The resources listed under Europe can be useful for any
European country or region. For additional resources, see History: Archives,
Libraries, and Museums.
Dale, Peter, ed. Guide to Libraries in Western Europe: National,
International and Government Libraries. London: British Library, 1991.
HUNT REF-1 Z789.7 .G85 1991
CESSDA: Council of
European Social Science Data Archives
Promoting "the acquisition, archiving and distribution of electronic data
for social science teaching and research in Europe," this site includes
a data catalogue and links to social science data archives throughout
the world.
Sometimes you may need some information to get more familiar with your topic.
Below are some materials that can provide background on European history. The
resources listed under Europe can be useful for any European
country or region. Additional resources are listed at History: Background.
Bunson, Matthew. Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages. New York: Facts
on File, c1995.
HUNT REF-1 D114 .B86 1995
Burns, William E. Witch Hunts in Europe and America: an Encyclopedia. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2003. HUNT REF-1 BF1584 .E9 B87 2003
Chamberlain, Muriel Evelyn. The Longman Companion to European Decolonisation
in the Twentieth Century. New York: Longman, 1998.
HUNT REF-1 JV151 .C475 1998
Cook, Bernard A., ed. Europe Since 1945: An Encyclopedia. 2 vols.
New York: Garland, 2001.
HUNT REF-1 D1051
Cook, Chris and John Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern European
History, 1763-1997. New York: Longman, 1998.
HUNT REF-1 D299 .C627 1998
Crabtree, Pam J. Encyclopedia of Society and Culture in the Medieval World. 4 vols. New York: Facts On File, c2008. HUNT REF-1 CB351 .E53 2008
Delon, Michel, ed. Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment. 2 vols.
Chicago, Ill.: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001.
HUNT REF-1 B802 .E53 2001
Dewald, Jonathan, ed. Europe 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early
Modern World. 6 vols. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, c2004.
HUNT REF-1 D209 .E97 2004
Dictionnaire de la Renaissance. Paris: Encyclopaedia Universalis: A. Michel, c1998. HUNT REF-1 CB361 .D53 2000
Grendler, Paul F., ed. Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. 6 vols.
New York: Scribner's published in association with the Renaissance Society
of America, 1999.
HUNT REF-1 CB361 .E52 1999
Hillerbrand, Hans J. Historical Dictionary of the Reformation and
Counter-Reformation. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2000.
HUNT REF-1 BR302.8 .H55 2000
Hillerbrand, Hans J. The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation (Carnegie Mellon users only).
4 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
HUNT REF-1 BR302.8 .O93 1995
History of the World: Europe
(Camelot International)
Loyn, H. R. The Middle Ages, a Concise Encyclopedia. New York:
Thames and Hudson, 1989.
HUNT REF-1 CB351 .M565 1989
Merriman, John M. Europe 1789 to 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire. 5 vols. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, c2006. HUNT REF-1 D299 .E735 2006
Minahan, James. One Europe, Many Nations: A Historical Dictionary
of European National Groups. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000.
HUNT REF-1 D21.3 .M55 2000
Olson, James S., ed. Historical Dictionary of European Imperialism.
New York: Greenwood Press, 1991.
HUNT REF-1 D217 .H57 1991
Spector, Shmuel, ed. The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During
the Holocaust. 3 vols. New York: New York University Press, 2001.
HUNT REF-1 DS135 .E8 E45 2001
Stearns, Peter N., ed. Encyclopedia of European Social History from
1350 to 2000. 6 vols. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, c2001.
HUNT REF-1 HN373 .E63 2001
Stevenson, John, ed. The Columbia Dictionary of European Political
History Since 1914. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992.
HUNT REF-1 D424 .C65 1992
Strayer, Joseph R., ed. Dictionary of the Middle Ages. 13 vols.
New York: Scribner, c1982-1989.
HUNT REF-1 D114 .D5 1982
Urwin, Derek W. A Dictionary of European History and Politics, 1945-1995.
New York: Longman, 1996.
HUNT REF-1 D1051 .U78 1996
Vauchez, Andre, ed. Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages. 2 vols.
Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2000.
