Finding books and essays/chapters|
Search in the library catalogue (Basic search) for the subject heading
Happiness
and you can browse various subdivisions
Other useful headings include
Consumption (Economics)--Great Britain--History ....insert he names of other countries
Leisure--Great Britain--History....insert he names of other countries
Leisure Historye
Materialism History
Material culture History
Moral conditions
Cost and standard of living
Utilitarianism
Use names as subject heading searches:
Smith, Adam
Freud, Sigmund
Guided keyword searching can use terms and phrases such as:
well- being
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences 26 vols. 2001
Click in the left navigation bar under Article Titles for the A-Z list from which you can select headings such as:
Individual/Society - history of the concept
Individualism vs collectivism
Hume, David
Mill, John Stuart
you can also search for the term "happiness" throughout the encyclopedia.
Also in Reference collection 300.3 S638i
Encyclopedia of European social history frrom 1350 to 2000, ed. P.Stearns. 6 vols. 2001.
Reference collection 940.03 S799e
Europe 1450 to 1789 : encyclopedia of the early modern world, ed.J. Dewald, 6 vols, 2004
Reference collection 940.203 D5153e
For general information at a quality level, try
Oxford Reference Online
which enables you to search across a large collection of scholarly OUP dictionaries
Blackwell companion to major classical social theorists, ed. George Ritzer, 2003
Main colleciton 301.092 R6158bc
Enlightenment and 18th century
Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, ed. Michel Delon, 2 vols, 2001
Reference collection 940.2503 D361d.W
Blackwell companion to the Enlightenment, John W. Yolton, 1992
Reference collection 940.25303 Y54b
Cambridge history of eighteenth-century political thought, ed. Mark Goldie, 2006
Main collection 320.09 G6191c
Cambridge companion to Mary Wollstonecraft, ed. Claudia L. Johnson, 2002
19th century
Companion to nineteenth-century Europe, 1789-1914, ed. Stefan Berger, 2006
Reference collection 940.28 B4966c
A companion to nineteenth-century Britain, ed. Chris Williams, 2004
Reference collection 941.081 W7221c
20th century
Companion to Europe, 1900-1945, ed. Gordon Martel, 2006.
Reference collection 940.5 M376c
Routledge companion to twentieth-century philosophy, ed. Dermot Moran, 2008
Main collection 190 M8291r
Encyclopedia of modern French thought, ed. Christopher John Murray, 2004.
Reference collection 944.08103 M9814e
Blackwell dictionary of modern social thought, ed. William Outhwaite, 2nd ed, 2003
Reference collection and Main collection 300.3 O94b.2
Companion to early twentieth-century Britain, ed. Chris Wrigley, 2003.
Reference collection 941.082 W954c
Freud A to Z, Sharon Heller, 2005
Reference collection 150.1952 H4775f
Utopias
Utopias and Utopians : an historical dictionary, Richard C.S. Trahair, 1999.
Reference collection 321.07 T765u
ABC-CLIO world history companion to Utopian movement, Daniel W. Hollis, III, 1998
Reference collection 335.02 H742a
Finding journal articles
These databases can be searched via the www using university or home computers or in the Library.
Some link to full electronic full text, or you can search for the journal title in the library catalogue to see if we have an alternative print or electronic version.
Historical abstracts 1967-
Essential to search for articles in History journals. Now has many links to full text articles.
Advanced search options - scroll down the page for time period, language etc or click on Indexes (white word on green bar at the topof the page) for subject, author etc.
Academic OneFile 1980-
Accesss to more than 20 million peer-reviewe articles, a large proportion of which are
full-text, from more than 8000 journals across all subject areas.
Academic Search Premier
Full text for over 4000 of the 8000 journals aross all subject a reas.
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 - so not current.
Finding primary sources and Websites
Online Library of Liberty - The Library is where electronic versions of classic books about individual liberty are stored. These texts go back some 4,000 years and cover the disciplines of economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, political theory, religion, war and peace. They are in a variety of formats - facsimile PDFs so scholars can view the original text, HTML for ease of searching and attractive layout, and text-based PDF EBooks for personal use.
Use the Find Author/Title to search the library catalog for key names and words from titles.
Use the Advanced Search to do a full-text search of the books in the library collection.
Internet Modern History Sourcebook - browse topics in the green left side column
EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe
World database of Happiness ........more curent than historical.
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