Select Bibliography Of History

The Select Bibliography of History--Which may now be purchased in the history library on the top floor of Widener--can provide an escape from many of the academic agonies of the junior and senior years. Honors concentrators in history who face the task of thrashing through three or four floors of the Widener stacks looking for a thesis topic now have a concise and authoritative bibliography for introductory knowledge of the fundamental problems and the major scholarship in forty-two fields of history. It will enable students to survey intelligently an area of potential interest as economically as possible.

This compilation has separate sections on intellectual, social and economic, and political history as well as regional studies; each section is then subdivided by topics and approach. The bibliography was carefully prepared by a group of graduate students in history, except for Sterling Dow's contribution on the Ancients.

The bibliography begins with ancient Greece and covers Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and America, through the modern period. The sections vary from 120 to 200 titles, giving the major works in French and German where equivalent coverage is unavailable in English. For upperclassmen in history this book is a must; history sophomores choosing a field of specialization with inadequate means of discerning between the alternatives it is also a valuable buy; but all students in the social sciences or humanities who need a concise reading list for background in any historical period will also find that this bibliography has much to recommend it.