History
St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Encyclopedia of Modern Dictators: From
Napoleon to Present
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Group
New York, NY
2006, 368 pages
Dictators are not new phenomena, but within the past two
centuries have dramatically proliferated not only in Europe, which
witnessed the rise and fall of fascist and communist ones, but the
Middle East, Africa, Asia and Latin America, where military as well
as ideological dictators have emerged. This one volume encyclopedia
provides entries on most, if not all, of the dictators that have
emerged worldwide since the time of Napoleon. Cataloged in an A-Z
format, these entries vary in length, providing the basic facts on
the formation and development of dictatorships as well as
references to further information. The volume will prove invaluable
to high school and college students as well as librarians wanting
to know more about these figures—many of whom are not included in
the older, if larger, biographical studies.