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French and Francophone Studies

This is a guide to research in the language, literatures, and cultures of the French-speaking world.

Key Databases: History

America: History and Life
Database of articles, books and dissertations. Useful for secondary sources.
Early Canadiana Online (Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions)
Digital versions of texts of works from Canada's heritage. Includes Canadian

Women's History, Champlain Society Publications, Colonial Government

Journals, English Canadian Literature, and more.

France in America/La France en Amerique
History of the French presence in North America and interactions between the French and American peoples from the early 16th to the early 19th centuries.

Gerritsen Collection: Women's History Online, 1542-1945 (Chadwyck-Healey)
Contains primary source materials in women's history that span four centuries and fifteen languages.
Historical Abstracts
Iter: Gateway to the Renaissance
Bibliography of articles, essays, books, and reviews covering Medieval and Renaissance Europe.

Key Databases: Sociology

Scopus
Sociological Abstracts
Provides access to world's literature in sociology and related disciplines (anthropology, economics, education, medicine, political sciences, and more) Abstracts of journal articles, conference papers, conference papers, dissertations, books, etc.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (CSA)
Politics, international relations, government, public policy.

Online Reference Sources

Dictionary of Canadian Biography
History and culture of the people of Canada.

Print Reference Sources: History

Historical Dictionary of the Napoleonic Era
Call Number: Ref. DC 147 .N34 2002
Dictionnaire Historique De La France Sous L'Occupation
Call Number: Ref. DC 397.D55 2000
Historical Dictionary Of France From The 1815 Restoration To The Second Empire
Call Number: Ref. DC 256.H57 1987
The Encyclopedia Of The French Revolutionary And Napoleonic Wars : A Political, Social, And Military
Call Number: Ref. DC 220.E53 2006
Historical Dictionary Of The Third French Republic, 1870-1940
Call Number: Ref. DC 337.H57 1986

Print Reference Sources: Women's Studies

Political and Historical Encyclopedia of Women
Call Number: Ref. HQ1236.5.E85 E5213 2003
Translation of Encyclopedia politique et historique des femmes.

Francophone World

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Subjects: French & Francophone Studies

Tags: france, francophone, french