The Great Round World And What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1. No. 23, April 15, 1897

VariousProject Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

Rating 2.8
Word count
46K words
Chapters
5

Tags

Other English Originals Historical ReappraisalCivic AwarenessLight ReadingJournalistic ReportageMagazine SelectionPopular NarrativeWorld OrderSocial ObservationCross-Cultural ViewModern China

Summary

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.The Great Round World And What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1. No. 23, April 15, 1897Author: Various,Language: English, Class: D: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere, Release Date: Mar 24, 2005

Editor's review

This is the electronic edition of a single weekly issue published on April 15, 1897, an early current-affairs digest aimed at general readers. Its value lies not in offering international news that is still accurate today, but in showing how the late nineteenth-century English-speaking world explained the world to a mass audience—how it selected topics and organized narrative. Readers can see how relations among the great powers, colonial activity, technological invention and social customs were described at the time; it is a primary source for the history of popular journalism, period language and the mentality of the age. Project Gutenberg's free public-domain electronic edition makes this issue easy to search and cite, and it is especially suited to close reading and comparison with historical sources. A caution: its factual judgments and wording carry clear period limitations and should not be treated as a direct reference for today's international issues. It is best read in a history-classroom source-analysis setting, as a corpus sample for digital humanities, or for thematic browsing by readers interested in late Victorian popular publishing.

Who it's for

A good fit for

Not a good fit for

Reading tips

  1. Begin with the table of contents and section divisions, noting the geographic regions and topic types covered in this issue.
  2. Select two or three news items and compare them with other contemporary sources, noting period biases in the wording.
  3. Add brief notes on unfamiliar personal and place names, then return to see how the narrative logic is organized.
  4. For research use, excerpt typical sentence patterns to build a small corpus for later use.

About the publisher

Project Gutenberg United States · Founded in 1971

Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.

Contents

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4
  5. 5

FAQ

Is the content of this 1897 weekly still accurate today? It cannot be used as a reference for present-day facts. It records how editors of the time reported and commented on international events, and many of its judgments, wording and figures carry clear period limitations and even biases. It is better treated as a historical source for observing how the late nineteenth-century English-speaking world narrated the world, not as a source of current information.
Can I read it without a background in nineteenth-century history? You can, but you will need to slow down. It helps to grasp the general historical framework first, then browse item by item, checking personal and place names as you go. If you want only light reading, the dense unfamiliar information may feel daunting; if you are willing to take notes and compare sources, you may instead find the pleasure of source analysis.
What is the electronic edition suitable for? It is suitable for searching, excerpting and textual analysis—for example, counting topic distribution, studying old-style news sentence patterns, or using it as a source sample in a history classroom. Because it is a public-domain electronic text, citations should still verify the original publication information and note that it is a single weekly issue from 1897.

This site is an index: you start “Search all sources” in your browser, and the entries it lists all point to third-party sites; please judge their availability yourself.

About the author

Various Author

Various is not a real person but a collective attribution used in book cataloging and databases for works with multiple authors, commonly applied to anthologies, compilations, or publications with too many contributors to list individually. On this Chinese book site, this attribution covers as many as 3,387 titles, spanning encyclopedic entries, historical documents, and trial records. Representative works include several volumes of the 11th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and the record of the trial of the major war criminals before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Available public information is limited: nationality, birth and death dates, and common categories are not clearly recorded, making it difficult to summarize a unified writing style or personal biography. Readers should understand it as a cataloging convention rather than a single author.