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====''Encyclopaedia Americana''====

====''Encyclopaedia Americana''====

German-American lawyer and political scientist Francis Lieber would take the seventh of the ''Brockhaus Konversations-Lexikon'' and use it for the 13-volume ''Encyclopaedia Americana'' (1820), which would eventually become the second-largest printed universal lexicon in the English language after the ''Encyclopædia Britannica''. As the name implies, it is primarily focused on North America, with coverage of American and Canadian history and geography particularly extensive.

German-American lawyer and political scientist Francis Lieber would take the seventh edition of the ''Brockhaus Konversations-Lexikon'' and use it for the 13-volume ''Encyclopaedia Americana'' (1820), which would eventually become the second-largest printed universal lexicon in the English language after the ''Encyclopædia Britannica''. As the name implies, it is primarily focused on North America, with coverage of American and Canadian history and geography particularly extensive.

The 175th-anniversary edition of 2004 contains 45,000 articles with 25 million words and was written with the participation of 6500 authors. It contains 9,000 bibliographies, 150,000 cross-references, over 1,000 tables, 1,200 maps and nearly 4,500 black and white and color photographs. Since 1923, The Americana Annual has been published as a yearbook to update the set.

The 175th-anniversary edition of 2004 contains 45,000 articles with 25 million words and was written with the participation of 6500 authors. It contains 9,000 bibliographies, 150,000 cross-references, over 1,000 tables, 1,200 maps and nearly 4,500 black and white and color photographs. Since 1923, The Americana Annual has been published as a yearbook to update the set.