You will provide information about the 20th century history of your country, especially indicating how your country was formed into a country.
Reference Materials
- Regional Surveys of the World. Call number varies.
- Heavy on political history and economics.
- World Today Series. Call number varies.
- Heavy on history, culture, politics.
- Africana, The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience Reference DT 14 .A37435 2005
- Dictionary of Twentieth Century Culture, Hispanic Culture of Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean Reference F 2234 .H794 1996
- Useful timeline and topical table of contents.
- Dictionary of Twentieth Century Culture, Hispanic Culture of South America Reference F 2237 .H57 1995
- Useful timeline and topical table of contents.
- Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures Reference F 1406 .E515
- Encyclopedia of Modern Asia Reference DS 4 .L48 2002
- Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa Reference DS 43 E53 2004
Books
To locate books on the history of your country do a subject seach in the Library Catalog.
These are some suggested searches:
| Search | Example
|
| [country] | Brazil
|
| [country] history | Brazil history
|
| [country] civilization | Brazil civilization
|
Databases
- Academic OneFile
- Multidisciplinary database covering a wide range of academic areas.
- Academic Search Complete
- This database offers thousands of full-text titles in a wide variety of disciplines.
- Christian Science Monitor
- Indexing and full text coverage of this national newspaper from 1988-present.
- History Study Center
- Primary and secondary history collections providing access to British, American and world history sources, full text articles and reference materials.
- JSTOR
- JSTOR is an archive of digitized journal articles ranging in date from the 1700's to the early 2000's. These collections span a variety of subjects in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Physical Sciences.
- New York Times and New York Times Historical
- Comprehensive coverage from 1851-present.
Web Resources
- BBC News: Country Profiles
- CIA: The World Factbook
- Country Studies
- These are the online equivalents of the Area Handbook Series mentioned above
- globalEDGE
- U S Department of State Background Notes
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