YEAR 12 HISTORY

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This is a selective guide to WWW resources, reference items and other resources in the Barr Smith Library,
suitable for Australian History and Modern History
Some items are in the reference collection, Barr Smith Library level 3.
The library also has access to a large number of electronic resources.
Many do not require a licence and may be viewed from anywhere without passwords or authentication,
but the licensed electronic resources are available to walk-in users at selected public access computers.

For more detailed subject information, look at the library resource guides for History courses taught at the University of Adelaide.
They may not be on the exact topic but will include print and electronic resources for the place or era.

Australian History

Modern History:

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Australian History

Modern History:

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Australian History

Modern History:

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Australian History

Modern History:

Last update
Margaret Hosking
January 2009

AUSTRALIAN HISTORY

THE CATALOGUE

The Barr Smith Library holds a large number of resources for research on Australian and South Australian History.
The Catalogue is your key to finding them.
Search in guided keyword or basic search(subject heading) for terms such as:

Australia....war.......1914
Australia....war.......1939
Women.....Australia......social
Australia......politics
Aborigines.........land
Aborigines........missions
Women Australia

For primary documents, add the word sources to your search

For any topic, a person can be searched in basic search (subject heading)
Spence, Catherine Helen, 1825-1910.
Menzies, Robert, Sir, 1894-1978

DICTIONARIES, ENCYCLOPEDIAS, HANDBOOKS, ATLASES, CHRONOLOGIES

Reference collection 994 A9425 (another set in main collection)
Australians:. A Historical Library, 1987
v.1 Australians to 1788, ed. D.J. Mulvaney.
v.2 Australians: 1838, ed. A. Atkinson.
v.3 Australians: 1888, ed. G. Davison
v.4 Australians: 1938, ed. B. Gammage.
v.5 Australians from 1939, ed. A. Curthoys.
v.6 Atlas stand Australians: a historical atlas, ed. J.C.R. Camm.
v.7 Australians: a guide to sources, ed. D.H. Borchardt.
v.8 Australians: events and places, ed. G. Aplin.
v.9..Australians: a historical dictionary, ed. G. Aplin.
v.10 Australians: historical statistics, ed. W. Vramplew.
v.11 Australians: the guide and index.

Reference collection 03 B199c
Cambridge encyclopedia of Australia. 1994

Reference collection 03 A93.5
Australian encyclopaedia.6th ed. 1996

Reference collection 994.0049915 H823e
Encyclopedia of Aboriginal Australia: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture. 2 vols. 1994.

Reference collection 305.899915 K64o
The Oxford companion to Aboriginal art and culture. 2000

Reference collection 994 J95a.2 (also in main collection)
Australian people : an encyclopedia of the nation, its people and their origins, ed. J. Jupp 2nd ed. 2001

Reference collection 994 B255w
Barker, A. What happened when? Chronology of Australia from 1788 to 1994 . 1996

Reference collection 994 R824c
Chronicle of Australia, ed. John Ross. 2000

Reference collection 920 A937 and also free online
Australian dictionary of biography, ed. D. Pike. v. 1- and Index.
Good for information about significant Australians.
Look for the additional references at the end of each entry.

Reference collection 305.420994 R129t
200 Australian women: a redress anthology. ed. H.Radi. 1988

WWW SITES

National Library of Australia: Australian History: selected websites

Electronic journal of Australian and New Zealand History.

Australian War Memorial

Documenting a democracy: Australia's story

Aboriginal studies: a guide to library resources on our own Library information Service
contains links to many useful sites and resources,
including Mura, the Library catalogue of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.

MODERN HISTORY

THE CATALOGUE

The Barr Smith Library holds a large number of resources for research on Modern History
The Catalogue is your key to finding them.
Search in guided keyword or basic search(subject heading) for terms such as:
Germany Politics and government 1933-1945
France - History 1914-1940
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
World War, 1939-1945 United States.....or other counrties
National Socialism
Fascism
Women. Great Britain Social Conditions
Soviet Union History Revolution, 1917-1921
Russia History Revolution, 1905-1907
Vietnamese Conflict 1961-1975
Cold War
United States Social conditions 1960-
United States History Civil War
African Americans Civil rights
World War 1939-1945 United States
Indians of North America

To find primary documents add the word sources and/or personal narratives to your search.

