Word: encyclopedias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such facts and thousands more concerning the clans, tribes and nationalities that made their way to America have now been converted into highly readable scholarship. This week Harvard University Press is bringing out the Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups, a 1,076-page volume that sells for $60 ($45 until...
...encyclopedia is filled with tales just like those grandfather used to tell. Says Editor and History Professor Stephan Thernstrom: "It's a guide to who the people of the United States are, where they came from, where their ancestors came from. I think we all need it. Nothing like it exists...
...Harvard Press began research for the encyclopedia in 1974, after one of its editors, Ann Orlov, was referred to a new dentist named Vangelzissi. What kind of name was that? she asked. Albanian, the dentist replied. Orlov (a Russian name) was surprised. As she wondered just how many Albanian Americans were in the U.S. (roughly 70,000) and where they lived (mainly New England, New York City), the quest for an encyclopedia was born. Recalls Editor Thernstrom (whose name is Swedish): "We started on the assumption that there were something on the order of 50 or 60 ethnic groups...
...encyclopedia includes such little-known ethnic groups as the Manx (immigrants from the Isle of Man) and the Wends, who migrated to Texas during the 19th century from what is now East Germany. Though the Wends are now dispersed, records of their migration survive in their language, known, naturally enough, as Wendish. The book's separate listing for Macedonians is expected to upset both Greeks and Bulgarians because historically Macedonia was part of both southern Bulgaria and northern Greece, and both nationalities view Macedonians as their own. The scholar who wrote the four-page listing on Macedonians asked...
...York Times reported Friday that the encyclopedia does $250 million worth of business each year, and that the 3 per cent royalties given the university since 1943 have added up to $60 million...