CONTENTS
CATALOGUE
REFERENCE
WORKS
DATABASES
FOR FINDING JOURNAL ARTICLES
WEBSITES
PRIMARY SOURCES
CONTENTS
CATALOGUE
REFERENCE
WORKS
DATABASES
FOR FINDING JOURNAL ARTICLES
WEBSITES
PRIMARY SOURCES
CONTENTS
CATALOGUE
REFERENCE
WORKS
DATABASES
FOR FINDING JOURNAL ARTICLES
WEBSITES
PRIMARY SOURCES
Last update:
Margaret Hosking,
Peter Jacobs
August 2007
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CATALOGUE
These are some useful searches to use as starting points in the library catalogue , using the Subject heading search option.
Always remember to browse the list of subject terms which is displayed.
The terms given below are usually subdivided further, eg by place or by period.
France Colonies
Great Britain Colonies
France Colonies Administration
Great Britain Colonies Administration
France Colonies History [also subdivided by period, and by place]
France Colonies Africa
France Colonies Oceania
France Colonies North America.
Colonization
Decolonization
Racism History
Race relations History
Blacks in art [Also Blacks in literature]
African Americans in art [ Also African Americans in literature]
Orientalism in art
Indians of North America Cultural assimilation
Culture conflict History
Aboriginal Australians History
Frontier and pioneer life
Culture conflict History
Indigenous peoples Legal status, laws, etc.
Colonies Law and legislation
Imperialism in literature
Colonies in literature
Adventure stories, English History and criticism
REFERENCE WORKS
ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND DICTIONARIES
Colonialism : an international, social, cultural, and political encyclopedia, M.E. Page, 3 vols. 2003.
Reference collection 325.303 P133c
The Longman companion to European decolonisation in the twentieth century. M.E. Chamberlain. 1998.
Reference collection 325.3094 C443l
Historical dictionary of the British empire, J. S. Olson, 1996.
Reference collection 325.34203 O52h
Historical dictionary of European imperialism, J. S. Olson, 1991.
Reference collection 903 O52h
Dictionary of race and ethnic relations. 4th ed. E.Cashmore, 1996.
Reference collection 305.8003 C338d.4
Encyclopedia of African history and culture. Rev ed. R.Hunt Davis .5 vols. 2005
See esp. v. IV. The colonial era (1850-1960) -- v. V. Independent Africa (1960-present).
Reference collection 960.03 P1337e
Oxford companion to Black British history , ed.
David Dabydeen, 2007
Reference collection 305.896041 D116o
Encyclopedia of exploration : a comprehensive guide to the history and literature of travel and colonization. R.J. Howgego.2 vols. 2003-2004.
Reference collection 910.903 H859e
Encyclopedia of invasions and conquests from ancient times to the present. P.K.Davis. 1996.
Reference collection 355.003 D263e
The Historical encyclopedia of world slavery. J. Rodriguez. 2 vols. 1997.
Reference collection 306.36203 R696h
Colonial wars of North America, 1512-1763 : an encyclopedia. Ed. Alan Gallay. 1996.
Reference collection 970.003 G165c
Encyclopedia of race and ethnic studies
Canadian encyclopedia online
also in Reference Collection 917.103 C212 The Canadian encyclopedia 3 vols 1985
The Catholic encyclopedia : an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church. Edited by C.G. Herbermann and others. Special edition ......... Web version of the 1st ed. 1913.
Encyclopedia of modern French thought, ed. Christopher J. Murray, 2004
Reference collection 944.08103 M9814e
Historical dictionary of France, Gino Raymond, 1998
Reference collection 944.003 R269h
Historical dictionary of France from the 1815 Restoration to the Second Empire. ed. E.L Newmnan. 2 vols. 1987.
Reference collection 944.06 N552h
Historical dictionary of the French Second Empire ed. W. E. Echard. 1985
Reference collection 944.07 E18h
Larousse, P. Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle. 1866-1879. Repr. 1982.
Reference Collection 03 L3319g
ATLASES
Historical atlas of the twentieth century
Oxford atlas of world history, ed. Patrick K. O'Brien. c1999.
Reference collection Oversize 911 O13a
Atlas of twentieth century world history, Michael Dokrill. 1991.
Reference collection 911 D637a
Cassell atlas of world history. 1997
Reference collection 911 H427c
Atlas historique Larousse. Ed. G.Duby. 1978.
Reference collection 911 A881
Atlas of British overseas expansion, ed. A. N. Porter. 1991.
Reference collection 912.1971241 P844a, Main Collection 912.1971241 P844a
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Aldcroft, D.H. Bibliography of European economic and social history. 1984.
Reference collection 940.016 A357b
Bibliography of imperial, colonial, and Commonwealth history since 1600 / edited by Andrew Porter .
Reference collection 909.0971241 P844b
Bibliographie annuelle de l'histoire de France du cinquième siècle à 1945; 1953- Lists writings on all aspects of French history. Some items are in English.
