1600 TO THE PRESENT Reference Sources for History 352

Background Information
Locating Materials at Emory
Indexes, Databases and E-Journals
Source Materials
Statistics
Related Emory Sites
Internet Sites

Annual Register (1758 to present)
Storage D2 .A7

Published in Britain, this remarkable series provides a year by year summary of events in Great Britain and Europe and later,around the world, along with statistics and State Papers. 1758-1778 are available online

Biography and Geneaology Master Index

This database will tell you what publications have information on your person; it does not give the information itself.

Biography Resource Center

Gives brief information on relatively well-known individuals.

Europe 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World. 6 volumes (2003)
Reference D

A comprehensive work for this period with articles on people, events, and concepts.

Europa Yearbook (1960 to present)
Reference D2 .E821

Covers all countries in the world. It is particularly helpful for its careful summary of political and economic matters for each country covering the most recent ten to fifteen years. The most recent edition is online as Europa World.

New Cambridge Modern History 14 volumes (1957-1979)
Reference D208 .N4

Both a narrative history and a reference book covering world history (but with an emphasis on Europe) from the Renaissance to the end of World War II.

New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics 4 volumes (1987)
Business Reference HB61 .N49 1987

This has articles on economic theory and methodology as well as historical topics (industrial revolution, colonialism) and figures (Necker, Gramsci, Bukharin).

Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History. 5 volumes (2003)
Reference HC15 .O94

Covers the entire world from the earliest days of ancient civilizations to the modern period. Discusses different schools of economic history and provides biographies of individuals important to economic history as well as economic historians.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 60 volumes (2004)
DA28 . O 95

This is a biographical dictionary of persons who have lived or worked in the British Isles or any of its past and current possessions. It is an update and revision of the Dictionary of National Biography (22 volumes and supplements covering persons living before 1985; Reference DA28 .D4), which is still useful. The ODNB includes persons not found in the earlier version and applies current scholarship to each biography. It is considered a major scholarly resource. To access the internet version click on "Subscribers Enter Here" in the upper right corner.

Dictionnaire de biographie française (1933 to present; in progress)
Reference CT143 .D5

The standard French biographical dictionary. As of this date it has reached Leblois.

Dictionnaire de l'histoire de France 2 volumes (1999)
Reference DC35 .D53 1999

Historical Dictionary of the French...[series]

This series covers French history from the Revolution to the Fifth Republic in a number of volumes which are shelved between call numbers Reference DC147 .H57 1988 and Reference DC401 .H57 1992.

The Oxford Companion to British History (1997)
Reference DA34 .O93

Historical Dictionary of Germany (1994)
Reference DD84 .T48 1994

Lexikon der deutschen Geschichte (1999)
Reference DD84 .P56 1999

Dictionary of Modern Italian History (1985)
Reference DG545 .D53 1985

Covers Italian history from 1713.

Diccionario de historia de España 2a. ed. (1968)
Reference DP56 .D5 1968

Historical Dictionary of Modern Spain, 1700-1988 (1990)
Reference DP192 .H57 1990

Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History 60 vols (1976-1995)
Reference DK14 . M6

To find materials located at any of Emory's libraries, search EUCLID, Emory's online library catalog. To restrict a search to English (or any other language) select Complex Search and set the language box (scroll down a bit) to the language desired.

For assistance, read the EUCLID on the Web User's Guide.

The contents of books and articles are not searchable in EUCLID.

When searching EUCLID by subject, we recommend that you use the Browse search mode, using Library of Congress Subject headings. If you are uncertain about specific subject headings, try a Keyword search on "Everything" using one or two words that you feel describe the topic. Look at the subject headings attached to the results of this search and Browse on them.

A sample list of Library of Congress subject headings for researching various aspects of European economic history follows. (Capitalization is not necessary.)

[name of country or region] Colonies
[name of country or region] Economic Conditions (ex.: Italy Economic Conditions)
[name of country or region] Economic Policy
[name of country or region] History
[name of country or region] Politics and Government
Consumer Behavior [name of country or region]
Consumers
Consumption (Economics)
Cost and Standard of living
Imperialism
Industrialization
Popular Culture
Trade-Unions (The hyphen is important)

To locate books that other libraries own on your topic search the RLIN (Research Libraries Information Network) Bibliographic File or WorldCat Both are online catalogs containing books held by many libraries (150 libraries in RLIN, 14,000 in WorldCat). You can use the same subject headings in these databases as you did in Euclid.

