World History

Reference Sources at the Kent Stark Library

 

General Sources

Reference CT 103.E56 1998 (v. 1-21)

Encyclopedia of world biography.  2nd ed. Detroit: Gale Research, c1998-2000.

 

Reference D 11.M39 1999 (v. 1-4)

Chronology of world history.  H.E.L. Mellersh. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 1999.

 

Reference D 11.T34 2002

Timelines of world history.  John B. Teeple.  London; New York: DK Pub., 2002.

 

Reference  D 20.R16 2001

The historical dictionary of world political geography: an encyclopaedic guide to the history of nations. Carlos Ramirez-Faria. New York: Palgrave, 2001.

 

Reference D 23.R63 1999 (v. 1-10)

The illustrated history of the world. J.M. Roberts. New York, NY: Oxford Univ. Press, 1999-

 

Reference D 118.S855 1994

Chronology of the medieval world, 800 to 1491.  R.L. Storey.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.

 

Reference D 209.W59 1994

Chronology of the expanding world, 1492 to 1762.  Neville Williams.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. 

 

Reference D 209.W59 1994b

Chronology of the modern world, 1763 to 1992.  2nd ed.  Neville Williams and Philip Waller.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.

 

Reference D 860.M56 2002 (v. 1-4)

Encyclopedia of the stateless nations: ethnic and national groups around the world.  James Minahan.  Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002.

 

Reference DA 28.D52 (v. 1-22)

The Dictionary of national biography: the concise dictionary.  Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1982-

 

Europe

Reference D 135.F73 2003

Encyclopedia of barbarian Europe : society in transformation.  Michael Frassetto.  Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, c2003.

 

Reference D 1051.U78 1998

A dictionary of European history and politics, 1945-1995.  Derek W. Urwin.  London; New York: Longman, 1996.

 

Reference D 1060.E8685 2002

The European Union handbook.  2nd ed.  Jackie Gower, editor; Ian Thomson, adviser.  London; Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2002. 

 

Reference E 1051.E9 2001 (v. 1-2)

Europe since 1945: an encyclopedia.  Bernard A. Cook, editor.  New York; London: Garland, 2001.

 

Great Britain and Ireland

 

Reference DA 34.O93 1997

The Oxford companion to British history.  John Cannon, editor.  Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 

 

Reference DA 129.M43 1998

Medieval England: an encyclopedia.  Paul E. Szarmach, M. Teresa Tavormina and Joel T. Rosentha, editors.  New York: Garland Pub., 1998. 

 

Reference DA 315.T753 2001

Tudor England: an encyclopedia.  Arthur F. Kinney and David W. Swain, general editors; Eugene D. Hill and William B. Long, co-editors; Francisco J. Borge and R. Morgan Griffin, editorial assistants.  New York; London: Garland, 2001. 

 

Reference DA 357.W34 1999

Historical dictionary of the Elizabethan world: Britain, Ireland, Europe, and America.  John A. Wagner.  Phoenix, Ariz.: Oryx Press, 1999.

 

Reference DA 498.C66 1988

British historical facts, 1688-1760.  Chris Cook and John Stevenson.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. 

 

Reference DA 529.E53 1992

The Encyclopedia of romanticism: culture in Britain, 1780s-1830s.  Laura Dabundo, editor; Pamela Olinto, Greg Rider and Gail Roos, editorial assistants. 

 

Reference DA 550.V53 1988

Victorian Britain: an encyclopedia.  Sally Mitchell, editor ... [et al.].  New York: Garland Pub., 1988. 

 

Reference DA 677.T55 1991

The Times London history atlas.  Hugh Clout, editor.  New York, NY: HarperCollins, c1991. 

 

Reference DA 905.A8

Atlas and cyclopedia of Ireland.  New York: Murphy & McCarthy, 1900. 

 

Reference DA 925.B47 1999

The Blackwell companion to modern Irish culture.  W.J. McCormack, editor.  Oxford; Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 1999. 

