominated Anglo-Saxon thought from the time of the Enlightenment. Eagerly embraced by hundreds of thousands of middle-class Americans, the Eleventh Edition was read as a twenty-nine-volume anthology of some...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0307269175
ISBN13:9780307269171
Release Date:June 2016
Publisher:Knopf Publishing Group
Length:464 Pages
Weight:1.96 lbs.
Dimensions:1.7" x 6.5" x 9.5"
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