HUNT REF-1 CB351 .D5413 2000
Wagner, John A. Historical Dictionary of the Elizabethan World: Britain,
Ireland, Europe, and America. Phoenix, Ariz.: Oryx Press, 1999
HUNT REF-1 DA357 .W34 1999
Waldman, Carl. Encyclopedia of European Peoples. 2 vols. New York: Facts On File, c2006. HUNT REF-1 D1056 .W35 2006
Zabecki, David T., ed. World War II in Europe: An Encyclopedia.
2 vols. New York: Garland Pub., 1999.
HUNT REF-1 D740 .W67 1999
Commire, Anne. Historic World Leaders. 5 vols. Detroit: Gale
Research Inc., c1994.
HUNT REF-1 D412 .H57 1994
Drost, Harry. What's What and Who's Who in Europe. New York:
Simon & Schuster, c1995.
HUNT REF-1 D2009 .D76 1995
Gurney, Gene. Kingdoms of the Europe: An Illustrated Encyclopedia
of Ruling Monarchs from Ancient Times to the Present. New York: Crown
Publishers, c1981.
HUNT STACKS-2 D107 .G85 1981
Kamen, Henry Arthur Francis. Who's Who in Europe, 1450-1750.
New York: Routledge, 2000.
HUNT REF-1 D106 .K36 2000
Below are some resources that you can use to find books and journal articles
on topics dealing with European history. For a more complete listing of those
relevant to History, see History: Databases and Indexes.
If you need help in selecting or using a database or index for your research,
please contact the Hunt Library reference desk.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
1975-present (updated weekly).
Available: Web of Science (Carnegie
Mellon Users only)
Bibliographie der Deutschen Zeitschriftenliteratur.
Print: v. 1, 1896-v. 94, v. 97-v. 128, 1964.
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, HILLMAN LIBRARY AI9 B582
v. 100-128 shelved in Reference
Merged with Bibliographie der Fremdsprachign Zeitschriftenlitertur
into: Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur aus allen Gebieten
des Wissens. International Bibliography of Periodical Literature Covering
all Fields of Knowledge. Bibliographie Internationale de la Littérature
Périodique dans tous les Domaines de la Connaissance. Osnabrück:
F. Dietrich.
Print: v.1-35 (1965-1999).
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, HILLMAN LIBRARY (Ground Floor) AI9 B582i shelved
on compact shelf #56
Subject Index to world periodical literature. Continued by: Internationale Bibliographie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen
Zeitschriftenliteratur: IBZ = International Bibliography of Periodical Literature
on the Humanities and Social Sciences = Bibliographie Internationale de
la Littérature Périodique dans les Domaines des Sciences Humaines
et Sociales. Osnabrück : F. Dietrich, 2000- .
Print: v. 35- present.
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, HILLMAN LIBRARY (Ground Floor)AI9 B582i shelved
on compact shelf #56.
Cameo
Carnegie Mellon's library catalog. Includes books, journal titles, videos,
etc. in the University Libraries
Early English Books Online (Carnegie Mellon users only) ca. 1475 to 1700 Search and display the full text of over 95,000 titles published between 1475 and 1700. You can search by author, title, subject & imprint information. Documents can be viewed online and or downloaded in PDF format (Adobe).
18th Century Collections Online (Carnegie Mellon users only) 1700-1801 Search or browse the full text of every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas during this period. Materials include books and broadsides, Bibles, tract books and sermons, and printed ephemera, with works by many well-known and lesser-known authors. Subject areas include history geography, social sicences, fine arts, medicine, science, technology, law, general reference, literature and language. A work in progress, the database will contain 138,000 titlesand editions when completed in about 2010.
European Library
Portal offering access to the combined resources (books, magazines, journals, etc., both digital and non-digital) of the 45 national libraries of Europe. It offers free searching and delivers digital objects - some free, some priced.
Historical Abstracts (Carnegie
Mellon users only)
1967-present (updated monthly).
Citations and some abstracts of journal articles, books, and dissertations
on world history from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and
Canada). It covers all historical topics and a variety of disciplines including
religion, gender studies, anthropology, political science, etc. Most of
the books and dissertations are from 1979 to the present. To limit your
search to only books and/or journal articles, in Advanced Search,
click on the button to the right of the Document Type line. Mark
the document type(s) you want, then click on Paste Terms. Since international
resources are included, you may want to limit your search to retrieve citations
in languages you can read. In the Advanced Search, click on the button
to the right of the Language line. Mark the language(s) you want,
then click Paste Terms.
