
Автор: Jeff Loveland
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год: 2019
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 462
Размер: 37,6 Mb
Язык: English
First taking shape during the seventeenth century, the European encyclopedia was an alphabetical book of knowledge. For the next three centuries, printed encyclopedias in the European tradition were an element of culture and peoples' lives, initially just among Europe's educated elite but ultimately through much of the literate world. Organized around themes such as genre, economics, illustration, and publishing, The European Encyclopedia is the first comprehensive survey of encyclopedias to be written in English in more than fifty years.