GENERAL INFORMATION SOURCES
FOR ALL
TOPICS
More specific resources are listed further down this web page,
under
headings for
the course's
MAIN TOPICS
It is a good idea to read broadly at first, to get the "big picture", using books found via the catalogue and also verify definitions of concepts using reference works.
CATALOGUE
To find some more books, use the catalogue.
Here are some subject headings to start with.
Subject headings often don't use the same terms as your topics, so think of synonyms, or do a keyword search, find some useful titles, and then look for the subject headings (in blue) which have been added to that book's cataloguing information.
War History 20th century
State, The
Revolutions and socialism.
Revolutions History 20th century
Nationalsim...browse countries
Europe Ethnic relations
Military history Modern
Europe History 20th century
Asia History 20th century
World history
....browse...20th century
World politics......browse....especially....World politics 1945-
REFERENCE WORKS
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
These are always useful for a broad introduction to any topic, and will usually include reference lists to additional related readings.
Berkshire encyclopedia of world history, ed. W. H. McNeill, Jerry H. Bentley, 5 vols, 2005
Reference collection 901 M1697b
Encyclopedia
of European social history, ed
P.Stearns. 6 vols. 2001.
Articles arranged in broad subject
groupings, use the
index to find, eg imperialism and the military.
Reference collection 940.03 S799e
International
encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences
26
vols. 2001
Scroll down the left hand toolbar
for Article Titles and go via the A-Z list to:
Warfare
Revolution
Revolutions, Hisotry of
Communism, History of
Totalitarianism etc
This encyclopedia is also in print, in the Reference collection 300.3 S638i
Europe since 1945
: an encyclopedia.
Bernard A. Cook. 2v. 2001. Reference collection 940.5503
C771e
Chronicle of
the
twentieth century. 1999
Reference collection 909.82
C557.A
A Dictionary of
twentieth-century world history. ed.
J
Palmowski. 2nd ed. 2003
Reference collection 909.8203 P171d.2
The Longman companion
to
European decolonisation in the
twentieth
century. M.E. Chamberlain. 1998
Reference collection 325.3094 C443l
Oxford companion to
politics of
the world. ed. J.
Krieger. 1993
Reference collection 320.03 K92o
Browse at this
number
for other politics and ideology dictionaries.
A companion to modern
European
history, 1871-1945,
ed.
Martin Pugh. 1997
Main collection 940.28 P978c
A companion to Europe, 1900-1945, ed. Gordon Martel, 2006.
Reference collection 940.5 M376c
Palmer, A.W.
The
Penguin dictionary of
twentieth-century
history. 4th ed. 1992
Reference collection 909.8203 P173p.4 (also in Main Collection)
Routledge companion to Central and Eastern Europe since 1919, Adrian Webb, 2008
Reference collection 943.087 W365r
Dictionaries of biography
Oxford dictionary of national biography : from the earliest times to the year 2000 ed .H.C.G. Matthew and C. Harrison, 60 vols, 1994.
Reference collection 920 D55o
Also available online.
Australian dictionary of biography. 1966 - <2007> .
Reference collection 920 A937
Also available online .
Historical Atlases - more than just maps!
Historical
atlas
of the twentieth century
Cassell atlas of world history.
1997
Reference collection 911 H427c
Oxford atlas of world history, ed. Patrick
K. O'Brien.
c1999.
Reference collection Oversize 911 O13a
Atlas of twentieth century
world history, Michael Dokrill. 1991.
Reference collection 911 D637a
FINDING
JOURNAL
ARTICLES
Individual
journal
articles are not usually listed in the library catalogue.
If you want to
find journal articles on a particular topic , you need to
search electronic databases. You can search using
subject, keyword or author's name.
We
do
not necessarily hold
all the journal titles and articles covered by these databases, but
many
have links to full text articles and some are linked to software that
will search our catalogue to see if we have access to the journal in print
or online.
Historical abstracts 1967-
Essential for a thorough search for articles in History journals. Covers all history except for the Americas.
For American history use:
America History and Life
Academic OneFile 1980-
A broad multidisciplinary database, providing full text for a large proportion of the 8000 journals covered.
Academic Search Premier
This database covers 8000 journals from all subject areas, and provides the full text of articles from over 4000 of those journals
JSTOR is a full text searchable library of scholarly journals
(mainly in
the
social sciences and humanities) which contains full content of selected
journals from their first issue up to 3-5 years ago.
Use the Advanced Search
option.
Project
Muse offers full text of articles from nearly 250 quality journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers. It includes the field of history and many others, acrosss the social sciences and humanities. Coverage is
from about 5 years ago to current, which nicely complements the older issues in JSTOR.
