Paperback • 2011 • English

A Brief History of Encyclopaedias

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Encyclopedias have traditionally claimed to provide absolute knowledge, yet with information now among the world's most valuable commodities, this Brief History is a timely consideration of how accurate that claim can ever be. While the omissions and distortions of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia may seem easy enough to spot, what are those of, for example, the Britannica, the Universalis and the Brockhaus? And, moreover, is the encyclopedic project fundamentally flawed? Since the Middle Ages, ra...Show more

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9781843919735

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Hesperus Press Ltd

Published year

2011

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English

Original title

A Brief History of Encyclopaedias

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Paperback

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