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Author : Chris Cook
Publisher : New York : P. Bedrick Books : Distribited in the USA by Harper & Row
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015015239943
Lists 2,000 entries of world-wide historical terms and phrases from the Roman Empire to the present day.
Author : Chris Cook
Publisher : Springer
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349100842
This new edition is fully revised, updated and enlarged. It now contains additional material on non-European history, covering Africa, Latin America and Asia. The dictionary also deals with new terms which have only recently been introduced into the language. This comprehensive work of reference will give both the historian and the layman compact and precise definitions of the key historical terms he is likely to encounter.
Author : Anne Kerr,Edmund Wright
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191044786
This wide-ranging dictionary contains a wealth of information on all aspects of history, from prehistory right up to the present day. Over 4,000 clear, concise entries include biographies of key figures in world history (living and dead), separate entries for every country in the world (summarising key historical events), and in-depth entries on religious and political movements, international organizations, and major conflicts and events and their after-effects. For this new edition, existing entries have been revised and updated to reflect the very latest global events including changes in leadership, wars, political situations, and the statistical information given for each country (population counts, currency, languages, religions). New entries have been included for key figures who have recently come to prominence and world events. The book also contains twenty-five detailed maps linked to key historical events and topics. These include the African slave trade, the Black Death, and the Normandy campaign. Also included are over 200 country maps. The dictionary is enhanced by entry-level web links which are accessed via a dedicated companion website. Encyclopedic in scope, this ambitious A to Z provides an excellent overview of world history both for students and anyone with an interest in the subject.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:966109393
Author : Chris Cook
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:692249296
Author : Chris Cook
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0333673484
The latest edition of A Dictionary of Historical Terms provides a work of reference for students and teachers of history. Ranging in time over 1500 years (from the onset of the Dark Ages and the rise of Islam to the closing decade of the 20th century) the dictionary provides a wealth of compact definitions of many hundreds of historical terms chosen from every epoch of modern world history.
Author : John A. Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002-04-18
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0195218892
The Oxford English Dictionary is the internationally recognized authority on the evolution of the English language from 1150 to the present day. The Dictionary defines over 500,000 words, making it an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, pronunciation, and history of the English language. This new upgrade version of The Oxford English Dictionary Second Edition on CD-ROM offers unparalleled access to the world's most important reference work for the English language. The text of this version has been augmented with the inclusion of the Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series (Volumes 1-3), published in 1993 and 1997, the Bibliography to the Second Edition, and other ancillary material. System requirements: PC with minimum 200 MHz Pentium-class processor; 32 MB RAM (64 MB recommended); 16-speed CD-ROM drive (32-speed recommended); Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 200, or XP (Local administrator rights are required to install and open the OED for the first time on a PC running Windows NT 4 and to install and run the OED on Windows 2000 and XP); 1.1 GB hard disk space to run the OED from the CD-ROM and 1.7 GB to install the CD-ROM to the hard disk: SVGA monitor: 800 x 600 pixels: 16-bit (64k, high color) setting recommended. Please note: for the upgrade, installation requires the use of the OED CD-ROM v2.0.
Author : Trask R. L. Trask
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
ISBN : 9781474473316
Historical and comparative linguistics has been a major scholarly discipline for 200 years, and yet this is the first dictionary ever devoted to it. With nearly 2400 entries, this dictionary covers every aspect of the subject, from the most venerable work to the exciting advances of the last few years, many of which have not even made it into textbooks yet.All of the traditional terms are here, but so are the terms only introduced recently, in connection with such varied subjects as pidgin and creole languages, the sociolinguistic study of language change, mathematical and computational methods, the novel approaches to linguistic geography, the controversial proposals of new and vast language families, and the attempts at relating the results of the historical linguists to those of the archaeologists, the anthropologists and the geneticists.More than just a dictionary, this book provides genuine linguistic examples of most of the terms entered, detailed explanations of fundamental concepts, critical assessment of controversial ideas, cross-references to related terms, and an abundance of references to the original literature.Features:*The first dictionary in the field.*Comprehensive coverage.*Clearly written and accurate entries.*Covers traditional and contemporary terminology.*Provides linguistic examples of terms defined.*Supplies numerous cross-references to related terms.*Includes hundreds of references to the original literature.
