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European Metropolis, 1870-1914

Professor Tilburg
Spring 2005

Reference Works

Primary Sources

Secondary Sources

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Reference Works

Biographies | History | Culture & the Arts

Biographies
  • Biography Reference Bank. H.W. Wilson, 2003- .
  • Dictionary of German Biography. Ed. Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus. München: K.G. Saur, 2001- .
    Reference R 920.043 D485-T
    Note: 7 vols. have been published to date.
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. ed. H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2004.
    Reference R 920 N2111
  • Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Ed. Anne Commire. 17 vols. Waterford, CT: Yorkin Publications, 1999.
    Reference R 920.7 W872
History
  • A Bibliography of Prostitution. Ed. Vern Bullough et al. New York: Garland, 1977.
    Reference R 016.3 B582
  • British Women's History: A Bibliographical Guide. Comp. June Hannam et al. New York: St. Martin's, 1996.
    Reference R 016.305 H243b
  • The Cambridge Historical Encyclopedia of Great Britain and Ireland. Ed. Christopher Haigh. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1985.
    Reference R 942 C1781
  • Dictionary of 20th Century European History. Edward Townley. Chicago, IL: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999.
    Reference R 940.5 T746d
  • Dictionary of German History, 1806-1945. Wilfried Fest. New York: St. Martin's, 1978.
    Reference R 943 F418d
  • The Encyclopedia of Britain. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 1999.
    Reference R 942 E56
  • The European Population, 1850-1945. Franz Rothenbacher. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
    Reference R 304.6 R846e
  • Historical Dictionary of Brussels. Paul F. State. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2004.
    Reference R 949.3 S797h
  • Historical Dictionary of London. Kenneth J. Panton. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2001.
    Reference R 942.1 P198h
  • Historical Dictionary of Modern Spain, 1700-1988. Ed. Robert W. Kern. New York: Greenwood, 1990.
    Reference R 946.003 H673
  • Historical Dictionary of Paris. Alfred Fierro. Trans. Jon Woronoff. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 1998.
    Reference R 944.36 F465h-T
  • Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Empire, 1402-1975. Ed. James S. Olson. New York: Greenwood, 1992.
    Reference R 914.6 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 Warsaw. Adriana Gozdecka-Sanford. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 1997.
    Reference R 943.8 G725h
  • International Encyclopedia of Women's Suffrage. June Hannam et al. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2000.
    Reference R 324.62 H243i
  • International Historical Statistics: Europe, 1750-1993. B.R. Mitchell. 4th ed. London: Macmillan Reference, 1998.
    Reference R 314 M681e4
  • London Encyclopedia. Ed. Ben Weinreb and Christopher Hibbert. London: Papermac, 1993.
    Reference R 942.1 L8472
  • London, Past and Present; Its History, Associations, and Traditions. Henry B. Wheatley. 3 vols. London: J. Murray, 1891.
    Reference R 914.21 W55L
  • Modern Germany: An Encyclopedia of History, People, and Culture, 1871-1990. Ed. Dieter K. Buse and Juergen C. Doerr. 2 vols. New York: Garland, 1998.
    Reference R 943.08 M689
  • Times London History Atlas. Ed. Hugh Clout. New York: HarperCollins, 1991.
    Reference R 942.1 T583
  • Twentieth-Century Britain: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Fred Leventhal. Rev. ed. New York: Peter Lang, 2002.
    Reference R 942.082 T971
  • Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Sally Mitchell et al. New York: Garland, 1988.
    Reference R 942.08 V645
  • 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.
  • The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928. Elizabeth Crawford. New York: Routledge, 2001.
    Reference R 324.62 C899w
Culture & the Arts
  • Dictionary of Art. Ed Jane. Turner 34 vols. New York: Grove’s Dictionaries, 1996.
    Reference R 703 D554
  • Encyclopedia of Contemporary French Culture. Ed. Alex Hughes and Keith Reader. New York: Routledge, 1998.
    Reference R 914.4 E56
  • Encyclopedia if Contemporary German Culture. Ed. John Sandford. New York: Routledge, 1999.
    Reference R 306 E563
  • Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Culture. Ed. Eamonn Rodgers. New York: Routledge, 1999.
    Reference R 946.08 E56
  • The Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature. Ed. Eva Martin Sartori. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999.
    Reference R 840.9 F329
  • The Feminist Encyclopedia of German Literature. Ed. Friederike Eigler and Susanne Kord. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1997.
    Reference R 830.9 F359
  • The Feminist Encyclopedia of Spanish Literature. Ed. Janet Pérez and Maureen Ihrie. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002.
    Reference R 860.9 F329
  • French Culture and Society: The Essentials. Ed. Michael Kelly. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2001.
    Reference R 944 F873
  • Guide to French Literature. Anthony Levi. 2 vols. Detroit, MI: St. James Press, 1992-1994.
    Reference R 840.3 L664g
  • 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
  • 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
  • Women Artists: An Historical, Contemporary, and Feminist Bibliography. Sherry Piland. 2nd ed. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1994.
    Reference R 016.7 P637w