Making of the Modern World (Carnegie Mellon users only) ca. 1460-1850
A comprehensive digital collection for the study of early economic, political, business, and social history, and for researching the literature of economics from this period. It combines the strengths of two pre-eminent collections: the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature at the University of London Library and the Kress Library of Business and Economics at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration, along with supplementary materials from the Seligman Collection in the Butler Library at Columbia University and from the libraries of Yale University. The end result is a database that allows many ways to search, including full text, the more than 12 million pages from 61,000 books from the period 1460-1850, and 466 pre-1906 serials.
Online Medieval Sources Bibliography (Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University)
"This database provides a searchable bibliography of texts.from private letters, wills, and household accounts to literary works, philosophical treatises, chronicles, court proceedings, church records, and a host of other documents.that were written in the Middle Ages and are now available in printed or online editions and translations. The aim is to provide annotated entries that include information on the genre, contents, archival reference and original language of the text, as well as whether the publication includes a translation, introduction, appendices, glossary, and index. Where appropriate, the bibliography also includes hyperlinks to sources that are online."
Social Sciences Citation Index
1900-present (updated weekly).
Available: Web of Science (Carnegie
Mellon Users only)
Subject Index to Periodicals
Print: 1916-1961 (incomplete).
CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH, HUMANITIES CLOSED STACKS qr 050 A86
Print: 1915-1922,1926-1928,1937-1947,1949,1951-1961
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, HILLMAN LIBRARY Compact Shelves (Ground Floor
During World War II, indexing of foreign (non British) titles was discontinued;
American titles discontinued in 1947.
Continued by British Humanities Index (see Great Britain: Books
and Journal Articles) and British Technology Index.
Worldcat
(Carnegie Mellon users only)
ca. 1200-present (updated daily).
Books, journal titles, etc. located in libraries throughout the United States,
and even some international ones.
If
full text links for journal articles are not provided, click on to see retrieval options. This
is only for journal article citations, and may not be available in all databases.
Otherwise,
use Cameo and the Find e-journal list
to see if materials are available to you. If they
aren't, you can use Illiad, the interlibrary loan service, to obtain the books and journals (usually takes 7-10 days), or for books, you can use EZ Borrow (usually takes about 3-5 days)
Below are major journals in European history. Use the library catalog and the Find e-journal list
to search for other journal titles in the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries.
For additional titles, see History: Journals. To find journal articles
on particular topics, use the resources at European History: Books
and Journal Articles.
Eighteenth-Century
Life (Carnegie Mellon users only)
Full text: v. 20, 1996-present. Eighteenth-Century
Life
Print: v.13, 1989-present.
HUNT JOUR-3
Eighteenth-Century
Studies (Carnegie Mellon users only)
Full text: vols. 1- ca. 37, 1967- ca. current - 5 years. Eighteenth-Century
Studies (Carnegie Mellon users only)
Full text: v. 29, 1995-present. Eighteenth-Century
Studies
Print: v.1, 1967-present.
HUNT JOUR-3
English
Historical Review (Carnegie Mellon users only)
Full text: vols. 1- ca. 116, 1886- ca. 2002 English
Historical Review (Carnegie Mellon users only)
Full text: v. 117, 2002-present. English
Historical Review
Print: v. 38, 1923-present.
HUNT JOUR-3
The resources listed under Europe can be useful for any
European country or region. Relevant maps may also be in some of the resources
listed at History: Maps.
Barnes, Ian and Robert Hudson. The History Atlas of Europe. New
York: Macmillan, c1998.
HUNT REF-1 G1797.21.S1 B3 1998
Cussans, Thomas. The Times Atlas of European History. London:
Times Books, 1998.
HUNT REF-1 G1797.21.S1 T5 1998
The DIR and ORB Antique
and Medieval Atlas (Cristos Nussli, On-Line Reference Books for Medieval
Studies, De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors)
Europe:
Historical Maps (The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection,
The University of Texas at Austin)
Links to historical European maps.
