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Everything Explained that is Explainable : On the Creation of the Encyclopædia Britannica's Celebrated Eleventh Edition, 1910-1911

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"(...) Then came the twentieth century, and with it came the Eleventh Edition, the first truly British-Americain encyclopedia, organized around the unassailable assumption of limitless progress and as forward looking as possible. (...) The Eleventh Edition wasn't just another new reference book. It was perfectly positioned as the logical consequence of earlier Britannicas. It would be the latest word on everything, and the most famous of the great editions of the world's most famous encyclopedia. It seems all but certain that future Britannicas would be somehow less-and, sure enough, a 1933 or a 1985 Britannica might be much more up-to-date, but, ironically, that wouldn't make either of them better, more august, most authoritative. To a modern reader, then as now, the Eleventh was the edition to own ..."

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R 031 BOY e

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New York : Alfred A. Knopf., 2016

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24 cm.: 442 p.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780307269171

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R 031 BOY e

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Encyclopedia Britannica's
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9780307269171

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Pluit Putri Library

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BOYLES, Denis

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