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ETHNIC CLEANSING AND GENOCIDE
IN MODERN EUROPE

This is a selective guide to resources available in the Barr Smith Library and via the www.
For any further help in finding or using these resources please come in to see or contact your
Research Librarian for History Margaret Hosking - ph. 83033706

Resources for the third year historiographical essay


CONTENTS

ENCYCLOPAEDIAS
AND DICTIONARIES

FINDING BOOKS

FINDING JOURNAL ARTICLES

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

PRIMARY SOURCES

WWW RESOURCES

Resources for the third year
historiographical essay


































CONTENTS

ENCYCLOPAEDIAS
AND DICTIONARIES

FINDING BOOKS

FINDING JOURNAL ARTICLES

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

PRIMARY SOURCES

WWW RESOURCES

Resources for the third year
historiographical essay

CONTENTS

ENCYCLOPAEDIAS
AND DICTIONARIES

FINDING BOOKS

FINDING JOURNAL ARTICLES

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

PRIMARY SOURCES

WWW RESOURCES

Resources for the third year
historiographical essay



































CONTENTS

ENCYCLOPAEDIAS
AND DICTIONARIES

FINDING BOOKS

FINDING JOURNAL ARTICLES

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

PRIMARY SOURCES

WWW RESOURCES

Resources for the third year
historiographical essay

























CONTENTS

ENCYCLOPAEDIAS
AND DICTIONARIES

FINDING BOOKS

FINDINF JOURNAL ARTICLES

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

PRIMARY SOURCES

WWW RESOURCES

Resources for the third year
historiographical essay





CONTENTS

ENCYCLOPAEDIAS
AND DICTIONARIES

FINDING BOOKS

FINDING JOURNAL ARTICLES

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

PRIMARY SOURCES

WWW RESOURCES

Resources for the third year
historiographical essay

CONTENTS

ENCYCLOPAEDIAS
AND DICTIONARIES

FINDING BOOKS

FINDING JOURNAL ARTICLES

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

PRIMARY SOURCES

WWW RESOURCES

Resources for the third year
historiographical essay











Last update
August 2008
Margaret Hosking







ENCYCLOPAEDIAS and DICTIONARIES

General

Encyclopedia of genocide, ed. Israel W. Charny. 1999
Reference collection 364.15103 C48e
also available as an electronic resource

World directory of minorities, edited by Minority Rights Group, 2nd ed, 1997
Reference collection 305.803 W927.2

International encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences. ed N.J. Belser, 26 vols. 2001.
Reference collection 300.3 S638
Also available via the web:
International encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences
Try clicking the Article titles tab, and searching topics such as:
Genocide: Historical Aspects; War Crimes Tribunals; Ethnic Cleansing, History of; International Migration by Ethnic Germans etc.

Antisemitism : a historical encyclopedia of prejudice and persecution, ed. R. S. Levy, 2005.
Reference collection 305.8924 L6688a

Encyclopedia of modern ethnic conflicts, ed J. R. Rudolph, 2003
also in Reference collection at 305.8003 R917e

Ethnopolitical encyclopaedia of Europe, ed Karl Cordell and Stefan Wolff, 2004
Reference collection 323.1403 C7944e

Encyclopedia of race and ethnic studies, ed. E Cashmore, 2004


Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

Encyclopedia of Russian history, ed. James R. Millar, 2004, 4 vols.
Reference collection 947.003 M6454e

Joseph Stalin : a biographical companion, Helen Rappaport, 1999.
Reference collection 947.0842 S782ZR;

Historical dictionary of Russia, ed.Boris Raymond, 1998
Reference collection 947.003 R268h;

Longman companion to Russia since 1914, Martin McCauley, 1997
Reference collection 947.084 M119l

Cambridge encyclopedia of Russia and the former Soviet Union ,
ed. Archie Brown, 2nd ed 1994.
Reference collection 947.003 C178.2

Encyclopedia of the USSR : 1905 to the present, Lenin to Gorbachev, Warren Shaw, 1990
Reference collection 947.084 S537e

Encyclopedia of Ukraine, ed. Volodymyr Kubijovyc. 1984-1993
Reference collection 947.71003 K95e

The peoples of the USSR :an ethnographic handbook, Ronald Wixman, 1984.
Reference collection 305.800947 W835p

Eastern European national minorities, 1919-1980: a handbook, by S. M. Horak, 1985
Reference collection 305.8016 H811e

Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe: from the Congress of Vienna to the fall of communism, ed. Richard Frucht. 2000
Reference collection 947.003 F944e

Germany

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

Holocaust literature : an encyclopedia of writers and their work, S. L. Kremer, 2 vols, 2003.
(Includes autobiographical writings)
Reference collection 809.93358 K9234h

Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, ed. Israel Gutman, 4 vols. 1990
ReferenceCollection 940.5318 E56

Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, ed. Robert Rozette, 2000
Reference collection 940.5318 E56

