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HISW 4545 Napoleon’s World (Harder) Fall 2024 4545-01

Librarian: Dr. Mary Lynn Bensen

Finding Primary Sources

  • Check library course reserves (see Finding Sources on Course Reserves).
  • Check near secondary sources on library shelves for primary sources.
  • Look for titles of primary sources in the texts of secondary source sand in bibliographies and/or notes in secondary sources. Use text, class, library bibliographies, and course reserves for recommended titles or listings of primary sources.
  • When searching print and online access tools, use search terms such as SOURCES, CORRESPONDENCE, LETTERS, PERSONAL NARRATIVES, DIARIES, RECORDS AND CORRESPONDENCE, SERMONS, SPEECHES, PAPERS, DOCUMENTS.

Selected Collections of Primary Sources in Print

French Revolution: A Document Collection                                                                          DC 141 M37 1999 (on reserve)

French Revolution:  A History in Documents                                                                        DC 141 F74  2021 (on reserve)

French Revolution and Napoleon:  A Sourcebook                                                               DC 148 F44 2002 (on reserve)

How They Lived:  An Annotated Tour of Daily Life                                                              Ref CB 69.2 C56 2016

   Through History Primary Sources

JSTOR                                                                                                                                          Under Databases on library website

  Limit results list by primary sources.

Life and Campaigns of Napoleon Bonaparte                                                                      DC 203 R42 (on reserve)

Milestone Documents in World History (4 Vols.)                                                               Ref D 5 M55 2009

Napoleon, Symbol for an Age:  A Brief History with                                                         DC 203 B62 2008 (on reserve)

  Documents

Selected Collections in Electronic Form

Latin American and Caribbean History                                   Under Databases on library website

Nineteenth-century Pamphlets (in JSTOR)                            

                                                                   https://www.jstor.org/site/19th-century-british-pamphlets/?so=item_title_str_asc

Recommended Websites for Secondary and Primary Sources

Each of the following contains the full text of selected books in online form.  Enter the following titles in a Google search to locate references to, and selected full text of, e-books and other sources.

Google Books (The electronic reproduction of print books can be uneven in quality.)

HathiTrust                                                                                                                               Under Databases on library website

Project Gutenberg                                                                                                                 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/