Research Guides: HIST 354: Discipline and Pleasure in the Early Modern City (HC): Background

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Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Stolen Kiss, 1780s, French, Hermitage Museum (Source: Wikimedia Commons, public domain)

Using Background Information

Subject encyclopedias, handbooks and companions provide overviews of ideas, people, and events They are a quick way to find out the basic facts and current points of debate. When using an article in an encyclopedia or handbook, always check the bibliography for further reading at the end of the article. It will provide a selective list of the books, articles, and, sometimes, primary sources.

Encyclopedias and Handbooks in History

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History by Bonnie G. Smith (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780195148909
Publication Date: 2008-01-23
Capitalizes on the explosion of research in women's history in the last 30 years. Entries cover six main areas: biographies; geography and history; comparative culture and society; organizations and movements; womens and gender studies; and topics in world history.
Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750 by Hamish Scott (Editor)
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Publication Date: 2015-09-23
TThis Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context. Volume I examines 'Peoples and Place', assessing structural factors such as printing and the revolution in information. Volume II covers Cultures and Power with such essays as "Households and Family Systems", "Social Roles and Individual Identities" and "Towns and Urbanization."
Oxford Handbook of the Ancien Régime by William Doyle (Ed.)
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Publication Date: 2012-01-13
An international team of contributors presents current thinking about the world of pre-revolutionary France and Europe. In this wide-ranging and authoritative collection, old and newer areas of research are assessed. The result points the way towards promising new directions for thinking and writing about the intriguing complex of historical problems which it poses.
The Ottoman World by Christine Woodhead (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780415444927
Publication Date: 2011-12-13
Arranged in five thematic sections, with contributions from 30 historians, this book addresses the social and ideological composition of this major pre-modern empire. See in particular this essay: "Ottoman women as legal and marital subjects."
The Ashgate Research Companion to Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe by Jane Couchman; Katherine A. Mciver (Editor)
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Publication Date: 2016
Over the past three decades scholars have transformed the study of women and gender in early modern Europe. This book presents an authoritative review of the current research from a multi-disciplinary perspective.

Encyclopedias in Related Subject Areas

Encyclopedia of religion
The second edition of a resource that is considered a standard reference in the field. Presents a cross-cultural approach that emphasizes religion's role within everyday life and as a unique experience from culture to culture.

Literature Resource Center
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Provides biographies, bibliographies and scholarly articles on novelists, poets, essayists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of highly-studied authors.
Oxford Art Online
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Oxford Art Online is an art reference library that searches Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, and The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. This resource contains images, biographies, subject entries, and thematic timelines (antiquity to present).

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Entries are created and updated by experts in the field, and each contains extensive bibliographic references