 

France

Reference DC 33.7.N63 1996

The regions of France: a reference guide to history and culture.  Wayne Northcutt.  Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996. 

 

Reference DC 147.H57 1984 (v. 1-2)

Historical dictionary of the French Revolution 1789-1799.  Samuel F. Scott and Barry Rothaus, editors.  Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1985. 

 

Reference DC 151.H32 1990

The Napoleonic source book.  Philip J. Haythornthwaite. New York: Facts on File, c1990.   

 

Reference DC 201.H673 1985

Historical dictionary of Napoleonic France, 1799-1815.  Owen Connelly, editor; Harold T. Parker, Peter W. Becker, and June K. Burton, associate editors; Janice Seaman Berbin, editorial assistant.  Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1985. 

 

Reference DC 201.M49 1987

An annotated bibliography of the Napoleonic era: recent publications, 1945-1985.  Jack Allen Meyer, compiler.  New York: Greenwood Press, 1987. 

 

Reference DC 256.H57 1987 (v. 1-2)

Historical dictionary of France from the 1815 restoration to the Second Empire.  Edgar Leon Newman, editor; Robert Lawrence Simpson, assistant editor.  New York: Greenwood Press, c1987. 

 

Reference DC 342.B56 1990

Biographical dictionary of French political leaders since 1870.  David S. Bell, Douglas Johnson and Peter Morris, editors.  New York: Simon and Schuster, c1990. 

 

Reference DC 397.H58 1998

Historical dictionary of World War II France: the Occupation, Vichy, and the Resistance, 1938-1946.  Bertram M. Gordon, editor.  Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998. 

 

Reference DC 401.H57 1992

Historical dictionary of the French Fourth and Fifth Republics, 1946-1991.  Wayne Northcutt, editor-in-chief.  New York: Greenwood Press, 1992. 

 

 

Eastern Europe

Reference DJK 9.E25 2005 (v. 1-3)

Eastern Europe: an introduction to the people, lands, and culture.  Richard Frucht, editor.  Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2005. 

 

Reference DK 293.T47 2001

The territories of the Russian Federation.  2nd ed.  London: Europa, 2001.

 

Asia and the Middle East

Reference DS 31.E53 1988 (v. 1-4)

Encyclopedia of Asian history.  Prepared under the auspices of the Asia Society; Ainslie T. Embree, editor in chief.  New York; London: Collier Macmillan, c1998.

 

Reference DS 44.M5 2003

The Middle East and North Africa, 2003.  49th ed.  London: Europa, 2002. 

 

Reference DS 334.9.C36 1989

The Cambridge encyclopedia of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, and the Maldives.  Francis Robinson, editor.  Cambridge [England]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. 

 

Reference DS 407.B63 2004

India: a global studies handbook.  Fritz Blackwell.  Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2004. 

 

Reference DS 524.S68 2004 (v. 1-3)

Southeast Asia: a historical encyclopedia from Angkor Wat to East Timor.  Ooi Keat Gin, editor.  Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2004. 

 

Reference DS 557.7.E53 1998 (v. 1-3)

Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: a political, social, and military history.  Spencer C. Tucker, editor.  Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, c1998. 

 

Reference DS 705.C35 1991

The Cambridge encyclopedia of China.  2nd ed.  Brian Hook, editor; Denis Twitchett, consultant editor.  Cambridge [England]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

 

Reference DS 705.P47 1994

Encyclopedia of China: the essential reference to China, its history and culture.  Dorothy Perkins.  New York: Facts on File, c1999. 

 

Reference DS 706.C4893 2003

China : a global studies handbook.  Robert André LaFleur ... [et al.].  Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2003. 

 

 

 

Reference DS 805.M63 1998

Modern Japan: an encyclopedia of history, culture, and nationalism.  James L. Huffman, editor.  New York: Garland Pub., 1998. 

 

Reference DS 806.E45 2002

Japan: a global studies handbook.  Lucien Ellington.  Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC CLIO, c2002.

