Historical E-Resources A-Z

 

• ECCO - Eighteenth century collections online  "Use Eighteenth Century Collections Online to access the digital images of every page of 150,000 books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of approximately 26 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." ECCO is aiming to offer a comprehensive digital edition of every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas, between 1701 and 1800 and consists of books, pamphlets, broadsides, ephemera. (Subject categories include history and geography; fine arts and social sciences; medicine, science, and technology; literature and language; religion and philosophy; law; general reference. Also included are significant collections of women writers of the eighteenth century, collections on the French Revolution, and numerous eighteenth-century editions of the works of Shakespeare.) Where they add scholarly value or contain important differences, multiple editions of each individual work are also offered..."
• Econlit  : Indexed bibliography with selected abstracts of the world's economic literature, from 1969 onwards, compiled from the American Economic Association's Journal of economic literature, and the Index of economic articles in journals and collective volumes.
• EEBO - Early English Books Online . A collection of online text editions of works originally published 1473-1700, listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-title catalogue, Wing's Short title catalogue or the Thomason tracts. Titles in the collection cover literature, philosophy, politics, religion, geography, science and all other areas of human endeavor. ( Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William), 1859-1944. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640; Wing, Donald Goddard, 1904- Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700; Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership: University of Michigan, University of Oxford, Council on Library and Information Resources, Bell & Howell Information and Learning, Proquest Information and Learning.)
• Encyclopaedia Judaica  (GVRL) - Electoronic version of the 2nd edition encyclopedia, hosted on the Gale Virtual Reference Library platform, including more than 21,000 entries on Jewish life, culture, history, and religion, written by Israeli, American and European subject specialists.
• Encyclopedia of Modern Europe (Scribner Library)  (GVRL) - Electronic edition of 3 titles, hosted on the Gale Virtual Reference Library platform: 1) Encyclopedia of Modern Europe: Europe 1789 to 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire; 2) Encyclopedia of Modern Europe: Europe Since 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction; and 3) Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
• L'Encyclopédie de Diderot et d'Alembert  - the "Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une Société de Gens de lettres" was published under the direction of Diderot and d'Alembert, with 17 volumes of text and 11 volumes of plates between 1751 and 1772. Containing 72,000 articles written by more than 140 contributors, the Encyclopédie was a massive reference work for the arts and sciences, as well as a machine de guerre which served to propagate the ideas of the French Enlightment. Through its attempt to classify learning and to open all domains of human activity to its readers, the Encyclopédie gave expression to many of the most important intellectual and social developments of its time.
• Europe 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the early modern world  - Explores European history from 1450-1789, from the print revolution to the French Revolution.
• Europe 1789 to 1914: Encyclopedia of the age of industry and empire  - Covers the time period between the onset of the French Revolution to the outbreak of World War I, including the important people and the major events and developments in Europe, and connections to the rest of the world.
• Europe since 1914: Encyclopedia of the age of war and reconstruction  - Europe Since 1914 details European history from the Bolshevik Revolution to the European Union, linking it to the history of the rest of the world.
• European History Primary Sources (EHPS)  (EUI) - EHPS is an index of scholarly websites that offer online access to freely-available primary sources on the history of Europe. Each website that is listed in this portal has a short description and is categorised according to country, language, period, subject and type of source. EHPS is a joint initiative of the Library and the Department of History and Civilisation of the European University Institute.
• The European population, 1850-1945  - The European Population 1850-1945 is a comparative and historical data handbook and accompanying CD-ROM presenting series data on demographic developments, population and household structures for the countries of Western and Central Europe. All major fields of demographic change are covered: fertility, mortality, marriage, and divorce. Population figures are given for each population census by sex, civil status and age. Major demographic developments within the family are described providing a commentary on the main population structures and trends in Europe since the 19th century.