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Salem Press' Great Events series is a far-reaching view of history, organized around significant events. It is ideal for public libraries and undergraduate colleges and is widely used in high schools for specific curriculum support.
Librarians and reviewers alike praise this series for its breadth of content and extended essays. Articles are typically 1,500 words, bridging the gap between full-length, scholarly studies and the shortened forms found in encyclopedias.
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Within each set and throughout them, events are arranged chronologically, forming a time line without regard to region. Students can trace world history comparatively, with events in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas, co-mingled.
Appendices include a time line, a glossary, website listings, a chronology and four indexes: geographical, categorized, personage and subject. In addition, each essay is cross-referenced with other essays within the set as well as to relevant essays in the companion series, Great Lives from History.
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Great Events from History:
THE ANCIENT WORLD
Two volumes; 1,089 pages
List Price: $175
Events covered are from prehistory to 476 C.E.. Included are the population of South America, the Upanishads, Acupuncture, the Parthenon, Nero's persecution of Christians and St. Augustine's writing the City of God.
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Great Events from History:
THE MIDDLE AGES
Two volumes; 1,010 pages
List Price: $175
Events covered begin after the fall of Rome through 1453, selected because it is the year in which several important developments occurred, notably the proliferation of documents issuing from the newly invented printing press, the end of the Hundred Years' War, and the fall of Constantinople.
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Great Events from History:
THE RENAISSANCE & EARLY MODERN ERA
Two volumes; 1,014 pages
List Price: $175
The century and a half covered in this set was marked by the height of the Renaissance in Europe; the rise of the Ottomans; the Wars of the Roses in Britain; European colonial expansion into Africa, Asia, and the Americas and major changes in world economics and demographics.
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Great Events from History:
THE 17TH CENTURY
Two volumes; 989 pages
List Price: $175
Included in this set are milestones in the geopolitics of the era - from the Thirty Years’ War to the War of the League of Augsburg; from Europeans’ arrival in Australia to the establishment of the Louisiana Colony.
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Great Events from History:
THE 18TH CENTURY
Two volumes; 1,200 pages
List Price: $175
Events covered include the obligatory geopolitical events of the era - from the War of the Spanish Succession through the American and French Revolutions, from the collapse of the South Sea Bubble to the rise of Napoleon.
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Great Events from History:
THE 19TH CENTURY
Four volumes; 2,000 pages
List Price: $395
This installment, at four volumes, provides extended coverage of hundreds of major events worldwide between 1801 and 1900. The focus includes not only core Western curricula but also coverage of Middle Eastern, Asian, African and Latin American events.
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Great Events from History:
THE 20TH CENTURY, 1901-1940
Six volumes; 3,600 pages
List Price: $495
A unique resource. No other comparable reference work includes much depth or that covers so many twentieth century events. Great Events from History: The Twentieth Century, 1901-1940, is the sixth installment in Salem Press's ongoing Great Events from History series.
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Great Events from History:
THE 20TH CENTURY, 1941-1970
Six volumes; 4,020 pages
List Price: $495
The events covered include the geopolitical events of the era--from World War II (1939-1945) and the Holocaust to the formation of the United Nations and the start of the Cold War in 1945, from the Korean War (1950-1953) to the war in Vietnam (1959-1975).
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Great Events from History:
THE 20TH CENTURY, 1971-2000
Six volumes; 3,900 pages
List Price: $495
Space probes, personal computers, the Internet, enormous advances in biotechnology, including the mapping of the genome and the first cloned animal, Vietnam and the breakup of the Soviet Union are only a few of the world-changing elements of the period.
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Great Events from History:
GLBT SERIES
Two volumes; 800 pages
List Price: $175
Great Events from History: GLBT Series chronicles important historical events that have identified, defined and legally established the rights of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities from 1855 to the present.
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Great Events from History:
MODERN SCANDALS
Three volumes 1,236 pages
List Price: $295
Great Events from History: Modern Scandals is an entirely new reference set on a subject that has never been covered as broadly and thoroughly in any other reference publication. It covers the 400 of the most important and most publicized scandals throughout the world since the beginning of the twentieth century.
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The Ancient World - Apr. 2004
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