INTERLIBRARY LOAN
The library will borrow books for you from almost any library in the country and can supply copies of articles from almost any magazine, newspaper or journal. This is called Interlibrary Loan and you can initiate an ILL request from any EUCLID screen (third button from the right at top) or from the Interlibrary Loan System page.

You can also borrow from books directly from certain area libraries using either the GETS Program or the ARCHE Interlibrary Use Program.

Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur (1896 to present)
AI9 .B5 continued at AI9 .I6

IBZ indexes both German language and "foreign" language periodicals and journals in the sciences, social sciences and humanities.

Subject Index to Periodicals (1915-1961)
Reference AI3 .S8

Indexes British popular and general interest magazines along with many scholarly titles. Continued after 1961 by British Humanities Index (Reference AI3 .B7). No computer version available

B. Electronic Indexes, Databases and E-Journals

ABSEES Online (1990 to present)

Lists English language articles on the history, economics, social conditions, literature, politics, etc., of the former Communist bloc countries. The print version, American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (Reference Z2483 .A65) covers 1957-1959 and 1962 to present.

Early English Books Online (1475-1700)

Provides exact images of all books published in Great Britain and its colonies and all books published in English anywhere from 1475-1700. Based on the English Short Title Catalogue, below.

EconLit (1969 to present)

This is an important database for the economic historian. EconLit lists articles, books and dissertations on economic history as well as on theoretical and applied economics. Keyword searching is usually productive but if results are too large or too imprecise try an advanced search and use 044* as the "descriptor code". This will restrict your results to "Economic History, Europe".EconLit is an expanded version of the Journal of Economic Literature (Z7164 .E2 A5679) and the annual Index of Economic Articles in Journals and Collective Volumes (Z7164 .E2 A57). The print versions and their predecessor titles provide coverage back to 1886.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (1701-1800)

Searchable full text images of all titles published published between 1701 and 1800 in Great Britain and its possessions or in English published anywhere. Not complete at this moment so be sure to check the microfilm collection below and indexed by the English Short Title Catalogue.

Hein Online (coverage varies; nineteenth century to present)

A huge fulltext database of legal periodicals searchable by author, title, keyword or citation.

Historical Abstracts (1955 to present)

This is another very important database for the economic historian. It covers history since 1450 in all areas of the globe except North America.

Humanities & Social Sciences Abstracts (1907 to present)

Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of humanities and social sciences journals, including economic history journals. There are some foreign language titles included prior to 1965; thereafter all titles are in English.

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (1981 to present)

Includes indexing of journals in Political Science, Economics, Anthropology and Sociology.

JSTOR (Dates of coverage vary)

JSTOR (Journal Storage Project) contains the complete text of every issue of over 300 prominent scholarly journals in history, economics and economic history, political science, population studies, and other fields. Some titles go back to the late 19th Century. Not only is the text of all articles available but every word of every article is searchable. Coverage is usually from the first issue of a journal up to five years prior to the current year.

LEXIS-NEXIS Academic (ca. 1970 to present)

Contains the complete text of some 1400 newspapers and periodicals. Dates of coverage for individual titles vary but none earlier than 1969. Some European titles are included. It's legal component permits searching law reviews and other legal reporting media.

Periodicals Contents Index (1800 to present)

Covers a large number of scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences, most of them from the 20th century but some going back into the 19th. You can search by broad subject area ("History, General"), by keyword, by author, or by keyword in title.

Project MUSE (mid 1990's to present)

Contains the full text of some sixty scholarly journals in the humanities.

Royal Historical Society Bibliography
Information Commons Non-Web Databases
1900-1992

Covers the history of Great Britain, Ireland and the overseas Empire and Commonwealth. See also the RHS Bibliography of British and Irish History (1993 to present) which brings the CD-ROM listed above up to date and also includes supplemental indexing from earlier years.

The first step in identifying primary source material is to read the bibliographies and scan the footnotes in the secondary works on your subject. Read also the preface and acknowledgments: authors often identify particularly useful works, libraries, or archives there.

