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Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
History, modern history (1700 to 1945)
Length:
3,942 words

During the third quarter of the eighteenth century, European publishers and editors persuaded an expanding readership that the most comprehensive

Encyclopédie

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Johnson Kent Wright

The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2008
Subject:
History, Contemporary History (post 1945)
Length:
466 words

The eighteenth century saw the birth of the encyclopedia in its modern form. But of the fifty or so published in that era, one towers above all the rest—the ...

Encyclopédie, L'

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The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
Literature
Length:
727 words

One of the most important publishing ventures of the 18th c., often regarded as the best embodiment of the ideas

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The Oxford Companion to the Book

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2010
Subject:
History, Social sciences
Length:
407 words

Denis Diderot’s Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers was published between 1751 and 1772 in 28 ...

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