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Americana is also known for its strong coverage of biographies, as well as scientific and technical subjects. Written by 6,500 contributors, the Encyclopedia Americana includes over 9,000 bibliographies, 150,000 cross-references, 1,000+ tables, 1,200 maps, and almost 4,500 black-and-white line art and color images. It also has 680 fact boxes.
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- 1829–33
- Francis Lieber (1800–1872)
Encyclopedia Americana, general encyclopaedia that was the first major multivolume encyclopaedia to be published in the United States (1829–33). Compiled and edited by Francis Lieber, Americana was first published in 13 volumes. Subsequent editions were published in 1911 (20 volumes) and 1918–20.
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The Encyclopedia Americana is a US-based encyclopedia published in the 20th and 21st century. (It is also the name of some otherwise unrelated 19th-century encyclopedias, also listed on The Online Books Page, some under the spelling Encylopaedia Americana .)
Sep 2, 2008 · A 1918 encyclopedia published by The Encyclopedia American corporation, digitized by Google and uploaded by user tpb. The book is available for free download, borrow, and streaming from the Internet Archive.
Jan 17, 2016 · The Encyclopedia Americana is one of the largest general encyclopedias in the English language. Following the acquisition of Grolier in 2000, the encyclopedia has been produced by Scholastic. Versions of The Encyclopedia Americana include: The Encyclopedia Americana, 1906. The Encyclopedia Americana, 1920. Category:
A historical article about the origin and development of the first American encyclopedia, edited by Francis Lieber, a Prussian refugee scholar. It describes his proposal, his contacts, his challenges, and his achievements in creating a distinctively American reference work.
Jun 21, 2018 · The Encyclopedia Americana; a library of universal knowledge. Publication date. 1922. Topics. Encyclopedias and dictionaries. Publisher. New York, The Encyclopedia Americana Corp. Collection.
