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History 228: The Making of the Modern Body; Gender, Sex, & Politics in France

Fall 2008 — Prof. Tilburg

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Reference Works

Reference Universe | General Works (incl. History & Politics) | Art | Literature | Medicine & Sciences | Music

  • Reference Universe
    Don't know where to begin? Try Reference Universe, an index of the indexes in many of the library's reference books and e-books. Reference Universe will tell you which titles contain information on your topic.
  • General Works (including History & Politics)
    • Biography Reference Bank. H.W. Wilson, 2003- .
    • The Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought. Ed. Lawrence Kritzman. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 2006.
      Reference R 944.08 C726
    • Encyclopedia of Contemporary French Culture. Ed. Alex Hughes and Keith Reader. New York: Routledge, 1998.
      Reference R 914.4 E56
    • Encyclopedia of Modern Europe: Europe 1789-1914. Ed. John Merriman and Jay Winter. 5 vols. Detroit, MI: Scribner's, 2006.
    • Encyclopedia of Modern Europe: Europe since 1914. Ed. John Merriman and Jay Winter. 5 vols. Detroit, MI: Scribner's, 2006.
    • Encyclopedia of Modern French Thought. Ed. Christopher John Murray. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004.
      Reference R 944.08 E56
    • Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment. Ed. Alan Charles Kors. 4 vols. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2002.
      Reference R 940.25 E56
    • 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
    • Encyclopedia of Women and Gender. Ed. Judith Worell. 2 vols. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 2001.
      Reference R 305.4 E56
    • 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
    • French Culture and Society: The Essentials. Ed. Michael Kelly. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2001.
      Reference R 944 F873
    • French-Speaking Women Film Directors: A Guide. Janis L. Pallister. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press, 1997.
      Reference R 791.43 P163f
    • Historical Dictionary of France from the 1815 Restoration to the Second Empire. Ed. Edgar Leon Newman. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1987.
      Reference R 944.06 H673
    • Historical Dictionary of Napoleonic France, 1799-1815. Ed. Owen Connelly. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1985.
      Reference R 944.04 H6731
    • Historical Dictionary of Paris. Alfredo Fierro. Trans. Jon Woronoff. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 1998.
      Reference R 944.36 F465h-T
    • Historical Dictionary of the French Fourth and Fifth Republics, 1946-1991. Ed. Wayne Northcutt. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992.
      Reference R 944.082 H673
    • 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 French Second Empire, 1852-1870. Ed. William E. Echard. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1985.
      Reference R 944.07 H673
    • Historical Dictionary of the Third French Republic, 1870-1940. Ed. Patrick H. Hutton. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1986.
      Reference R 944.08 H673
    • Historical Dictionary of the Wars of the French Revolution. Steven T. Ross. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 1998.
      Reference R 944.04 R826h
    • Historical Dictionary of the Enlightenment. Harvey Chisick. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2005.
      Reference R 940.25 C542h
    • International Historical Statistics: Europe, 1750-2000. B.R. Mitchell. 5th ed. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
      Reference R 314 M681e5
    • 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.
    • Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Ed. Anne Commire. 17 vols. Waterford, CT: Yorkin Publications, 1999.
      Reference R 920.7 W872

