HISTORY 300: The French Revolution

 

Selected Resources

 

REFERENCE SOURCES

 

Bibliographie annuelle de l’histoire de France.  Paris, Éditions du Centre national de la recherché scientifique. Note 1955-1963: du cinquieme siècle à 1939. 1964-1974: du cinquieme siècle à 1945. 1975-: du cinquieme siècle à 1958.

Issued by the Comité français des sciences historiques, <1956>-1971; by the Centre National de la recherché scientifique, Centre de documentation Sciences humaines, 1972-

DC 38 .B54x HAYDEN JOURNALS

 

Caldwell, Ronald J., The era of the French Revolution: a bibliography of the history of Western civilization, 1789-1799. New York: Garland Pub., c1985.

DC148 .C34x 1985 HAYDEN REFERENCE

 

Combined Retrospective Index to Journals in History 1838-1974. 11 vols.

Washington: Carrollton, 1977-78.

D 1 .C7X HAYDEN REF 

Indexes all articles from the earliest volumes through 1974 for 243 English language periodicals covering all periods and all areas in the field of history.  Arranged by subject and author.  France is in v.3.

 

Palmer, Samuel.  Palmer’s index to the Times newspaper (London).

Vaduz, Kraus reprint, 1965.

AI 21 .T46 HAYDEN JOURNALS

 

Paxton, John. Companion to the French Revolution.

New York, N.Y.: Facts on File, c1988

DC147 .P38 1988 HAYDEN REFERENCE

 

Scott, Samuel F. Historical dictionary of the French Revolution 1789-1799

Westport, Conn.:Greenwood Press, 1985.

DC147 .H57 1985 v.1 & v.2 HAYDEN REFERENCE

 

Williams, Neville. Chronology of the modern world, 1763 to 1992

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. 2^nd ed.

D209 .W59 1994b HAYDEN REFERENCE

 

ONLINE INDEXES

             

Eighteenth Century Collections Online  Provides access to the digital images of every page of more than 150,000 books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of approximately 33 million pages, the product allows researchers new methods of access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.

 

British Humanities Index (BHI): 1962-Current
The database is an online index to (1962+) humanities journals and weekly magazines published in Great Britain and other English speaking nations including newspapers in UK

 

Historical Abstracts (1954+) Covers the world’s scholarly literature in history.  Includes article abstracts and bibliographic citations of books and dissertations on the history of the world from 1450 to the present, except for the United States and Canada.

 

Humanities Abstracts (2/1984+) Indexes articles in the fields of archeology and classical studies, film, folklore, gender studies, history, journalism, communications, language, literature, literary and political criticism, performing arts, philosophy, religion, etc.

 

 <![endif]> JSTOR Includes long runs of backfiles of scholarly journals.  Subjects covered include Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, and Sociology

 

.Periodicals Contents Index (1770-1990/91) PCI Web is an electronic index to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences from their first issues to 1990/1991.  Every article is indexed.

 

 

SELECTED INTERNET SOURCES

 

Yahoo – History – France – French Revolution  

The beginning site for almost all History searches on the Internet

 

EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe 

An excellent and comprehensive site for locating primary sources

 

LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY: EXPLORING THE FRENCH REVOUTION   "This site provides an accessible and lively introduction to the French Revolution as well as an extraordinary archive of some of the most important documentary evidence from the Revolution, including 338 texts, 245 images, and a number of maps and songs."

 

Internet Modern History Sourcebook

Fantastic history site!  Provides links to other Internet sourcebooks covering much of recorded history.  Contains a separate section on French Revolution resources. 

 

                  If you have questions concerning these sources, please contact Edward Oetting at: edding@asu.edu

Edward C. Oetting
Reference Librarian
History/Political Science Bibliographer
Hayden Reference Team
Arizona State University
(480) 965 - 4579
edding@asu.edu