Marshall Brooks Library: History Subject Guide: Background Information

Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
Scholarly encyclopedias including Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History, Encyclopedia of India, Encyclopedia of Modern China, History of the Modern Middle East and more.

Twentieth-Century War and Conflict by Gordon Martel (Editor)
ISBN: 1118884655
Publication Date: 2014
Drawn from the award-winning 5-volume Encyclopedia of War, this valuable, one-volume reference provides readers with essential information on the conflicts and concepts that shaped global warfare in the twentieth-century and up to the present day.
Encyclopedia of World Trade: from Ancient Times to the Present by Cynthia Clark Northrup et al
ISBN: 1317471520
Publication Date: 2015
Written for high school or beginning undergraduate students, this four-volume reference valiantly attempts to provide a historical framework for the perhaps overly broad concept of world trade.

History Reference Center This link opens in a new window
In addition to full-text historical reference books, primary source documents and biographies, History Reference Source includes full text and selective content from more than 140 leading history journals.

Listed are the Library of Congress class numbers for history-related subjects.

C Auxiliary Sciences of History

D History (General)

DA Great Britain

DAW Central Europe

DB Austria - Liechtenstein - Hungary - Czechoslovakia

DC France - Andorra - Monaco

DD Germany

DE Greco-Roman World

DF Greece

DG Italy - Malta

DH Low Countries - Benelux Countries

DJ Netherlands (Holland)

DJK Eastern Europe (General)

DK Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics - Poland

DL Northern Europe. Scandinavia

DP Spain - Portugal

DQ Switzerland

DR Balkan Peninsula

DS Asia

DT Africa

DU Oceania (South Seas)

DX Romanies

E America, United States

F United States local history, British America (including Canada), Dutch America, French America, Latin America. Spanish America