Locating Primary Sources

General Search Tools | 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
    To locate travel literature, do a keyword search and add "travel and description" to your search terms.
    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
    To locate travel literature, do a keyword search and add "travel and description" to your search terms.
    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

Other Examples
  • The Annual Register. London: Rivingtons, 1758- .
    Reference R 909 A61
    Library has 1863 to present in Reference; earlier years are in the Rare Book Room.
  • 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.
  • Bluestocking Feminism: Writings of the Bluestocking Circle, 1738-1785. Ed. Gary Kelly. 6 vols. London: Pickering & Chatto, 1999.
    Little Library Stacks 820.8 B658
  • The Bolles Collection on the History of London, from the Perseus Project at Tufts University
  • Crime in Victorian Britain: An Annotated Bibliography from Nineteenth-Century British Magazines. Comp. E.M. Palmegiano. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1993.
    Reference R 016.364 P172c
  • 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."
    Microfiche Cabinet A-2
  • Museum of London Picture Library, from the Museum of London
  • Parliamentary Debates [Great Britain]
    1803-1846: Little Library Stacks 328.42 G78pa Ser. 1-3
    1861-1868: Little Library Stacks 328.72 G78pa Ser. 1-3
    1884-1888: Little Library Stacks 328.72 G78pa Ser. 1-3
    1963-2003 (House of Commons): Little Library Stacks 328.42 pa-c
    1963-2003 (House of Lords): 328.42 G78pa-L
  • The Red Virgin: Memoirs of Louise Michel. Ed. Bullitt Lowry and Elizabeth Ellington Gunter. University, AL: Univ. of Alabama Press, 1981.
    923.244 M623m-T
  • The Siege and Commune of Paris, 1870-1871, from the Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections at Northwestern University
  • Varieties of Women's Sensation Fiction, 1855-1890. Ed. Andrew Maunder. 6 vols. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2004.
    Little Library Stacks 823.09 V2991
  • 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.
    305.4 V645


Secondary Sources

Finding Books | Finding Articles

Finding 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.
    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 ?.
Finding Articles

History | Related Disciplines | Electronic Journal Collections

  • 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.
    • 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 ?.
    • PCI: Periodical Contents Index
      (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.
    • 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 ?.
    • 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.
    • 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 ?.
  • Related Disciplines
    • ATLA Religion Database
      (1949 to present) Indexes journal articles and essays related to world religions, church history, and Biblical studies; also includes some book reviews. ATLA has a strong focus on Western religions.
         Search Syntax
          Truncation: use an asterisk *.
          Phrase searching: automatic.
          Wildcard: use a question mark ?.
    • PAIS International
      (1937 to present [publication date of articles indexed]) Indexes journal articles, books, government documents, and conference papers in political science, public affairs, and economics. To locate articles from previous years, consult Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin, 1915-1972, shelved in the Reference Index Area at call number R 050 P976.
         Search Syntax
          Truncation: use an asterisk *.
          Phrase searching: automatic.
          Wildcard: 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 ?.

  • Electronic Journal Collections
    • 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.
    • 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 " ".


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