Historical
Maps of Europe (The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection,
The University of Texas at Austin)
Includes maps from all countries, all periods. Many are images from classic
works, such as The Historical Atlas by William R. Shepherd, 1923,
and Atlas to Freeman's Historical Geography, edited by J.B. Bury,
Longmans Green and Co. Third Edition 1903.
Mackay, Angus. Atlas of Medieval Europe. New York: Routledge,
1997.
HUNT REF-1 G1791 .M2 1997
Periodical Historical
Atlas of Europe: Depicting with Accuracy the States of This Continect
Every First Day of Each Centennial Year from AD 1 to AD 1700. (Cristos
Nussli)
The Times Atlas of European History. London: Times Books, 1998.
HUNT REF-1 G1797.21.S1 T5 1998
CRL
Catalog (Center for Research Libraries)
Use the Newspaper tab and search to see the what foreign newspapers are
available for borrowing via Illiad, our interlibrary loan system, from the Center for
Research Libraries.
Lexis Nexis Academic
(Carnegie Mellon users only)
ca. 1990-present.
Search and display full text or abstracts of European newspapers ca. 1990-present.
Once connected, search within the appropriate news categories.
19th Century British Library Newspapers (Carnegie Mellon users only)
Search and display the full text of 48 newspapers from England, Scotland, and Ireland from the 19th century. Examples of titles included are: Brighton Patriot and South of England Free Press, the Caledonian Mercury, the Champion, Daily News, the Examiner,
Lloyd’s Illustrated London Newspaper, the Manchester Examiner, the Northern Liberator, and the Western Mail.
17th and 18th Century
Burney Collection (Carnegie Mellon users only)
Search and display the text of 1000 pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks and
newspapers. Most of the newspapers are from England, Ireland, and Scotland, with a
handful from the British colonies in the Americas and Asia. Examples of newspapers
included are: British Journal, British Chronicle, Evening Post,
General Advertiser, Hoey’s Dublin Mercury, London Chronicle,
London Morning Penny Post, Original Weekly Journal, Whitehall
Evening Post.
Times (London)
Print: 1785-present (paper kept until microfilm arrives)
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, HILLMAN LIBRARY Microforms (2nd Floor)
Palmer's Index to the Times Newspaper
Print: 1790/1795-1905
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, HILLMAN LIBRARY Compact Shelves (Ground Floor)
AI21 T46p shelved on compact shelves #66-67; Continued by: Annual Index to the Times
Print: 1906-1913
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, HILLMAN LIBRARY Compact Shelves (Ground Floor)
AI21 T46 shelved on compact shelved #66-67; Continued by: Official Index to the Times
Print: 1906-1957
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, HILLMAN LIBRARY Compact Shelves (Ground Floor)
AI21 T46 shelved on compact shelved #66-67; continued by: Index to the Times.
Print: 1957-1972.
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, HILLMAN LIBRARY Compact Shelves (Ground Floor)
AI21 T46 shelved on compact shelves #66-67; continued by: Times Index
Print: 1973-2000.
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, HILLMAN LIBRARY Index Carrels (Ground Floor);
1973-1977 shelved on compact shelves #66-67,1978-present on index carrel
#6
United States. Library of Congress. Catalog Publication Division. Newspapers
in Microform: Foreign Countries, 1948-1972. Washington: Library of
Congress, 1973.
HUNT REF-1 016.07 U581NA
Early English Books Online (Carnegie Mellon users only) ca. 1475 to 1700 Search and display the full text of over 95,000 titles published between 1475 and 1700. You can search by author, title, subject & imprint information. Documents can be viewed online and or downloaded in PDF format (Adobe).
18th Century Collections Online (Carnegie Mellon users only) 1700-1801 Search or browse the full text of every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas during this period. Materials include books and broadsides, Bibles, tract books and sermons, and printed ephemera, with works by many well-known and lesser-known authors. Subject areas include history geography, social sicences, fine arts, medicine, science, technology, law, general reference, literature and language. A work in progress, the database will contain 138,000 titlesand editions when completed in about 2010.