Reference collection 944.05 B582
The military in imperial history : the French connection. A.A.Heggoy and J.M.Haar. 1984.
Reference collection 355.3520944
Echard, W.E. Foreign policy of the French Second Empire: a bibliography. 1988.
Reference collection 944.07016 E18f
Boucher, P. P., The shaping of the French colonial empire : a bio-bibliography of the careers of Richelieu, Fouquet, and Colbert. 1985.
Reference collection 944.033016 B753s
Halstead, J.P. and Porcari, S. Modern European imperialism: a bibliography of books and articles, 1815-1972. 1974. 2 vols. See vol.2 for French and other empires.
Reference collection 940.2016 H196m
Slavery and slaving in world history : a bibliography. J.C Miller. 1998. 2 vols.
Reference collection 306.362016 M648sl
Young, R. French foreign policy, 1918-1945 : a guide to research and research materials. 1991
Reference collection 327.44 Y75f 1991
DATABASES FOR FINDING JOURNAL
ARTICLES
Historical
Abstracts 1955- (does not include USA)
Bibliography
of Asian studies 1971-
1941-1965, 1966-1970-
also at Reference collection 950.05 B582
Academic OneFile 1980-
Replaces Expanded Academic ASAP. Academic OneFile is a broad multidisciplinary database, providing full text for a large proportion of the 8000 journals covered.
Academic Search Premier
Replaces Academic Search Elite. 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.You can even search by LC subject, same as you do in the catalogue
America: History and Life is available in print
at
Reference collection 973.05 A512
For Australian articles use
Australian
public affairs - full text
Citations 1978- and full text for selected articles 1995
Periodicals Index Online (PIO)
A database of millions of articles published in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Coverage goes back 300 years, so it is very useful for finding articles from history journals over the past 100 years.
From the PIO results screen there is a link to Periodicals Archive Online which provides access to the full text of hundreds of journals. Otherwise, many of the older journals are held either in the BSL or State Library - check catalogues.
WEBSITES
Empire Online
This database has over 60,000 images of original manuscripts and printed material linked to essays by leading scholars in the field of Empire Studies, with links to the documentary evidence provided. Covers Africa, the Americas, Australasia, Oceania and South Asia. Can be searched by names, topics and places. Areas covered include:
Cultural Contacts, 1492-1969; Empire Writing and the Literature of Empire; The Visible Empire; Religion and Empire; Race, Class and Colonialism, c1783-1969 .
Internet Indian History Sourcebook
Scroll down to headings such as The Western intrusion, Indian nationalism (including Gandhi).
Internet Modern History Sourcebook
Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Decolonization
The Victorian Web
Especially Race & Class and
Political discourse : theories of colonialism and postcolonialism
For information on former colonies , go to WWW-VL History and scroll down to the country's name.
France in America is a high quality site, from the Library of Congress
Paul Mapp
Silver, Science, and Routes to the West
The Pacific Ocean and eighteenth-century French imperial policy
France: former colonial possessions overseas. Even though this site is about flags, it gives a good overview of the colonies and their variant names.
Mapping the French Empire in North America - an exhibition from the Newberry Library.
Images of native America : from Columbus to Carlisle
Pride and Dignity is an exhibition of over 60 photographic reproductions (c.1846 - c.1960) taken from the original exhibition
Aboriginal Portraits from the National Archives of Canada.
Montaigne, Michel de." Of Cannibals" (See Course guide, p. 8)
ExpoMuseum - timeline of international expositions from 1851, with links to resources.
PRIMARY SOURCES
Searching the library catalogue for primary sources
Primary sources are documents written at the time of the event.
They can include letters, newspapers, cartoons, memoirs (personal narratives), treaties and other documents.
The two simplest ways to locate them are:
via the catalogue, adding the word sources to your subject search
e.g. France Colonies Administration Sources
Great Britain Colonies Adminstration Sources
or,
via specialised websites, where documents on a particular topic may be grouped together. Some examples are listed below:
Internet Indian History Sourcebook
Scroll down to headings such as The Western intrusion, Indian nationalism (including Gandhi)
Internet Modern History Sourcebook
In this site, scroll through green index at left, for other sourcebooks :
Colonial North America
Imperialism
Decolonization
Early US history
Avalon Project at the Yale Law School. A collection of documents searchable by keyword or time period.
Contemporary Newspapers and journals
Periodicals Index Online (PIO) Searches for journal articles published over more than 300 years. Great for contemporary accounts of events if you limit searches to time periods.
From the PIO results screen there is a link to Periodicals Archive Online which provides access to the full text of hundreds of journals.
Many early journals may be held either in our Store or at the State Library.
MICROFILM PER 3
New York Times 1857-
Index in Reference collection 05 N53y
New York Times: Index. 1851-
MICROFILM PER 54
Times (London)1785-
Index in Reference collection 05 T58a
Times index 1790-
Full text available online from the State Library - Times digital archive. |
