Social Sciences

This encyclopedia is the most comprehensive reference work of its kind for the fields of international studies and international relations. Includes over 400 signed articles on all aspects of international studies.  Published in print in 12 volumes in 2010.  Edited by Robert A. Denemark, this work is a product of the International Studies Compendium Project and is published in association with the International Studies Association.

Includes topic areas such as peace studies, diplomacy studies, foreign policy analysis, global development and environmental studies.

"Twentieth Century Advice Literature: North American Guides on Race, Gender, Sex, and the Family allows students and researchers to immerse themselves in the values and behaviors of Americans of the past. The collection provides a window into American social history by bringing together the instructional, prescriptive, behavioral, and etiquette literature that defined standards of personal conduct for millions of Americans and reflected the prevailing social mores across the twentieth century. When complete, the collection will contain 150,000 pages of fully searchable handbooks, manuals, textbooks, etiquette guides, self-help books, instructional pamphlets, and how-to books that illustrate both how Americans actually behaved and how they felt they ought to behave."

Includes texts from over 700 sources.

 

 

Film of social psychologist Stanley Milgram's 1961 experiment, "Obedience to Authority" at Yale University.  This film provides the important visual imagery essential for truly understanding the foundations of this field.

 

Higher Education Abstracts covers more than 200 journals in the fields of education, computer sciences, management, psychology, sociology, and law; papers read at meetings of major education and social sciences conferences; books published by all major higher education publishers; and research reports issued by professional organizations, government agencies, and foundations. Features more than 1,100 informative summaries, topically arranged, in the four issues of each volume. Each abstract includes the full citation to the original document, the author's affiliation, and the number of bibliographic references in the original document. Includes subject and author indexes. Coverage includes materials from the United States and Canada and from foreign publications printed in English.

1965 - Present

The Encyclopedia of Human Behavior, Second Edition is a comprehensive three-volume reference source on human action and reaction, and the thoughts, feelings, and physiological functions behind those actions. Presented alphabetically by title, 300 articles probe both enduring and exciting new topics in physiological psychology, perception, personality, abnormal and clinical psychology, cognition and learning, social psychology, developmental psychology, language, and applied contexts. 

Editor-in-Chief, V.S. Ramachandran.  Published 2012.

 

A comprehensive, international index to the literature of anthropology and archaeology. Anthropology Plus combines two major indexes: Anthropological Literature from Harvard's Peabody Museum and the Royal Anthropological Institute's Anthropological Index, from the UK. Includes journal articles, reports, commentaries and obituaries of at least two pages in length, from over 2,500 core journals journals and books in monographic series. Covers the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, and material culture.  Covers early 19th century to the present.

Database containing hundreds of legal self-help and reference books from publishers like NOLO.  Includes downloadable forms for all 50 states.

David Diamant is the pseudonym of David Erlich, a Jewish communist and committed member of the underground resistance during World War II. This is a digital archive of original documents collected by Diamant over a period of approximately 30 years dealing primarily with the Jewish segment of the French underground resistance; many of the documents originate with communist groups, and some deal with Polish groups. Most of the documents are in French, while some are in Yiddish.

Source Library: McMaster University

 

1939-1944

The British Politics and Society archive of Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) contains primary source documentation that enhances a greater understanding and analysis of the development of urban centers and of the major restructuring of society that took place during the Industrial Revolution. The archive is composed of a number of individual collections, drawn together from a variety of sources.

Collections in this Archive

• British Cabinet Papers, 1880-1916
• British Labour History Ephemera
• British Trade Union History Collection
• Civil Disturbance, Chartism and Riots in Nineteenth Century England
• Colonial Defence Commission under Lord Carnarvon
• Diaries of Sir Frederic Madden
• Discontent and Authority, 1820-1840
• Economic and Social Investigations in England since 1833: Transactions of the Manchester Statistical Society, Parts One and Two
• Home Office: Disturbances Entry Books
• Home Office: Domestic Correspondence from 1773 to 1861
• Home Office: Domestic Entry Books
• Home Office Papers and Records
• Home Office: Post Office Correspondence
• Hue and Cry and Police Gazette
• Ordnance Surveyors' Drawings, 1789-1840
• The Oxford Movement: Tractarian Pamphlets at Pusey House: The Halifax and Church Sub-Collections
• Papers of Great British Statesmen and Politicians, Series One: The Papers and Correspondence of Charles James Fox, 1749-1806
• Papers of the Prime Ministers of Great Britain, Series Two: Sir Robert Peel (Prime Minister, 1834-5, 1841-5 and 1845-6)
• People's History: Working Class Autobiographies
• Public Order, Discontent, and Protest in Nineteenth Century England, 1820–1850
• Radicalism, Anti-Radicalism and Reform in England, 1769-1861: Original Papers and Minute Books
• Radical Politics and the Working Man in England
• Radicals and Reformers in Britain: The Papers of John Cam Hobhouse, 1809-1869
• Rare Freethought Militant 19th Century Books
• Rare Radical and Labour Periodicals of Great Britain
• The Whitechapel Murders Papers: Letters Relating to the "Jack the Ripper" Killings
• Working Class Movement Card Catalogue

Nineteenth century