Making of the Modern World (Carnegie Mellon users only) ca. 1460-1850
A comprehensive digital collection for the study of early economic, political, business, and social history, and for researching the literature of economics from this period. It combines the strengths of two pre-eminent collections: the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature at the University of London Library and the Kress Library of Business and Economics at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration, along with supplementary materials from the Seligman Collection in the Butler Library at Columbia University and from the libraries of Yale University. The end result is a database that allows many ways to search, including full text, the more than 12 million pages from 61,000 books from the period 1460-1850, and 466 pre-1906 serials.
Marwick, Arthur and Wendy Simpson, eds. War, Peace, and Social Change.
Documents: Europe, 1900-1955. 2 vols. Bristol, PA: Open University
Press in association with the Open University, 1990.
HUNT STACKS-2 940.2 W253
Medieval Family Life (Carnegie Mellon users only) ca. 15th century
Full colour images of the original medieval manuscripts that comprise these family letter collections along with full text searchable transcripts from the printed editions, where they are available. The original images and the transcriptions can be viewed side by side.
Along with the letter collections themselves there are many additional features useful for teaching and research. These include:
A chronology, a visual sources gallery, an interactive map, a glossary, family trees and links to other scholarly free to access digital resources useful for researching the medieval period.
Online Medieval Sources Bibliography (Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University)
"This database provides a searchable bibliography of texts.from private letters, wills, and household accounts to literary works, philosophical treatises, chronicles, court proceedings, church records, and a host of other documents.that were written in the Middle Ages and are now available in printed or online editions and translations. The aim is to provide annotated entries that include information on the genre, contents, archival reference and original language of the text, as well as whether the publication includes a translation, introduction, appendices, glossary, and index. Where appropriate, the bibliography also includes hyperlinks to sources that are online."
Slavery, Abolition, and Social Justice, 1490-2007 (Carnegie Mellon users only)
1490-2007
Search and browse the full text of original manuscripts, pamphlets, books, paintings, and maps. There is extensive coverage of topics such as the African Coast; the Middle Passage; the varieties of slave experience (urban, domestic, industrial, farm, ranch and plantation); Spiritualism and Religion; Resistance and Revolts; the Underground Railroad; the Abolition Movement; Legislation; Education; the Legacy of Slavery and Slavery Today. The database covers all geographic areas. You can search for relevant documents or browse the ones relating to Europe.
Tierney, Brian and Joan Scott, comps. Western Societies, a Documentary
History. 2 vols. New York: Knopf, c1984.
HUNT STACKS-2 CB245 .W4847 1984
Caramani, Danièle. Elections in Western Europe Since 1815:
Electoral Results by Constituencies. London: Macmillan Reference,
2000.
HUNT REF-1 JN94.A95 C368 2000
MUSIC OFFICE 4th floor 324.94 C25E DISC
Flora, Peter, Franz Kraus, and Winfried Pfenning. State, Economy,
and Society in Western Europe 1815-1975: A Data Handbook in Two Volumes.
2 vols. Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag, 1987.
HUNT REF-1 HN374 .F46 1987
League of Nations. Statistical Year-book of the League of Nations.
Geneva, 1945.
Print: 1940/1941, 1942/1943, 1942/1944
HUNT STACKS-2 HC57 .A19X Statistical
Year-book of the League of Nations (Northwestern University Library)
Online: 1926-1944.
League of Nations. Secretariat. Economic, Financial and Transit Dept.
World Economic Survey. Geneva: League of Nations.
Print: 1931-1944
HUNT STACKS-2 JX1975 .A25
Liesner, Thelma. One Hundred Years of Economic Statistics: United
Kingdom, United States of America, Australia, Canada, France, Germany,
Italy, Japan, Sweden. New York: Facts on File, c1989.
HUNT REF-1 HC106 .L68 1989
Mitchell, B. R. International Historical Statistics: Europe, 1750-2005.
New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
HUNT REF-1 HA1107 .M5 2007
Woytinsky, W. S. and E. S. Woytinsky. World Population and Production:
Trends and Outlook. New York: Twentieth Century Fund, 1953.
HUNT REF-1 HC59 .W68
to see retrieval options. This
is only for journal article citations, and may not be available in all databases.
Otherwise,
use Cameo and the Find e-journal list
to see if materials are available to you. If they
aren't, you can use Illiad, the interlibrary loan service, to obtain the books and journals (usually takes 7-10 days), or for books, you can use EZ Borrow (usually takes about 3-5 days)