Renaissance to Present (HU1012)

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Find Background Information

Use books in the Reference area and online for an overview of your topic.  This list is selective!

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Reference area (first floor)

• Arts & Ideas — 700.9 M334A

• Daily Life through World History in Primary Documents — 909 D133 v. 2-3

• Encyclopedia of Philosophy — 103 ENC

• Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment — 940.2503 WIL

• Encyclopedia of the Renaissance — 940.21 BER

• Encyclopedia of World History —   909 E565 v. 3-4

• Facts on File Encyclopedia of Art: Romanesque Art - Romanticism — 703 F142 v. 4

• Great Lives from History: Renaissance to 1900 — 920.009034 GRE
  • Biographies

• Handbook to Life in Renaissance Europe — 940.21 S568H

• The Oxford Companion to World Exploration — 910.922 O985 v. 1-2

Reference Database

• Britannica Online

 

Find Books & Films at the Landmark College Library

This is a sample of relevant books & DVDs at the Landmark College Library.

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Books

• The Chronicle of Classical Music: An Intimate Diary of the Lives and Music of the Great Composers — 780.9 K33C
• Locke: A Very Short Introduction — 121.092 D923L
• Maps: Finding Our Place in the World — 912 M297
• Mirror of the World: A New History of Art — 709 B433M
• The Italian Renaissance — 945.05 P734I
• Renaissance Art: A Very Short Introduction — 709.024 J67R
• Rousseau: A Very Short Introduction — 848.509 W847R
• The Story of Architecture — 720.9 G545S 2003
• The Story of Philosophy — 109.2 M191S 2001
• A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World — 970.01 H824V

DVDs

• Great Adventurers — 910.9 G786 disc 1-3
  DVDs on Christopher Columbus, Sir Francis Drake, and Sir Walter Raleigh
• An Introduction to the Italian Renaissance — 709.45 I61
• John Locke — 320.512 J655
• The Medici, Godfathers of the Renaissance — 945.5105 M4892
  

 

 

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• Biography Reference Bank
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Citations

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