TY  - BOOK
AU  - Boyles,Denis
TI  - Everything explained that is explainable: on the creation of the Encyclopaedia Britannica's celebrated eleventh edition, 1910-1911 / 
SN  - 9780307269171
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York : 
PB  - ‎Knopf, 
N1  - Prologue
1. Plymouth 1896
2. The adman
3. Printing House Square
4. The Cairo correspondent
5. The assistant manager
6. The American scheme
7. Ten
8. A dinner for Mr. Chisholm
9. The supplemental volumes
10. Half a million goats
11. Anglosphere
12. Plan B : a book war
13. Chaos
14. High Holborn
15. The single organism
16. War and peace
17. The dreadnaught launch
18. Offenses
19. Postscript
N2  - 'Everything explained that is explainable' is the audacious, utterly improbable story of the publication of the Eleventh Edition of the legendary 'Encyclopædia Britannica'. It is the tale of a young American entrepreneur who rescued a dying publication with the help of a floundering newspaper, and in so doing produced a series of books that forever changed the face of publishing. Thanks to the efforts of 1,500 contributors, among them a young staff of university graduates as well as some of the most distinguished names of the day, the Eleventh Edition combined scholarship and readability in a way no previous encyclopedia had (or ever has again). Denis Boyles's work of cultural history pulls back the curtain on the 44-million-word testament to the age of reason that has profoundly shaped the way we see the world
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