Books - History - European - Guides at Middlebury College

Find Books - Midcat & Other Library Catalogs

MIDCAT (within LibrarySearch). Includes books, documents, dvds, and more but does NOT include articles.

Worldcat - Find and borrow items from libraries world-wide. Click on the Request Item from Interlibrary Loan icon from the record to request an item.

LibrarySearch
Middlebury Library's search engine. It searches nearly everything we own or have access to, including books, articles, films, reference materials, primary sources and more. (go/LibrarySearch/)

Digital Collections Books

HathiTrust Digital Library
Search the digital collections (including scanned books) from major research university libraries. More scholarly focus than Google Books. Full-text available only for items no longer in copyright.
Internet Archive (Archive.org)
Includes digital texts, media, and other materials. Search by title or author, and choose a genre from the menu tab on the right. Also search for archived copies of websites by date.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Over 100,000 books, pamphlets, essays, and broadsides published in the UK and elsewhere during the 18th century. Includes a chronology, key document gallery, and essays.
Early English Books Online - EEBO
EEBO is a digital library containing about 100,000 of over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement. Major subjects include: English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, theology, music, fine arts, education, mathematics, and science. There is some coverage of other parts of the world (British accounts or other works published or translatedin English).
EEBO is a digital library containing about 100,000 of over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement. Major subjects include: English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, theology, music, fine arts, education, mathematics, and science. There is some coverage of other parts of the world (British accounts or other works published or translatedin English).

Spanish-language books:

e-libro: Spanish full-text ebooks and more
Over 50,000 original texts of Spanish language books, research papers, and doctoral thesis, all available in full-text. View a full list of titles here.

Digitalia Hispánica
Scholarly ebooks in Spanish, primarily from Spain. View online, print, or download.

Book Reviews

Book Reviews Subject Guide
For additional sources of book reviews, see the separate Book Reviews Guide.

Using Bibliographies

Research Tip:

Use the bibliographies of the sources you find to identify additional primary and secondary resources to locate and use.

What's the difference between keyword and subject search?

Keyword searches the entire database record (titles, descriptions, subjects). You can use any terms you think might show up in a record.

Subject only searches the subject heading field of the record. It only uses Library of Congress subject headings ("controlled vocabulary").

Tip: start with a keyword search. When you find something relevant, follow the subject links to find related items or incorporate the subject terms into your keyword search.

Call Numbers

Research Tip: Our library call numbers are based on subject.

You can click on the call number of an item in MIDCAT to browse a subject and see what else is on the shelf nearby or available as an E-book.
You can also check the Library of Congress classification outline to pinpoint specific subject areas of the library collection to browse.

Library of Congress Classification Outline
Click within a main subject to drill down to more specific subjects.