CATALOGUE
To find some more books, use the catalogue.
Here are some useful subject headings:
Asia History 20th century
Cold War
United States Foreign
relations Soviet Union
China Foreign
relations United States
World politics.......follow the See also
references
and subdivisions such as.....1945-
Korean War, 1950-1953
Vietnamese conflict
Indonesia Politics and government.....browse
dates
1942-
Communism Indonesia, China ...and
other countries
Decolonization History [Note the
spelling:
decolonization]
REFERENCE WORKS
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias - era of the Cold War
Encyclopedia of the Cold War, Ruud van Dijk, 2 vols. 2008.
Reference collection 327.73047 D5755e
Chronicle of the twentieth century. 1999
Reference collection 909.82 C557.A
Dictionary of contemporary
world history : from 1900 to present day, ed. J
Palmowski. 2nd ed. 2003
Reference collection 909.8203 P171d.2
The Longman companion to European decolonisation in the
twentieth
century. M.E. Chamberlain. 1998
Reference collection 325.3094 C443l
Routledge companion to decolonization, D.
Rothermund, 2006
Main collection
325.309 R8464r
Oxford companion to politics of the world. ed. J.
Krieger. 1993
Reference collection 320.03 K92o
Browse at this
number
for other politics and ideology dictionaries.
Arms, Thomas S. Encyclopedia of the Cold War. 1994.
Reference collection 327.73047 A734
The Cold War, 1945-1991. Edited by Benjamin Frankel. 3
vols.
c1992
Reference collection 327.09 F829c
Historical dictionary of
arms control and disarmament, Jeffrey A. Larsen, 2005
Reference collection 327.17403 L3343h
Encyclopedia of Cold War espionage, spies, and secret operations,
R C.S. Trahair, 2004
Reference collection 327.1203 T765e
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias - specific places and events
USA
Historical dictionary of United States-China relations, R. Sutter, 2006.
Reference collection 327.73051 S9671h
Encyclopedia of Chinese-American relations, ed. Yuwu Song, 2006.
Reference collection 327.73051 S6986e
Historical dictionary of United States - Southeast Asia relations, Donald E. Weatherbee, 2008.
Reference collection 327.7305903 W3626u
Encyclopedia of U.S. foreign relations. ed. Bruce W. Jentleson.
4 vols. 1997-
Reference collection 327.73 J544e
Encyclopedia of American foreign policy, A. DeConde, 3 vols, 2nd
ed. 2002
Reference collection 327.73003 D296e
Asia and SE Asia
Encyclopedia of Asian history. ed. Ainslie T.
Embree, 4 vols. 1988.
Reference collection 950.03 E56
Encyclopedia of Modern Asia ed. D. Levinson. 6
vols.
2002
Reference collection 950.03 L665e
A political and economic dictionary of South-east Asia, Andrew T. H. Tan, 2004
Reference collection 959.003 T1611p
Southeast Asia : a historical encyclopedia from Angkor Wat to East Timor, ed. Ooi Keat Gin 3 vols, 2004
Reference collection 959.003 O599s
China
Perkins, D. Encyclopedia of China: the essential
reference
to China, its history and culture. 1999
Reference collection 951.003 P448e
Korea
Conflict in Korea : an encyclopedia, James
Hoare,
1999
Reference collection 951.904 H679c
Historical dictionary of the Korean War, ed. James I.
Matray.
Reference collection 951.9042 M433h
Vietnam
Historical dictionary of Vietnam, B. M. Lockhart , 3rd ed 2006
Reference collection 959.7003 D873h.3
Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War : a political, social,
and
military history, Spencer C. Tucker, 1998
Reference collection 959.703 T894e........browse at this number
for other useful reference works.
