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EUROPE AT WAR
from the French Revolution
to the Great War

This is a selective guide to www sites, databases, reference items and other library sources .
For any further help in finding or using these resources please come in to see or contact your Research Librarian for History, ph. 83033706
Margaret Hosking  (Mon, Tues, Wed am) or her assistant,
Peter Jacobs  (Wed pm, Thurs am, Fri am)

Some of the  electronic resources require authentication.

 Resources for the third year historiographical essay
 

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Last updated
September 2006
and Margaret Hosking

DICTIONARIES, ENCYCLOPEDIAS
AND ATLASES

General warfare and military

Browse in the Reference Collection at 355, 903 and 904.7
for reference tools dealing with general history, warfare, battles etc.
A few examples are:

Encyclopedia of wars, Charles Phillips, 3 vols, 2005
Reference collection 355.003 P5584e

The encyclopedia of nineteenth-century land warfare: an illustrated world view, Byron Farwell,  2001.
Reference collection 355.00903 F247e

Dictionary of military history and the art of war,  ed.  A. Corvisier, 1994
Reference collection 355.003 C832d

Encyclopedia of invasions and conquests from ancient times to the present, P. K. Davis,
1996
Reference collection 355.003 D263e

Encyclopedia of prisoners of war and internment, ed J. F. Vance,  2000
Reference collection 355.003  C222p

Victorians at war, 1815-1914 : an encyclopedia of British military history, Harold E. Raugh, Jr., 2004
Reference collection 941.08103 R244v

and from the main collection.........
355.009 B255
Parker, G. Cambridge illustrated history of warfare: the triumph of the West. 1995

Dictionary of wars , G. C. Kohn,  1999
Reference collection 904.7 K79d

Chandler, D. Dictionary of battles: the world's key battles from 405 BC today. 1987.
Reference collection 904.7 C455d

Laffin, J. Brassey's battles: 3,500 years of conflict, campaigns and wars from A-Z. 1986.
Reference collection 904.70 /L163b

Goldstein, E. Wars and peace treaties 1816-1991. 1991.
Reference collection 909.8G624w

Atlas of warfare, Richard Natkiel, 1988
Reference collection 911 N278at

World atlas of military history,  A. Banks   1973-
see vol 3 which is also in main collection.
Reference collection   912.135509 B218w

Social and historical  background

Routledge companion to modern European history since 1763, Chris Cook, 2005
Reference collection 940.2 C771r

A companion to nineteenth-century Europe, 1789-1914, ed. Stefan Berger, 2006
Refernce collection in process

European political facts 1789-1848, Chris Cook,  1981
Reference collection  940.27 C771e

European political facts, 1848-1918, Chris Cook, 1978
Reference collection  940.28 C771e


Encyclopedia of European social history from 1350 to 2000
Ed P. N. Stearns. 6 vols. 2001
Reference collection 940.03 S799e

International encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences
ed N.J. Belser, 26 vols. 2001.  Also available via the web: 
International encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences
Try clicking the Subject Index tab, and searching the topic Warfare in history


Catholic encyclopedia 1907...great entries for Napoleon, War etc                                                                                                                                                                                   

France

Companion to the French Revolution, John Paxton. 1988
Referene collection   944.04 P342c


Historical dictionary of Napoleonic France 1799-1815 , ed. O. Connelly, 1985
Reference collection   944.04003 H673


Cassell dictionary of the Napoleonic Wars, Stephen Pope, 1999
Reference collection   940.27003 P826c.


Napoleon : a biographical companion,  David Nicholls, 1999
Reference collection   944.05 N216ZN

Longman companion to Napoleonic Europe,  Clive Emsely, 1993
Ref erence collection 940.27 E55l


Military history and atlas of the Napoleonic Wars , V. J.  Espositio,  1964
940.27 E77 Barr Smith Oversize collection


Historical dictionary of France from the 1815 Restoration to the Second Empire, ed. Edgar Leon Newman, 2 vols, 1987.
Reference collection   944.06 N552h

Historical dictionary of the Third French Republic, 1870-1940, Patrick H. Hutton, 2 vols, 1986
Reference collection   944.04003 H673

