A Brief History of Encyclopedias: From Pliny to Wikipedia

Author(s): Andrew Brown

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Encyclopedias have traditionally claimed to provide absolute knowledge, yet with information now among the world's most valuable commodities, this Brief History is a timely consideration of how accurate that claim can ever be.

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  • : 9781843919735
  • : Hesperus Press Ltd
  • : Hesperus Press Ltd
  • : 01 October 2010
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

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  • : Andrew Brown
  • : Paperback
  • : 030.9
  • : 112

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Andrew Brown is a translator and former teacher of French literature and philosophy at Cambridge University. He is the author of Brief Lives: Gustave Flaubert and Brief Lives: Stendhal (both Hesperus Press).