Indonesia
Historical dictionary of Indonesia, Robert Cribb, 1992
Reference collection 959.8003 C928h
A dictionary of Indonesian history since 1900 : over 500
people,
events, and ideas that have contributed to the history of Indonesia
this
century, G.B. Clancy, 1992
Reference collection 959.8003 C587d
Dictionaries and encyclopedias - General theoretical
International
encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences 2001
also in print at Reference collection 300.3 S638i
Historical Atlases - more than just maps!
Historical
atlas
of the twentieth century
Historical atlas of Asia, Ian Barnes, 1998
Reference collection 912.5 B261h
Historical atlas of South-East Asia, J. M.
Pluvier.
1995
Reference collection 950 S772h 3.8
Historical atlas of Indonesia, Robert
Cribb. 2000
Reference collection 911.598 C928h
A correlated history of the Far East : China, Korea, Japan;
Edward
and Maria Penkala, 1968
Barr Smith Oversize collection 950 P411a
Oxford atlas of world history, ed. Patrick
K. O'Brien.
c1999.
Reference collection Oversize 911 O13a
DATABASES FOR FINDING JOURNAL
ARTICLES
Historical abstracts 1967-
(Does not include USA)
Now has many links to full text articles.
America History and Life
Indexes 1,700 journals (many with full text links) from 1964 to present - the most important bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history
Bibliography
of Asian studies 1971-
1941-1965, 1966-1970-
also at Reference collection 950.05 B582
Academic OneFile 1980-
Academic OneFile is a broad multidisciplinary database, providing full text for a large proportion of the 8000 journals covered.
Academic Search Premier
This database includes 8000 journals from all subject areas, and provides the full text of articles from over 4000 of those journals
JSTOR is a full text searchable library of journals (mainly in the social sciences and humanities)
which contains full content of selected journals from their first issue up to 3-5 years ago
Project Muse
full text access to University Press and other scholarly electronic journals in the social sciences, humanities etc since the mid 1990's. Includes useful titles such as
Journal
of Cold War Studies, International Security, World
Journal of Asian American Studies, positions:
east asia cultures critique etc.
You can even search by LC subject, same as you do in the catalogue
For Australian articles on our region, search
APA-FT
Citations 1978- and full text for selected articles 1995
Bibliographies ( another way to find some journal
articles and other
references)
Black, J. L. Origins, evolution, and nature of the Cold War : an
annotated
bibliographic guide. 1986.
Reference collection 327.73047 B627o
The Korean War, an annotated bibliography,
Keith
D. McFarland 1986
Reference collection 951.9042016 M143k
The Inchon Landing, Korea, 1950 : an annotated bibliography,
Paul M. Edwards, 1994
Reference collection 951.9042016 E26i
Pusan perimeter, Korea, 1950 : an annotated bibliography,
Paul
M. Edwards
Reference collection 951.9042016 E26p
A bibliography of military
and political aspects of the Malayan emergency, the confrontation with Indonesia, and the Brunei revolt,
Justin Corfield, 2003
Reference collection 959.50016 C7979b
The Vietnam War : handbook of the literature and research
, ed.
James S. Olson, 1993.
Reference collection 959.704 O52v
The wars in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, 1945-1982 :
a bibliographic
guide, R. D. Burns.
Reference collection 959.704016 B967w
The Vietnam conflict : its geographical dimensions,
political
traumas & military developments, Milton Leitenberg
Reference collection 959.7043016 L533v
Those who were there : eyewitness accounts of the war
in Southeast
Asia, 1956-1975 & aftermath : annotated bibliography of
books, articles & topic-related magazines, covering writings
both factual & imaginative , ed. Merritt Clifton, 1984.
959.7043 C639t Barr Smith Main
collection
Bibliography of the Indonesian revolution : publications
from 1942
to 1994, H. Klooster, 1997
Reference collection 959.005 K82b 21
WEB SITES
Internet
East Asian History Sourcebook
Internet
Modern History Sourcebook
Internet
Modern History Sourcebook: Decolonization
Internet
Modern History Sourcebook: Asia
since 1900
Internet
Modern History Sourcebook: America as world leader - external power
Internet
Modern History Sourcebook: Bipolar world
If links are boken within these sites just google the title of the site to discover if it has a new location.
