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This guide highlights core print and electronic Library resources in the area of American Studies and it links to relevant web resources. Use this guide as your starting point, come to the library or Ask a Librarian for more resources and further help.
The encyclopedia covers the history, philosophy, arts, and cultures of the United States in relation to the world, from pre-colonial days to the present, from various perspectives and the global American Studies movement.
This is a four-volume reference work containing over 70 original essays by leading scholars in the fields of history and political science.
Online Encyclopedias
Sage KnowledgeThis link opens in a new windowA collection of encyclopedias, books and videos from Sage publication.
The database allows users to search and browse titles by subject covering areas such as business, counseling, crime, education, health and social care, family studies, media, psychology, social issues and sociology.
Availability: Full-text
Date Coverage: 1965 to present
Cambridge CompanionsThis link opens in a new windowThe complete collection of companions published by Cambridge University Press.
The Cambridge Companions Platform offers four collections:
The Complete Companions
The Companions to Literature and Classics
The Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture
The Companions to Music
Availability: Full-text
Date Coverage: Complete collection till end of 2021
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Reference sources help you find factual and background information about subjects, issues, events, people, places, and other.
The author discusses notably the relationship between the settlers and the native Americans, the changing position and role of women, the beginnings of slavery, and the evolution of political and social structures.
v.1. Aachen to Butler. -- v.2. Cabeza to Demography. -- v.3. Denomination to Ginseng. -- v.4. Girl scouts to Kwanzaa. -- v,5. La follette to nationalism. -- v.6. Native to pyramid. -- v.7. Quakers to suburb. -- v.8. Subversion to Zuni. -- v.9. Archival maps and primary sources. -- v.10. Contributors, learning guide, and index.
The encyclopedia illuminates not only America's political, diplomatic, and military history, but also social, cultural, and intellectual trends; science, technology, and medicine; the arts; and religion.
The Reader's Guide to American History is designed to meet the scholars need by adopting a new and constructive approach to the appreciation of this rich historiography.
the book is designed to be read for pleasure as well as for information, this links facts, dates and events to reveal broad themes in, and ideas about, American history.
This work is a comprehensive history of conspiracies and conspiracy theories in the USA. It focuses on the motives and political and social origins of the people arguing the conspiracy. It covers assassinations and sneak attacks, political intrigues, and witch-hunts.
This single-volume reference provides information on the events, ideas, organizations, agreements and people who have shaped American foreign involvement since the nation's beginning.
General category coverage includes concepts and doctrines, policymaking, commerce and science, human rights and arms control, with specific articles on topics ranging from anti-imperialism to environmental diplomacy.
A comprehensive examines the political, economic, military, and cultural interactions of the federal government and the American people with nations and peoples abroad.
US relations with the Middle East consisted largely of sending evangelists and getting oil. In the remainder of that century to the present, however, the relationship has obviously become increasingly complex both politically and economically, and even those who have watched events closely may have trouble remembering exactly what the h
This comprehensive work dramatizes, through memoirs and diaries of the major players as well as key public documents, eight major crises: eight major crises: The Origins of the Cold War, the Berlin Blockade of 1948-49, the Korean War, the Berlin Crises of 1958 and 1961, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, the Iranian Hostage Crisis of 1979-80, and the 1991 Persian Gulf War with Iraq.