Laws of war

Handbook of humanitarian law in armed conflicts, ed. by Dieter Fleck, 1995
341.3 F593h Law Books (in the Law library, Ligertwood building)

Medicine, mental health and war

Historical encyclopedia of nursing,  Mary Ellen Snodgrass, 1999
Reference collection 610.7309 S673h

The PILOTS Database: An Electronic Index to the Traumatic Stress Literature

Germany

Cassell's dictionary of modern German history, Tim Kirk, 2002
Reference collection 943.003 K593c


Modern Germany : an encyclopedia of history, people, and culture, 1871-1990, ed. D K. Buse , 2 vols,  1998
Reference colleciton   943.003 B977m

World war 1914-1918

Browse around these numbers in the Reference Collection

Haythornthwaite, P. J.  The World War One source book. 1992
Ref erence collection 940.3 H426w                                             
                                                     

European powers in the First World War : an encyclopedia, ed.  Spencer C. Tucker, 1998
Reference collection  940.303 T894e   

French trench warfare, 1917-1918 : a reference manual , French General Staff , 1918, reprinted 2002    
in process for main collection                     


FINDING JOURNAL ARTICLES

Historical abstracts 1967-
Essential for comprehensive coverage of history journals. No full text, but search for the journal title in the library catalogue - many will be electronic.

JSTOR is an online collection of full text journals from their first issue through to about 3-5 years ago.
If you want book reviews, you need to check that box on the search screen.


Project Muse
offers full text for nearly 250 quality journal titles from 40 US inversity publishers covering the fields of history  and many other across the social sciences and humanities.
Coverage is from the mid 1990's to current, which nicely complements the older issues in JSTOR.

Expanded Academic ASAP 1980-
Broad interdisciplinary index, some articles with full text.

Academic Search Elite   1985-
Full text for more than 1,850 scholarly journals, covering every area of academic study.

Periodicals index online
the new name for Periodicals Contents Index - a database of millions of article citations published in the arts,
humanities and social sciences, across more than 200 years. Some full text available via Periodical Archive Online.
Searches can be limites to articled published during a particular time period, and the older journal titles are often woth checking in our catalogue..

PubMed
Search for:  Military Psychiatry/history AND english[lang]

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Ref and main collection 355.0942 H638g
A guide to the sources of British military history, ed. Robin Higham, 1971
Ref and main collection 355.0942 J82b
British military history : a supplement to Robin Higham's Guide to the sources, 1988

Ref  943.0016 S559g
German military history, 1648-1982 : a critical bibliography ,  D. E. Showalter, 1984

Ref355.3520944 H463m
The military in imperial history : the French connection
, A. A.Heggoy,  1984

Ref 616.98023 D852a
Bibliography of Australian doctors at war
, Stephen C. Due, 1994

Ref 305.4016 F893w
Frey, L. Women in western European history : a select chronological, geographical and topical bibliography. 1982-84, supp 1986  

Bibliography of Great War Medicine prepared by Dr. Andrew Bamji, Gillies Archives, Frognal Centre for Medical Studies, Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup, Kent, UK. This was last updated on 24th May 2004
 

WWW SITES

General

Modern European Sourcebook, browse topics down left green bar.

EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History
Selected Transcriptions, Facsimiles and Translations

Avalon Project at the Yale Law School.
Collection of documents  which can be searched by keyword or time period.

H-War : Military History Network

Germany

H-German Homepage

France

H-France Homepage

Libery. Equality, Fraternity - exploring the French Revolution

Women

H-Minerva is the H-Net discussion network devoted to the study of women and war and women in the military, worldwide and in all historical areas.

Humanitarian efforts

Google's directory for History of Nursing

International Committee  for the Red Cross  includes Henri Duant's Memory of Solferino

World war 1914-1918

World War I document archive - many good sections, especially the Medical Front, including psychistry

World War  One from  BBC history

Trenches on the web

Great war, from the Learning Curve, UK National Archives

Imperial War Museum (UK)


Australia War Memorial

PRIMARY AND CONTEMPORARY SOURCES


Don't forget to search the catalogue adding terms such as  "sources" or "personal narratives" to the terms you already use.
eg  World War, 1914-1918 France Personal narratives
      Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 Campaigns Russia Sources

Periodicals index online
the new name for Periodicals Contents Index - a database of millions of article citations published in the arts,
humanities and social sciences, across more than 200 years. Some full text available via Periodical Archive Online.
Searches can be limites to articled published during a particular time period, and the older journal titles are often woth checking in our catalogue.

