History 281 CC80
Your research assignment for this class is an annotated bibliography that must include information, as specified in
this assignment sheet, about eight to ten scholarly, historical secondary sources (no Wikipedia articles,
encyclopedias, or textbooks) that relate to approved topics on East Asian history since 1500. You must submit the
topic for your annotated bibliography to me for approval by November 18, 2015. Each page of the annotated
bibliography (with one-inch margins and using 12-point font size) should contain the bibliographic reference and
required information about the research that has been done on your topic for one or two sources. Thus, a completed
annotated bibliography should be four to six pages in length and revolve around consideration of eight to ten
scholarly, historical secondary sources from journals and/or books that have been peer reviewed, with extensive
citations, bibliographies and published by a reputable publisher, such as a university press, and it is due at the start
of class on November 30, 2015. Please see the syllabus for details regarding late assignments and review the
information found below for instructions about the annotated bibliography in terms of format and required content.
Please include the following information in your annotated bibliography:
1. Identify at the top of the first page, in a sentence or two, the specific subject of the annotated bibliography
by relating it to your chosen research topic.
2. Insert each specific bibliographic entry in alphabetical order (please see the Sample Bibliography below)
about which you must include the information found below.
3. In addition to the bibliographic information for each annotated entry, you should provide the following
information for each secondary source:
a) The first section should include information about the author’s qualifications (such as noting
his/her profession as an historian or as a journalist), as well as the publisher (if it is a university
press or trade publication) in order to help you assess and analyze the information and argument
found in the source.
b) The second section must identify the perspective or approach utilized by the author of the
secondary source: Is it a theoretical work, a general survey, or noticeably biased in favor of a
specific viewpoint and/or political stance?
c) The third section must include a short summary of the contents and identify the argument, or
thesis, of the source with some consideration of the evidence used by the author to support the
thesis or argument.
d) The fourth section must show how that source relates to your subject in terms of its connection to
your chosen topic, an assessment of its relevance and value of the source to your research essay if
you were to write an essay on your topic.
You may present the information about each source as one paragraph or divide it according to each section, but it
should be written in complete sentences with attention to proper grammar and spelling. Fulfillment of those
requirements found above would provide the basis of your secondary research for a research essay, if it was
required for this course, and annotated bibliography completes the research component for this course.
[Sample Annotated Bibliography – Format]
[Subject of the Annotated Bibliography] Political Propaganda in the French Revolution
[Information about the subject of the annotated bibliography] This annotated bibliography will examine primary
sources and scholarly secondary sources that investigate the role of political propaganda in the French Revolution
by the examination of the different methods, initiatives and accomplishments forwarded by political operatives to
promote their agendas within the French Revolution.
Furet, François. “The French Revolution Revisited.” In The French Revolution: Recent Debates & New
Controversies, edited by Gary Kates, 71-90. New York and London: Routledge, 2006.
a) The first section should include information about the author’s qualifications (such as noting
his/her profession as an historian or as a journalist), as well as the publisher (if it is a university
press or trade publication) in order to help you assess and analyze the information and argument
found in the source.
b) The second section must identify the perspective or approach utilized by the author of the
secondary source: Is it a theoretical work, a general survey, or noticeably biased in favor of a
specific viewpoint and/or political stance?
c) The third section must include a short summary of the contents and identify the argument, or
thesis, of the source with some consideration of the evidence used by the author to support the
thesis or argument.
d) The fourth section must show how that source relates to your subject in terms of its connection to
your chosen topic, an assessment of its relevance and value of the source to your research if you
were to write an essay on your topic.
[The sample bibliography found below is provided to demonstrate the correct bibliographic formats for the most
widely used types of secondary sources to help you create the bibliographic entries for your annotated
bibliography.]
Sample Bibliography
Alpaugh, Micah. “The British Origins of the French Jacobins: Radical Sociability and the
Development of Political Club Networks, 1787-1793.” European History Quarterly 44,
no. 4 (October 2014): 593-619. DOI 10.1177/0265691414546456.
Flynn, Matthew J. and Stephen E. Griffin. Washington & Napoleon: Leadership in the Age of
Revolution. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2011. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost).
Furet, François. “The French Revolution Revisited.” In The French Revolution: Recent Debates & New
Controversies, edited by Gary Kates, 71-90. New York and London: Routledge, 2006.
Kates, Gary. “Introduction.” In The French Revolution: Recent Debates & New Controversies, edited by Gary
Kates, 1-20. New York and London: Routledge, 2006.
Landes, Joan. “Representing Women in the Revolutionary Crowd.” Imaging the French Revolution.
http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/imaging/essays/landes1.html.
McPhee, Peter. A Social History of France, 1789-1914. 2nd Edition. New York: Palgrave, 2004.
http://site.ebrary.com.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/lib/albertaac/Doc?id=10076947. eBook Collection
(eBrary).
Ozouf, Mona. “War and Terror in French Revolutionary Discourse (1792-1794).” The Journal
of Modern History 56, no. 4 (December 1984): 579-597.
http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/pdfplus/1880323.pdf. JSTOR.
Please note that in your annotated bibliography, your sources should be inserted in alphabetical order and each
entry should be single spaced with a double space between each entry.
The list above is not exhaustive, so please consult the Rampolla book, me, or the online version of The Chicago
Manual of Style, for additional information regarding the formatting of alternative sources. For those sources
available in multiple formats, such as electronic and print form, please include in the bibliography only the format
used in your research.