Research Tools

Professor (Emeritus) John H. Munro
Department of Economics,
University of Toronto
The Max Gluskin House: Room 348
150 St. George Street
Toronto, Ontario
M5S 3G7

Phone: (1) 416-978-4552; and (1) 416-978-6713 (fax)

My e-mail address: john.munro@utoronto.ca

My Home Page: freely accessible to everybody.

the ECO 301Y course web page

the ECO 303Y course web page.

Updated on: 22 June 2011

RESEARCH TOOLS AND OTHER ACADEMIC AIDS: FOR ECONOMIC HISTORY, ECONOMICS, AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Important Documents, Manuals, and Aids for European Economic History:
These are web documents that I have created to assist students in my two European economic history courses, including a time chart of European economic history.
Other Aids in Writing Essays and Exams in Economics and Economic History:
Including various dictionaries, thesauruses, guides to writing essays with improved style, and even online language translaters
Journal of Economic Literature: Classification Codes for Economics. Or use this alternative link.
On-line Glossaries and Dictionaries of Economics and Economic History
On-line search engines and encyclopedias for European Economic History
Libraries and Related Electronic Web Resources: with various useful search engines (including those for publishers and books stores).
Journals and Journal Articles On-Line: also with some useful search engines.
Academic Programmes in Economics and History at the University of Toronto: their websites, with web links to other universities, world wide.
The Complete Cambridge Histories Online: for example, The Cambridge Economic History of Europe, vols. 1 - 8; The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe, vols. 1-3.
Academic Organizations in Economic History and Related Disciplines: National and International: with the URLs for their websites, most of which provide important aids and auxiliary sources for economics and economic history, and/or medieval studies.
Statistics and Other On-Line Resources for Economists and Economic Historians.
CHASS: DATA CENTRE: Computing in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Basic Economics @ CHASS
Penn World Tables 6.2 @ CHASS
EH.NET Economic History Network. Also consider the following EH.NET resources.
- book reviews in economic history: of both new monographs and "classics", from the past, in economic history.
- How Much is That?: a valuable resource: on the historical value of money, and also of the GDP, for both England (United Kingdom) and the United States, in various contexts, and time periods.
Calendars, Medieval and Contemporary, Chronology, and Maps: to find dates (days, months, years) and places, according to various calendars and maps.
Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Maps and Images. Produced by the Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University, New York.
The University of Toronto Libraries: including the Robarts Library. In particular, click on the box for E-resources (right hand side of the screen). In the box, type in the name or indicator of the electronic resource that you seek. See the following example. Or you may click on the box for 'Catalogue'
The Gale Group (Thomson),The Making of the Modern World . An historical data base contaiing over 59,500 titles (in 67,700 volumes) of historical documents and other sources. Most of those related to economic history are from The Goldsmith-Kress Library of Economic Literature.

Statutes of the Realm (England): Do the following to locate the Statutes of the Realm: In this E-resource (University of Toronto Libary), in the box labelled 'Search this Site", type in the words: "Statutes of the Realm", using the full-quotation marks (delimiting the search), and for 'Search In', click the radio button for 'Title'; then click on 'Search'. This will bring up the links for all volumes of the Statutes of the Realm. Select the URL link for the desired volume, and call it up. The result will read: Page View, with the necessary information. Highlighted in red (below the title information) you will find 'Table of Contents Index'. Click on it, or use the boxes to the right to enter either the page number (if known) or image number; and follow the rest of the instructions.
The Statutes of the Realm: vol. 1 (Gales' The Making of the Modern World). For the succeeding volumes (nos. 2 - 11), click on this link. I have found this link far less satisfactory than the previous one.
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, 1275 - 1504, ed. by Chris Given-Wilson (London, Boydell and Brewer, 2005). A guide only to the print version, and not yet digitized.
Journals of the House of Lords (Parliament of the United Kingdom): British History Online, from vol. 1 (1509-1577) to vol. 64 (1831-32).
Journals of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom: British History Online, via the University of Toronto Library. From Vol. 1 (1547-1629) to Vol. 85 (1830).
Lewis and Short: A Latin Dictionary: on line.
Online Latin Dictionaries: a guide to various online Latin dictionaries (including Lewis and Short, as above).
The King James Version of the Bible online
BibleGateway.com: The New International Version
Old Testament Gateway: the Old Testament online
The New Testament: the Recovery Version online
The Qur'an online . See also The Qur'an Explorer.com .
Online Encyclopedia of Islam; and also The Brill Encyclopedia of Islam Online .
FADIS: Fine Art Digital Imaging System, from the University of Toronto. To use this webiste -- for maps, illustrations, photohgraphs, etc -- you must use your UofT Web Login: i.e., with your UTORid and Password. On entering this site, click on the magnifying glass in the toolbar menu at the top of the webpage. Do not click on "Select a Course" (or not until I inform you that I have added my ECO 301Y course to this website).
Some On-Line Newspapers and Other Sources of Current News

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