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Use these Reference databases to find and access articles in a variety of encyclopedias and subject dictionaries:
Selected sources for your class
- Ember, Melvin, and Carol R. Ember, eds. Countries and Their Cultures. 4 vols. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2001.
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- Uris Library Reference GN 307 .C68x 2001 ; also Hotel Library Reference GN 307 .C68x 2001
- This new four-volume set provides cultural and social background information on the national cultures of 224 countries from around the world.
- Embree, Ainslie, ed. Encyclopedia of Asian History. 4 vols. New York: Scribner's, 1988.
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- Uris Library Reference DS 31 .E56 also Kroch Library Asia Reference DS 31 .E56
- "This exhaustive 4-vol. reference provides a full record of Asia -- its history, geography, politics, cultures, and people. The 3,000 original articles cover places, eras, and events, and include over 1,200 biographies." (Scribner's web site)
- Horowitz, Maryanne Cline, ed. New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2005.
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- Olin Library Reference CB9 .N49 2005+
- Also available online as part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library.
- This six volume set is "designed to introduce a general audience to the
main ideas and movements of global cultural history from antiquity to the
twenty-first century." (Preface)
- Payne, Michael, ed. A Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1996.
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- Olin Library Reference HM 101 D55 1996
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A "reference guide to modern ideas in the broad interdisciplinary fields of cultural and critical theory, which have developed from interactions among historical traditions of thought." (Preface) Entries cover concepts, individuals, and movements that bridge the traditional boundaries between the humanities and social sciences (e.g., hermeneutics, structuralism, post-colonialism, multi-culturalism). Secondary references are provided for each. Indexed, with a general bibliography.
- Von Dassanowsky, Ron, contributing ed. Edited by Jeffrey Lehman. Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America. Detroit: Gale Group, 1999.
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- Uris Library Reference E 184.A1 G14x 1999
- "Essays on approximately 150 culture groups of the U.S., from Acadians to Yupiats, covering their history, acculturation and assimilation, family and community dynamics, language and religion." (Preface)
- The CQ Researcher. Washington, D.C. : Congressional Quarterly Inc., 1991- .
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- CQ Researcher provides background reports and articles on current events and topical issues.
- Portals to the World: Links to Electronic Resources from Around the World. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 2001- .
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- Portals to the World contain selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world. They are arranged by country or area with the links for each sorted into a wide range of broad categories.
- World Fact Book. Washington, DC: Central Intelligence Agency, 1995- .
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- World factbook is produced annually by the Central Intelligence Agency for the use of U.S. Government officials. Subject coverage includes: Geography, people, government, economy, transportation communication and defense.
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