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The Illustrated encyclopedia of world history / K. Donker van Heel, editor.
LIBRA D9 .I45 1997
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History--Dictionaries.
- History.
- World history--Juvenile literature.
- World history.
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries.
- Genre:
- Dictionaries.
- Physical Description:
- 414 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Armonk, NY : Sharpe Reference, 1997.
- Summary:
- Alphabetical entries examine the major people, places, and events of world history as well as movements, organizations, and books.
- Contents:
- Wars and Battles
- American Civil War
- World War I and II
- Spanish Armada
- Cuba Crisis
- Gulf War
- Spanish Civil War
- Politics
- Apartheid
- Chinese Cultural Revolution
- Splendid Isolation
- IRA
- Watergate
- French Revolution
- Treaties and Alliances
- NATO
- Dayton Agreement
- UNO
- Peace of Versailles
- History of science
- Archimedes
- Galilei
- Keppler
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Philosophy
- Aristotle
- Confucius
- Lao-Tse
- Plato Religion
- Church Fathers
- Ayatollahs
- Islam
- Greek and Roman Gods
- Hinduism
- Buddhism
- Talmud Ancient States
- Cities and Cultures
- Aztecs
- Maya's
- Inca's
- Carthage
- Roman Empire
- Ancient Egypt
- Etruscans
- Huns
- Vikings
- Umajjads Rulers
- Military Leaders and Statesmen
- Caesar
- Cleopatra
- Iwan the Great
- Alexander the Great
- Haile Selassi
- Ho Chi Minh
- Roosevelt
- Richard the Lionheart
- Roman Emperors
- Peron
- Tutanchamen
- Simon Bolivar
- Napoleon Historical Concepts
- Gladiator
- Consul
- Renaissance
- Abolitionism
- Iron Age
- Stone Age
- Absolutism
- Enlightenment Great Discoveries
- Columbus
- Cortez
- Julian Calendar
- Dead Sea Scroolls
- Magelhacs
- Rosetta Stone Ideologies
- Maoism
- Nacizm
- Fascism
- Communism
- Capitalism
- Muslim Brotherhood Art History
- Impressionism
- Rodin
- Jugendstil
- Botticelli
- Michelangelo Literature and Music / Lord Byron, Shakespeare, Edda, Mahabb arata, Jules Verne, Mozart, Brecht, Berlioz, Beethoven, Frank Zappa
- Prehistory
- Various Cultures from the Iron and stone Ages
- Paintings
- Altamira
- Neanderthal-Man Personalities / Jack the Ripper, Henry Ford, Gandhi, Mick Jagger, Scharov
- Rasputin From the Contents[a short version]
- Wars and Battles Politics
- History of Science
- Philosophy Religion
- Ancient states
- Cities and Cultures Rulers
- Military Leaders and statesmen
- Historical Concepts
- Great Discoveries
- Ideologies Art History
- Literature and Music
- Prehistory Personalities.
- Notes:
- "Completely rev. and upd. ed. of the encyclopedic vol. of The adventure of mankind, ed. by Henk Dijkstra, c1997 by H.D. Communication Consultants B.V., Hilversum, The Netherlands"-- T.p. verso.
- ISBN:
- 1563248050
- OCLC:
- 35222981
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