THE TWENTIETH CENTURY:
A WORLD IN TURMOIL

This guide is designed to help you find for yourself some books and articles that will assist you in writing your second essay.

Some resources are electronic, which you can access from anywhere. Printed (hardcopy) books will need to be followed up in the library, using call numbers.
If books are in high demand, using the REQUEST button will shorten the loan period to one week and help to share the resources around.
Journal articles are also a good alternative when books are hard to borrow.

We are assuming that you have completed the Library tutorial for Humanities and Social Sciences .

For any further help in finding or using these resources please come in to see or contact your
Research Librarians for History and Politics,
Margaret Hosking, ph. 83033706
Peter Newnham, ph. 83131062

Our office is on level 2, in the wedge between the 800's and the 900's.
Reference collection is on level 2 north, in the foyer outside the Barr Smith Reading Room.

CONTENTS WHERE TO START? CATALOGUE REFERENCE WORKS DATABASES FOR FINDING JOURNAL ARTICLES PRIMARY SOURCES                       CONTENTS WHERE TO START? CATALOGUE REFERENCE WORKS DATABASES FOR FINDING JOURNAL ARTICLES PRIMARY SOURCES                                                 CONTENTS WHERE TO START? CATALOGUE REFERENCE WORKS DATABASES FOR FINDING JOURNAL ARTICLES PRIMARY SOURCES                                           Last update: Margaret Hosking October 2010

WHERE TO START? It is a good idea to read broadly at first, to get the "big picture", using books from your essay reading lists or subject searches found via the catalogue. You may also want to verify definitions of concepts using reference works. The SUMMON seach box on the lilbrary's home page will find you a large number of books and journal articles, some of which will be ful ltext online. Results can be limited using the left hand column - eg " Limit to articles from scholarly publications, including peer-review ." CATALOGUE Search or these subject headings or use these terms in guided keyword searches Essay question 1 World War 1939-1945....and add 1940 as a keyword Essay question 2 World War 1939-1945 .....and add terms such as..... victory....strategy Essay question 3 Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963....as subject heading United States--Politics and government--1961-1963.....as subject heading United states History 1961-1969 Essay question 4 Decolonization.....as a subject heading.....browse places.....and Decolonization - History Africa History 1960- Asia History 1945-.....and.....Asia History 20th century Great Britain Colonies History 20th century France Colonies....browse Essay question 5 Women History 20th century Women Social conditions 20th century add Europe, Great Britain, United States etc to yur searches United States Social conditions 1945-.....and also for other countries Essay question 6 Race relations History Racism History Civil rights History add in names of countries....eg Civil rights United States Essay question 7 China History Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 Mao Zedong, 1892-1976 China Politics and government 1949-1976 Essay question 8 Japan Economic conditions 1945- Japan Relations United States Industries Japan REFERENCE WORKS Dictionaries and Encyclopedias These are always useful for a broad introduction to any topic, and will usually include reference lists to additional related readings. Encyclopedia of European social history, ed P.Stearns. 6 vols. 2001. Articles arranged in broad subject groupings, use the index to find, eg imperialism and the military. Reference collection 940.03 S799e International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences 26 vols. 2001 Scroll down the left hand toolbar for Article Titles and go via the A-Z list to: Warfare Revolution Revolutions, Hisotry of Communism, History of This encyclopedia is also in print, in the Reference collection 300.3 S638i Palmer, A.W. The Penguin dictionary of twentieth-century history. 4th ed. 1992 Reference collection 909.8203 P173p.4 (also in Main Collection) Encyclopedia of 20th century warfare, ed. N. Frankland, 1989 Reference collection 355.003 F831e World War II in Europe : an encyclopedia, ed. David T. Zabecki, 2 vols, 1999 Reference collection 940.5303 Z12w Browse around Reference 940.53 for other World War II reference books. Postwar America : an encyclopedia of social, political, cultural, and economic history, ed. James Ciment, 4 vols, 2006. Reference collection 973.9203 C573p Historical dictionary of the 1960s, ed. James S. Olson Reference Collection 973.923 O52h Browse around Reference collection 973.92 for encyclopedias and dictionaries about the Kennedy era Encyclopedia of the Cold War, Ruud van Dijk, 2 vols. 2008. Reference collection 327.73047 D5755e Routledge companion to decolonization , Dietmar Rothermund, 2006 Main collection 325.309 R8464r and online The Longman companion to European decolonisation in the twentieth century. M.E. Chamberlain. 1998 Main collection 325.3094 C443l Colonialism : an international, social, cultural, and political encyclopedia, Melvin E. Page, 3 vols, 2003 Reference collection 325.303 P133c Historical dictionary of the British empire, James S. Olson, 2 vols, 1996 Reference collection 325.34203 O52h Routledge international encyclopedia of women : global women's issues and knowledge, Cheris Kramarae, 4 vols, 2000 Reference collection 305.403 K89r and online Companion to American women's history, ed. Nancy A. Hewitt, 2005 Main collection 305.40973 H6117c Routledge critical dictionary of feminism and postfeminism, ed Sarah Gamble, 2000. Reference collection 305.4203 G191r Encyclopedia of civil rights in America, ed. David Bradley, 3 vols, 1998. Reference collection 323.103 B811e ABC-CLIO companion to the 1960s counterculture in America, Neil A. Hamilton, 1997. Reference collection 973.92303 H219a A to Z of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Guo Jian, 2006 Reference collection 951.056 G9775a Encyclopedia of modern China, David Pong, 4 vols., 2009 Reference collection 951.003 P796e A to Z of United States-Japan relations, John Van Sant, 2010 Main collection 327.7305203 V277a Companion to Japanese history, ed. William M. Tsutsui, 2007 Main collection 952 T8829c Modern Japan : an encyclopedia of history, culture, and nationalism, ed. James L. Huffman 1998 Reference collection 952.003 H889m Historical Atlases - more than just maps! Historical atlas of the twentieth century   FINDING JOURNAL ARTICLES Historical abstracts with fulltext 1967- Essential for a thorough search for articles in History journals....does not cover America......use: 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 Academic OneFile       1980- A broad multidisciplinary database, providing full text for a large proportion of the 8000 journals covered. Academic Search Premier This database covers 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 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. Use the Advanced Search option. PRIMARY SOURCES Primary sources are documents written at the time of the event. They include letters, newspapers, cartoons, parliamentary papers, memoirs (personal narratives), treaties and other documents. The two simplest ways to locate them are: via the catalogue, adding to your subject heading search any of the following terms: sources, or diaries or personal narratives or memory OR via specialised websites, where documents on a particular topic may be grouped together. Some usful websites are listed below. Websites Internet Modern History Sourcebook This site contains overviews of broad topics, and also has an extensive collection of primary historical documents, both excerpts and full text. Browse the green side bar for topics. Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung is the title of the "Little Red Book" - here is a version from the Mao Zedong internet archive