Historical dictionary of the Holocaust, Jack R. Fischel, 1999.
Reference collection 940.531803 F529h

The Routledge atlas of the holocaust, Martin Gilbert, 3rd ed, 2002.
Reference collection 940.5318 G465a.R

Historical atlas of the Holocaust, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2000
Reference collection 940.5318 U58h

Balkans

Conflict in the former Yugoslavia : an encyclopedia, ed. John B. Allcock, 1998
Reference collection 949.7003 A421c

FINDING BOOKS IN THE CATALOGUE

Use these terms in Basic Search, with the Subject Headings option highlighted.
They can also be used as keywords in Guided keyword searching.
Try a Keyword search in Basic search, with electronic resources highlighted - some quite useful books and reports will come up, in addition to articles that have been scanned from reading lists.

Genocide....browse....eg Genocide History 20th century
Massacres History 20th century
Crimes against humanity History 20th century
Political atrocities History 20th century.
War crimes History 20th century
Political atrocities....browse....
Europe Ethnic relations

Armenian massacres, 1915-
Armenia History 1901-
Armenian question

Famines Soviet Union
Famines Ukraine
Collectivization of agriculture Ukraine
Soviet Union Economic policy 1928-1932

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).....lots to browse
Jews Germany......browse
Antisemitism.......Antisemitism Germany.....and browse

Forced migration Europe
Population transfers Germans
Germans Europe, Eastern History 20th century
World War, 1939-1945 Refugees
World War, 1939-1945 Atrocities
Population transfers Germans.
Europe, Eastern Ethnic relations
Germany Emigration and immigration

Yugoslav War, 1991-1995
Bosnia and Hercegovina Ethnic relations
Bosnia and Hercegovina History 1992
Muslims Bosnia and Hercegovina.......browse
Kosovo (Serbia) History Civil War, 1998-1999

Ethnic cleansing can be searched as a phrase in Guided Keyword, but these subject headings are used for books on the subject:
Population transfers
Forced migration
Ethnic relations

General concepts that can be added into keyword searches:
Culture conflict
.......ethnic group.....Crimes against
.......ethnic group.....Civil rights
......name of war......Atrocities


FINDING JOURNAL ARTICLES

Some of these will locate secondary articles which interpret events (and are published after the fact), but JSTOR and Periodicals Index Online searches can be limited to the time period of the events being studied. eg 1930-1939 for contemporary coverage.

Historical abstracts 1967-
Essential for a thorough search for articles in History journals.
Now has many links to full text articles from JSTOR, Oxford journals, Cambridge journals etc
Looks different because it has moved to the EBSCO platform.
Keyword searching is the default option and results will display in relevance order.
All the advanced search options are still there - scroll down the page for time period, language etc.
If you want to check subject terms click on Indexes (white word on green bar at the top of the page).

Academic Onefile1980-
Broad interdisciplinary index, some articles with full text.

Academic Search Premier 1985-
Broad interdisciplinary index, some articles with full text.

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.
For best results, use advanced search.

Project Muse gives searchable full-text access to University Press and other scholarly electronic journals in the social sciences, humanities etc. 1998-

Periodicals Index Online (PIO) Searches for journal articles published over more than 200 years.Limited search terms - usually titles of articles.
Great for contemporary accounts of 20th century events if you limit searches to time periods.
Some full text available.
Many early journals may be held either in our Store or at the State Library.
Full text searching of a smaller number of journals is available via
Periodicals Archive Online.

Factiva provides full text and indexing of hundreds of worldwide newspapers,
mostly from the 1990's onwards, but the New York Times is available full text from 1980.

Microfilm Per 54
The Times (London) 1785-
Use the Times Index, Reference collection 05 T58a
Times digital archive is available at the State Library.

The New York Times
NYT Archive 1981-
Full text of articles. If text doesn't appear, note the date and page and the full text can be found at Microfilm PER 3.

Keesing's contemporary archives. 1931- (a news digest service)
Reference collection 905 K2

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Selected socio-legal bibliography on ethnic cleansing, wartime rape, and genocide in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, H. M. Zawati. 2004
Reference collection 341.69016 Z395s

Genocide at the millennium , ed. Samuel Totten, 2005
Main collection 364.151 T719g

Charny, I.W. Genocide: a critical biblioraphic review. 1988.
Reference collection 364.151 C483g

Totten, S. First-person accounts of genocidal acts committed in the twentieth century: an annotated bibliography. 1991
Reference collection 364.151016 T719f

The Armenian holocaust : a bibliography relating to the deportations, massacres, and dispersion of the Armenian people, 1915-1923, R. G. Hovannisian, 1980
Reference collection 973.91016 H845a

Russia and eastern Europe, 1789-1985 : a bibliographical guide, by Raymond Pearson.
Reference collection 947.0016 P362r

Horak, S.M. Russia, the USSR, and Eastern Europe: a bibliographic guide to English language publications,1964-1974, 1978. With useful annotations. Covers books only. Supplements published 1982, 1987.
Reference collection 947.00016 H8109r and supplements

The "Jewish question" in German-speaking countries, 1848-1914 : a bibliography,
ed. Rena R. Auerbach, 1994
Reference collection 305.800943 A917j

Antisemitism : an annotated bibliography1984- Reference collection 323.11924 C678a

The Jewish Holocaust : an annotated guide to books in English, M. Bloomberg, 1995
Reference collection 940.5318016 B655j
lots more aound this number in Reference.

