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Chargement... Everything Explained That Is Explainable: On the Creation of the Encyclopaedia Britannica's Celebrated Eleventh Edition, 1910-1911par Denis Boyles
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"The audacious, improbable tale of 20th century American hucksterism, outlandish daring, and vision that resurrected a dying Encyclopedia Britannica in collaboration with a floundering London Times, its astonishing success that changed publishing and that produced the Britannica's eleventh edition (published between 1910 and 1911), the most revered edition of English-language encyclopedias (all 44 million words), considered by many to be "the last great work of the age of reason" (Hans Koening, the New Yorker)"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Boyles’ book describes how the Encyclopaedia Britannica and the London Times newspaper, both highly respected global brands (as we would say now), were failing financially at the end of the 19th century and were both saved by an injection of American capitalist opportunism and marketing chutzpah.
Driven by characters that would seem outrageous in a novel, full of historical detail and telling anecdotes and well illustrated throughout this is an excellent look at the rise of America and the decline of Great Britain through the prism of publishing, public engagement and risk-taking. Boyles has a light, but never less than erudite, touch that reflects the faintly absurd world of the early 20th century intellectual politics of London’s literary and newspaper scene. ( )