English & American Literature : Medieval-18th Century

This reference focuses on processes and people - how they chose sites for towns and built their homes, how they led their lives, how they modified and were modified by their physical surroundings. Race, gender, ethnicity, work, culture, technology, education, and family history are included.

Narrative essays describe citizen's lives in the United States during the time of the American Revolution. Chapter topics cover social and cultural aspects of society at this time.

Providing essays on the history, culture and current status of approximately 400 Native American groups, this work is divided into four geographic volumes. An overview essay introduces each of the ten regions covered, giving a geographic perspective on the tribes covered, as well as insights on cultural and tribal communalities. Individual tribal entries follow alphabetically. Also featured are biographical profiles of prominent tribal leaders.

This is a scholarly encyclopedia with extensive essays covering the people, events, and concepts of the Middle Ages. Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia for Students Undergraduate focus. Not as comprehensive as DMA.

Key source for scholarly background on social, historical, and cultural aspects of the Renaissance period. Substantive entries cover people, places, artistic and cultural expression, etc. and end with excellent bibliographies. Renaissance: An Encyclopedia for Students Undergraduate focus. Not as comprehensive as the Encyclopedia of the Renaissance.

Defining the Enlightenment as the "long eighteenth century" (@1670-1815) the Encyclopedia focuses on the entire range of philosophic and social changes engendered by the Enlightenment. Geographically, it covers Western Europe, English-speaking North America, as well as Iberian, Ibero-American, Jewish, Russian, and Eastern European cultures.

In 800+ analytical articles, explores developments in the literature, thought, music, and art that influenced the profound changes in thought and sensibility during the second half of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century.