European Enlightenment

Finding Resources in BearCAT

To find sources on the European Enlightenment, search
with these Library of Congress Subject Headings:

 

 

 

 

Enlightenment — General Works

Babuscio, Jack, and Richard Minta Dunn. European Political Facts, 1648-1789. New York: Facts on File, 1984. Reference Collection 320.94 B11

Cragg, Gerald R. The Church and the Age of Reason, 1648-1789. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1970. 270.7 C84

Dewald, Jonathan, ed. Europe 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2004. Reference Collection 940.2 Eu7 v.1-6

Gay, Peter. Age of Enlightenment. New York: Time, Inc. 1966. 901.9 G25

Himmelfarb, Gertrude. The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments. New York: Knopf, 2004. 190 H57

Knott, Sarah, and Barbara Taylor, ed. Women, Gender, and Enlightenment. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 305.409 K75

Ritter, Harry. Dictionary of Concepts in History. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1986. Reference Collection 907.2 R51

Wiener, Philip P., ed. Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas. New York: Scribner, 1974. Reference Collection 901.9 D56 v.1-5.

Enlightenment — France

Chartier, Roger. The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution. Translated by Lydia G. Cochrane. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1991. 944.04 C38

Gordon, Daniel. Postmodernism and the Enlightenment: New Perspectives in Eighteenth-Century French Intellectual History. New York: Routledge, 2001 944.034 G65

Roche, Daniel. France in the Enlightenment. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. 944.034 R58

Time-Life Books , ed. What Life was like During the Age of Reason: France, AD 1660-1800. Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books, 1999. 944.034 W55

Enlightenment — Great Britain

Buchan, James. Crowded with Genius: The Scottish Enlightenment: Edinburgh's Moment of the Mind. New York: HarperCollins, 2003. 941.1 B85

Porter, Roy. Flesh in the Age of Reason. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2004. 820.9356 P83

Loades, David. Reader's Guide to British History. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003. Reference Collection 942 R22 v.1-2

Peterfreund, Stuart. William Blake in a Newtonian World: Essays on Literature as Art and Science. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. eBookNetLibrary

Database/Online Resources

EBSCOhost Advanced Placement Source — This database is a collection of full-text articles from over 6,100 journals. The articles are a mix of scholarly journal, magazine, and newspaper articles. Advanced Placement Source contains over 400 journals that focus on the humanities. EBSCOhost has the ability to search by Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH).

Historical Abstracts — This resource contains over 500,000 bibliographic entries from 2,000 journals. The historical coverage of Historical Abstracts is world history from 1490 to the present (excluding United States and Canadian History, which is found in America: History and Life). There are some full-text links to articles through the History Cooperative, JSTOR, and Project Muse.

JSTOR — JSTOR is short for Journal Storage. JSTOR is a collection of over 900 full-text scholarly journals. JSTOR contains complete backfiles for each journal with a moving window that averages around 5 years. This means JSTOR, for a particular journal, will have the journals first issue up until about five years from now. Subject areas vary in JSTOR, but its main focus is on the humanities, with over 50 journals that focus on history.

Project Muse — Project Muse is published by John Hopkins University. Muse is a collection of over 300 full-text scholarly journals. The coverage in Muse is current. Most of the journals’ coverage is five to ten years. As with JSTOR, Project Muse focuses on the humanities, with close to 50 journals that focus on history. Muse has the ability to search by Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH).

Oxford Reference Online Premium — This database lets the student search over 100 Oxford University Press reference books at the same time. European History titles include: A Dictionary of British History, The Oxford Companion to British History, The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science, and A Dictionary of Political Biography .

Websites

Eighteenth Century Resources — Rutgers University. This site provides an index of reliable internet resources of secondary and primary source material. The links are found in seven subject areas: Art, Architecture, Landscape, Gardening; History; Literature; Music; Philosophy; Religion and Theology; and Science and Mathematics.
URL: http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th/

The European Enlightenment Module — Washington State University. This module gives an extensive overview of the European Enlightenment from Pre-Enlightenment Europe to the Industrial Revolution. Other favorable aspects of this resource are a full-text collection of Enlightenment texts and a bibliography of internet resources.
URL: http://www.wsu.edu:8000/~dee/ENLIGHT/ENLCONT.HTM

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — The University of Tennessee at Martin. This is an index of philosophers. Each entry offers a comprehensive look at the philosophers’ life and work. At the end of each entry is a good list of selected readings.
URL: http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/

The Internet Modern History Source Book: Enlightenment — Fordham University. This resource contains a large collection of primary sources from the Age of Enlightenment. There is also an additional section on “Religion in the Age of Reason.”
URL: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook10.html

Photographs of Cromwell, Isaac Newton, and Charles II are from Thomas Macaulay, The History of England, (London: Macmillan, 1913). The digitized images are from World Civilizations: The European Enlightenment from Washington State University (http://www.wsu.edu:8000/~dee/ENLIGHT/ENLCONT.HTM).