940.505 C97 and 940.505 C97.2
Current history
The Barr Smith Library holds this journal from 1916-1940
It is also indexed in Periodicals index online

REF 940.05 A61
Annual register of world events [formerly Annual register, or a view of the history, politics and literature for the year...1758-

REF 05 N53y
New York times index . 1851- 
New York Tmes is held on microfilm at MICROFILM PER 3

Palmer's index to The Times, October 1790 to December 1905
Electronic database on PC 331 behind the Information desk, also in print at:
REF 05 T58a
Times index . 1790- 
Times (London) is held on microfilm at MICROFILM PER 54
The State Library has the Times digital archive.

SUBJECT HEADINGS

Using    Basic Search and  Subject heading try:
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
First Coalition, War of the, 1792-1797.
Second Coalition, War of the, 1798-1801.
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
France Armee History
France History, Military 1789-1815
Military history, Modern
Imperialism History 19th century
World War, 1914-1918 Women
Military nursing
Red Cross
Dunant, Henri
Germany  History 1871-1918
Germany   History, Military
World War 1914-1918.........lots of subheadings!
Military art and science

In Guided Keyword, try combinations of terms such as::

war   personal narratives     (add another term if you want a specific war)
war     social aspects
war     women
Europe  history  military
war    philosophy
France (or other country)  colonies

add the word Historiography if necessary


Resources for the third year 
historiographical essay

First, consult the catalogue.
This may seem obvious, but many students fail to fully investigate the resources of our own library. 

Using  guided keyword search   you can search for your historian  as a subject. 
Any keywords in Subject heading can be especially useful  if you use terms such as country paired with the term historiography. 
e.g.WAR   HISTORIOGRAPHY   ( click all of these)
MILITARY  HISTORIOGRAPHY      ( click all of these)

Any keywords  is useful for detecting your historian's name in edited collections of essays etc. 

DICTIONARIES AND ENCYCLOPAEDIAS

Ref  907.203 C26b 
Blackwell dictionary of historians.  ed. J. Cannon  1988. 

Ref   907.2 B477c 
Companion to historiography.  ed. M. Bentley. 1997. 

Ref 907.203 B789e 
Encyclopedia of historians and historical writing. ed. K.  Boyd. 
2 vols. 1999. 

Ref  907.2 H894f 
Fifty key thinkers on history,  Marnie Hughes-Warrington. 2000

Ref     907.203 W913g 
Global encyclopedia of historical writing. ed. D.R. Woolf. 2 vols. 1998 

BIOGRAPHY

Ref  920  C761 
Contemporary authors.  1962- 

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Ref  907.2016  B619h 
Birkos, A.S. Historiography, method, history teaching: a bibliography books and articles in English, 1965-1973. 1975. 

Ref  907.2016 K55h 
Kinell, S.K. Historiography; an annotated bibliography of journal articles, books, and dissertations. 1987.  2v. 

Ref 907.2  F761s 
Pok, Attila. A selected bibliography of modern historiography. 1992 . 

Ref  907.016  R524s 
Richardson, R.C. The study of history; a bibliographical guide. 1988. 
 

BOOK REVIEWS

BOOK REVIEWS

In addition to the  standard history indexes and abstracts  (listed above)  there are other useful tools listed in Finding book reviews.  Don't forget to first establish the exact (first edition) publication date for the title you are searching.


A few key sources of book reviews are:

JSTOR      use Advanced search where you can "limit your search to" reviews.

Reference collection 028.1  F219c 
Combined retrospective index to book reviews in scholarly journals 1886-1974

Reference collection 011.05  B72 
Book review digest. 1905- 

Book review index. 1965-
also in Reference collection 011.05 B724 

Reviews of recently published  books can be found in:

Expanded Academic Index 1980-
Academic Search Elite 1985-
Project Muse  (mid 1990's onwards)
Factiva    full text newspaper coverage from the 1980's onwards.
Include the words book reviews in your search.