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MILITARY HISTORY : A GUIDE TO SELECTED RESOURCES OF THE MSU LIBRARIES ***Under Construction*** |
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Abstracts And Indexes
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Dictionaries And Encyclopedias Dissertations
U.S. Military History | Wars and Other Conflicts
Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals. 1949- .MAIN Z 5063 .A2 U8. Also at: http://www.au.af.mil/au/aul/muir1/aulimp1.htm and on CD-ROM at REF "Pontiac" Workstation Coverage is from 1990- .
America: History and Life, 1955- .
Historical Abstracts, 1955-
Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS) Bulletin, 1915- . MAIN Z 7163 .P9 Also available on FirstSearch. Coverage is from 1972- .
Social Sciences Index. 1974- . CONREF AI 3 .S6
Aimone, Alan Conrad. Bibliography of Military History: A Expanded and Selected Annotated Listing of Sources with Military History Bibliographies. 4th ed. West Point, N.Y.: United States Military Academy, 1982. CONREF D 25 .M553 1987 Includes periodical articles, books, government studies, etc. Emphasizes U.S. military history, though other areas and historical periods are covered. Author/title index
Beede, Benjamin R. Intervention and Counterinsurgency: An Annotated Bibliography of the Small Wars of the United States, 1898-1984. (Wars of the United States ; vol. 5) N.Y.: Garland Pub., 1985. MAIN E 745 .B43 1985
Jessup, John E., Jr. and Robert W. Coakley. A Guide to the Study and Use of Military History. Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, U.S. Army, 1979. DOC D114.2: St9 Designed to explain the uses of military history and the resources available for its study. Includes annotated listings of reference works and historical periodicals. Author/title/subject index.
U.S. Air Force Academy. Library. Special Bibliography Series. Colorado Springs, Colo.: USAFA, 1957- . DOCS D305.12: Highly selective bibliographies used in conjunction with AFA courses and symposiums.
U.S. Army Military History Institute. Special Bibliography Series, no. 1-. Carlisle Barracks, Pa.: U.S. Army Military Research Collection, 1970- .DOCS D114.14: Subjects vary; check the Documents shelflist for topics covered.
U.S. Superintendent of Documents. Military History. (Subject Bibliography ; 98) Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. GD I/R GP3.22/2: 98 A subject bibliography of materials currently offered by the Government Printing Office. Classification numbers included. Updated irregularly.
Unsworth, Michael E. Military Periodicals: United States and Selected International Journals and Newspapers. N.Y.: Greenwood Press, 1990. REF U 104 .U5 1990 Descriptive narratives of approximately 120 important military periodicals as well as a history of service journalism in the U.S.
DICTIONARIES
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Abbreviations
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Abbreviations and Terms
Acronyms, Initialisms & Abbreviations Dictionary. Detroit: Gale Research, 1984. CLREF PE 1683 .G32
Dictionary of Military Terms: A Guide to the Language of Warfare and Military Institutions. N.Y.: H.W. Wilson, 1986. REF U 24 .D87 1986
Jane's Dictionary of Military Terms. London: Macdonald & Jane's, 1975. REF U 24 .H38 1975
Noel, John Vavasour. Naval Terms Dictionary. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1978 REFV23.N6 1973
Quick, John. Dictionary of Weapons and Military Terms. N.Y.: McGraw-Hill, 1973. REF U 24 .Q5
Wedertz, Bill. Dictionary of Naval Abbreviations. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1984.CONREF V 23 .W43 1984.
Bruce, George. Harbottle's Dictionary of Battles. 3rd. ed. N.Y.: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1981. CONREF D 25 .A2 H2 1981
Clodfelter, Micheal. Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Reference to Casualty and Other Figures, 1618-1991. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1992. REF D 214 .C55 1992
Kohn, George C. Dictionary of Wars. N.Y.: Facts on File, 1999. REF D 25 .A2 K63 1999
Laffin, John. Brassey's Battles: 3,500 Years of Conflict, Campaigns and Wars from A-Z. London : Brassey's, 1986 CONREF D 25 .A2 L23 1986
MacDonald, John. Great Battlefields of the World. N.Y.: Macmillan, 1984. CONREF D 25.5 .M28 1985
Perrett, Bryan. The Battle Book: Crucial Conflicts in History from 1469 BC to the Present. London: Arms and Armour, 1992. REF D 25 .A2 P47 1992
Young, Peter. A Dictionary of Battles, 1816-1976. London: New English Library, 1977. CONREF D 25 .A2 Y68 1977
The Complete Encyclopedia of Arms & Weapons. N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, 1982, 1986 SPECIAL U 800 .C651 1986
Diagram Group. Weapons, An International Encyclopedia from 5000 B.C. to 2000 A.D. N.Y.: St. Martin's, 1980. REF U 800 .A2 W4
Dupuy, R. Ernest and Trevor N. Dupuy. The Encyclopedia of Military History from 3500 B.C. to the Present. 2d. rev. ed. N.Y.: Harper and Row, 1986. REF D 25 .A2 D8 1986
Encyclopedia of the American military: studies of the history, traditions, policies, institutions, and roles of the armed forces in war and peace. New York : Scribner's,c1994. REF UA23 .E56 1994
International military and defense encyclopedia. Washington : Brassey's (US), c1993. REF U24 .I58 1993
Hogg, Ian V. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Military Vehicles. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1980. REF UG 615 .H63 1980
Smith, Gordon. naval-history.net -- concentrates on the two world wars and the 1982 Falklands/Malvinas War.
Dissertation Abstracts International
Doctoral Dissertations in Military Affairs: A Bibliography. Manhattan, Kans..: Kansas State University Library, 1977. MAIN Z 672 .M46 Includes dissertations published through 1970. The brief entries are arranged by subject. Updated by annual compilations in Military Affairs/Journal of Military History (MAIN E 181 .M55): 1973, April issue; 1974-83, February issue; 1984 to date, January issue.
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