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Özet
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This five-volume set presents some 1,000 comprehensive and fully illustrated histories of the most famous sites in the world. Entries include location, description, and site details, and a 3,000- to 4,000-word essay that provides a full history of the site and its condition today. An annotated further reading list of books and articles about the site completes each entry. The geographically organized volumes include: * Volume 1: The Americas * [1-884964-00-1] * Volume 2: Northern Europe * [1-884964-01-X] * Volume 3: Southern Europe * [1-884964-02-8] * Volume 4: Middle East & Africa * [1-884964-03-6] * Volume 5: Asia & Oceania * [1-884964-04-4]
Author Notes
Trudy Ring, Noelle Watson, Paul Schellinger
Reviews (2)
Booklist Review
This five-volume set aims to provide information on places of historical importance--cities and towns, battlefields, archaeological sites, museums--around the world. Canby's Encyclopedia of Historic Places (Facts On File, 1984) identifies 100,000 historic places as to location and historical significance. This identification however, is usually quite brief, ranging from a sentence or two to a page. Its usefulness is, therefore, primarily as a quick-identification source. The International Dictionary, on the other hand, is to include only about 1,000 sites worldwide, of which 186 (130 U.S. and 56 in Canada and Latin America) are in volume 1. Sites are arranged alphabetically by name. An index by country precedes the entries; 17 nations are represented. The introduction gives no hint of how sites were selected. While many are obvious choices (Tikal, Gettysburg), one wonders, for example, why New Harmony and the Shaker community at New Lebanon were included and not the Amana Colonies. The U.S. sites tend to be clustered in the northeast amd southwest. Several states have no sites represented. The signed entry for each site, compiled from books, periodical and newspaper articles, and source material from site headquarters, explains the events that occurred there and their historical significance, as well as what the site offers contemporary visitors. Headnotes for each essay provide the site's specific location, a brief description, and the address of an information/contact office. One or more black-and-white photos or other illustrative matter is provided. Each entry concludes with a critically annotated bibliography. The strength of the essays lies in the fullness of the treatment of events and the inclusion of personalities associated with the site. For example, the four-page entry for Vincennes, Indiana, mentions Lincoln's connection to this city and the fact that the Gimbel Brothers department store began here. One of the six essays on New York City is devoted solely to the United Nations. The usefulness of this first volume is enhanced by the inclusion of an index replete with personal names, buildings, organizations, and places mentioned within essays. The book concludes with the credentials of the contributors--librarians, professors, and freelance writers. The endpapers locate the sites on maps, respectively, of the U.S. and Canada, and Latin America. Volume 2, on Northern Europe, was published in March; forthcoming volumes in the set are to cover Southern Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and Asia and Oceania. Because of the amount of detail in the essays and their appended bibliographies, this set will well serve its stated audience of students, teachers, librarians, historians, and anyone interested in historic places. (Reviewed ^May 01, 1995^)
Choice Review
The first of a projected five-volume set (the other volumes will treat Northern Europe, Southern Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and Asia and Oceanica), this compilation describes 186 historic places in 18 countries in North and South America, of which 130 are in the US. Included are a wide variety of places the editors believe "have been the site of important events in human history" and which "have been preserved for the benefit of future generations," from the pre-Columbian Acoma Pueblo and colonial Valley Forge to the more recent Alcatraz and Chautauqua. Most of the sites cluster along the East Coast, from Fort Ticonderoga to Roanoke Island, and in the Southwest. At the head of each entry is its location, a brief description and the address of the site office or the nearest chamber of commerce or tourist office. Entries typically occupy three to four pages, include a photograph relating to the place, and describe both the historical significance of the site and what can be enjoyed by contemporary visitors. A paragraph of suggested further reading completes the entry. Particularly useful is the detailed and accurate index. Also included are maps on the endpapers on which sites can be located, a list of places by country, and notes on the 72 contributors, nearly half of whom are freelance writers. Aimed at travelers, this is a good starting point for planning a history-oriented vacation. J. D. Haskell Jr.; College of William and Mary