Regents of nations : systematic chronology of states and their political representatives in past and present : a biographical reference book = Regenten der Nationen : systematische Chronologie der Staaten und ihrer politischen Repräsentanten in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart : ein biographisches Nachschlagewerk / Peter Truhart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Truhart, Peter.

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Heads of state--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Heads of state.

Cabinet officers--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Cabinet officers.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Directories.

Physical Description:

volumes ; 29 cm

Edition:

Second revised and enlarged edition.

Other Title:

Regenten der Nationen

Place of Publication:

München : Saur, 2000-

Language Note:

English and German.

Summary:

The internationally established biographical reference work Regents of Nations is now available in a second, revised and expanded edition. It lists some 150,000 political representatives -- monarchs, heads of state, ministers, provincial and colonial governors and princes -- of over 7,000 states throughout the world and throughout all ages, from antiquity to the modern period. The new edition thus lists three times as many individuals and covers seven times as many states as the previous one.

Part 1 covers the various periods of antiquity across regional borders. Parts 2-4 deal with individual continents from the Middle Ages to the modern period. The index volume (Part 5) makes it easy for users to locate

Contents:

pt. 1. Antiquity worldwide

pt.3. Asia & Pacific Oceania

pt.4, v.1. Western & Southern Europe.

pt.4, v.2. Eastern, Northern and Central Europe. Annex: International Organisations

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

3598215428

3598215436

OCLC:

54536785