Guides: The Spanish Civil War: Reference

Reference Sources Online

Reference works make excellent starting points for research; they provide concise articles on key topics by scholars of the field, often accompanied by suggestions for further reading.The following are available online through the Penn Library website.

Franco with Heinrich Himmler, 25.10.1940. Deutsches Bundesarchiv. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-L15327%2C_Spanien%2C_Heinrich_Himmler_bei_Franco.jpg

Cambridge Histories Online

Oxford Reference Online
Includes Dictionary of Banking and Finance, Oxford Business French Dictionary, Oxford Business Spanish Dictionary, Dictionary of Accounting, Dictionary of Economics, and Dictionary of Statistics

Reference sources

Most of the resources listed below are print volumes shelved either in the Van Pelt Library Stacks or in LIBRA

Enciclopedia de historia de España by dirigida por Miguel Artola
Call Number: Van Pelt DP56 .E63 1988
ISBN: 8420652946
Publication Date: 1988-
A seven-volume encyclopedia:
1. Economía. Sociedad
2. Instituciones politicas. Imperio
3. Iglesia. Pensamiento. Cultura
4. Diccionario biográfico
5. Diccionario temático
6. Cronología. Mapas. Estadísticas
7. Fuentes. Indice.
Historical Dictionary of Spain by Angel Smith
Call Number: LIBRA DP12 .S59 1996
ISBN: 0810830809
Publication Date: 1996-07-11
A reference guide to the modern economic, social, and political history of Spain beginning with Napoleon's invasion in 1808.
Historical Dictionary of Modern Spain, 1700-1988 by Robert W. Kern (Editor); Meredith D. Dodge (Editor)
Call Number: LIBRA DP192 .H57 1990
ISBN: 9780313259715
Publication Date: 1990-02-21
Dictionary of Contemporary Spain by Sandra Truscott; Maria Garcia
Call Number: LIBRA DP12 .T78 1998
ISBN: 1579581137
Publication Date: 1998-11-01
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Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Empire, 1402-1975 by James S. Olson (Editor); Virginia Garrard Burnett (Editor-In-Chief); Samuel Freeman (Editor-In-Chief); Fred Koestler (Editor-In-Chief); Ross Marlay (Editor-In-Chief); Sam L. Slick (Other Adaptation by)
Call Number: LIBRA DP56 .H57 1992
ISBN: 9780313264139
Publication Date: 1991-11-30
"More than 1,200 brief descriptive essays covering colonies, individuals, political institutions, legislation, treaties, conferences, wars, revolutions, technologies, social and religious groups, and military battles. References at the end of each entry provide sources of additional information for those wishing to pursue the subject further."
Iberia and the Americas by Will Kaufman (Editor); John Michael Francis (Editor)
Call Number: LIBRA E18.75 .I24 2006
ISBN: 1851094210
Publication Date: 2005-11-21
"...encyclopedia covers the reciprocal effects that the politics, foreign policy, and culture of Spain, Portugal, and the American nations have had on one another since the time of Columbus."
Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 by James W. Cortada (Editor)
Call Number: LIBRA DP269 .H54 1982
ISBN: 0313220549
Publication Date: 1982-12-20
Diccionario de la guerra civil española by Manuel Rubio Cabeza
Call Number: Van Pelt Library DP269 .R77 1987
ISBN: 8432058602
Publication Date: 1987
Two-volume set.