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British Political Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary
British Political Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary

This book is a biographical listing of the 198 British leaders who filled the top four offices of state and the post of secretary of state for the colonies between 1730 and the present. The entries are arranged in alphabetical order either by birth name or by title—whichever the given individual was best known by. For...

Encyclopedia of Prophecy
Encyclopedia of Prophecy
Worldwide in scope and dating from biblical times, though its thrust is by no means exclusively religious, this encyclopedia ranges widely in its A-to-Z listing of entries. Among them are "apocalypse," "Edgar Cayce," "end of the world," "Napoleon," "premonitions," "sphinx," and...
Encyclopedia of the Mexican-American War
Encyclopedia of the Mexican-American War

At first glance, it would seem that Mexico and the United States should have been good neighbors in the nineteenth century—they were both relatively young countries that had rebelled against a mother nation to establish republics. As they grew, they both had to deal with states with populations that believed that their...

Encyclopedia of Urban Legends
Encyclopedia of Urban Legends

Any folklorist who saw the 1998 Columbia Pictures film Urban Legend will probably remember the library scene for its depiction of one aspect of folklore research. In this scene the beautiful student Natalie (played by Alicia Witt) suspects that recent campus mayhem was inspired by urban legends, the same kind of stories...

Encyclopedia of American Indian Wars 1492-1890
Encyclopedia of American Indian Wars 1492-1890

Clashes between European powers and the indigenous peoples of the Americas began almost immediately upon the arrival of the first Europeans on the shores of the New World. Such conflict seems inevitable in retrospect, and perhaps it should have been expected at the outset as well. The great disparity between the two cultures,...

Encyclopedia of Genocide (2 Volumes)
Encyclopedia of Genocide (2 Volumes)

The Encyclopedia is designed in an innovative structure that combines four types of entries:

  • Traditional Entries, or basic encyclopedic summaries of the knowledge in a typical area or field of study;
  • Feature Entries, which include...
Encyclopedia of Creation Myths
Encyclopedia of Creation Myths

A myth is a narrative projection of a given cultural group's sense of its sacred past and its significant relationship with the deeper powers of the surrounding world and universe. A myth is a projection of an aspect of a culture's soul. In its complex but revealing symbolism, a myth is to a culture what a dream is to an...

Encyclopedia of the Persian Gulf War
Encyclopedia of the Persian Gulf War
Because the 1991 War for Kuwait (erroneously dubbed the Gulf War) ended too quickly, it will probably never receive the scholarly attention that other conflicts garner. The politics of the Gulf is too complex, perhaps even too foreign, for most observers, and the reasons for our intervention too pragmatic to deserve the kind of attention that...
 
   
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