Newspaper and periodical articles written at the time of an event or period under study are primary sources. Use the Printed Indexes listed above to identify articles in magazines and journals back to the 19th century. Some online indexes to historical newspapers, magazines and journals are:

Humanities & Social Sciences Abstracts (1907 to present)

New York Times Historical (1851-1999)

Provides the full text of every article as well as search capability by key word. For issues after 1999 use Lexis-Nexis Academic.

Nineteenth Century Masterfile (1800-1906)

Contains indexing from one of the few indexes to 19th century periodicals, Pooles Index to Periodical Literature. It also contains indexing from three other late 19th century indexes. Both British and American periodicals and journals are covered.

Reader's Guide Retrospective (1890-1982)

The great index to U. S. (and some British) popular and general interest magazines of the Twentieth Century. It includes news magazines

Times Digital Archive (1785-1985)

The Times of London. This database provides full-text images of each page of every issue of the Times.

Wall Street Journal Historical (1889-1985)

For articles after 1985 use Factiva.

Lexis-Nexis Congressional (1789-present)

Indexes and identifies publications in the U.S. Serial Set (covering a wide range of topics related to specific legislative bills) and transcripts, testimony and evidence published in connection with Congressional hearings. Print indexes to the hearings are kept at Reference KF40 .C53 and the print U.S. Serial Set Index is at Reference KF40 .C59.

Indexes to British Parliamentary Papers (1801-1945)
Reference Stand-Alone Workstation

Refers you to bills, accounts, and Command Papers (reports) issued by Parliament. To cover the period from 1946-1953, see General Index to Parliamentary Papers, 1900-1949 (Reference J301 .M3 1900-1949) and General Alphabetical Index to Bills, Reports and Papers... (Reference J301 .M3 1963). There is also an index at the end of each sessions's microfiche.

League of Nations Documents: A Descriptive Guide to the Microfilm Collection 3 volumes (1973-1975)
Reference Z6473 .R45

Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications. (1893 to present)
Documents Reference GP3.8:

Arranged under the issuing government agency and indexed annually by subject. There is a cumulated 15 volume subject index covering 1900 to 1971 at Reference Z1223. A185.

British Documents on Foreign Affairs: Reports and Documents from the Foreign Office Confidential Print

The "Confidential Print" was a means of distributing diplomatic dispatches and other papers among selected government offices and agencies. These documents were generally reports of conditions or other matters in a country or area that observers, diplomatic, military, or civilian, thought important. All of these volumes have a table of contents with two or four word descriptions of the contents of each document but no index. There are four parts covering from the mid-nineteenth century to 1950 (so far). Each part is broken down into seven series, one each for Russia, the Near and Middle East, North America, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and Africa. The various parts and series are not necessarily shelved together but browsing on the title (British Documents...) will locate them for you.

British Parliamentary Papers. House of Commons Sessional Papers
Micfiche 684 (1731-1954/55; 1979 to present)
Microprint 8 (1931-1978)

Contains all the reports, accounts, bills and Command Papers issued by or for the House of Commons. The Command Papers are especially rich sources of information on matters concerning foreign relations, colonies and armed forces as well as the internal affairs of Great Britain.

Débats parlementaires (1881-1940)
Microfilm 4277

Record of debates in the Chambre des députées of the French Assemblée nationale.

Foreign Relations of the United States (1861 to present)
Documents S1.1:

An annual which reprints correspondence, reports and other material from State Department and private sources concerning conditions and actions in other countries and regions of interest to the U.S. A few volumes after 1945 are available online.

