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- Ukraine Research Guide (@NYU)This research guide is created in response to unfolding war between Ukraine and Russian Federation. It seeks to assemble materials that help illuminate the current conflict between two neighboring Slavic countries as well as to place the Ukrainian state into a larger international and historical context. Materials recommended in this guide are in English, except the last selection under "Russian perspectives" and the database of Donetsk and Luhansk newspapers in the "Conflict in the Easter Ukraine" tab. **NOTE that all materials mentioned in this guide link to NYU Libraries. Search Catalyst for local access.
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A reference work can help you become acquainted with the literature on a topic if you are not aware of any works on your topic. The bibliographies of subject entries point you to the core work on a topic (as current as the publication of the book).
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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. - Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new window
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Search across all of Carleton's online reference sources from Oxford University Press, including dictionaries, encyclopedias, maps, timelines, and quotations. - Cambridge Histories Online This link opens in a new window
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An authoritative full text collection of the history of scholarship in several different academic subjects. Includes over 260 volumes published since 1960 by Cambridge University Press. - Reference Universe This link opens in a new window
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Searches the indexes of our library's print reference books. When you find an entry you'd like to read, click the "Locate this book" button or put the title of the reference book into Catalyst to find the book's location in the Reference Collection.
Suggested Reference Books
These are just to get you started thinking about what's available in the reference section. Browse near these for more ideas.
The best place to search for reference books and articles is Catalyst. Just put in your search --> select "see all results" --> select reference as one of the facets from the options on the side of the screen.
- Europa World Plus This link opens in a new window
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Combines the Europa World Year Book and the nine-volume Europa Regional Surveys of the World series. Provides up-to-date political and economic information for more than 250 countries and territories. - Annual Reviews This link opens in a new window
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Articles in this collection offer comprehensive summaries of the state of research on topics from many disciplines in the sciences and social sciences, including Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science. Covers 1997 - current.
Longman Handbook of Twentieth Century Europe by Call Number: ONLINEISBN: 0582235081Publication Date: 2014Covering the whole period from Tsarist Russia and Imperial Germany to the Balkan Wars of the 1990's and the final birth of the Euro in 2002, it provides a convenient user-friendly compendium of key fact and figures for the whole of Europe - from the Atlantic to the Urals.Handbook of European History, 1400-1600 by
Call Number: ONLINE and Ref D203.H36 1994ISBN: 9004097627Publication Date: 1995-01-01Availability and more information from Catalyst...
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A two volume work presenting the current state of research in a variety of fields.
Brill's Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World (2 Vols. ) by Call Number: ONLINEISBN: 9789004265721Publication Date: 2014Traces the history and cultural influence of Neo-Latin, the form of Latin that originated in the Italian Renaissance and persists to the modern era. Subjects covered range from literature and law to philosophy and the sciences.
Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe by Call Number: CC Ref DJK6 .E53 2000ISBN: 0815300921Publication Date: 2000-03-31Availability and more information from Catalyst...
Encyclopedia of European Social History from 1350 to 2000 by Call Number: Ref HN373 .E63 2001 v.1 - 6Availability and more information from Catalyst...
An outstanding source of historiographical essays and factual articles on European social history; most longer essays have excellent bibliographies. v. 1. Methods and theoretical approaches -- The periods of social history -- Regions, nations, and peoples -- Europe and the world -- v. 2. Processes of social change -- Population and geography -- Cities and urbanization -- Rural life -- State and society -- v. 3. Social structure -- Social protest -- Deviance, crime, and social control -- Social problems and social reform -- v. 4. Gender -- The family and age groups -- Sexuality -- Body and mind -- Work -- v. 5. Culture and popular culture -- Modern recreation and leisure -- Religion -- Education and literacy -- Everyday life -- v. 6. Biographies
