Challenge Library Guide for HST102/WL204 - Balzer/Pommer - Clackamas: Background Information
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Cambridge Histories OnlineLook for European History in the title of individual volumes.
The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance by Publication Date: 2003- Hutchinson Encyclopedia of the Renaissance by Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment by Publication Date: 2002-12-26
Europe, 1450-1789 by Publication Date: 2003-11-19
Encyclopedia of European Social History by Publication Date: 2005
Religion and European Philosophy by Publication Date: 2017-04-13
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