Author: Charles Burney
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Keywords: historical, civilizations, eras, ancient, dictionaries, dictionary, hittites
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2004-04-19
List price: $95.70
ISBN-10: 0810849364
ISBN-13: 9780810849365

"This Dictionary covers a civilization largely forgotten until recently. This dictionary includes hundreds of entries on important persons, places, essential institutions, and the significant aspects of the society, economy, material culture, and warfare of this ancient people. A 16-page photospread, introductory essay, chronology, and bibliography complement the dictionary entries. For general readers and scholars alike who are interested in ancient history."

Author: William L. Richter
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Keywords: historical, dictionaries, eras, reconstruction, war, dictionary, civil
Number of Pages: 968
Published: 2004-05-17
List price: $132.00
ISBN-10: 0810845849
ISBN-13: 9780810845848

"This one-volume dictionary, with more than 800 entries covering the significant events, persons, politics, and economic and social themes in the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction, is a research tool for all levels of readers from high school and up. The extensive chronology, introductory essay, dictionary entries, and comprehensive bibliography introduce and lead the reader through the military and non-military actions of one of the most pivotal events in American history."

Author: Lawrence N. Langer
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Keywords: historical, civilizations, eras, ancient, russia, dictionary, medieval, dictionaries
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2002-02-15
List price: $86.90
ISBN-10: 0810840804
ISBN-13: 9780810840805

History is full of surprises. But rarely has there been a turnaround as unexpected, and momentous, as what occurred to a formative Russia during the medieval period. Attacked and invaded from all sides, it hardly looked as if the small Slavic principalities would survive. But they did. And they were eventually absorbed in Kiev Rus’ and then Muscovy, which gradually expanded and laid the foundation for a huge empire. That is the extraordinary period presented by this historical "Dictionary of Medieval Russiaa", describing both the times of danger and defeat and those of expansion and revi

Author: William L. Richter
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Keywords: historical, eras, dictionaries, old, dictionary, south
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2005-11-15
List price: $106.70
ISBN-10: 0810850745
ISBN-13: 9780810850743

Numerous cross-referenced entries on prominent individuals, including Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Robert E. Lee, and Abraham Lincoln, as well as others on policies of the time that have since slipped into oblivion are all covered in this book. Economic, social and religious backgrounds trace the seemingly inevitable path to secession, war and defeat. This reference also includes an introductory essay, a chronology and a bibliography of the epoch.

Author: Selcuk Aksin Somel
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Keywords: historical, civilizations, eras, ancient, empire, dictionary, ottoman, dictionaries
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2003-05
List price: $106.70
ISBN-10: 0810843323
ISBN-13: 9780810843325

Here you will find an in-depth treatise covering the political social, and economic history of the Ottoman Empire, the last member of the lineage of the Near Eastern and Mediterranean empires and the only one that reached the modern times both in terms of internal structure and world history.

Author: Cameron B. Wesson
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Keywords: historical, civilizations, eras, ancient, america, dictionary, north, dictionaries
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2004-10-19
List price: $79.20
ISBN-10: 0810850621
ISBN-13: 9780810850620

This book examines the long and complex history of human occupation in North America, covering its distinct culture areas of the Arctic, California, Eastern Woodlands, Great Basin, Great Plains, Northwest Coast, Plateau, Southwest, and Subarctic. Complete with maps, a chronology that spans the history from 11,000 B.C. to A.D. 1850, an introductory essay, more than 700 dictionary entries, and a comprehensive bibliography, this reference is a valuable tool for scholars and students. An appendix of museums that have North American collections and a listing of archaeological sites that allow tours

Author: Richard A. Lobban Jr.
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Keywords: historical, ancient, civilizations, eras, dictionaries, medieval, dictionary, nubia
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 2004-01-01
List price: $143.00
ISBN-10: 0810847841
ISBN-13: 9780810847842

TheHistorical Dictionary of Ancient and Medieval Nubiacovers the period of Nubian history from the Paleolithic to the end of Medieval Christianity. It includes the rapidly expanding field of Nubian archaeology that centers ancient African history along the Nile but beyond the better-known field of Egyptology.