Designed to update and expand Poulton's standard The Historian's handbook (1982). Describes nearly 700 major reference and information sources from all periods of history, with emphasis on North American, British, and European history. Organized by the type of source, provides evaluative annotated entries for books, encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, periodicals, dissertations and theses, guides to archives and manuscript collections, indexes and abstracts, bibliographies, government publications, and works on microforms. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.