Finding books and essays/chapters|
Library exercise qu 2 & 3.
The library holds many useful books for these topics.
Searching the catalogue is the way to find them.
Go to either basic search and use the subject headings or select the guided keyword search tab and use some of the subject heading terms in the first search box and some extra keywords fom the main concepts involved in the question in the second box.
Keyword searches will look for your terms in contents lists and chapters of books (qu 3)
Essay topics weeks 2-3, 5
Civilization, Western --History
Imperialism --History
Europe--History--1492-1648
Columbus, Christopher Columbus, Christopher, 1451-1506 --Influence.
America--Discovery and exploration--Spanish
Culture conflict--History.
America--Discovery and exploration--European.
Canary Islands--Discovery and exploration--European.
Caribbean Area--Discovery and exploration--European.
Latin America--History
Mexico--History
Cortes, Hernan, 1485-1547
Montezuma
Spain--Colonies--America
Essay topics week 4
Reformation--Europe
Europe--Church history--16th century
Europe--Church history--17th century
Women--Europe--History
Women and religion
Essay topics week 6, 7
Slavery....browse geographical locations such as Africa, United States, Southern states, Brazil etc
Slavery Economic aspects
Slave-trade
Essay topics week 8
Enlightenment
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778.
France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799
Women--France--History
France--Social conditions--18th century
Week 9
Industrialization History
Labor History
Work Hisory
More complex catalogue searches can also be done via Guided Keyword
eg Indians of South America.....as a phrase
AND
history labor labour slave?........any of these
Weeks 10 and 11
China--Foreign relations--1644-1912
China-- Foreign relations-- Great Britain
China--History--1644
China--History-19th century
Imperialism
Imperialism--History
Europe--Relations--Africa
Africa--Colonization
Whites
Race relations--History
Racism--History
Great Britain--Colonies--Africa
France--Colonies Africa....etc
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Library exercise qu 4.
Use these for background information, definitions, and introductory articles.
Use the library catalogue to follow up some of the references at the end of each article.
They must not provide the substance of your essay!
International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences 26 vols. 2001
Click in the left navigation bar under Article Titles for the A-Z list from which you can select headings such as:
Absolutism
Determinism
Imperialism
Slavery
Also in Reference collection 300.3 S638i
Encyclopedia of European social history frrom 1350 to 2000, ed. P.Stearns. 6 vols. 2001.
Reference collection 940.03 S799e
Europe 1450 to 1789 : encyclopedia of the early modern world, ed.J. Dewald, 6 vols, 2004
Reference collection 940.203 D5153e
Encyclopaedia of the Renaissance, ed. T. G. Bergin, 1987
Reference collection 940.2103 B498e
For general information at a quality level, try
Oxford Reference Online
which enables you to search across a large collection of scholarly OUP dictionaries
Exploration and Imperialism
Encyclopedia of the age of imperialism, 1800-1914 , ed. Carl Cavanagh Hodge, 2 vols, 2008
Reference collection 909.8103 H6882e
Encyclopedia of exploration : a comprehensive reference guide to the history and literature of exploration, travel and colonization, Raymond John Howgego, 3 vols, 2003-2006
Reference collection 910.903 H859e
Historical dictionary of European imperialism, J. S. Olson, 1991
Reference collection 903 O52h
Colonialism : an international, social, cultural, and political encyclopedia, Melvin E. Page, 3 vols. 2003.
