Great lives from history / Magill, Frank Northen

Presents alphabetized, cross-referenced biographical profiles, A-Dia, of approximately two hundred nineteenth-century men and women of significance from around the world, and includes an annotated further reading list on each figure; photos; illustrations; and maps.

Presents volume one of a two-volume set that contains a number of essays covering historical figures of the seventeenth-century world, and includes primary source documents, maps, and profiles on persons such as William Bradford, Oliver Cromwell, Cyrano de Bergerac, John Loche, Thomas Hobbes, and many more.

Coverage of the lives, careers, and achievements of historically significant individuals.

This five volume work examines the lives of 450 individuals whose contributions greatly influenced the world's cultures that flourished from the Renaissance through 1900. An annotated bibliography accompanies each entry.

A five-volume set of biographical sketches, arranged alphabetically, of 470 individuals whose contributions influenced world culture and the social development of societies flourishing in earlier centuries.