Bücher der Reihe Bibliographies and Indexes in World History

This bibliography brings together works by and about Boorstin, showing the volume, range, and importance of his contribution to the study of American history. With more than 1,300 entries, the bibliography records a history of Daniel Boorstin in print and non-print from 1930 to 1999.

Promoted as virtually unsinkable, the ultimate luxury liner, the largest ship in the world, the RMS Titanic sank on its maiden voyage in April 1912, taking some 1,500 people to their death.

Provides a comprehensive bibliography of English language literature on the Russian Revolution written between 1905 and mid-1994. The text contains 24 thematic sections covering all subjects from politics and society, to education and the arts.

The collapse of the Soviet Union and its replacement by the Commonwealth of Independent States has renewed interest in Russian and Soviet history. A selection of reference books, a glossary, and author/title and subject indexes round out this guide to the literature on the tumultuous seventy-four history of the Soviet Union.

It covers scholarly, professional, and other writings, including books, monographs, the reports of government commissions, scholarly and professional articles, and magistral and doctoral dissertations. The material is arranged geographically, and the work includes an extensive subject index and a full author index.

This annotated bibliography of crime in Victorian Britain covers the journal literature of the nineteenth century, a period marking the apex of the great quarterlies and the advent of the serious magazines on the subject. The 1614 entries cover 45 journals using the authoritative registers of titles of the times.

The British consumer Co-operative movement pioneered the use of film for industrial and propaganda purposes.

Spanning 16 years of destruction and rebirth, this chronology deals with the tumultuous years between the Nazi seizure of power on 30th January 1933 and the proclamation of the State of Israel on 14th May 1948. Coverage includes Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe and the major theatres of war.

With over 800 entries, the annotated bibliography provides information on the most important works about the Kurds and Kurdistan published from World War II through 1996. Emphasizing recent titles, the book focuses on English-language scholarly works.

Arranged in broad chronological categories, the bibliography lists monographs, periodical articles, and other miscellaneous sources, including pamphlets and maps. The first chapter includes sources covering more than one time period or the entire history of the spice trade.

A useful title for individuals interested in Pacific history and historiography, this bibliography provides a critical summary and analysis of the scholarship on Micronesian history.

Joseph Chamberlain's political career was immense, embracing the campaign for state education, municipal reform, opposition to Irish home rule, social reform, foreign and colonial affairs, and imperial preference.

This is the first comprehensive, worldwide bibliography of racism. The work concludes with an author index and a subject index. Due to the many ways racism manifests itself, this bibliography will be of great value to scholars and students from a variety of disciplines from economics and education to sociology and history.

The first of three volumes, this comprehensive bibliography of more than 2,200 entries includes all English-language biographies of Gandhi, writings by Gandhi, and bibliographic sources. A unique aspect of the work is a section on books read by Gandhi, a useful list for those seeking insight on Gandhi.

"A companion volume to the author's earlier Holy Roman Empire: A Dictionary Handbook, this bibliography provides an excellent overview of more than 3,000 works dealing with that all-too-secular symbol of the Universal Christian Empire. Limited to printed sources available in the US, entries are organized into 11 broad subject categories.... Each broad category is further divided into numerous detailed topical headings. A few primary sources have been included, but for the most part entries are limited to published works in German, French, Italian, Latin, and English, with heavy emphasis on the last. Some periodical articles and dissertations are included, and thorough subject and author indexes are provided. A brief annotation accompanies each numbered entry.... Zophy does update many of [the] standard resources, providing a broader overview of the Holy Roman Empire not limited to German historical sources...."-Choice

Despite heavy censorship and sometimes outright control by either Vichy or the Germans, the authorized press is a useful and necessary source for anyone studying the period of German occupation and the Vichy government in France.

A unique bibliographic and historiographic guide to the study of contemporary Italy, this book points to over 650 texts that have shaped the academic and scholarly study of postwar Italy.

Over the past decades wartime Poland has received considerable attention from Anglo-American historians, with hundreds of works being published on Poland's role in World War II.

Proverbs figure prominently in his work, and this book provides a detailed index to the many proverbs Churchill used in his voluminous writings. The book begins with an introductory essay that discusses and analyzes the importance of proverbs in Churchill's works.

This volume offers to scholars of 18th-century social, economic, and cultural history an annotated listing of more than a thousand titles written at the time on agricultural theory, experimentation, and practice.

This volume fills a conspicuous gap in the literature by providing the first resource guide devoted solely to Irish research collections located on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

This bibliography, the most comprehensive yet published, contains over 4,100 citations and offers a wealth of useful information to aid the researcher in locating sources for the study of the foreign policy of the French Second Empire.

This extensive bibliography of North American and West European social sciences research on Romania is also the only annotated bibliography to date on life under the iron rule of Ceausescu.

This book is a milestone achievement in the documentation of the newspapers of the British Caribbean islands, a field that, until now, has been neglected by many scholars.

This is the most comprehensive bibliography available today on strengthening the United Nations and its system of international organizations. This expansive reference work has been carefully compiled to accomodate a variety of research methods, and offers a general introduction, followed by brief introductions to each section.

This bibliography lists published primary sources written by firsthand participants in European international affairs between the outbreak of World War I and the close of World War II.

Making a unique collection accessible to scholars, The Hitler Library is a complete bibliography of Hitler's books currently in the Rare Book Reading Room of the Library of Congress.

It excludes such items as theses and dissertations, government documents, manuscripts, and papers, and hard-to-locate ephemeral items such as pamphlets and public program notes, although a number of the titles covered are anthologies of these ephemeral materials.

A period of tumultuous political and religious strife, the English Civil War has inspired writers for the past four centuries.

This annotated guide to English language materials dealing with all aspects of the history of the borderlands since the 1700s gives special attention to conflicts between Germans and Poles and issues that are again critical in Central Europe.