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Subject PortalsStudy of Culture & SocietyMaintained by:Karl Schaefer Contribute:Don't see what you are looking for? Suggest a new resource or subject area.
(move back to Subject Portal Home) Including individual books and groups of books held by Cowles Library Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican CulturesAvailable on-line through Oxford Reference Online this comprehensive reference work chronicles "Pre-Hispanic, colonial, and modern Mesoamerica, defined as the lands stretching from Mexico to the southern tip of Central America. Encompassing the great civilizations of the pre-Columbian era (including the Olmec, Aztec, and Maya peoples) up through the colonial and postcolonial periods, the Encyclopedia covers art, archaeology, religious studies, anthropology, history, and historiography." Including research databases that are subscribed to by Cowles Library and not available to the general public 1- Social Science DatabasesAll social science databases available at Cowles. Go there... Gale Virtual Reference LibraryClick on "Nation and World" to view Countries and their Cultures. Click on "Social Science" to view reference works such as Encyclopedia of Population and the International Encyclopedia of Marriage and Family. There is a lot to explore in this database. Go there... Including sites that are generally free and contain content deemed to be pertinent to the subject SocioSite"...Albert Benschop, Univ. of Amsterdam, and numerous sociologists from around
the world have built and maintained [this] expansive, reliable, and reputable
social science meta-site that aims to serve as a collegial online meeting place for
the exchange of freely
available, sociology-oriented scholarly information... Various sections of
this site cover the gamut of online communication in sociology, including
links to newsletters, newsgroups, and the tables of contents of major journals in
sociology and related areas." (Choice Reviews online, Oct. 2004) Women working, 1870-1930"Relying on the massive collections
held by the Harvard Univ. libraries, the site offers a plethora of documents related to women's employment in the US during a period in which that experience was fundamentally altered by the impact of
industrialization. Both professional women and those who worked in factories are highlighted in thousands of digitized documents. Available material ranges from government reports to relevant personal papers, advertisement circulars, and periodical articles,
as well as thousands of images... The massive amount of primary material is organized thematically; categories include "People," "Organizations," and a host of "Topics"
such as types of employment, living conditions, age, and race." (Choice Jan '05) |
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