List of Heath Pamphlets at Cornell
Titles (many of which may be shelved at Uris Library Reserves):
- The rise of Rome: how to explain it
- Decline and fall of the Roman Empire: why did it collapse?
- Town origins; the evidence from medieval England
- The Holy Roman Empire in the Middle Ages
- The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution
- The Turner thesis concerning the role of the frontier in American history
- The causes of the American Revolution
- Hamilton and the national debt
- Puritanism in early America
- Reconstruction in the South
- Slavery as a cause of the Civil War
- Evolution and religion
- Lincoln and the coming of the Civil War
- Reconstruction and the race problem
- The economic origins of the French revolution
- 1848, a turning point?
- The origins of the English Civil War
- The Russian Revolution and Bolshevik victory, why and how?
- The causes of the American Civil War
- The "new imperialism"
- 1857 in India
- American neutrality and the Spanish Civil War
- The Chinese civil service
- The eighteenth-century revolution
- The Revolution of 1688
- The War of 1812
- The Gregorian epoch: reformation, revolution, reaction?
- The influence of the enlightenment on the French Revolution: creative, disastrous, or non-existent?
- The fall of France, 1940
- Imperial Russia after 1861
- The Kuomintang debacle of 1949
- The pattern of Chinese history: cycles, development, or stagnation?
- The expansion of Europe
- The French wars of religion
- The meaning of the Mexican Revolution
- The Spanish Civil War
- Henry VIII and the English Reformation
- The rise of modern science
- The robber barons revisited
- American intervention in the Russian Civil War
- Change in Sung China
- The great reform bill of 1821: liberal or conservative?
- Napoleon; historical enigma
- Lenin: dedicated Marxist, or, revolutionary pragmatist?
Searching for Heath Pamphlets in the Catalog
How do to a search
- Go to the Cornell library catalog
- Use the "advanced search."
- "Add a row" to get three search boxes. Note the settings of the pull down menus to the right of the search boxes:
You should get about 80 hits. Not all of them are what you’re looking for.
- Use the "publication year" to the left of the results and and set it for 1949-1970:
Then you’ll get the older titles that are about 100 pages, a kind of “pamphlet” like the ones listed in the sidebar on this page.