Collins Memorial Library: History 370: Nationalism and the Fall of Empire in Central Europe: Getting Started

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Reference Resources (Specific Titles)

Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe by Richard Frucht (Editor)
Call Number: DJK6 .E53 2000 Reference

Publication Date: 2000

Covers Eastern Europe to the end of the Cold War.
Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century by Wojciech Roszkowski; Jan Kofman (Editors)
Call Number: Click title for online access

Publication Date: 2008

Drawing on newly accessible archives as well as memoirs and other sources, this biographical dictionary documents the lives of some two thousand of the region's most important twentieth century historical and cultural figures. Filled with information that is not available in any other resource, the dictionary covers Albania, Belarus, Bulgaria, the Czech and Slovak Republics, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Moldova, Ukraine, and the countries that made up Yugoslavia.
Austria-Hungary and the Successor States by Eric Roman (Editor)
Call Number: Click title for online access.

ISBN: 9780816045372

Publication Date: 2003

This work provides readers with a greater understanding of the history of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the modern nations - Austria, Hungary, and the Czech Republic - that emerged as a result of the empire's demise. It includes an historical dictionary of A-Z entries.
Encyclopedia of the Stateless Nations by James Minahan (editor)
Call Number: D860 .M56 2002, v. 1-4, Print Reference

Publication Date: 2002

Provides entries on several ethnic minorities in Central and Eastern Europe.

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Books relevant to the content of this course can be found on the second floor. Call numbers that start with the letter D relate to European history. Call numbers that start with the letters DB more specifically relate to the histories of Austria and Hungary, but you'll likely find relevant books elsewhere in the Ds as well.

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