Author : H. E. L. Mellersh
Publisher : Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 26,48 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN :
Provides information on over 70,000 events from prehistory to the present.
Author : H. E. L. Mellersh
Publisher :
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 50,30 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Chronology, Historical
ISBN :
Provides information on over 70,000 events from prehistory to the present.
Author : Neil Kagan
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 20,5 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 1426211783
A chronology of world history ranges from the dawn of humankind to the present day, examining important events, milestones, ideas, and personalities that occurred simultaneously in different regions of the world.
Author : H. E. L. Mellersh
Publisher :
Page : 1144 pages
File Size : 50,9 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Chronology, Historical
ISBN :
Provides information on over 70,000 events from prehistory to the present.
Author : William E. Jarvis
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 38,44 MB
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0786480955
Time capsules have been used for thousands of years to store for posterity a selection of objects thought to be representative of life at a particular time. Such vessels have the dual purpose of causing participants to ponder their own cultural era and think about those to come. This work is a cultural history of five thousand years of time capsules and other related time-information transfer experiences. It examines both the formal and the popular culture aspects of the time capsule, from its roots in ancient Mesopotamian and Egyptian building foundation deposits to the present utilization of spacecraft probes and other extreme locations. The deposits of 3000 BCE deliberately had no definite date and time to be opened; in 1876 CE came the idea of target-dated deposits. Also discussed are how "real" time capsules work, notional and archaeological time capsules, the height of the time capsule's popularity from 1935 to 1982, the preservation of writings in time capsules, keeping time in a perpetual futurescape, and turn of the century hype surrounding millennium time capsules.
Author : Ronald H. Fritze
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 44,56 MB
Release : 2004-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1851095225
Fully annotated and completely updated—the most comprehensive guide to reference books in the field of history. Reference Sources in History catalogs atlases, encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, sourcebooks, bibliographies, and chronologies and makes sense of it all. Its broad scope and systematic organization make it an accessible, reliable resource for experienced and inexperienced researchers alike. Fully annotated and updated, the new edition summarizes hundreds of reference works on every conceivable subject in history—from ancient to modern, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. This edition also reflects the dramatic impact of the digital revolution on historical research by integrating a wide range of Internet and CD-ROM sources. Reference Sources in History is a time-saving alternative to searching the reference stacks or getting lost in an online thicket of dubious historical websites.
Author : Daniel K. Blewett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 20,32 MB
Release : 2008-12-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1598844989
In this companion volume to his 1995 bibliography of the same title, Daniel Blewett continues his foray into the vast literature of military studies. As did its predecessor, it covers land, air, and naval forces, primarily but not exclusively from a U.S. perspective, with the welcome emergence of small wars from publishing obscurity. In addition to identifying relevant organizations and associations, Blewett has gathered together the very best in chronologies, bibliographies, biographical dictionaries, indexes, journals abstracts, glossaries, and encyclopedias, each accompanied by a brief descriptive annotation. This work remains a pertinent addition to the general reference collections of public and academic libraries as well as special libraries, government documents collections, military and intelligence agency libraries, and historical societies and museums.
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 23,11 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9401203504
There are several reasons why the chronicle is particularly suited as the topic of a yearbook. In the first place there is its ubiquity: all over Europe and throughout the Middle Ages chronicles were written, both in Latin and in the vernacular, and not only in Europe but also in the countries neighbouring on it, like those of the Arabic world. Secondly, all chronicles raise such questions as by whom, for whom, or for what purpose were they written, how do they reconstruct the past, what determined the choice of verse or prose, or what kind of literary influences are discernable in them. Finally, many chronicles have been beautifully illuminated, and the relation between text and image leads to a wholly different set of questions. The yearbook The Medieval Chronicle aims to provide a representative survey of the on-going research in the field of chronicle studies, illustrated by examples from specific chronicles from a wide variety of countries, periods and cultural backgrounds. The Medieval Chronicle is published in cooperation with the Medieval Chronicle Society.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1018 pages
File Size : 30,7 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Libraries
ISBN :
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Publisher :
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 29,92 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Acquisitions (Libraries)
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