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Subject Guide - Western Civilization

• Selected Reference Books
• Selected Circulating Books
• Full-Text Books Online
• Print Magazines in Kiefer Library
• Magazine, Journal, & Newspaper Article Databases or Online Periodicals
• Other Library Materials
• Searching the Library Catalog
• Selected Web Resources
• Selected Timelines
• Selected Online Images and Other Media
• Other Library Catalogs

Compiled by Carol Satersmoen, Social Sciences Librarian Liaison. Updated 2006.

Selected Reference Books

REF CB361 .E52                       Encyclopedia of the Renaissance

REF DE5 .O94                          The Oxford companion to classical civilization

REF DF77 .A586 2001              Ancient Greece

REF DT83 .O95 2000               The Oxford history of ancient Egypt

REF G1030 .A875 2000            Atlas of world history

REF HQ1122 .T73 1994           The women's chronology: a year-by-year record from prehistory to the present

Selected Circulating Books

AG246 .M39 1999                      Norris McWhirter's book of millennium records: the story of human achievement in the last 2000 years

B21.F7 1910                              French and English philosophers: Descartes, Rousseau, Voltaire, Hobbes / with introductions and notes

CB411 .J327 2001                     The Enlightenment: a brief history with documents

DF78 .T53 2000                         Greek ways: how the Greeks created western civilization

DG203.K43 1997                       Roman people

N6250 .B962 2004                     Byzantium: faith and power (1261-1557)

PA3890.A9 R487 1934               Aristotle's Poetics; Demetrius, On style; and selections from Aristotle's Rhetoric together with Hobbes' Digest and Horace's Ars poetica

Full-Text Books Online

NetLibrary
This database includes access to such titles as Ancient Rome: An Introductory History, Alexander the Great, A Dictionary of Nineteenth-centry World History, Civility and empire: literature and cultures in British India, 1822-1922, Blundering to Glory: Napoleon's Military Campaigns, The Worlds of Medieval Europe, Beacon Lights of History Vol. 3, Part 1: The Middle Ages, Beacon Lights of History, Vol. 3, Part 2: Renaissance and Reform.

The Harvard Classics and The Shelf of Fiction

The Online Books Page

Print Magazines in Kiefer Library

The Library’s subscriptions to magazines that are of interest to our Western Civilization students are primarily in electronic format. Full-text articles are available in electronic formats through online databases. (see below)

Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Article Databases or Online Periodicals

Academic Search Premier | Off-Campus Access
Proquest Research Library | Off-Campus Access
Ancient and Medieval History | Off-Campus Access
Encyclopedia of Philosophy | Off-Campus Access
Encyclopedia of Religion | Off-Campus Access

Other Library Materials

MDSV VIDEOCASSETTE
 #1-F04 through #1-F08              Civilization series

MDSV VIDEOCASSETTE
#7-E17 through #7-E20               The Shaping of the western world

MDSV VIDEOCASSETTE #7-A05     The Spirit of Rome

MDSV VIDEOCASSETTE
#5-E14 through #5-E17               Time line: (mock news)

REF QA141.2 .S86 2005 DVD         The story of 1

Searching the Library Catalog

The above titles are just a few of the resources available for you. The Kiefer Library Catalog, http://tlc.aims.edu/ provides access to resources available at Aims Community College. Use the following subjects (Library of Congress) and keywords to search in the library catalog:

Civilization, Classical; Rome--Civilization; Greece--Civilization; Civilization, Western; Civilization, Medieval; Europe--History; Europe--Civilization; Middle Ages; Renaissance

Selected Web Resources

Academic Info
Center for History and New Media
The City of Troy
Education Place
EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe
HistoryWorld
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
Perseus Digital Library
WWW-VL History Central Catalogue

Selected Timelines

Spielvogel Interactive Timeline Index
World History Timeline
HyperHistory Online

Selected Online Images and Other Media

David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Ancient Art & Architecture
Art History Resources on the Web
Images of the Trojan War Myth

Other Library Catalogs

Colorado State University
Loveland Public Library
Prospector: Colorado Unified Catalog
University of Northern College Library Catalog
Weld Library District
Windsor-Severance Library Distric