 

Reference DS 881.9.H86 1983

Concise dictionary of modern Japanese history.  Janet Hunter, compiler.  Berkeley: University of California Press, c1984. 

 

Reference DS 916.H62 1999

Conflict in Korea: an encyclopedia.  James Hoare and Susan Pares.  Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, c1999. 

 

Reference DS 918.E53 2000 (v. 1-3)

Encyclopedia of the Korean War: a political, social, and military history.  Spencer C. Tucker, editor.  Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2000-

 

Reference DS 918.H536 1991

Historical dictionary of the Korean War.  James I. Matray, editor.  New York: Greenwood Press, 1991.

 

Reference E 183.8.C5 U23 2003

U.S.-China relations in the twenty-first century: policies, prospects and possibilities.  Christopher Marsh and June Teufel Dreyer, editors.  Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, c2003.

 

Africa

Reference DT 14.A37435 1999

Africana: the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience.  Kwame Anthony Appiah, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr, editors.  New York: Basic Civitas Books, c1999.

 

Reference DT 20.G45 1981 vol. 1

Methodology and African prehistory.  UNESCO International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa; J. Ki-Zerbo, editor.  London: Heinemann Educational Books; Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981.

 

Reference DT 20.G45 1981 vol. 2

Ancient civilizations of Africa.  UNESCO International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa; G. Mokhtar, editor.  London: Heinemann Educational Books; Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981. 

 

Reference DT 20.G45 1989 vol. 6

Africa in the nineteenth century until the 1880s.  J.F. Ade Ajayi, editor.  Jordin Hill, Oxford: Heinemann; Berkeley, Calif., U.S.A.: University of California Press; Paris: Unesco, 1989. 

 

Reference DT 58.B96 2002

Encyclopedia of ancient Egypt.  Rev. ed.  Margaret R. Bunson, editor.  New York: Facts on File, c2002.

 

Reference DT 58.S55 1995

The dictionary of ancient Egypt.  Ian Shaw and Paul Nicholson.  New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1995. 

 

Reference DT 351.A37 2003

Africa South of the Sahara.  London: Europa Publications Ltd, 1971-

 

Reference DT 351.E53 1997 (v. 1-4)

Encyclopedia of Africa south of the Sahara.  John Middleton, editor in chief; J. F. Ade Ajaye [et al.], editorial board.  New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1997. 

 

Reference DT 352.6.L56 1986

Dictionary of African historical biography.  2nd ed., expanded and updated.  Mark R. Lipschutz & Kent Rasmussen.  Berkeley: University of California Press, c1986.

 

Reference DT 352.8.B56

Black Africa: a comparative handbook.  2nd ed.  Donald George Morrison, Robert Cameron Mitchell, John Naber Paden.  New York: Paragon House : Irvington Publishers, c1989. 

 

Mexico and Latin America

Reference F 1234.C67 2004

Mexico: an encyclopedia of contemporary culture and history.  Don M. Coerver, Suzanne B. Pasztor, and Robert M. Buffington.  Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, c2004. 

 

Reference F 1401.S71 2005

The South American handbook.  Bath, Eng., etc., Trade & Travel Publications ltd., etc., New York, etc.: Distributed in the U.S. by Prentice Hall Travel, etc., 1924-

 

Reference F 1406.E53 1996 (v. 1-5)

Encyclopedia of Latin American history and culture.  Barbara A. Tenenbaum, editor in chief; Georgette Magassy Dorn ... et al., associate editors.  New York: C. Scribner's Sons; London: Simon & Schuster: Prentice Hall International, c1996.

 

Reference F 1413.S34 2003 v. 2

Latin America's wars.  Robert L. Scheina.  Washington, D.C.: Brassey's, Inc., c2003-

 

Reference F 2183.G86 1991

The dictionary of contemporary politics of Central America and the Caribbean.  Phil Gunson and Greg Chamberlain.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. 

 

 

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