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CHIC 106/305/313: Historical/Background Research: |
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Selected Reference
Resources:
The following list is not complete, please consult
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World Cultures & Ethnic Groups |
The Asian American encyclopedia.
Edited by Franklin Ng. New York : Marshall Cavendish, c1995- |
Changing faces, changing places: mapping Southern Californians.
James P. Allen and Eugene Turner. Northridge, CA: Center for Geographical Studies, California State University, c2002.
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Countries and their cultures.
Edited by Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember. New York: Macmillan
Reference USA, 2001, 4 vol. set. |
Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history.
Edited by Jack Salzman, David Lionel Smith, Cornel West. New York:
Macmillan Library Reference, c1996. |
The encyclopedia of the Chinese overseas.
General editor, Lynn Pan. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999. |
Encyclopedia of contemporary American culture
Edited by Gary W. McDonogh, Robert Gregg, and Cindy H. Wong. London; >New York: Routledge, 2001.
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Encyclopedia of contemporary German culture
[Also available as an ebook]
Edited by John Sandford. London; New York: Routledge, 1999. |
Encyclopedia of contemporary Italian culture
Edited by Gino Moliterno. London; New York: Routledge, 2000. |
Encyclopedia of contemporary Japanese culture
Edited by Sandra Buckley. London; New York: Routledge, 2002.
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Encyclopedia of contemporary Spanish culture
Edited by Eamonn Rodgers. London; New York: Routledge, 1999. |
Encyclopedia of
Cuba: people, history,
culture
Edited by Luis Martínez-Fernández
... [et al.] Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2003. |
Encyclopedia of Mexico : history, society & culture.
Editor, Michael S. Werner. Chicago : Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997 |
Encyclopedia of world cultures.
Edited by David Levinson. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1991- |
Ethnic groups worldwide: a ready reference handbook. [Also available as an ebook]
By David H. Levinson. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 1998.
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Gale encyclopedia of
multicultural America.
Edited by Judy Galens, Anna Sheets, Robyn
V. Young. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 2000, 3 vol. set.
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Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in
the United States.
General
editors, Nicolás Kanellos, Claudio Esteva-Fabregat. Houston,
TX: Arte Público Press, 1993-1994, 4 vol. set. |
A nation of peoples: a sourcebook on America's multicultural heritage.
Edited by Elliott Robert. Barkan Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999.
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The new face of Asian Pacific America: numbers, diversity, and
change in the 21st century
Edited
by Eric Lai and Dennis Arguelles.
San Francisco:
AsianWeek books, c2003. |
Racial and ethnic diversity: Asians, Blacks, Hispanics, Native
Americans, and Whites
By
Cheryl Russell.
Ithaca,
N.Y.: New Strategist
Publications, c2002. |
Reference Library of Asian
America.
Edited by
Susan Gall and Irene Natividad. Detroit, MI: Gale Research,
1995. |
We the people: an atlas of America's ethnic diversity
By James Paul Allen, Eugene James Turner. New York: Macmillan, c1988.
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World atlas of epidemic diseases.
By Andrew Cliff, Peter Haggett, Matthew Smallman-Raynor. London: Arnold; New York: Distributed in the United States of America by Oxford University Press, 2004. |
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Country
Profiles |
Encyclopedia of the stateless nations: ethnic and national groups around the world.
By James Minahan. Westport,CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.
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Regional surveys of the
world. London: Europa Publications.
Africa South of the Sahara, 2002
Central and south-eastern
Europe,
2002
Eastern Europe,
Russia
and
Central Asia,
2002
Far East
and
Australasia,
2003
Middle East
and
North Africa,
2003
South America,
Central America,
and the
Caribbean,
2003
Territories
and States of
India,
2002
Western Europe, 2002
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U.S. Department of State Background Notes --
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/
-- Bush Presidency
http://www.state.gov/www/background_notes/index.html
-- Clinton Presidency
Contains basic information on 170 countries covering economy, government,
geography, history, political conditions, and foreign relations.
Background notes are also available in print at the Reference Desk.
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U.S.
Library of Congress Country Studies -- Area Handbook Series
Covers the history,
society,
economics, etc. of 125 countries. Some titles in this series are also
available in Documents, (see Library Catalog records).
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World Factbook 2002
Published by the CIA. Latest edition also available at
the Reference Desk. |
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For more resources on countries, try the Pollak Library Country
Information Guide. |
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History |
American decades.
Edited by Vincent Tompkins. Detroit, MI:
Gale Research, 1994-1996, 10 vol. set. |
American Eras.
Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1997-1999, 10 vol. set. |
American Memory
Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
-- From the Library of
Congress; Keyword searching is possible.
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Chronology of Hispanic American History from Pre-Columbian Times to the Present.
Edited by Nicolas Kenellos and Cristelia Perez. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1995. |
Chronology of World History.
Edited by H.E.L. Mellerish and Neville Williams. Santa Barbara , CA: ABC-CLIO. 4 vol. set. |
Hammond atlas of world
history.
Edited by Geoffrey Barraclough. Maplewood, NJ: Hammond, 1999. |
Historical atlas of Central America.
By Carolyn Hall and Héctor Pérez Brignoli ; John V. Cotter, cartographer. Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2003 |
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To search for information on the historical
background, also try the Pollak Library Research Guide to History |
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| Women's History |
Encyclopedia of women and gender: sex similarities and differences and the impact of society on gender.
Edited by Judith Worell. San Diego: Academic Press, 2001. 2 vol. set. |
The Greenwood encyclopedia of women's issues worldwide.
Editor-in-chief, Lynn Walter. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2003. Six volume set: Contents: 1] Asia and Oceania -- [2] Central and South America -- [3] Europe -- [4] The Middle East and North Africa -- [5] North America and the Caribbean -- [6] Sub-Saharan Africa |
Routledge international encyclopedia of women : global women's issues and knowledge.
Edited by Cheris Kramarae and Dale Spender. New York : Routledge, 2000. 4 vol. set. |
Women's studies encyclopedia.
Edited by Helen Tierney. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999. Revised and expanded edition. 3 vol. set. |
The women's chronology: a year-by-year record from prehistory to the present.
By James Trager. New York: Holt, 1994 |
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| Miscellaneous Local History Resources
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Tejano Voices
--
Is multimedia project sponsored by the University of Texas at Arlington
that presents the oral histories of 77 Tejanos and Tejanas in post-World
war II Texas. |
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U.S
Latinos and Latinas & World War II -- Is another oral history
project from the Department of Journalism at the University of Texas at
Austin. |
| Cuentos de Nuestros Padres: Tucson's Hispanic Community - Site sponsored by the
University of Arizona Library |
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