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Resources for Research Challenge II
Reference works:
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, a comprehensive reference work with biographical and historical information about almost anyone who played any role in British history. ONLINE
Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth, Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford; Oxford University Press, 1996. ONLINE
Hubert Cancik and Helmuth Schneider, eds. Brill's New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World. Leiden: Brill, 2002- . (Wells Library Reference Room DE5 .N4813 2002)
Useful for background information:
The Cambridge Ancient History. 3rd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970-. (Wells Library Reference Room D57 .C17 1970)
John Boardman, et al., eds. Oxford History of the Classical World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986. (Wells Library Research Collection Stacks, DE59 .O94 1986
Primary sources:
Early English Books Online, a digitized collection of books published in Britain (or in English anywhere in the world) up to 1700. ONLINE
Eighteenth Century Collections Online, a digitized, full-text searchable, collection of books published in Britain (or in English) from 1700 to 1800. ONLINE
The two works mentioned in the clues are:
Machiavelli, Niccolò. The works of Nicholas Machiavel, secretary of state of the republic of Florence. ... The second edition, corrected. In four volumes. London, 1775. 514pp. Vol. 3.
The oceana of James Harrington, Esq; and his other works: with an account of his life prefix’d, by John Toland. To which is added, Plato redivivus: or, a dialogue concerning government. Dublin: printed by R. Reilly, for J. Smith, and W. Bruce, 1737.
Bn-Opale, the online catalog of the Bibliothèque Nationale (National Library) of France. Also available: Gallica, a digitized collection of works in the BN. (In French) ONLINE
Resources for Research Challenge I
Locke's Correspondence:
E. S. de Beer, ed., The Correspondence of John Locke (Oxford, 1976–89). Wells Library, on reserve, B1296 .A4. AVAILABLE IN WELLS LIBRARY SEMINAR ROOM E157 DURING CLASS
Reference works:
Wiep van Bunge, ed. The Dictionary of Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Dutch Philosophers (Bristol, 2003). Wells Library, Research Collections Stacks, B3871 .D53 2003.
Cornelius J. Dyck, ed.,The Mennonite Encyclopedia; a Comprehensive Reference Work on the Anabaptist-Mennonite movement. (Hillsboro, Kan., 1955-1990). Wells Library Research Collections Stacks, BX8106 .M54. Part of this is online as Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. ONLINE
E. A. Livingstone and F. L. Cross, eds., The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd edn rev (Oxford, 2005). Wells Library Reference Room, BR95 .O8 2005.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, a comprehensive reference work with biographical and historical information about almost anyone who played any role in British history. ONLINE
Useful for background information:
Barry Coward, ed., A companion to Stuart Britain (Oxford, 2003). ONLINE
Alan Charles Kors, ed., Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment (Oxford, 2003) Wells Library Reference Room, B802 .E63 2003 .
Primary sources:
Early English Books Online, a digitized collection of books published in Britain (or in English anywhere in the world) up to 1700. ONLINE
Eighteenth Century Collections Online, a digitized, full-text searchable, collection of books published in Britain (or in English) from 1700 to 1800. ONLINE
Bn-Opale, the online catalog of the Bibliothèque Nationale (National Library) of France. Also available: Gallica, a digitized collection of works in the BN. (In French) ONLINE
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