Lemieux Library: History - Modern European Cultural History Subject Guide

Subject Guides

	History: Modern European Cultural History
	Liaison Librarian: Karen Gilles
	Bibliographies \| Book - Stacks \| Databases \| Dictionaries, Glossaries and Encyclopedia \| Electronic Books \| Electronic Journals \| Historiography \| History \| Internet Sites \| LC Subject Headings \| Newspapers \| Primary Source Microforms \| Primary Sources \| Statistics

	Bibliographies
	Bibliography of British History, 1851-1914
	Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1976.
	DA 530 H36 1976

	Masculinity and Imperalism Bibliography
	by Pasi Ahonen, Supplied by H- Women.

	Reader's Guide to British History
	Use this source not only to find important secondary works in British History, and especially those works which contribute to the scholarly interpretation of major or themes, issues and personages in British history. Coverage is from prehistoric to Tony Blair. Although the entries are arranged alphabetically, the thematic list draws together entries by time period as well as by subjects which cross all periods.
	REF DA R43 2003

	Women's History and Imperalism Bibliography
	From H-Women listserv, seeking additional suggestions and recommendations.

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	Book - Stacks
	1848 in France
	edited by Roger Price; [documents translated by C. N. Smith].
	DC271.5 .E53 1975

	Ambulance No. 10, Personal Letters from the Front
	by Leslie Buswell.
	D629 .F8 B8 1916A

	Cambridge Social History of England
	3 vols.
	HN 385 C14 1990

	The Dreyfus Affair : "J'accuse" and Other Writings
	by Emile Zola; edited by Alain Pagès; translated by Eleanor Levieux.
	DC354.8 .Z6513 1996

	Educational Documents: England and Wales 1816-1967

	LA631 M25 1968

	England's Effort, Letters to an American Friend
	by Mrs. Humphry Ward, with a preface by Joseph H. Choate. Publ info New York, Scribner, 1916.
	D640 .W33 1916A 1916

	A Hilltop on the Marne, Being Letters Written June 3-September 8, 1914
	by Mildred Aldrich.
	D640 .A35 1915

	History of the American Field service in France, "Friends of France", 1914-1917
	Told by its members.
	D629 F8 F7 1920 V.1

	Illustrated English Social History
	by George Macaulay Trevelyan. Illus. selected by Ruth C. Wright. London; New York, Longmans, Green [1942-49]v. 4. The nineteenth century. (Many of the illustrations are from original sources.)
	DA 32 T7487 1942

	Religion in Victorian Society : A Sourcebook of Documents
	edited by Richard J. Helmstadter and Paul T. Phillips.
	BR759 R45 1985

	Testament of Youth / Vera Brittain

	D640 B715 1980B

	Working Conditions in the Victorian Age
	Debates on the issue from 19th century critical journals.
	HD8388 W673

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	Databases
	Academic Search Premier
	Interdisciplinary database with some coverage of english language journals in history. Database contains many fulltext sources.

	Historical Abstracts
	Annotated reference guide to history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada.) Over 2000 journals are covered in the database. Includes key historical journals as well as hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanitites. Also includes citations to book reviews and dissertations. Links to fulltext resources in JSTOR, Project Muse and book reviews in H-Net.

	Historical New York Times
	Fulltext access back to 1851.

	Humanities Abstracts
	One of the databases supplied by Wilson, this database indexes core English language journals back to 1984. Abstract source with links to some full text.

	JSTOR
	Fulltext scholarly journal articles in the area of history and other disciplines. Includes 42 journals in history from inception of the journal to the most recent four years.

	Project Muse
	Scholarly Journals in the Humanities including issues of French Colonial History, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Victorian Studies and more.

	Research Library Complete
	Interdisciplinary database with access to some scholarly journals in history.

	Victorian Database Online
	Indexes, books and chapters of books, dissertations and article on Victorian Studies. Part of the Victorian Web.

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	Dictionaries, Glossaries and Encyclopedias
	Encyclopedia of European Social History fro 1350 to 2000

	Ref Hn 373 E 62 2001

	Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850
	The introduction to this 2 vol set describes this work as a cultural encyclopedia which in international in scope. Most of the entries focus on individuals during this time period, but there are also surveys and thematic entries. Extensive bibliographies complete each entry.
	Ref NX 452.5 R64 E53 2004

	Encyclopedia of Urban Cultures, cities and cultures around the world.
	Focus is on cultural information about cities - history of the city is also included. 4 vol. work.
	Ref HT 108.5 E53

	Victorian Britain: An Encyclopaedia

	Ref DA550 .V53 1988

	Victorian Dictionary
	Excerpts from primary sources arranged in dictionary form.

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	Electronic Books
	Internet Modern History Sourcebook
	See Section on the The Long 19th Century, as well as Modern World. Developed by Paul Halsall, Fordham University.

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	Electronic Journals
	Nineteenth Century Art World-Wide, a journal of nineteenth-century visual culture
	Referred-scholarly journal

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	Historiography
	History and Historians of the Nineteenth Century
	by George Peabody Gooch.
	D13 G66 1949

	Metahistory: the Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe
	by Hayden White.
	D13 W565 1973

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	History
	The New Cambridge Modern History
	v.9-12
	D 208 N4

	The Oxford History of the British Empire / Wm. Roger Lewis
	v.3 -v.4
	DA 16 O95 1998

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	Internet Sites
	Charles Booth Online Archive
	Charles Booth and the survey into life and labour in London (1886-1903). View poverty maps, police notebooks and other archival material. London School of Economics and Political Science.