PRIMARY SOURCES
Primary sources are documents written at the time
of the
event.
They include letters, newspapers, cartoons,
parliamentary papers,
memoirs (personal narratives), treaties and other documents.
The two
simplest
ways to locate them are:
via the catalogue, adding to your subject heading search any of the following terms:
sources, or diaries or personal narratives or memory; OR
via specialised websites, where documents on a
particular
topic may be grouped together. Some usful websites are listed below.
Look under the TOPIC GROUPS for
details.
WEBSITES
Internet
Modern History
Sourcebook
This
site contains
overviews of broad topics, and also has an extensive collection of
primary
historical documents, both excerpts and full text.Choose topics from
the green index
band
(left side) of this site.
COURSE TOPICS
World War 1914-1918 - the experience of war
To find some extra books, use the catalogue.
Here are some useful Subject headings These terms can also be used in guided keyword searches:
Europe History 20th century
World War, 1914-1918 ...then subdivide by
terms
such as :
--Sources, --Social
aspects, --Great Britain, --Influence, --Personal narratives,--France
Europe Politics and government 1918-1945
Primary sources can often be found by adding the words
Sources or Personal narratives to these keywords, which will give you works such as:
War, peace, and social change. Documents:
Europe 1900-1955, ed. Arthur
Marwick, 1990
940.2 M391w (Main collection)
Reference works
Haythornthwaite, P. J. The World War One source book. 1992
Reference collection 940.3 H426w
Browse around
940.3 in the Reference collection for WW I.
World War I databook : the essential facts and figures for all the combatants, John Ellis, 2001.
Reference collection 940.4 E47w
European powers in the First World War : an encyclopedia,
ed.
Spencer C. Tucker, 1996
Reference collection 940.303 T894e
Encyclopedia of 20th century
warfare, ed. N. Frankland, 1989
Reference collection 355.003 F831e
The cost of the War to Russia : The vital statistics of European Russia during the World War, 1914-1917, by Stanislas Kohn ; [and] Social cost of the War, by Baron Alexander F. Meyendorff, 1932
Main collection 940.3 K79
Finding journal articles
Go to the section for Finding
journal articles
Websites (Some of these also contain primary sources)
Australian War Memorial BBC History site for World
War I
Trenches on the web
World War I document
archive
Great War and the
shaping of
the twentieth century
Internet
Modern History Sourcebook: WWI
Russian Revolution
Reference tools
Encyclopedia of Russian history, James R. Millar, 4 vols. 2004
Reference collection 947.003 M6454e...lots at this number so browse in the Reference collection
To find some more books, use the catalogue.
Here are some useful subject headings.
These terms can also be used in guided keyword searches.
Soviet Union History Revolution, 1917-1921
Primary sources can often be found by adding the words
Sources or Personal narratives to the subject heading.
Finding journal articles
Go to the section for Finding journal articles
Websites
REESWeb: Russian and East European Studies
Russian Revolutionaries 1914-1925, from Spartacus(try to ignore the ads!)
Seventeen moments in Soviet History
Gender
Reference tools
Routledge critical dictionary of feminism and postfeminism, ed Sarah Gamble, 2000.
Reference collection 305.4203 G191r
see especially part I, chapters 1-3
Cambridge companion to Virginia Woolf, ed. Sue Roe and Susan Sellers
Reserve collection 823 W91ZROEc
Encyclopedia of British women's writing, 1900-1950, ed. Faye Hammill, 2006.
Reference collection 820.3 H2249e
To find some more books, use the catalogue.
Here are some useful subject headings.
These terms can also be used in guided keyword searches.
Women History....browse dates....20th century
Sex role History
Sex discrimination against women History
Women....place....History
Woolf, Virgina 1882-1941
Primary sources can often be found by adding the words
Sources or Personal narratives to these keywords.
Finding journal articles
Go to the section for Finding journal articles
Websites
WWW Virtual Library - Women's History
Nazism and the Holocaust
To find some extra books, use the catalogue. Here are some useful Subject headings.
These terms can also be used in guided keyword searches.
Fascism [subdivided by name of country or region] (browse headings)
e.g.Fascism Germany, Fascism Europe , etc.
National Socialism History
Nationalism.....browse countries
Europe Politics and government 1918-1945
Germany Politics and government 1918-1933
and 1933-1945
Genocide History 20th century
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).....lots to browse
Primary sources can often be found by adding the words
Sources or Personal narratives to these keywords, which will give you works such as:
The German question since
1919 : an analysis with key documents, Stefan Wolff, 2003
943.087 W855g (Main collection)
Archives of the Holocaust : an international collection of selected documents, 20 vols.