For any topic, a person can be searched in basic search(subject heading)
Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953
Pol Pot
Guevara, Ernesto, 1928-1967
Beatles

DICTIONARIES, ENCYCLOPEDIAS, HANDBOOKS, ATLASES, CHRONOLOGIES

Oxford encyclopedia of the modern world, ed. Peter N. Stearns, 8 vols, 2008
in process for Reference collection

Reference colelction 903 M1697b
Berkshire encyclopedia of world history, ed. William H. McNeill, 5 vols, 2005

Reference collection 940.03 S799e
Encyclopedia of European social history, ed P.Stearns. 6 vols. 2001.

Reference collection 320.94 N625p
Political and economic encyclopaedia of Western Europe, ed. F. Nicholson. 1990.

Reference collection 947.084103 S562b
Blackwell encyclopedia of the Russian Revolution, edited by Harold Shukman 1988.

Reference collection 940.5 C771e.3
Cook, C. European political facts 1918-1990. 1992.

Reference collection 940.5318 U58h
Historical Atlas of the Holocaust, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1996

Reference collection 940.5318 E56
Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, ed. I. Gutman. 4 vols. 1990.

Reference collection 940.5318 E21h
Edelheit, A. J. History of the Holocaust : a handbook and dictionary , 1994.

Reference collection 943.003 S6475e
Snyder, L.L. Encyclopedia of the Third Reich 1976.

Reference collection 325.34203 O52h
Historical dictionary of the British empire, J. S. Olson, 1996

Reference collection 940.2503 D361d.W
Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment. 2 vols. ed. M. Delon. 2001

Reference collection 973.303 M474h
Historical dictionary of the American Revolution, Terry M. Mays, 1999

Reference collection 973.703 H673
Historical times illustrated encyclopedia of the Civil War, ed. Patricia L. Faust, 1986

Reference collection 973.9203 O52h
Historical dictionary of the 1950's, James S. Olson. 2000

Reference collection 973.923 O52h
Historical dictionary of the 1960's, ed. James S. Olson, 1999

Reference collection 973.924 O52h
Historical dictionary of the 1970's, ed. James S. Olson. 1999

Reference collection 323.103 B811e
The Encyclopedia of civil rights in America, ed.David Bradley, 1998

Reference collection 973.9203 S399c
Cold War culture : media and the arts, 1945-1990, Richard A. Schwartz. 1997

Reference collection 973.03 K97e
Encyclopedia of the United States in the twentieth century, ed. Stanley I. Kutler. 1996

Reference collection 975.003 W747e
Encyclopedia of Southern culture, ed. Charles Reagan Wilson, 1989

Reference collection 973.049607303 L912e
Encyclopedia of Black America, ed. W. Augustus Low. 1981

Reference collection 950.03 L665e
Encyclopedia of modern Asia, David Levinson ed. 6 vols. 2002

Reference collection 950.03 E56
Encyclopedia of Asian history, ed. Ainslie T. Embree. 4 vols. 1988

Reference collection 355.0203 C7711w
Women and war : a historical encyclopedia from antiquity to the present, ed. Bernard A. Cook , 2 vols., 2006

Reference collection 335.603 B637w
World fascism : a historical encyclopedia, Cyprian P. Blamires, 2 vols, 2006

WWW RESOURCES - many contain primary documents.

General gateways

WWW-VL - History Top site of the virtual libraries for history - drill down for quality web resources arrangd by Topics, Countries and Eras.

Internet Modern European Sourcebook, where you can link to the specific topics listed in the green bar on the left of the page.

Internet women's history sourcebook

Richard Jensen's Scholars' guide to the www.

History On-Line, from the Institute of Historical Research, London, especially their Websites.

Best History Sites

http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page a useful collection of transcripts and translations of primary source documents from Western Europe.

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