Research Guides: HIST 114: Origins of the Global South (HC): Finding Books

Finding Scholarly Studies in Books

Use the Tripod catalog for your home institution This link opens in a new window This link opens in a new window to look for all books (print and digital) owned by your college as well as the print titles at the other two schools.

The following subject searches are a sampling of possibilities. To find materials on a topic, try doing a search in the Tripod Catalog to find some relevant material and then use the subject headings assigned to those titles to find more books. Note that all these searches are in the Books + Media channel. Using any field (rather than subjects) will pick up results from chapter titles and summaries of content and combining this with subjects brings out the most important aspects of your search.

(16th OR 17th) AND (spain OR spanish OR iberia*) [Subjects] AND (trade OR commerce OR explor*) [Any Field]

japan* AND portug* [Subjects]

(europe OR italy OR austria) AND (turkey OR ottoman*) [Subjects] AND (renaissance OR 15th OR 16th)[Any Field]

architecture [Subject] AND ((muslim OR islam* OR mudejar) AND (spain OR spanish OR iberia*)) [Any Field]

** Try opening a search above and replace one of the topics with your research interest.

Tripod Catalog
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The library catalog of Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges. Use Tripod to find relevant scholarship owned by the tri-college libraries. Change the resource group on the search bar to limit results to specific materials like books and films.
Use the Request link in an item's record to have it delivered to the library of your choice . Note that you need to log into Tripod in order to see the Request link. If you are already in Tripod, use the Sign In link at the top of every page to log in..

WorldCat
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This is a catalog of the holdings of books, journals, and other materials owned by OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) member libraries throughout the United States and in other countries.
WorldCat is an important place to look for many materials not owned by the Tricollege Libraries. This combined library catalog contains more than 500 million records describing items owned by libraries around the world. Many of these items are available to you though interlibrary loan. Use the FindIt button in individual records to request items you see in WorldCat.

Borrowing beyond the Tri-Co
1. E-Z Borrow - Request books that are not available in Tripod. It usually takes three days or less for E-Z Borrow books to arrive.
2. Interlibrary Loan (ILL) - Request books not in E-Z Borrow. They can come in as little as four or five days. Also use ILL to request films, dissertations, sound recordings, and other materials.
3. Articles - Request journal articles not available in your college library. You will receive digital copies of the articles in your email sometimes as quickly as the following day.

Finding Relevant Studies

The titles below are a few examples of studies that explore the connections between cultures from widely separated areas of the world. The early modern period brought explorers, merchants, missionaries and administrators to live in the Global South. Local peoples and colonial transplants together produced a wide range of cultural hybrid styles and ways of thinking.

Collecting Across Cultures by Daniela Bleichmar (Editor); Peter C. Mancall (Editor)
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Publication Date: 2011-03-17
Cultural Contact and the Making of European Art since the Age of Exploration by Mary D. Sheriff (Editor)
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Publication Date: 2010-06-21
Global Design History by Glenn Adamson (Editor); Giorgio Riello (Editor); Sarah Teasley (Editor)
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Publication Date: 2011-04-20
Europeans and Africans by Michał Tymowski
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ISBN: 9789004420113
Publication Date: 2020-09-10
In Europeans and Africans Michal Tymowski analyses the cultural and organizational aspects of contacts of both sides on the West African coast in the 15th and early 16th centuries, and the creation of the image of 'other' - African for Europeans, and European for Africans.
Global Gifts: The Material Culture of Diplomacy in Early Modern Eurasia
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Publication Date: 2019-02-28
Global Interactions in the Early Modern Age, 1400-1800 by Charles H. Parker
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Publication Date: 2010-09-30
Available as E-book.
Group Identity in the Renaissance World by Hannah Chapelle Wojciehowski
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Publication Date: 2011-08-22
Lettered Artists and the Languages of Empire: Painters and the profession in early colonial Quito by Susan Verdi Webster
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Publication Date: 2017-09-27
Lexikon of the Hispanic Baroque by edited by Evonne Levy and Kenneth Mills
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ISBN: 9780292753099
Making Worlds : Global Invention in the Early Modern Period by Angela Vanhaelen, ed.
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ISBN: 1487544952
Publication Date: 2022
This collection examines the interdisciplinary phenomenon of making worlds, with essays from scholars of history, literary studies, theatre and performance, art history, and anthropology. Case studies show how peoples around the world resisted the imposition of European economic, religious, political, and military models by generating new cultural syntheses.
Spectacular Wealth by Lisa Voigt
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Publication Date: 2016-12-13

Finding Primary Sources

The Spanish Pacific, 1521-1815: A Reader of Primary Sources by Christina Lee (Editor); Ricardo Padrón (Editor)
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Publication Date: 2020-03-23
This reader provides a selection of documents relevant to the encounters and entanglements that arose in the Spanish Pacific between European, Spanish Americans, and Asians while highlighting the role of natives, mestizos, and women. See Tripod for print copy.