Everything Explained That Is Explainable: On the Creation of the Encyclopaedia Britannica's Celebrated Eleventh Edition, 1910-1911

by Denis Boyles

Book Overview

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"