War crimes, war criminals, and war crimes trials : an annotated bibliography and source book, ed. Norman E. Tutorow , 1986
Reference collection 341.69 T966w

PRIMARY SOURCES

WWW sites for sources

Internet Modern History sourcebook

Eurodocs a useful collection of transcripts and translations of primary source documents from Western Europe.

Avalon Project at the Yale Law School. A collection of documents searchable by keyword or time period.

Contemporary newspaper and periodical coverage can also serve a a primary source. Databases and indexes for these are listed toward the end of FINDING JOURNAL ARTICLES. , earlier in this resource guide.

Searching the library catalogue for sources

Use keywords from subject headings and add the subject term
Sources or Personal narratives.

eg
Germany, Turkey and Armenia : a selection of documentary evidence relating to the Armenian atrocities, from German and other sources. 1917
940.4 G373 main colleciton

The Foreign Office and the famine : British documents on Ukraine and the Great Famine of 1932-1933
363.8094771 C333f main collection

The Stalin-Kaganovich correspondence, 1931-1936, 2003
947.0842 S782.D main collection

Archives of the Holocaust : an international collection of selected documents, 21 vols.
940.5318 F911a main collection

Germany and its occupied territories during World War II, 22 microfilm reels and guide.
MICROFILM 18338-18359

Postwar Europe 10 microfilm reels and guide.
MICROFILM 20581

The Kosovo conflict and international law: an analytical documentation 1974-1999, ed. Heike Krieger,2001
341.68 K92k main collection


WWW RESOURCES

Genocide in general

Web Genocide Documentation Centre: resources on genocide, war crimes, and mass killing.


Armenian Genocide

Armenian Genocide: Summary of events, quotes, articles of the time, first-hand accounts, suggested readings and pictures.

Armenian National Institute: dedicated to the study, research and affirmation of the Armenian Genocide.


Ukraine famine

Revelations from the Russian Archives, from the Library of Congress.
includes Collectivization and Industrialization

Holocaust

Institute of Historical Research, London. History in focus no. 7
The Holocaust: An extensive review of Holocaust resources on the www and in print.

Remember.org

German propaganda archive: Nazi propaganda 1933-1945

H-Holocaust, a member of H-Net Humanities &Social Sciences OnLine
a discussion group with useful links

Nizkor project

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.

War Crimes trials

MICROFICHE 2342
International Military Tribunal. Trial of the major war criminals before the International
Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946. 42 vols.
Searchable full text also available at Avalon

The Nuremberg Project is a major initiative of Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion. It aims to make available a selection of the full primary source text documents held in the Donovan Collection, Cornell University School of Law Library. William Donovan was a special assistant to the US Chief of Counsel during the International Military Tribunal Nuremberg 1945-46.


From the Axis History Factbook -
a partial list of European War Crimes Trials, with brief information.

International criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

Balkans

Srebrenica : cry from the grave: a Web site which accompanies a television programme broadcast by PBS (Public Broadcasting Service)
Resources section includes some excellent links .

Building peace in Kosovo, from the US State Department - follow the many useful links.


International Crisis Group: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Troebst, M. Conflict in Kosovo: failure of prevention an analytical documentation 1992-1998. European Centre for Minority Issues, working paper, no. 1, 1998.

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.

Search for your topic, sort by date, and select titles separated by a number of years.

Using guided keyword search you can search for your historian as a subject, or use
Any keywords / Subject heading for searching subject terms paired with the term historiography.
e.g.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
Genocide Turkey Historiography
Balkan Peninsula Historiography.

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

DICTIONARIES AND ENCYCLOPAEDIAS

Check for Historiography as a topic in the Dictionaries and Encyclopedias at the top of this guide.

Reference collection 320.533 D2571f
Routledge companion to Fascism and the far right, ed. P. Davies. 2002.
Part one includes Historiography.

Reference collection 907.203 C26b
Blackwell dictionary of historians. ed. J. Cannon 1988.

Reference collection 907.2 B477c
Companion to historiography. ed. M. Bentley. 1997.

REF907.203 B789e
Encyclopedia of historians and historical writing. ed. K. Boyd. 2 vols. 1999.

Reference collection907.2 H894f
Fifty key thinkers on history, Marnie Hughes-Warrington. 2000

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

BIOGRAPHY

To find out about a specific author use
Reference collection 920 C761
Contemporary authors. 1962-

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

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

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

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

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

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:

Academic Onefile 1980-
Academic Search Premier 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.