Chambers Biographical Dictionary
by Magnus Magnusson
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International and historical coverage of all areas of human achievement including the arts, science, technology, sport, politics, philosophy and business.Tags
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Very useful dictionary... help me a lot before the rise of wikipedia... short biographies of leaders and personalities, small or great...
A well-done and useful biographical dictionary, in the format of a dictionary. A nicely organized reference.
I love dictionaries and history and biographies...this combines all three.
A concise collection of useful brief biographies.
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Magnus Magnusson, awarded the Medlicott Medal of the British Historical Association, has published many books on the history of Scotland
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Chambers Biographical Dictionary
- Alternate titles
- Larousse Biographical Dictionary
- Original publication date
- 1990 (5th edition) (5th edition); 1961 (4th edition) (4th edition); 1935 (3rd edition) (3rd edition); 1929 (2nd edition) (2nd edition); 1897 (1st edition) (1st edition)
- First words
- Adrian, Edgar Douglas, 1st Baron Adrian. Died 1977.
- Quotations
- AAGESEN, Svend, 12th century author of the earliest Danish history.
Classifications
- Genres
- Reference, Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, History
- DDC/MDS
- 920.02 — History & geography Biographies, Genealogy, Healdry Biographies General and collective by localities World Leaders
- LCC
- CT103 .C4 — Auxiliary Sciences of History Biography Biography General collective biography
- BISAC
Statistics
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- 945
- Popularity
- 28,060
- Reviews
- 5
- Rating
- (4.00)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 24
- UPCs
- 1
- ASINs
- 19