  • Art
    • Dictionary of Modern Sculpture. Ed Robert Maillard. New York: Tudor, 1962.
      Reference R 730.3 D55d
    • International Dictionary of Art and Artists. Ed. James Vinson. 2 vols. Chicago: St. James Press, 1990.
      Vol. 1 (Artists): Reference R 927 I61
      Vol. 2 (Art): Reference R 709.2 I61
    • Nineteenth-Century European Art: A Topical Dictionary. Terry W. Strieter. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999.
      Reference R 709.03 S917m
    • Oxford Art Online
      Contains the full text of:
      • Dictionary of Art. Ed Jane. Turner 34 vols. New York: Grove’s Dictionaries, 1996.
        Reference R 703 D554
        Note: Oxford Art Online also contains updated entries and bibliographies for the Grove Dictionary.
      • The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Michael Clarke and Deborah Clarke. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2003- .
      • The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. Ed. Michael Kelly. 4 vols. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1998.
        Reference R 111.85 E56
      • The Oxford Companion to Western Art. Ed. Hugh Brigstocke. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2001.
        Reference R 703 O982
      • ... and over 5,000 images.
    • Oxford Companion to Art. Ed. Harold Osborne. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984.
      Reference R 703 O98
    • The Oxford Dictionary of Art. Ed. Ian Chilvers and Harold Obsorne. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1988.
      Reference R 703 O981
  • Literature
    • The Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature. Ed. Eva Martin Sartori. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999.
      Reference R 840.9 F329
    • Guide to French Literature. Anthony Levi. Detroit, MI: St. James Press, 1992-1994.
      Reference R 840.3 L664g
      Vol. 1: Beginnings to 1789
      Vol. 2: 1789 to present.
    • Literature Resource Center
      Contains full-text biographies, critical essays, journal articles, and excerpts of criticism and reviews about over 130,000 literary authors and their works; covers dramatists, essayists, novelists, poets, and other writers from all time periods.
    • The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. Ed. Peter France. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1995.
      Reference R 840.3 N532
    • 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
  • Medicine & Science
    • Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine. Ed. W.F. Bynum and Roy Porter. 2 vols. London: Routledge, 1993.
      Reference R 610.9 C737
    • Encyclopedia of Medical History. Roderick McGrew. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1985.
      Reference R 610.9 M147e
    • Isis: Current Bibliography of the History of Science and its Cultural Influences
      Published annual in Isis, a journal that focuses on the history of medicine, science, and technology.
      1913-2002: available through JSTOR
      2002 to present: available through the University of Chicago
    • Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Thomas Glick et al. New York: Routledge, 2005.
      Reference R 509 M489
  • Music
    • Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. Ed. Nicolas Slonimsky. 6 vols. New York: Schirmer, 2001.
      Reference R 927.8 B16b8 2001
      Music Library Reference 927.8 B16b8 2001
    • The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Ed. Bruno Nettle and Ruth M. Stone. 10 vols. New York: Garland, 1998-2000.
      Music Library Reference 780.9 G233
    • The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Ed. Stanley Sadie. 2nd ed. 29 vols. New York: Grove, 2001.
      Music Library Reference 780.3 N532 2001


Primary Sources

General Search Tools | Periodicals | Other Examples

  • General Search Tools
    • Library Catalog
      To locate primary sources, do a keyword search and add one or more of the following words:
      • sources
      • correspondence
      • diaries
      • personal narratives
      • pictorial works
      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
      • pictorial works
      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.
  • Periodicals

    • Newspapers
    • Magazines & Journals See also:
      • The Periodical Press in Liberated Paris: A Survey and Checklist. Otis Fellows. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse Univ. Press, 1946.
        Reference R 016.05 F32p
      • Women's Periodicals: 18th Century to the Great Depression [microfilm]
        This collection contains over 55 titles; please note that each periodical is separately cataloged and separately shelved in the regular alphabetical sequence in the microfilm cabinets. Titles include:
        • Le Bulletin Continental / Fédération Britannique et Continentale pour l'Abolition de la Prostitution (1875-1901)
        • L'Action Féminine: Bulletin Officiel du Conseil National des Femmes Francaises (1909-1917)
        Guides:
        • Unit 1 (Economics ; Social & Political Issues): Reference R 016.05 W872 v.1
        • Unit 2: Reference R 016.05 W872 v.2
        • Unit 3 (Fashion ; Literature & the Arts ; Religion): Reference R 016.05 W872 v.3
  • Other Examples
    • And So to Bed: A Bibliography of Diaries Published in English. Patricia Pate Havlice. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1987.
      Reference R 016.92 H388a
    • 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 900,000 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.
    • Colette: An Annotated Primary and Secondary Bibliography. Comp. Donna M. Norell. New York: Garland, 1993.
      Reference R 016.84 C694n
    • 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.
    • 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
    • Les Femmes: Rare Works from France on Microfiche from the Bibliothèque Nationale
      A collection of 127 titles dating from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries.
      The Library has only 27 of these titles. To identify them, do a "Series title" search for "Femmes rare works." Titles include:
      • Les Vierges Folles. Alphonse Esquiros. Paris, 1840.
        Microfiche Cabinet A-2
    • French Popular Lithographic Imagery, 1815-1870. Beatrice Farwell. 2 vols. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1981-1982.
      Library has: vol. 2
      Little Library Stacks 769.94 F247f v.2
    • French Travellers in the United States, 1765-1932: A Bibliography. Frank Monaghan. New York: Antiquarian Press, 1961.
      Reference R 016.917 M734f
    • Homosexuality in Early Modern France: A Documentary Collection. Ed. Jeffrey Merrick and Bryant T. Ragan, Jr. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2001.
      Little Library Stacks 306.76 H7685
    • Les Martyrs de prairial : textes et documents inédits. Françoise Brunel and Sylvain Goujon. Genève: Georg, 1992.
      Little Library Stacks 944.04 M388
    • The Red Virgin: Memoirs of Louise Michel. Ed. Bullitt Lowry and Elizabeth Ellington Gunter. University, AL: Univ. of Alabama Press, 1981.
      Little Library Stacks 923.244 M623m-T
    • Les Tracts Féministes au XVIIIe siècle. Collete Michael. Geneva: Slatkine, 1986.
      305.42 T759
    • The Posters of Paris, 1880-1900: the Terry and Louis Silver Collection. Kurt Wagner and Lisa Pemstein. Boston, MA: Silver Collection, 1990.
      Little Library Stacks 741.6 W133p
    • Victorian Women: A Documentary Account of Women's Lives in Nineteenth-Century England, France, and the United States. Ed. Erna Olafson Hellerstein et al. Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ. Press, 1981.
      Little Library Stacks 305.4 V645
    • Women in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1795: Selected Documents. Trans. Darline Gay Levy et al. Urbana, IL: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1979.
      Little Library Stacks 301.31 W872
    • Women's Travel Writings in Revolutionary France. Ed. Stephen Bending and Stephen Bygrave. 7 vols. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2007-2008.
      Little Library Stacks 944.04 W872


