• Plymouth 1896
• The adman
• Printing house square
• The Cairo correspondent
• The assistant manager
• The American scheme
• Ten
• A dinner for Mr. Chisholm
• The supplemental volumes
• Half a million goats
• Anglosphere
• Plan B: a book war
• Chaos
• High Holborn
• The single organism
• War and peace
• The dreadnaught launch
• Offenses
• Postscript.

"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)"-- Provided by publisher.

• Nebrija and the ancients
• Arabic, Nahuatl, Tuscan, Tagalog
• From the shores of Tripoli to the halls of Montezuma
• Margins of vocabularies.

In 1495, the Spanish humanist Antonio de Nebrija published a Spanish-to-Latin dictionary that became a best seller. Over the next century it was revised dozens of times, in nine European cities. As these dictionaries made their way around the globe in this age of encounters, their lists of Spanish words became frameworks for dictionaries of non-Latin languages. What began as Spanish to Latin became Spanish to Arabic, French, English, Tuscan, Nahuatl, Mayan, Quechua, Aymara, Tagalog, and more. Tracing the global influence of Nebrija's dictionary, Byron Ellsworth Hamann, in this interdisciplinary, deeply researched book, connects pagan Rome, Muslim Spain, Aztec Tenochtitlan, Elizabethan England, the Spanish Philippines, and beyond, revealing new connections in world history. The Translations of Nebrija re-creates the travels of people, books, and ideas throughout the early modern world and reveals the adaptability of Nebrija's text, tracing the ways heirs and pirate printers altered the dictionary in the decades after its first publication. It reveals how entries in various editions were expanded to accommodate new concepts, such as for indigenous languages in the Americas -- a process with profound implications for understanding pre-Hispanic art, architecture, and writing. It shows how words written in the margins of surviving dictionaries from the Americas shed light on the writing and researching of dictionaries across the early modern world. Exploring words and the dictionaries that made sense of them, this book charts new global connections and challenges many assumptions about the early modern world.
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• Language And Administration
• Epistles
• The Grammatical Category
• Ibn Qutayba
• Qudama and the Grammatical Category: I
• al-Nahhas
• Qudama and the Grammatical Category: II
• The Bureaucratic Category
• al-Baghdadi
• al-Suli
• Qudama and the Bureaucratic Category
• The Linguistic Category
• Qudama and the Linguistic Category
• Qudama's Category
• Georgraphy
• The Ptolemaic Approach
• The Administrative Approach
• The Descriptive Approach
• The Literary Approach
• Fiscal Jurisprudence
• Kitaba-consciousness
• Sharia-consciousness
• Political Thought
• The Philosophical Strand
• The Administrative Strand
• Furstenspiegel.

This study examines the role of the state in the construction of knowledge in Islamic civilization in its early classical period (third/ninth and fourth/tenth centuries). Different voices representing different social groups - savants, litterateurs, religious scholars, state officials - all brought their particular conception of knowledge to bear on the formation of the various branches of knowledge known to Islamic civilization. Reading the works of various branches of knowledge alongside the administrative encyclopedia of Qudama b. Ja`far (d. 337/948), a state official in the employ of the Abbasid dynasty, has served to highlight the particular point of view of the state in the intellectual and cultural dialogue of the day. At the same time, this approach has shown Islamic civilization to be as much a dialogue of values between the different social groups of the day as a series of events or collection of ideas.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)