encyclopedias

A collection of alphabetically-arranged entries from C to D covering major events, people, and places in U.S. history.

Presents alphabetized profiles of more than forty European countries, describing their peoples, histories, occupations and industries, daily lifestyles, popular foods, sports and leisure activities, holidays and festivals, and arts, and includes color photos, maps, time lines, and sidebars.

Examines the top 100 groundbreaking events in the history of American business and illustrates their influence on the labor laws, business practices, and management methodologies of corporate America today.

Contains over eight hundred alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about concepts, terms, and associations related to American business.

Contains over 175 alphabetically arranged essays that examine topics related to everyday life and popular culture on the American home front during and immediately after World War II, and includes a time line of the 1940s, selected resources, and indexes.

Contains over five hundred alphabetically arranged entries that explore significant ideas, initiatives, people, and events in the four-hundred-year history of the U.S. economy, and includes thirty-one analytical essays on economic issues and trends, a selection of related primary source documents, and explanatory charts.

Presents 250 alphabetically-arranged entries that describe the political, social, and cultural history of the Jamestown Colony; and profiles major events and people, census of first and second settlers, native tribes, colonial expansion.

Presents literature not as a simple inventory of authors or titles but rather as a historical and cultural field viewed from a wide array of contemporary perspectives. The set, which is "new historicist" in its approach to literary criticism, endorses the notion that not only does history affect literature, but literature itself informs history.

Presents literature not as a simple inventory of authors or titles but rather as a historical and cultural field viewed from a wide array of contemporary perspectives. The set, which is "new historicist" in its approach to literary criticism, endorses the notion that not only does history affect literature, but literature itself informs history.

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