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Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and some full text)
Contains scholarly journals, trade publications, and magazines from across the disciplines and from popular culture. Much of the content is available in full text. An ELM Database. -
America: History & Life This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and abstracts)
Contains information about scholarly articles on the history and culture of the U. S. and Canada. (For World History, use Historical Abstracts) -
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and abstracts)
The primary place to find scholarship on world history. (For U.S. and Canadian History, use America: History and Life). Covers publications from 1955 - present. -
JSTOR This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations and the full text)
Provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Most journals are included from their first issue until 5 years ago.
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Terrae incognitae: Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries
Call Number: ONLINETerrae Incognitae is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal published for the Society for the History of Discoveries. The aim is to examine the history and impact of geographic exploration and cross-cultural interaction around the globe prior to the modern era.
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History of marine science (ICHO library)
A Zotero bibliography compiled by the International Commission of the History of Oceanography (ICHO). It contains citations for approximately the last hundred years of scholarly books, journal articles, book reviews, dissertations, and more (in multiple languages) about the history of marine science.
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Oxford Bibliographies: Networks of Science and Scientists by
Call Number: ONLINEPublication Date: last rev. 2022Science in the Atlantic world was founded on the exchange of knowledge and objects across space and across cultures. -
Oxford Bibliographies: The Early Explorers by
Call Number: (online)A list of scholarship about exploration in the early modern era (c. 1400–1800).
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Oxford Bibliographies This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and some full text)
This is a key starting place for research in several different fields, providing bibliographies on current scholarship on topics from the social sciences and humanities.
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The Oxford Companion to World Exploration
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Call Number: ONLINEISBN: 9780195149227Publication Date: 2007-01-22Short descriptions of explorers and expeditions, plus citations for further research. -
Encyclopedia of exploration, 1800 to 1850 : a comprehensive reference guide to the history and literature of exploration, travel and colonization between the years 1800 and 1850
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Call Number: Reference G200 .H692 2004ISBN: 9781875567393Publication Date: 2004Availability and more information from Catalyst...
Covers the history and literature of exploration, travel and colonization between the years 1800 and 1850. -
Encyclopedia of exploration, 1850 to 1940 : the oceans, islands and polar regions
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Call Number: REFERENCE G200 .H679 2006ISBN: 9781875567416Publication Date: 2006Availability and more information from Catalyst...
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Medieval Maps and Mapping Resources (a bibliography)Contains discipline-specific lists of books and articles related to medieval mapping.
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Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations and the full text)
Search across all of Carleton's online reference sources from Oxford University Press, including dictionaries, encyclopedias, maps, timelines, and quotations. -
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations and the full text)
Provides full access to hundreds of subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographical information, images, bibliographies, and links to journal articles, books, and online sources.
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A Cultural History of Exploration (6 vols.)
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Call Number: CB69 .C85 2024ISBN: 9781350101074Publication Date: 2024Each volume focuses on a different time period (antiquity, Middle Ages, early modern age, age of expansion & Enlightenment, industrial age, and modern age), and is organized by similar themes across volumes. -
A Cultural History of the Sea (6 vols.)
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Call Number: CB465 .C85 2021ISBN: 9781474299107Publication Date: 2021Each volume focuses on a different time period (Antiquity (500 BCE - 800 CE); Medieval Age (800 - 1450); Renaissance (1450 - 1650); Age of Enlightenment (1650 - 1800); Age of Empire (1800 - 1920); Modern Age (1920 - 2000+)), and is organized by similar themes across volumes (Knowledges, Practices, Networks, Islands and Shores, Travelers, Representation, Imaginary Worlds, and Conflicts).
