Western European History since 1450: Background Info

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• General Online Sources
  • Blackwell Reference Online 
  • Encyclopedia Britannica Online
  • Reference Universe
• Specialized Online Sources
  • Biographical information
    • Biography and Genealogy Master Index
    • Biography Resource Center
    • World Biographical Information System
  • Historical dictionaries and encyclopedias (by historical period)
    • Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
    • Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance 
    • The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation
    • Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment
    • Europe 1789 to 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire
    • Europe Since 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction
  • Historical dictionaries and encyclopedias (by subject)
    • Cambridge Historical Dictionary of Disease
    • Dictionary of the History of Ideas
    • Encyclopedia of European Social History, 1350-2000
    • Encyclopedia of Philosophy
    • Encyclopedia of Population
    • Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism Since 1450
    • History of World Trade Since 1450
    • New Dictionary of the History of Ideas 
    • The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History