Davidson College Library Research Guide for History 424

The French Revolution Professor Tilburg Spring 2006 Reference Works Primary Sources General Search Tools Collections of Contemporary Books Pamphlets Periodicals Other Examples Secondary Sources Books Articles Core Resources for History Related Disciplines Using RefWorks Tips & Further Help Questions? Please contact Susanna Boylston (704.894.2494). Reference Works Biographies | History | Culture & the Arts Biographies Biography Reference Bank. H.W. Wilson, 2003- . Dictionnaire de biographie française. Paris: Letouzey et Ané, 1933- . Reference R 920.044 D55 Still being published. Dictionnaire des constituants: 1789-1791. Edna Hindie Lemayu. 2 vols. Paris: Universitas, 1991. Reference R 944.04 L549d Dictionnaire historique et biographique de la révolution et de l'empire 1789-1815. Jean François Eugène Robinet. 2 vols. 1899. Nendeln/Liechtenstein: Kraus reprint, 1975. The Era of the French Revolution: A Bibliography of the History of Western Civilization, 1789-1799. Ronald J. Caldwell. 2 vols. New York: Garland, 1985. Reference R 016.944 C147e Library has volume 1 only. See pages 294-609 for lists of biographical works about specific individuals. History Companion to the French Revolution. John Paxton. New York: Facts on File, 1988. Reference R 944.04 P342c The Complete Atlas of World History. Brian Catchpole. 3 vols. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1997. Reference R 911 C737 Volume 3 covers "The Modern World, 1783 to Present." Encyclopedia of Modern Europe: Europe 1789-1914. Ed. John Merriman and Jay Winter. 5 vols. Detroit, MI: Scribner's, 2006. Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment. Ed. Alan Charles Kors. 4 vols. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2002. Reference R 940.25 E56 Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment. Ed. Michel Delon. Trans. Gwen Wells. 2 vols. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001. Reference R 940.25 D554-T Encyclopedia of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: A Political, Social, and Military History. Ed. Gregory Fremont-Barnes. 3 vols. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2006. Reference R 944.04 E56 The Era of the French Revolution: A Bibliography of the History of Western Civilization, 1789-1799. Ronald J. Caldwell. 2 vols. New York: Garland, 1985. Reference R 016.944 C147e Library has volume 1 only. Europe 1450-1789: An Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World. Ed. Jonathan Dewald. 6 vols. New York: Scribner's, 2004. Reference R 940.2 E89 The French Revolution and Napoleon Collection at Florida State University: A Bibliographic Guide. Donald D. Howard. Tallahassee, FL: Florida State Univ. Library, 1973. Reference R 016.944 H824f Historical Dictionary of Napoleonic France, 1799-1815. Ed. Owen Connelly. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1985. Reference R 944.04 H6731 Historical Dictionary of Paris. Alfred Fierro. Trans. Jon Woronoff. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 1998. Reference R 944.36 F465h-T Historical Dictionary of the Enlightenment. Harvey Chisick. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2005. Reference R 940.25 C542h Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution. Paul R. Hanson. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2004. Reference R 944.04 H251h Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution, 1789-1799. Ed. Samuel F. Scott and Barry Rothaus. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1985. Reference R 944.04 H673 Historical Dictionary of the Wars of the French Revolution. Steven T. Ross. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 1998. Reference R 944.04 R826h Shepherd's Historical Atlas. William R. Shepherd. 9th ed. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1964. Reference R 911 S54h 9th ed. Women in Western European History: A Select Chronological, Geographical, and Topical Bibliography. Ed. Linda Frey et al. 2 vols. New York: Greenwood, 1982- . Reference R 016.3 F8931w Supplement: Reference R 016.3 F8931w Supp. Culture & the Arts Dictionary of Art. Ed Jane. Turner 34 vols. New York: Grove’s Dictionaries, 1996. Reference R 703 D554 The Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature. Ed. Eva Martin Sartori. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999. Reference R 840.9 F329 Grove Music Online Contains the full text of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, edited by Stanley Sadie (2nd ed.; 29 vols.; New York: Grove, 2001) as well as sound files, image files, and related Web sites. Guide to French Literature. Anthony Levi. 2 vols. Detroit, MI: St. James Press, 1992-1994. Reference R 840.3 L664g International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers. Ed. Tom Pendergast and Sara Pendergast. 