Subject Guides: HIST 373: Peasants, Slaves, Workers: Background Materials & Secondary Sources

Background Info

Oxford Companions to History
Print and online encyclopedias such as:
- The Oxford companions to British history, Australian history, Canadian history, Irish History, etc.
- The Oxford companion to Black British history

Empire Online This link opens in a new window
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Oxford Reference Online Premium This link opens in a new window
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Gale Ebooks This link opens in a new window
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World History: Gale in Context This link opens in a new window
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EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) This link opens in a new window
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Same sources as "search the library" but allows boolean (AND, OR), wildcards, truncation, proximity searching.
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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World History excluding Canada and the US from 1450 to present. Search by "historical period".
Contains text in Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, Flemish, French / Français, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese and Welsh languages.
America: History and Life This link opens in a new window
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American and Canadian History from prehistoric to present. Search by "historical period".
Legal Source This link opens in a new window
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Law and legal topics.

NEOS Library Consortium Catalogue This link opens in a new window
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Best way to find just books.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
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Medieval and Early Modern Bibliographies This link opens in a new window
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Iter Bibliography This link opens in a new window
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British History Online This link opens in a new window
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HeinOnLine This link opens in a new window
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HeinOnLine includes modules for legal journals, government documents, foreign and international law materials, legal classics, world trials and other legal research collections.
Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective 1908-1981 This link opens in a new window
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Black's Law Dictionary (2nd ed)
The 2nd edition of Black's Law Dictionary was published in 1910 and is now in the public domain.

Contact:

doris.wagner@ualberta.ca
1-01 Rutherford Library South
University of Alberta