Columbia Encyclopedia

The Columbia Encyclopedia is a 1935 first published single-volume universal lexicon in English, published by the publisher of the Columbia University. It sees itself as a general quick reference guide and is now represented on the Internet. The Columbia Encyclopedia differs from its competitors through the detail of each item at the expense of width.

History

The preparatory work for the Columbia Encyclopedia carried out in the 1920s by Clarke Fisher Ansley. The first edition was published in 1935 in cooperation with the publisher Collier in a volume of nearly 2,000 pages. In the years 1950 and 1963 she was radically re-edited.

The fifth edition was published in 1975. She counted 50,000 items and contained numerous maps and illustrations. A third of the entries dealt keywords from the field of geography, more than half of the articles were biographies, mainly of politicians.

The Columbia Encyclopedia today

The editor of the sixth edition, which appeared in printed form in 2000, is Paul Lagassé. It includes over 3,000 pages 51,000 articles from all fields of knowledge, including - in comparison to the previous edition - almost 1,300 new entries and more than 80,000 cross-references. In the preface to this edition states that the Columbia Encyclopedia was not designed as a comprehensive work, it sees itself as a kind of " first aid " when looking up.

The sixth edition of the Columbia Encyclopedia Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia than on multiple portals on the Internet freely available. The outputs differ from website to website in terms of user interfaces. The digital version currently contains nearly 52,000 headwords and more than 84,000 cross-references. The content is updated quarterly.

Numerous " Topic Pages" in Credo Reference the Encyclopedia are removed.

In addition to the main work there is an Executive Summary which was published under the title Concise Columbia Encyclopedia. She has about one- third of the circumference, the has the unabridged edition.

Expenditure

  • Clarke Fisher Ansley (ed.): The Columbia Encyclopedia. 1st edition. PF Collier & son corporation by special arrangement with Columbia University Press, New York c. , 1937.
  • William Bridgwater and Elizabeth J. Sherwood (Ed.): The Columbia Encyclopedia. 2nd edition. Columbia University Press, New York 1950 ( http://www.archive.org/details/columbiaencyclop030445mbp ).
  • William Bridgwater and Seymour Kurtz (ed.): The Columbia Encyclopedia. 3rd edition. Columbia University Press, New York 1964.
  • William H. Harris and Judith S. Levey (ed.): The New Columbia Encyclopedia. 4th edition. Columbia University Press, New York 1975.
  • Judith S. Levey and Agnes Greenhall (ed.): The concise Columbia encyclopedia. Columbia University Press, New York 1985, ISBN 978-0-231-06026-4 (Large Print).
  • Judith S. Levey and Agnes Greenhall (ed.): The concise Columbia encyclopedia. Columbia University Press, New York, 1989, ISBN 0,231,069,383th
  • Barbara A. Chernow and George A. Vallasi (ed.): The Columbia Encyclopedia. 5th edition. Columbia University Press, New York 1993, ISBN 0,231,080,980th
  • Paul Lagassé (ed.): The Columbia Encyclopedia. 6th edition. Columbia University Press, New York 2000, ISBN 9,780,787,650,155th
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