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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...Vis mer

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Hesperus Press Ltd

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2011

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Engelsk

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A Brief History of Encyclopaedias

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Pocket

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