Reference collection 325.303 P133c
Christopher Columbus encyclopedia, ed. Silvio A. Bedini, 2 vols, 1992
Reference collection 970.015 C726Z.B
Continents
Companion to Latin American history ed. Thomas H. Holloway, 2008
Main collection 980 H7458c
Encyclopedia of Latin American history and culture, ed. B. A. Tenenbaum, 1996
Reference collection 980.003 T292e
Encyclopedia of African history and culture, ed. W. F. Page, 2005
Reference collection 960.03 P1337e
Oxford encyclopedia of the modern Islamic world, ed. J. L.Esposito, 4 vols, 1995
Reference collection 305.8003 E77o
Encyclopedia of Asian history, ed. A. T. Embree, 1988
Reference collection 950.03 E56
Slavery and Industry
The Historical encyclopedia of world slavery, ed. Junius P. Rodriguez, 2 vols, 1997
Reference collection 306.36203 R696h
A historical guide to world slavery, edited by Seymour Drescher. 1998
Reference collection 306.362 D773h
Africana : the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience, ed. Kwame Anthony Appiah, 1999
Reference collection 909.0496003 A647a
Chronology of world slavery, J. P Rodriguez. 1999
Reference collection 306.362 R696c
A companion to African American history, ed. A. Hornsby, 2005
Reference collection 973.0496073 H8163c
ABC-CLIO world history companion to the industrial revolution, Peter N. Stearns, 1996
Reference collection 338.09 S799a
Oxford encyclopedia of economic history, ed. Joel Mokyr, 5 vols, 2003.
Reference collection 330.03 M716o
Enlightenment and the French Revolution
Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, ed. Michel Delon, 2 vols, 2001
Reference collection 940.2503 D361d.W
Blackwell companion to the Enlightenment, John W. Yolton, 1992
Reference collection 940.25303 Y54b
Historical dictionary of the French Revolution 1789-1799, ed. Samuel F. Scott, 2 vols, 1985.
Reference collection 944.04003 H6733....others at this number
Finding journal articles
Library exercise qu 6 & 7.
These databases can be searched via the www using university or home computers or in the Library.
Some link to full electronic full text, or you can search for the journal title in the library catalogue to see if we have an alternative print or electronic version.
Historical abstracts 1967-
DOES NOT COVER AMERICAN HISTORY, BUT WILL COVER EMPIRES ETC
Essential to search for articles in History journals. Now has many links to full text articles.
Advanced search options - scroll down the page for time period, language etc or click on Indexes (white word on green bar at the topof the page) for subject, author etc.
Academic OneFile 1980-
Accesss to more than 20 million peer-reviewe articles, a large proportion of which are
full-text, from more than 8000 journals across all subject areas.
Academic Search Premier
Full text for over 4000 of the 8000 journals aross all subject a reas.
JSTOR
is a full text searchable library of scholarly 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 - so not current.
Finding primary sources and Websites
Library exercise qu 8.
Primary sources are documents that date from the time of the original event.....diaries, news stories, government documents, letters.
If you are very lucky, you may find an originals, but they are also reproduces in many formats - on the www, collected and published in books etc.Depending on your topic, they can be located in a number of ways:
Writings of people who were there.....look in the library catalogue using the nams as AUTHOR....eg Columbus, Christopher etc.
Using one of the subject terms (above) and adding the word SOURCES to your search:
China--History--Sources
Racism--History--18th century--Sources
Many resources have been put on the www.
Some collections have been paid for by the library and their contents are listed in our catalogue as electronic resources. eg
Empire Online
Over 60,000 images of original manuscripts and printed material linked to essays by leading scholars in the field of Empire Studies with hypertext links which to the documentary evidence provided. Covers Africa, the Americas, Australasia, Oceania and South Asia. can be searched by names, topics and places.....check the tabs at the top.
Slavery, abolition and social justice, 1490-2007
A portal for slavery and abolition studies, bringing together documents and collections covering an extensive time period 1490-2007, from libraries and archives across the Atlantic world.
Other websites have collected documents and put them on the www for free. eg:
Internet Modern History Sourcebook - browse topics in the green left side column eg.
The early modern world
EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe
WWW-VL History: Central Catalogue
Early modern resources
A website for early modern history resources created by Sharon Howard, while she was a PhD student at the University of Wales at Aberystwyth. Links to topics including old and new worlds, society, economy, demography, women, gender, sexuality, religion, science, crime, literature, and music. In a section entitled "Representing Early Modernity" one can find good links to the works of many historians who have contributed to and continue to influence historiographical debate.
UNESCO Slave trade archives
Trade Products in Early Modern History |