Asian
Studies
WWW Virtual Library
East
and SouthEast Asia: An Annotated Directory of
Internet Resources
Harvard
Project
on Cold War Studies
Cold War (from
CNN), especially the
Kennan interview and Episode 15 -
China 1949-1972
Cold
War International History Project
Cold
War History 1945-1991 - part
of the www virtual library
Korea +50: no
longer forgotten. a joint project between
the Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Libraries
developed to provide access to Korean War materials related to the two
administrations occupying the White House during that period.
Incore
Guide to Internet Resources on Conflict in Korea (North and South)
Nautilus Institute, especially US-DPRK
Will End Up in Shotgun Marriage by Kim Myong
Chol,
Center for Korean-American Peace. (p.6 of course guide)
Library's web page for Book
of
the film "The
quiet American"
Vietnam War internet links from Prof William A Joseph, Wellesley College
Web articles:
North Korea coming in from the cold? Gavan McCormack
(p.6 of course guide)
Korea, South and North, at Risk by Chalmers Johnson (p.6 of course guide)
Going
to War: Unraveling the Tangled Web of American Pretext Stratagems
(1846-1989)
by Richard Sanders, coordinator, Coalition to
Oppose
the Arms Trade
Sunshine, Containment, War: Korean Options by Gavan McCormack
PRIMARY SOURCES
Primary sources can be found in the catalogue
by adding
the word sources to your subject heading search.
eg
Communism Indonesia History Sources
United States Foreign relations Vietnam
Sources.
Postwar Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia
(O.S.S
/ State Department intelligence and research reports)
MICROFILM 18558-63
Records of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Part 2,
1946-53 : The Far East MICROFILM
17845-17858
CIA research reports--Japan, Korea and the
security
of Asia, 1946-1976 MICROFILM 18580-84
Japan, Korea, and the security of Asia:
special studies,
1970-1980 MICROFILM 19686-19689
Documentary history of the Truman presidency
vols. 18-20 The Korean
War
973.918 M571d MAIN COLLECTION
Foreign relations of the United States
from the US State Department.
United States
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Books provide
online access to critical declassified records on issues including U.S.
national security, foreign policy, diplomatic and military history,
intelligence policy, and more. The most useful category will be China and East Asia
Assessing the Soviet Threat: Early Cold War Years edited by Woodrow J. Kuhns<
This book was originally published by the Center for the Study of Intelligence and contains the full-text of a number of declassified US government documents produced by the CIA and its predecessor the Central Intelligence Group between 1946-1950.
Avalon Project at the Yale Law School - Indochina: Vietnam, Cambodia and
Laos document collection.
Newspapers are also useful as sources
of contemporary
English language comment on events.
Factiva provides full text and indexing of hundreds of newspapers, mostly from
the 1990's onwards, but the Washington Post is available full text from
1984 and the New York Times is available full text
from June 1980
and abstracts from January 1, 1969.
New York times has an archive online, 1851-1980 and 1981-.
If free full text is not available, use the database to search and then the article can be found on New York Time Microfilm MF PER3.
The last 20 or so years are availalbe on Factiva.
The Times (London) digital archive is available at the State Library of South Australia.
Times index
Reference Collection 05 T58a 1864-
Australian newspaper coverage is availalbe via the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Project from the National Library. Currently under development. More than 1 .8 million pages up to the mid 1950's have been scanned, and the fulltext will be searchable. A list of the titles and date ranges scanned is available from the Selected Newspapers page.
Journals 1945-1990
containing
contemporary comment
will be indexed by
Periodicals index online
If full text isn't available online, check the library catalogue for the journal title - it may be held in print.
Searchable full text for a smaller list of journals available in Periodicals archive online.
and you can limit a search in JSTOR
to articles published at a specific timeif you use advanced search. |
