250th anniversary edition of 'the best one-volume work of reference on the world today.'- Contemporary Reviews-Oxford

摘要

This new edition of The Annual Register marks 250 years of its uninterrupted publication since it was founded by the English statesman Edmund Burke. It features a chronology of major world events from the return of Halley's Comet in 1758 to the election of Barack Obama.rnIts 89 contributors - leading historians, academicians, and journalists - go beyond bare facts and figures to provide a compact history of contemporary events so recent that they remain white hot. They fill a critical need for expert analyses of key events and developments as they occurred throughout the world in the past year.