	Moving Here - 200 Years of Migration to England
	"Moving Here provides free online access to resources which record and illustrate the migration of the Caribbean, Irish, Jewish and South Asian Communities to England over the past two centuries". Over 30 museums, archives and other records respositories supplied the photos, maps, documents and audios. Timelines give a snapshot history. There is a link to stories, most are recent, but some early 20thc stories are also available.

	Treasures from the Jewish Cultural Renaissance in Germany, 1898-1938
	From the Gelman Library, this exhibit illustrates this period of Jewis culture which had its foci in Berlin. The Works Consulted list will lead the browser to other sources of information on this topic.

	Victorian Web
	Exhaustive and comprehensive site covering all aspects of British studies during the Victorian Period. Includes primary sources, articles, biographies and more for each subject area.

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	LC Subject Headings
	Subject Headings for European Cultural History
	Examples of headings for secondary literature: Civilization, Modern---19th century; Civilization, Modern---20th century Europe---Social Life and Customs--19th Century; Europe---Social Life and Customs--20th Century; World War, 1914-1918--Social Aspects--Europe Europe--Intellectual Life--20th century Popular Culture-- Europe

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	Newspapers
	The Illustrated London News
	Library has 1905- Storage

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	Primary Source Microforms
	Colonial Discourses. Series One. Women, trade and empire, 1660-1914 pt. 1
	Early travel accounts by women and women's experiences in India, Africa, Australasia and Canada. 25 reels.
	G 465 C66 1999

	First World War, A Documentary Record: Series one, European War, 1914-1919
	The War Reserve Collection (WRA-WRE) from Cambridge University Library. Includes personal reminiscences, diaries from people who served in the trenches; pamphlets of Allied Propaganda and other documentary resources.
	D 505 .F57 1991 Reel(s) 1-114

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	Primary Sources
	Ackerman Archives- Harvey Ladew Williams, World War I
	Digitized by a library student at the University of South Florida, this site contains over 272 photos of from an American ambulance driver, Harvey Ladew Williams, in World War I. In addition, his World War I letters are also available online.

	Chambers's Book of Days
	A miscellany of popular antiquities in connection with the calendar, including anecdote, biography, & history, curiosities of literature and oddities of human life and character / edited by R. Chambers." Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott, 1879.
	DA 110 C52 1879

	Contemporary France
	by Gabriel Hanotaux. 4 vols. 1903-1909. Work covers the early years of the Third Republic, 1871-1900. In addition to being a historian, Hanotaux was also foreign minister. His history reflects his experience in French politics.
	DC 335 H24

	European Life and Manners in Familiar Letters to Friends
	by Henry Colman. Boston : Charles C. Little and James Brown ; London : John Petherham, 1849.
	D919. C71 1849

	France in 1829-30 / By Lady Morgan

	DC 33.5 M88 1831

	The Letters of Queen Victoria
	"A selection from Her Majesty's correspondence and journal between the years 1862 and 1895. Published by authority of His Majesty the king. Edited by George Earl Buckle." Library has.--v. 2. [3rd series] 1891-1895.--v. 3. [2nd series] 1879-1885.
	DA 552 L7 1926

	Life Among the Germans
	by Emma Louise Parry.
	DD 41 P26 1887

	London Labour and the London Poor
	by Henry Mayhew. "An unabridged republication of the work as published ... in 1861-1862, to which has been added a new introduction."
	HV 4088 L8 M52 1968

	Monuments and Dust: The Culture of Victorian London
	Ongoing project includes Mahew's London Labor and excerpts from the Times.

	The New York Times Current History : the European War.
	New York : The New York Times Company, 1914-1920.
	D501 N49 1914

	The Pamphlet Collection
	Ongoing digitization project from the Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science. Click on Social History for fulltext pamphlets.

	Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, selected and ed. with introductions, etc.
	by Francis W. Halsey. New York and London, Funk & Wagnalls company [c1914]. Library has v. 1-2, 4-5, 8-10
	D901 H3 1914

	Sophie - A Digital Library of Works by German Speaking Women
	Brigham Young University. Coverage of works from 174-1923. Some have been translated into English, but most are in German. Links to literature, music, drama/film, journalism and colonial/travel. Additional add-ons include an image gallery and bibliographies. Website outlines aims and goals of this project as a tool for undergraduate research and teaching in German Studies.

	The Splendour of France
	"A pictorial and authoritative account of our great and glorious ally and of her country, unsurpassed in beauty and magnificence. Edited by Walter Hutchinson. Written by well-known authorities, with an introduction by Edmund Gosse." Extensively illustrated. 2 vol. work published in 1917.
	DC 20 H8 1917

	The Times History of the War
	22 vols. This set is extensively illustrated; good portrait of life during WWI.
	D522 T5 1914

	Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
	by Robert Louis Stevenson. Travels through the French mountains. 1901
	PR 5488 T8 1901

	Treitschke's History of Germany in the Nineteeth Century
	Translated by Eden & Cedar Paul, with an introduction by William Harbutt Dawson. 7 vols. Work of this political historian, stops in 1848.
	DD 208 T8 1915

	Using Primary Resources on the Web
	From University of Washington.

	Wilfred Owen Multimedia Digital Archive
	Correspondence, letters and poetry from this World War I poet.

	World War I Document Archive
	Portal to WWI sources hosted by Brigham Young Univ. Compiled by volunteers on the WWI military listserv, the site links to government documents, diaries and a biographical dictionary. Most sources are in English. Note BYU disclaimer.

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	Statistics
	European Historical Statistics, 1750-1970 / B. R. Mitchell

	HA1107.M5 1976

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