Research Guides: History: Europe: Overview

Background & Reference

What Is Europe?
Study of contemporary Europe and its historical development.
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World
From 1750 to the present, providing special attention to social, economic, cultural and political topics applicable to the time
The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Europe
Overview of religious ideas, structures, and institutions in the making of Europe.

Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
World history from 1450-
Library Catalog - Advanced This link opens in a new window
A subset of Library Search that finds only materials owned by SMU Libraries, such as books, journals, movies, etc.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Fulltext of the entire back issues of scholarly journals

Early European Books 1-15 This link opens in a new window
History of printing in Europe from circa 1450s-1700, full-text
Empire Online This link opens in a new window
Primary sources for the study of colonialism, from the 1400s-1900s
Electronic Enlightenment This link opens in a new window
Correspondence on major topics from the 1600s-1800s
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Grand Tour This link opens in a new window
Documents continental travel, from 1550-1850
World Protest and Reform Movements: Global Perspectives, 1945-1996 This link opens in a new window