Dictionary of Historical Allusions

Thomas Benfield Harbottle

• Verlag: Gorgias Press
• Jahr: 2009
• ISBN:
  9781463214043
• Auflage: 1

Useful for anyone interested in the social world of the nineteenth century, this dictionary was conceived as a desk reference to assist in finding, in a single source, the events behind the modern world. Intentionally without providing the length and depth of analysis of a standard history, this book provides in a brief paragraph the essentials of various historical references. Treaties, social and religious movements, battles, laws, and straightforward historical events are all chronicled alphabetically for ease of use.