J300: "Cradle" of Globalization? History, Economy, Society and Diaspora in the Indian Ocean
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--Map of the East Indies and the Indian Ocean, Pierre Du Val, 1665 (National Library of Australia/Wikimedia Commons) |
Open this page outside of Oncourse (databases will work better!)
Here are some resources that will help you with the writing assignments in this course.
If you need more help along the way, feel free to contact Celestina Savonius-Wroth, the history librarian, Marion Frank-Wilson, the African Studies librarian (also responsible for India Studies), Akram Khabibullaev, the Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies librarian, or Noa Wahrman, the Jewish Studies librarian .
On this page: Background information - Scholarship on your topic - Primary sources: texts - Primary sources: images - Useful websites |
I. Background Information and Research Guides
At some point in your research, you might find these basic reference works useful:
Encyclopaedia of Islam (also links to Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World)
Research guides are often a good place to start your search (or come back to them if you get lost!):
Mary Beth Norton and Pamela Gerardi, ed.s, The American Historical Association's guide to historical literature. New York : Oxford University Press, 1995. (also in print: Wells Library Reference Reading Room, Z6201 .A55 1995)
Zell, Hans. African Studies Companion: a guide to information sources. 4th ed. Lochcarron, Scotland: Hans Zell Publishers, 2006. (Wells Library Research Collections, Z3509 .A39 2006)
Tirmizi, S.A.I. Indian sources for African history: guide to the sources of the history of Africa and of the Indian diaspora in the basin of the Indian Ocean in the National Archives of India. Delhi : International Writers' Emporium, c1988-1993. (Print only: ALF, DT352.5 .T57 1988 v. 1-3.)
British Empire and South Asia (IUB Libraries research guide)
19th-century Resources (IUB Libraries research guide)
II. Exploring the scholarship on your topic
Start with what you already know: look at the footnotes and bibliography in your assigned readings (and the reference sources above). Use IUCAT, the IU Libraries online catalog, to look up books, then use the subject headings in the IUCAT records to find more on the same topic. Use the Advanced Search screen to limit by language and to combine keywords and subject headings.
Some other good ways to find books:
WorldCat - combined catalog of hundreds of libraries --use WorldCat to request books from other libraries
HathiTrust - a huge collection of digitized books, basically Google Books with a better page viewer and more accurate information
Historical Abstracts - (see below) select "book" as the publication type
For articles in academic journals, try:
JSTOR - digital archive of journals. Especially helpful when you have very specific keywords, or if you're looking for a book review
Academic Search (EBSCO) - interdisciplinary collection of magazines and journals. For journals only, limit to "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals"
Historical Abstracts - online index to hundreds of important history journals. Use the Advanced search options, especially "Historical Time Period," which allows you to narrow down your search to a specific time period
III. Collections of Primary Sources: Texts
Tip: to find published primary sources in English in IUCAT or WorldCat, limit to English and include one or more of the following subject terms:
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anecdotes |
diaries |
pictorial works |
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archives |
documentary films |
portraits |
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biography |
exhibitions |
public opinion |
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caricatures and cartoons |
interviews |
songs and music |
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cases studies |
manuscripts |
sources |
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catalogs |
maps |
speeches |
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comic books, strips |
notebooks, sketchbooks |
statistics |
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correspondence |
personal narratives |
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description and travel |
photography |
British Newspapers 1600-1900 - Comprehensive digital access to historic newspapers, newsbooks, ephemera and national & regional papers from British Isles
Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003 - The digital version of the weekly magazine, covering international news and events.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online - Searchable electronic versions of every book published in Great Britain in the 18th century.
Empire Online - digitized primary sources relating to the history of the British Empire
House of Commons Parliamentary Papers - Indexing and full text of the British House of Commons Parliamentary Papers from the 18th to the 20th centuries
Internet History Sourcebooks Project - selections from primary sources on important historical topics
Making of the Modern World - Materials on early economics, commerce, trade, transportation, industry, manufacturing, political systems and social history. Coverage: 1460-1906
Ninteenth Century UK Periodicals - 2.1 million periodical pages in the first two series from 19th century periodicals published in the UK.
Times Digital Archive (The Times, London) - The full text of The Times (London), images of pages and articles, 1785-1985
World Newspaper Archive - A collection of historical newspapers from around the globe, 19th-century –1990s, including historical Indian and African papers
IV. Collections of Primary Sources: Images
National Library of Australia: images of convicts
Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African Photographs, 1860-1960
Images of Empire - photographs, news footage and home movies from the British Empire in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection (Historical Maps of Asia)
V. Research centers, online exhibits and other useful web sites
Centre for Indian Studies in Africa
Documentary History of South African Indians -ebook published by South African History Online, an online encyclopedia of South African and African history
Indian Ocean Culture and Commerce
The International Centre for Convict Studies
Jewel of Muscat - videos, photos and information on the reconstruction of a 9th-century Arab ship, and its voyage from Oman to Singapore
Kala Pani- blog about the history of Indian indenture
McGill University Indian Ocean World Center
Princeton Geniza Project and Taylor-Schechter Genizah Reseach Unit (University of Cambridge)
TANAP (Towards creating A New Age of Partnership) - web site of the archives of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), 1602-1796
UNESCO Slave Trade in the Indian Ocean
