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Shipping not specified. Encyclopedia Britannica Eleventh Edition Last one. He said that "compared to more modern editions, reading the 11th is like reading a Faulkner novel instead of an instruction manual. The 11th is exceptionally well written, the first encyclopedia where readability was courted in addition to scholarship. But its durability goes deeper than that. He said it was the last great work of the age of reason, the final instance when all human knowledge could be presented with a single point of view.
Four years later, the confidence and optimism that had produced the 11th would be, as he puts it, 'a casualty in the slaughter at Ypres and the Argonne. And he's right. To open an 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica is to open a worldview lost forever in the staggering slaughter of the first world war. The 11th edition of the Britannica represents the high tide of optimism and belief in human progress that had dominated the Anglo-Saxon vision since the Enlightenment.
Unabashed optimism — and unabashed racism — pervades many entries in the 11th, and provide its defining characteristics. The Edwardian world was finely ordered in the way an encyclopedia needs the world to be finely ordered: everything, and everyone, in their place. Interpreted for you by the rich, the white, and the expensively educated. The entry on antisemitism states that it is "a passing phase in the history of culture".
This was written 30 years before the horrors of Nazi Germany. The Vietnamese are the "worst-built and ugliest of all the Indo-Chinese," while the Chinese are "inferior in character" to Europeans. Arabs are noted for a propensity to be "cruel" and "crafty," and Africans "appear to stand on a lower evolutionary plane than the white man". Condition: Fair. This book has hardback covers. Ex-library,With usual stamps and markings,In fair condition, suitable as a study copy.
No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,grams, ISBN:. Published by Encyclopaedia Britannica, Used - Hardcover Condition: Poor. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Volume 23 Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,grams, ISBN:.
Volume 25 Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,grams, ISBN:. Volume In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Re-bound by library. Half bound, cover and backstrip loose, cover and spine worn especially around edges, pageblock grubby, pages otherwise clean and text clear.
Ex-library, With usual stamps and markings, In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Book has been rebound, edgeworn, worn along spine, cover a little grubby, pages otherwise clean and text clear. Ex-library, With usual stamps and markings, In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Binding looseThis book has hardback covers. Ex-library,With usual stamps and markings,In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy.
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