4th ed. 4 vols. Detroit: St. James Press, 2000. Reference R 791.43 I611 2000 The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. Ed. Peter France. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1995. Reference R 840.3 N532 Nineteenth-Century European Art: A Topical Dictionary. Terry W. Strieter. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999. Reference R 709.03 S917m Nineteenth-Century French Fiction Writers: Romanticism and Realism, 1800-1860. Ed. Catharine Savage Brosman. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1992. [Dictionary of Literary Biography vol. 119] Reference R 928.1 D554 v.119 Reference Guide to World Literature. Ed. Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast. 3rd ed. 2 vols. Detroit, MI: St. James Press, 2003. Reference R 809 R332 Primary Sources General Search Tools | Collections of Contemporary Books | Pamphlets | Periodicals | Other Examples General Search Tools Library Catalogue To locate primary sources, do a keyword search and add one or more of the following words: sources correspondence diaries personal narratives. For more details, see below. WorldCat To locate primary sources, do a keyword search and add one or more of the following words: sources correspondence diaries personal narratives. Note: Rare and archival materials cannot be borrowed on interlibrary loan. You can sometimes locate microfilm or microfiche copies of these documents in WorldCat; try doing an advanced search, enter your keywords or subject terms, and then apply a "subtype limit," choosing "Microform" as the format. For more details, see below. Collections of Contemporary Books Early American Imprints. First Series (Evans): 1639-1800 [microfiche] Microfiche cabinets Includes books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed in the United States in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Includes over 42,000 titles, including almanacs, bibles, charters, cookbooks, maps, printed music, novels, plays, poems, primers, sermons, speeches, treaties, travelogues, and textbooks. Note: Does not include periodicals or newspapers. To search for individual titles, do a keyword search in the Library Catalogue and limit your search to location "Early American Imprints." Early American Imprints. Second Series (Shaw-Shoemaker): 1801-1819 [microfiche] Microfiche cabinets Includes books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed in the United States during the early nineteenth century. Includes over 38,000 titles. Note: Does not include periodicals or newspapers. To search for individual titles, do a keyword search in the Library Catalogue and limit your search to location "Early American Imprints." Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) (1701-1800) Includes the full text of 155,000 150,000 books, pamphlets, almanacs, advertisements, songs, and other materials published in Great Britain and British North America during the eighteenth century; also includes digital facsimiles of each of the works. Pamphlets French Revolution Pamphlet Collection, from the Special Collections and Louis H. Beck Center for Electronic Collections and Services at Woodruff Library, Emory University An ongoing project to digitize the pamphlets in Emory's French Revolution Pamphlet Collection. French Revolutionary Pamphlets, from Mark Olsen at the ARTFL Project, University of Chicago The Maclure Collection of French Revolutionary Materials. Ed. James D. Hardy, Jr. et al. Philadelphia, PA: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1966. Reference R 016.944 P415m Periodicals 19th-Century Masterfile Indexes articles in 479 British and American periodicals published in the nineteenth century. Note: The print version of Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906), which is part of 19th-Century Masterfile, is available in the Reference Index Area at call number R 050 P82. Lettres bougrement patriotiques de la Mère Duchêne suivi de Journal des Femmes: 1791 . Paris: Editions de Paris/EDHIS, 1989. Little Library Stacks 944.04 L651 Periodicals Index Online (c. 1770-1995 [publication date of articles indexed]) Indexes journal and magazine articles as well as book reviews in a broad array of humanities, social sciences, and science subjects. Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: automatic. Newspapers To locate newspapers on microfilm in the E.H. Little Library Do a keyword search in the Library Catalogue for the word "newspapers" and then limit by date and by material type "newspapers." You can also limit by language if you wish. Note: The only historical French newspaper the Library has is: Le Temps (1884-1914) Microfilm cabinet C-35 Early American Newspapers (1690-1876) Contains digital facsimiles of 617 early American newspapers; the full text of these newspapers, including all articles, advertisements, and other contents, is keyword-searchable. Based on Brigham's History and Bibliography of American Newspapers. The [London] Times (1785 to present) [microfilm] Index: Reference Index Area R 070 T58 To identify other newspapers that might be available on interlibrary loan, consult WorldCat and one of the following tools. Note that we can only borrow microfilm copies of newspapers. Foreign Newspapers Held by the Center for Research Libraries. Comp. Kristine Smets and Adriana Pilecky-Dekajlo. 2 vols. Chicago: Center for Research Libraries, 1992. Vol. 1: Title List Vol. 2: Geographical List Reference R 016.07 C397f You can also search CRL's holdings of foreign newspapers online. Newspapers in Microform: Foreign Countries, 1948-1972. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1973. Reference R 016.07 N581nf Note: Ignore the "1948-1972" in the title of this work; this volume lists foreign newspapers published in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. Other Examples ARTFL (1700 to approx. 1960) Provides the full text of nearly 2,000 French literary, philosophical, scientific and technical texts; most are from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, although there are some medieval, Renaissance, and seventeenth-century texts. Includes novels, verse, essays, correspondence, treatises, journalism, and theatrical texts. ARTstor A collection of over 300,000 images covering art, architecture, and archaeology from a wide range of cultures and time periods as well as tools to manipulate and analyze those images. For technical requirements, see the Quick Start Guide. CAMIO: The Catalog of Art Museum Images Online A collection of over 80,000 images of fine and decorative artworks dating from prehistoric times to the present. Digital Library Federation, Public Access Collections A large database of online, digital collections created by libraries, archives, and universities across the U.S. European Women: A Documentary History, 1789-1945. Ed. Eleanor S. Riemer and John C. Fout. New York: Schocken Books, 1980. Little Library Stacks 301.41 E89 French Popular Lithographic Imagery, 1815-1870. Beatrice Farwell. 2 vols. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1981-1982. Library has: vol. 2 769.94 F247f v.2 The French Revolution, from the Division of Rare & Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library Includes several collections of digital facsimiles on the French Revolution, including documents from the Lafayette Collection and La Forte Collection. The French Revolution: A Document Collection. Laura Mason and Tracey Rizzo. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. Little Library Stacks 944.04 M399f French Revolution Documents. Ed. J.M. Roberts and R.C. Cobb. 2 vols. Oxford: Blackwell, 1966. Little Library Stacks 944.04 R645f French Travellers in the United States, 1765-1932: A Bibliography. Frank Monaghan. New York: Antiquarian Press, 1961. Reference R 016.917 M734f Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution. Jack R. Censer and Lynn Hunt. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, 2001. Little Library Stacks 944.04 C396L Includes a CD-ROM with documents, songs, maps, and images. Literature Online Note: Use the following full-text databases to identify relevant works by British writers, but be sure to consult and cite authoritative print editions of the works in your paper. The databases do contain some textual errors; you'll need to verify the texts. English Poetry Contains the fully-searchable text of over 160,000 English poems dating from the 8th century to the early 20th century. Les Martyrs de prairial : textes et documents inédits. Françoise Brunel and Sylvain Goujon. Genève: Georg, 1992. Little Library Stacks 944.04 M388 Sur les femmes en France au dix-huitième siècle: un âge de ténèbre.Colette V. Michael. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 2006. LC Stacks HQ 1149.F8 M53 2006 Women in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1795: Selected Documents. Trans. Darline Gay Levy et al. Urbana, IL: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1979. 301.31 W872 Secondary Sources Books | Articles Books Library Catalogue Includes information about books, government documents, and journals, magazines, and newspapers in the Library. Note: To locate appropriate Library of Congress Subject Headings, start with a keyword search and then browse records. Relevant subject headings include: France foreign relations 1789-1815 France history 1789-1793 France history 1789-1815 France history Revolution 1789-1799 France history Insurrection 1792 France history First Republic 1792-1804 France history Reign of Terror 1793-1794 France history Directory 1795-1799 France history Coup d'état 1799 France history Consulate and First Empire 1799-1815 Napoleon I Emperor of the French 1769-1821 To locate works about a person, do a subject search for the person's name (last name first). To locate bibliographies on a person or topic, do a keyword search and add the following: su bibliography. Search Syntax Truncation: use a dollar sign $. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ". Wildcard: use a question mark ?. WorldCat Indexes books, periodicals, and other materials held by libraries around the world. Search WorldCat to identify additional books on your topic and then order the books on interlibrary loan. Note: It can be helpful to identify relevant Library of Congress Subject Headings in the Library Catalogue first; you can then do a subject search in WorldCat to find additional items with these subject headings. Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: insert a "w" between the words in a phrase (for example, "cold w war"). Wildcard: use a question mark ?. Articles Core Resources for History | Other Databases Core Resources for History Historical Abstracts (1450 to present [historical time period covered]; 1954 to present [publication date of articles and books indexed]) Indexes scholarly articles, review of scholarly books, and doctoral dissertations on world history, excluding the history of the U.S. and Canada. Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ". Wildcard: use a question mark ?. Time period searches: search by decade or century only. To search for a decade, use the format xxxxD (example: 1940D). To search for a range of decades, use the format xxxxD xxxxD or the format xxxxD OR xxxxD. Note: For more than five decades, search by century (see below). To search for a century, use the format xxxxH (example: 1900H). To search for a range of centuries, use the format xxxxH xxxxH. Women Studies Abstracts Reference Index Area R 050 W872 (1972 to present) Indexes popular articles, scholarly articles, and books on all aspects of women's studies, including history, education, gender, literature, religion, and art. Other Databases Academic Search Premier (1975 to present) Indexes popular and scholarly articles in a broad range of subject areas; also includes citations to book reviews and citations to articles in several national newspapers. Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ". Wildcard: use a question mark ?. Essay & General Literature Index (1985 to present) Indexes chapters and essays in edited collections. Search Syntax Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "". Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?. Humanities Abstracts (1907 to present [publication date of articles indexed]) Indexes journal articles and some book reviews on all humanities subjects, including history, classics, art, archeology, literature, philosophy, and religion. Search Syntax Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "". Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?. JSTOR Includes pdf copies of scholarly articles from a core collection of journals; also includes book reviews. Note: JSTOR does not contain articles from the most recent 3-5 years. Search Syntax Truncation: use a plus sign +. Phrase searching: automatic. Periodicals Index Online (c. 1770-1995 [publication date of articles indexed]) Indexes journal and magazine articles as well as book reviews in a broad array of humanities, social sciences, and science subjects. Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: automatic. Project Muse Includes pdf and HTML copies of journal articles published by university and scholarly presses. Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ". Social Sciences Abstracts (1907 to present [publication date of articles indexed]) Indexes journal articles and some book reviews on all social sciences subjects, including history, political science, international relations, law, economics, area studies, gender studies, anthropology, psychology, and sociology. Search Syntax Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "". Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?. Using RefWorks Need help managing your references? Try RefWorks! You can use it to organize your citations, keep track of your notes on books and articles, and generate bibliographies. Find out more; consult our guide on Using RefWorks. Connect to RefWorks Tips & Further Help How to Narrow or Broaden your Search How to Identify a Scholarly Article How to Find Book Reviews How to Search the Web: Tools & Tips How to Evaluate Web Resources Research Planner (pdf document) Research Log (pdf document)

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