League of Nations Documents, 1919-1946 Micfilm 1138

The library has parts 1-22 and 30 on microfilm:

[pt. 1] Bibliographic tools. 1 reel.--[pt. 2] Category IA: Administrative commissions. 14 reels.--[pt. 3] Category IB: Minorities. 25 reels.--[pt. 4] Category IIA: Financial questions. 25 reels.--[pt. 5] Category IIB: Economic questions. 16 reels.--[pt. 6] Category III: Health. 10 reels.--[pt. 7] Category IV: Social questions. 13 reels.--[pt. 8] Category V: Legal questions. 33 reels.--[pt. 9] Category VIA: Mandates. 18 reels.--[pt. 10] C.P.M. documents. 18 reels.--[pt. 11] Permanent Mandates Commission minutes and reports. 6 reels.--[pt. 12] Category VIB: Slavery. 3 reels.--[pt. 13] Category VII: Political questions. 34 reels.--[pt. 14] 19/F/-, 19/6/-, 20/6/ -, series. 1 reel.--[pt. 15] Category VIII: Communications and transit. 17 reels.--[pt. 16] Category IX: Disarmament. 19 reels.--[pt. 17] Category X: Financial administration. 17 reels.--[pt. 18] Category XI: Traffic in opium and other dangerous drugs. 33 reels.--[pt. 19] Category XIIA: Intellectual cooperation. 6 reels.--pt. [20] Category XIIB: International bureaux. 2 Contents: (cont.) [pt. 21] Category XIII: Refugees. 3 reels.--[pt. 22] Category G: General questions. 19 reels.--[pt. 30] Reports of the Mandatory Powers to the League. 34 reels.

Other League publications not on microfilm are shelved in the Government Documents area on Level One. They are not in Euclid. For a convenient guide to the League classification system, see Northwestern's League of Nations Digitization Project page.

Moniteur universel (1787-1868)
J341 .H3 (In Storage)

The record of debates and proceedings in both chambers of the French Assemblée nationale, along with the text of laws and other legislative acts. The Moniteur is followed by Journal officiel de la République française which we have from 1869-1915, 1950-1955 (J341 .H3) in storage.

Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) Official Report, House of Commons
Micfilm 3332 (1803 to 1908)
Government UK J301 .K22 (1909 to present)

Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) Official Report, House of Lords
Micfilm 3332 (1803 to 1908)
Government UK J301 .J22 (1909 to present)

The Woodruff Library receives the final bound edition of the debates for both the House of Commons and the House of Lords. Each volume has an index of speakers and subjects. Note that Hansard's is numbered by columns, not by pages.

The Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to 1803 36 volumes (1806-1820)
Government Documents J301 .H5

Produced by William Cobbett after the fact, this unofficial publication is considered the first report on Parliamentary debates.

Verhandlungen [des deutschen Reichstags]. Stenographische Berichte (1871-1942)
J351 .A24 (In Storage)

There are several indexes: in v. 30a (for the period 1867-1872), 142a (1867-1895) and indexes for each legislative session thereafter until 1933. The general index and the index to speeches is searchable from 1867-1895 at Protokolle des Reichstags 1867-1895. This site also contains the text of the Verhandlungen from 1867-1895.

In addition to the items listed below could be added the annual statistical compendiums published by various countries. Emory has an extensive backfile of these for the United States (which include some foreign data), Great Britain, France, and Germany. To locate these in Euclid browse on subject [country] Statistics (i.e., France Statistics). For a complete list of statistical databases in the Information Gateway see the Statistics Database Locator. See also the list of the resources of the Electronic Data Center, a unit of the library designed to make quantitative data easily accessible to researchers at Emory University.

International Historical Statistics: Africa, Asia, Oceania, 1750-2000 4th ed. (2003)
Reference HA4675 .M552 200s

International Historical Statistics: The Americas, 1750-2000 5th ed. (2003)
Reference HA175 .M55 2003

International Historical Statistics: Europe, 1750-2000 5th ed. (2003)
Reference HA1107 .M5 2003

These three publications offer long series of statistics taken from various authoritative sources. While we are studying European economic history, the volumes on the Americas and Africa, Asia, and Oceania will contain statistics on former European colonies and dominions.

Economics Research Guide

Foreign Country/Government Research Guide

A guide to information on, from and by foreign governments mostly from the 1990's.

Goizueta Business Library Statistical Databases

Government Information Research Guide

A guide to searching and using United States Government publications.

United Nations Research Guide

Emory's United Nations collection goes back to the organization's beginning in 1946.

British Parliamentary Papers Research Guide

Emory's collection of Parliamentary publications goes back, variously, to 1066.

Economic History Services

A very nice site with lots of features. For links, click on "Related Websites."

Labour and Business History

Another vast site with lots of excellent links.