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Hist 359: Modern European Women

Books

Library Catalog,  MOBIUS,  WorldCat

Journal article databases

Historical Abstracts (1955- )
Historical Abstracts is an extensive index that covers world history from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life).  It includes entries for books published, but not book reviews.  More info

Academic Search Premier
Scholarly, multi-disciplinary database containing full text for more than 4,650 publications, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. More info

GenderWatch (1974- )
A full-text collection of international journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, special reports, and conference proceedings devoted to women's and gender issues.   More info

MLA Bibliography (1926- )
Covers literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore from international journals and series.  More info

American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (ABSEES)  (1939- )
Covers East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union.   More info

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts 
Covers political science discipline and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration and policy.  More info

PsycINFO (1887- )
Journal articles, chapters, books, dissertations and reports on psychology and related fields.  More info

SocINDEX (1895- )
Comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. More info

JSTOR
Includes the complete back runs of almost 500 journal titles, from whenever each title began publication to a point 3 or 5 years ago. More info

Project MUSE
Includes about 200 scholarly journals from the most recent 3-5 years. More info


Older print periodical indexes

Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature (1911- )

International Bibliography of Historical Sciences (1926- )

Writings on British History (1901-75)
Annual Bibliography of British and Irish History (1975- )


Reference sources

Oxford Reference Online

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (one user at a time)

Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia

Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages
"...contains more than 20,000 brief biographical entries on women, including thousands of entries on non-U.S. figures."

Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment
"Covering the 'long' Enlightenment, from the rise of Descartes' disciples in 1670 to the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1815 ..."


Guides to secondary literature

American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature


Digital collections of primary sources


Gerritsen Collection - Women's History Online, 1543-1945
A collection of "books, pamphlets and periodicals reflecting the revolution of a feminist consciousness and the movement for women's rights."  More info

ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online)
Books and other materials published between 1701 and 1800 in the United Kingdom and the Americas. More info

Times Digital Archive (1785-1985)

Eighteenth Century Journals II
British newspapers and periodicals from 1699-1812. More info

Burney Collection Newspapers (17th & 18th Century)
Newspapers, pamphlets, and books ... represent the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media.  The present digital collection ...totals almost 1 million pages and contains approximately 1,270 titles. More info

Making of the Modern World: The Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature (1460-1850)
Presents more than 61,000 books from the period 1460-1850, and 466 pre-1906 serials.  It focuses on economics interpreted in the widest sense, including political science, history, sociology, and special collections on banking, finance, transportation, and manufacturing. More info


English-language periodicals (print)


Listed are some of the general periodicals appealing to educated readers published in Great Britain during the 19th and 20th centuries which the library owns.  A few are also available in full text at the Internet Library of Early Journals.

Bentley's Miscellany (1837-52)  Indexed in: Wellesley Index

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1817-1905)  Indexed in: Wellesley Index
See ILEJ for full text 1843-63.

Blackwood's Magazine (1906-20; 1961-80)  Indexed in: International Index

The Contemporary Review (1866- )  Indexed in: Wellesley Index and Readers' Guide

The Economist (1843-92; 1909- )

The Edinburgh Review (1802-1929)  Indexed in: Wellesley Index and Readers' Guide

The English Review (1908-37)  Indexed in: International Index

The Foreign Quarterly Review (1827-46)  Indexed in: Wellesley Index

The Fortnightly (1934-54)

The Fortnightly Review (1865-1934)  Indexed in: Wellesley Index and Readers' Guide

The Gentleman's Magazine (1731-1868)
See ILEJ for full text 1731-1750.

Macmillan's Magazine (1859-80)  Indexed in: Wellesley Index

The Month (1910-39; 1969-74)

Nation and Athenaeum (1921-31)

The National Review (London) (1937-45)

The New Statesman (1913-31; 1957-88; 1996- )  Indexed in: International Index (1913-55)

The New Statesman and Nation (1931-57)

New Statesman Society (1988-96)

The Nineteenth Century (1877-1900)  Indexed in: Wellesley Index

The Nineteenth Century and After (1901-50)  Indexed in: Readers' Guide

The North British Review (1844-71)  Indexed in: Wellesley Index

Notes and Queries (1849- )
See ILEJ for full text 1849-69.

Punch (1841-1991)  [Warning: Contains political cartoons.]

The Quarterly Review (1809-1967)  Indexed in: Wellesley Index

The Round Table (1910-81)

The University Magazine and Free Review (1893-1900)  Indexed in: Wellesley Index

The Westminster Review (1824-35; 1884-96; 1912-14)  Indexed in: Wellesley Index




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