1. Use the Advanced Search option.
2. Type your search as either a Keyword or Subject.
3. Scroll down to the Format box and choose e-book from the drop-down menu.
An Overview is a book which addresses a time period such as Europe, 1850-1914. Use the index to find your topic; it may be a chapter or just a few pages. An overview is meant to place your topic within the context of the time and larger world.
A Monograph is a book which addresses your specific topic. If you are researching a person, a monograph could be a biography of the person. If you are researching an event, a monograph might be
Crimea: The Great Crimean War, 1854-1856.
Europe 1715-1919: From Enlightenment to World War
Europe 1850-1914: Progress, Participation and Apprehension
Europe since Napoleon
The European Colonial Empires, 1815-1919European Imperialism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914
The Vertigo Years: Europe, 1900-1914
HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. Begun in 2008, the goal of the partnership is to build a comprehensive archive of published literature. HathiTrust has pursued this goal chiefly by digitizing materials like books and journals from major library collections and other partners, such as Google and the Internet Archive.
Please note that although PEA Library is not a member of Hathi Trust, anyone can search and view the full-text content in this collection.
Open Library is an online project intended to create "one web page for every book ever published". Open Library is a project of the Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization
Ebook collections from Johns Hopkins University Press (all books and journals, through 31 May 2020)
Ohio State University Press (all books and journals, through 30 June 2020)
University of Nebraska Press (all books and journals, through 31 May 2020)
University of North Carolina Press (all books, through 30 June 2020)
Temple University Press (all books, through 30 June 2020)
Vanderbilt University Press (selecfed books, through 31 May 2020)
Ebrary (now "Proquest Ebook Central") is a collection of over 130,000 ebooks from trusted publishers in all academic subject areas along with research tools such as personalized bookshelves, highlighting, and note options. For help with Ebrary see the Proquest Ebook Central User Guide.
Overdrive - borrow popular ebooks and streaming audio-books from our library's collection. Read anywhere on your phone, tablet or computer. To use on your mobile device, download OverDrive's companion app Sora.
For help setting up the Sora app on your mobile device see this brief guide.
ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) is an online collection of over 5,500 books in the humanities recommended and reviewed by scholars. The selected titles are works of major importance that remain vital to both scholars and advanced students, and are frequently cited in the literature.