Secondary Sources

  • Books
    • Library Catalog
      Includes information about books, government documents, and journals, magazines, and newspapers in the Library.
      • To locate appropriate Library of Congress Subject Headings, start with a keyword search and then browse records.
      • 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 ?
    • ebrary
      A collection of over 38,000 e-books published by over 220 academic, trade, and professional publishers; covers all subject areas. Also includes tools that allow you to create your own virtual bookshelf, bookmark pages, and add and save notes and highlights.
      Note: To read ebrary books, you need the ebrary Reader. This plugin is on all library and ITS computers, but if you are using your own computer, you can download it from the ebrary home page.
    • 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

    • Starting Points
      • 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 ? 
      • OmniFile Full Text Mega
        (1982 to present) Indexes articles from over 3,000 scholarly and popular periodicals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences; also includes the full text of selected articles from over 1,650 of these periodicals.
        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 ?
    • Core Resources
      • Historical Abstracts
        (Time period covered: 1450 to present; publication coverage: 1954 to present). Indexes journal articles, book chapters, doctoral dissertations, and book reviews.
        Search Syntax:
        • Truncation: use an asterisk *
        • Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " "
        • Wildcard: use a question mark ?
      • ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
        (400-1700 [historical time period covered]; 1842 to present [publication date of articles and books indexed]) Indexes scholarly articles and books on topics related to the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
        Search Syntax:
        • Truncation: use a dollar sign $
        • Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " "
        • Wildcard: use a question mark ?
      • Web of Knowledge
        (c. 1900 to present) A multidisciplinary resource that provides citations to articles in thousands of journals in the social sciences, humanities, and sciences.
        Search Syntax:
        • Truncation: use an asterisk *
        • Phrase searching: use double quotations marks " "
        • Wildcard: use a question mark ?
    • Other Resources
      • Bibliographic Index
        (1984 to present) A bibliography of bibliographies; indexes bibliographies published in books, pamphlets, and more than 2,800 periodicals. Includes citations to literature reviews and serial bibliographies.
        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 ?
      • Contemporary Women's Issues
        (1992 to present) Indexes popular articles, scholarly articles, books, newsletters, and reports on all aspects of women's studies, including gender, sociology, education, political science, and health.
        Search Syntax:
        • Truncation: automatic
        • Phrase searching: automatic
      • 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
        A collection of pdf copies of scholarly articles from a core collection of journals, including:
        • Isis
          Publishes articles on the history of medicine, science, and technology; also issues a current bibliography each year that lists additional articles and books published on the history of science and medicine.
          Note: the library also has a subscription to the current issues of Isis.
        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
      • PAIS International
        (1915 to present) Indexes journal articles, books, government documents, and conference papers in political science, public affairs, and economics.
        Search Syntax:
        • Truncation: use an asterisk *
        • Phrase searching: automatic
        • Wildcard: use a question mark ?
      • 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 ?
      • Sociological Abstracts
        (1963 to present) indexes journal articles in sociology and related fields, including anthropology, economics, education, philosophy, political science, and social psychology.
        Search Syntax:
        • Truncation: use an asterisk *
        • Phrase searching: automatic
        • Wildcard: use a question mark ?
      • 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.
      • Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
        (1975 to present) Indexes articles on a broad array of political science and international relations topics; international in scope.
        Search Syntax:
        • Truncation: use an asterisk *
        • Phrase searching: automatic
        • Wildcard: use a question mark ?