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Subject Guide - Western Civilization
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
Videos/DVD
MDSV VIDEOCASSETTE
#5-F01 through #5-F16 The
Western tradition, Parts 1-31
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
High Plains Library District
Windsor-Severance
Library District
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