Author : Chris Cook
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:222954489
Author : John Ashton Cannon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1087 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780191580222
When was the first motorway opened? What did the Levellers believe in? What was the book of sports? Where did the Rebecca riots take place? What prompted the Cat and Mouse Act? How long did the Hundred Years War last? When was the treaty of Worms for?Drawing on from the highly acclaimed Oxford Companion to British History, published in 1997, The Dictionary of British History published in the very popular OPR series first in 2001 and now reissued for 2003 is a handy and invaluable reference work essential for anyone with an interest in British history and in need for a compact reference source.
Author : Lynda Mugglestone,Professor of the History of English Lynda Mugglestone
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300106998
Examines the hidden history through which the Oxford English Dictionary came into being in a study that traces the personal battles involved in chronicling an ever-changing language.
Author : Pip Williams
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781984820730
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “Delightful . . . [a] captivating and slyly subversive fictional paean to the real women whose work on the Oxford English Dictionary went largely unheralded.”—The New York Times Book Review “A marvelous fiction about the power of language to elevate or repress.”—Geraldine Brooks, New York Times bestselling author of People of the Book Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, an Oxford garden shed in which her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Young Esme’s place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word bondmaid flutters beneath the table. She rescues the slip and, learning that the word means “slave girl,” begins to collect other words that have been discarded or neglected by the dictionary men. As she grows up, Esme realizes that words and meanings relating to women’s and common folks’ experiences often go unrecorded. And so she begins in earnest to search out words for her own dictionary: the Dictionary of Lost Words. To do so she must leave the sheltered world of the university and venture out to meet the people whose words will fill those pages. Set during the height of the women’s suffrage movement and with the Great War looming, The Dictionary of Lost Words reveals a lost narrative, hidden between the lines of a history written by men. Inspired by actual events, author Pip Williams has delved into the archives of the Oxford English Dictionary to tell this highly original story. The Dictionary of Lost Words is a delightful, lyrical, and deeply thought-provoking celebration of words and the power of language to shape the world. WINNER OF THE AUSTRALIAN BOOK INDUSTRY AWARD
Author : John Grasso
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-16
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780810872370
The sport of tennis has been played in one form or another for more than 800 years. It can trace its roots to games played by monks in the 12th century. Through the years the game has evolved from one in which the ball was struck with the hands to the modern game in which rackets are used to propel the ball in excess of 150 miles per hour. From the sport of the elite to the sport played by elite athletes, tennis has grown immensely in the past 135 years and it remains one of the few sporting pastimes thatis played extensively by people of all ages and all nationalities. The Historical Dictionary of Tennis presents a comprehensive history of the game through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, photos, and over 500 cross-referenceddictionary entries on places, teams, terminology, and people, including Arthur Ashe, Björn Borg, Don Budge, Chris Evert, Roger Federer, Billie Jean King, Rod Laver, Suzanne Lenglen, John McEnroe, Rafael Nadal, Martina Navratilova, and Bill Tilden. Appendixes of the members of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, the Major Championships of Tennis, and the Olympic games are included. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about tennis.
Author : Christopher Corèdon,Ann Williams
Publisher : D. S. Brewer
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1843840235
This dictionary of medieval terms is intended for the non-specialist with an interest in the medieval world
Author : Keith Pratt,Richard Rutt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136793936
Compiled by specialists from the University of Durham Department of East Asian Studies, this new reference work contains approximately 1500 entries covering Korean civilisation from early times to the present day. Subjects include history, politics, art, archaeology, literature, etc. The Dictionary is intended for students, teachers and researchers, and will also be of interest to the general reader. Entries provide factual information and contain suggestions for further reading. A name index and comprehensive cross-reference system make this an easy to use, multi-purpose guide for the student of Korea in the broadest sense.