940.5318 F911a
Reference works
World fascism : a historical encyclopedia. Ed. C. P.
Blamires, 2 vols, 2006.
Reference collection 335.603 B637w
Encyclopedia of nationalism, ed.
Alexander Motyl. 2v. 2001
Reference collection
320.5403 M922e
Snyder, L.L. Encyclopedia of the Third Reich 1976.
Reference collection 943.003 S6475e
Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, ed. Israel Gutman, 4 vols. 1990
Reference Collection 940.5318 E56....browse at this number for other Holocaust reference tools.
Finding journal articles
Go to the section for Finding
journal articles
Websites
Internet
Modern
History Sourcebook
This site contains overviews of broad topics, and
also
has an extensive collection of primary historical documents, both
excerpts
and full text. From the green index band (left side) of this site,
choose
topics.
For example:
Fascism
in Europe
Nazism
Holocaust
Also, have a look at www
sites on another two of our History resource guides: Fascism
and National Socialism and Ethnic cleansing and genocide in modern Europe
China and Japan
To find some more books, use the catalogue.
Here are some useful subject headings.
These terms can also be used in guided keyword searches.
Asia History 20th century
Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976
China History 1949-
Japan History 1945-
Decolonization
Postcolonialism
and headings that follow this pattern:
nation/region..... foreign relations........nation/region
Asia Foreign relations United States
France Foreign relations Africa
or.....time period.....
Great Britain Foreign relations 1945-
Primary sources can often be found by adding the words
Sources or Personal narratives to these keywords, which will give you works such as:
People's Republic of China : a documentary history of revolutionary change, ed. Mark Selden, 1979
Main collection 951.051 P419
Reference works
Encyclopedia of Asian history. ed. Ainslie T.
Embree, 4
vols. 1988.
Reference collection 950.03 E56
Encyclopedia of China : the essential reference to China, its history and culture, Dorothy Perkins, 1999.
Reference collection 951.003 P448e...lots at this numbe so browser
Modern Japan : an encyclopedia of history, culture, and nationalism, ed. James L. Huffman, 1998
Reference collection 952.003 H889m ....lots at this number so browse
Finding journal articles
Go to the section for Finding
journal articles
Websites
Internet
East Asian History Sourcebook
Internet
Modern History Sourcebook: Asia since 1900
Asian
Studies
WWW Virtual Library
Serve the people! Images of daily life in China during the Cultural Revolution , Prof. William A Joseph, Wellesley College.
More information and websites for China and Japan can be found on the Asian Studies Resource guides:
China
Japan
Cold war to Clash of Civilizations
To find some more books, use the catalogue.
Here are some useful subject headings.
These terms can also be used in guided keyword searches.
Cold War
United States Foreign relations Soviet Union
Soviet Union Foreign Relations United States
World politics.......follow the "See also" references and subdivisions, such as...1945- .
World politics 1989-
World politics 21st century
Post-communism
Islamic fundamentalism
Islam and politics
Primary sources can often be found by adding the words Sources or Personal narratives to these keywords, which will give you works such as:
The Cold War : a history in documents and eyewitness
accounts, ed. Jussi Hanhimäki, 2003.
327.73047 H239c (Main collection)
Finding journal articles
Go to the section for Finding
journal articles
Bibliographies ( another way to find some journal
articles)
Black, J. L. Origins, evolution, and nature of the Cold War : an
annotated
bibliographic guide. 1986.
Reference collection 327.73047 B627o
Reference works
Arms, Thomas S. Encyclopedia of the Cold War. 1994.
Reference collection 327.73047 A734
The Cold War, 1945-1991. Edited by Benjamin Frankel. 3
vols.
c1992
Reference collection 327.09 F829c
Europe since 1945: an encyclopedia, Bernard A.
Cook,
2 vols. 2001
Reference collection 940.5503 C771e
Encyclopedia of modern ethnic conflicts, ed. Joseph R. Rudolph, Jr., 2003
Reference collection 305.8003 R917e and online
Websites
Internet
Modern
History Sourcebook
This site contains overviews of broad topics, and
also
has an extensive collection of primary historical documents, both
excerpts
and full text.
Some examples are:
Internet
Modern History Sourcebook: PW W Europe
Internet
Modern History Sourcebook: PW Asia
Internet
Modern History Sourcebook: US power
Internet
Modern History Sourcebook: Bipolar world
Internet
Modern History Sourcebook: Middle East since 1914
Other sites:
Harvard
Project
on Cold War Studies
Cold War (from
CNN)
Cold
War International History Project
|
