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Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

It is often helpful to begin your research by reading a basic overview of your subject. Encyclopedias and dictionaries provide such basic overviews, and they often provide helpful suggestions for further reading as well.
 
Encyclopedia of Western colonialism since 1450. Thomas Benjamin, editor in chief. (Detroit, Mich. : Macmillan Reference USA, c2007). Series: Gale virtual reference library
  Also available in print at:
Location:  Butler Reference, 301 Butler
Call Number:  R940.8 En2
 
Europe 1450 to 1789 : encyclopedia of the early modern world . Jonathan Dewald, editor in chief. (New York, N.Y. : Charles Scribner’s Sons, c2004). Series: Gale virtual reference library
  Also available in print at:
Location:  Butler Reference, 301 Butler
Call Number:  R940.2 Eu74
 
Europe 1789 to 1914 : encyclopedia of the age of industry and empire. edited by John Merriman and Jay Winter.  Detroit, Mich. : Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2006. Series: Gale virtual reference library.
  Also available in print at:
Location:  Butler Reference, 301 Butler
Call Number:  R940.8 Eu7
 
Europe since 1914 : encyclopedia of the age of war and reconstruction. John Merriman and Jay Winter, editors in chief. (Detroit, Mich. : Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2006). Series: Gale virtual reference library
  Also available in print at:
Location:  Butler Reference, 301 Butler
Call Number:  R940.9 En2
 
Gale Virtual Reference Library
  Includes online full text of a wide range of encyclopedic works in history, the arts, business, law, medicine, religion, and social science. A number of the encyclopedias linked from this page are included in this database.
 

Historical dictionary of the British empire. James S. Olson and Robert Shadle, editors ; associate editors, Patricia Ashman ... [et al.].  2 vols. (Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1996).

  Location (guide): Butler Reference, 301 Butler
Call Number: R942.07 H62
 
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences. Neil J. Smelser and  Paul B. Baltes, editors in chief.  (Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier, 2001).
  Also available in print at:
Location:  Butler Reference, 301 Butler
Call Number:  R033 In813
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Locations:  Barnard Reference  &  Lehman Reference
Call Number:  H41 .I58 2001
 
Oxford Reference Online
  Contains the texts of more than 100 reference titles published by Oxford University Press.