Concordia Library: The Enlightenment: Subscription Databases

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Research Tips-Enlightenment

- Remember to use quotations around sets of words like "Scientific Revolution" instead of Scientific Revolution
- Used the following words in bold to get better results:
    AND: Search for related words/phrases together - helps to narrow the results
    OR: either or option - helps to broaden the results
    NOT: exclude any undesired option

Try these terms:

- Voltaire

- Enlightenment

- 18th century europe

- Rousseau

- Diderot

- Catherine the Great

- Joseph II

- Maria Theresa

- Louis XVI

- Enlightened despotism

- Frederick the Great

ABC-CLIO

Catherine II
"Catherine II." World History: The Modern Era. ABC-CLIO, 2011. Web. 14 Sept. 2011.
Denis Diderot and Jean Le Rond d'Alembert: Encyclopedia
"Denis Diderot and Jean Le Rond d'Alembert: Encyclopedia." World History: The Modern Era. ABC-CLIO, 2011. Web. 14 Sept. 2011.
Enlightenment
"Enlightenment." World History: The Modern Era. ABC-CLIO, 2011. Web. 14 Sept. 2011.
Frederick II: Frederick the Great
"Frederick II: Frederick the Great." World History: The Modern Era. ABC-CLIO, 2011. Web. 14 Sept. 2011.
Maria Theresa
"Maria Theresa." World History: The Modern Era. ABC-CLIO, 2011. Web. 14 Sept. 2011.
Rulers of the Age of Enlightenment (Overview)
"Rulers of the Age of Enlightenment (Overview)." World History: The Modern Era. ABC-CLIO, 2011. Web. 14 Sept. 2011.
The Age of Reason, 1700-1800
"The Age of Reason, 1700-1800." World History: The Modern Era. ABC-CLIO, 2011. Web. 14 Sept. 2011.

EBSCOhost

An Essay on the Theory of Enlightened Despotism
Payne, Harry C., American Historical Review; Dec76, Vol. 81 Issue 5, p1072.
Religion and the Enlightenment: A Review Essay
German History Vol. 25 No. 3
The Beginning that Never Was: Mediation and Freedom in Rousseau's Political Thought.
Einspahr, Jennifer, Review of Politics; Summer2010, Vol. 72 Issue 3, p437-461.
The Crystallization of Counter-Enlightenment and Philosophe Identities: Theological Controversy and Catholic Enlightenment in Pre-Revolutionary France.
Burson, Jeffrey D, Church History; Dec2008, Vol. 77 Issue 4, p955-1002.

Databases to learn about the Enlightenment

ABC-CLIO (All History Databases) This link opens in a new window
This allows you to search all ABC-CLIO databases.
EBSCO This link opens in a new window
Multiple full-text databases are available on a wide variety of subjects.
History Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Features full text for thousands of primary source documents and informational texts. Contains more than 40,000 images, including maps and historical photos and over 56,000 historical documents.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
An interdisciplinary digital archive of over 1,000 leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and the sciences. Good for AP classes.
ProQuest Research Library This link opens in a new window
ProQuest databases provide a single source for scholarly journals, newspapers, reports, working papers, and datasets along with millions of pages of digitized historical primary sources and more than 450,000 ebooks.

JSTOR

JSTOR contains full-text collections of scholarly journals and articles. Here are few suggested articles to start your search. Once you click on an article, you will be prompted to login for further research.

At the Intersection: Kant, Derrida, and the Relation between Ethics and Politics
Marguerite La Caze, Political Theory, Vol. 35, No. 6, Dec., 2007.
Of Hobbes and Hospitality in Diderot's Supplement to the "Voyage of Bougainville"
Jimmy Casas Klausen, Polity, Vol. 37, No. 2, Apr. 2005.
Redeeming Love: Rousseau and Eighteenth-Century Moral Philosophy
Mark S. Cladis, The Journal of Religious Ethics, Vol. 28, No. 2, Summer, 2000.
Rulers, Russia and the Eighteenth-Century Epic
Ed Weeda, The Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 83, No. 2, Apr., 2005.
Enlightenment Salons: The Convergence of Female and Philosophic Ambitions
The Johns Hopkins University Press, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 22, No. 3, Spring, 1989.