This updated eight-volume set contains essays that cover the 20th century's most important events. With its articles arranged in chronological order, this new edition covers a wide variety of events from national and world politics, wars, civil disturbances, disasters, crimes, business, scientific and medical discoveries and breakthroughs, and other fields. The set's new articles extend the coverage through September 2001 and include stories such as the massacre of the Nepalese royal family by its own crown prince; and the terrorist attacks of September 11 2001 and their aftermath

Contains 419 essays on historical events - from short, discrete events, such as battles or deaths, to longer, less definite events, such as the rise and fall of a culture that took place in the Ancient World, arranged in chronological order.

Revised edition of Dictionary of World Biography: The Middle Ages with 59 new biographies. Worldwide coverage of important men and women in all areas of achievement who flourished from 477 to 1453.

The Renaissance & Early Modern Era's start date, 1454, was selected because it immediately follows the end of the Hundred Years? War and the Fall of Constantinople. The following century was marked by the height of the Renaissance in Europe, the rise of the Ottomans and the Wars of the Roses in Britain. Also, European colonization expanded into Africa, Asia and the Americas, Japan became unified and the rise of both indigenous and colonial trade empires in Africa became important. The set discusses major changes in world economics and demographics.

Included in The 17th Century 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. Also essays address key social developments in daily life: the practice of birth control; the popularization of New World imports such as tobacco, coffee, and chocolate; the establishment of Tokyo's Floating World district; the ineradicable devastation of the Middle Passage and African American slavery.

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Events selects events that help to mark the definition of "gender," the emergence of social, cultural, and political movements, and the struggles to gain civil rights. In some cases, one event represents and offers discussion of many. For example, the article on Illinois becoming the first state to abolish its laws against consensual homosexual acts in 1961 also discusses the effect of this action on other states. In particular, essays also include "see also" cross-references to related articles within the set.

In The 18th Century, the essays cover the world's most important events and developments - from 1701 through 1800 - in the century that witnessed the world's transition to a modern industrial and scientific society. 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. Also, however, the essays address key social and cultural developments in daily life: the expansion of the Atlantic slave trade; the ""Enlightenment"" in Europe;...

Continuing the series Great Events from History, The 19th Century covers the world's most important events and developments from 1801 through 1900. This installment provides extended coverage of hundreds of major events worldwide; lengthy essays (2-3 oversize pages apiece) provide in-depth coverage and bibliographical resources; worldwide focus includes coverage not only of Western core curricula but also of Middle Eastern, Asian, African, and Latin American events.

Great Events from History: The 20th Century (1901-1940) organizes coverage of world events chronologically for in-depth understanding in historical context. Continuing the series Great Events from History, these volumes bring up the world's most important events and developments from 1901 through 1940. The events covered include the curriculum-oriented geopolitical events of the era--from World War I (1914-1918) and the Russian Revolution (1917) to the rise of the German Nazi Party, the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), and the eruption of World War II in Europe (1939).

Salem Press' monumental Great Events from History series spans human history from ancient times to the present, worldwide. The culminating sets in this series, three sets of six volumes each, detail the significant events during the twentieth century. Great Events from History: The 20th Century, 1971-2000, a six-volume set, provides extended coverage of 1,083 major events between 1971 and 2000.