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HIST 350: Decolonial Histories of Mathematics and Astronomy (HC)

History 350: Decolonial Histories of Mathematics and Astronomy (Kumar) Fall 2020

Finding Scholarly Studies in Books

Use the Tripod catalog for your home institution  Connect from Bryn Mawr College  This link opens in a new windowConnect from Haverford College  This link opens in a new windowConnect from Swarthmore College  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 searches are a sampling of possibilities.  To find materials on a topic, try doing a keyword search in the Tripod Catalog to find relevant materials 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.  In examples #1 and 4 below, using keywords (rather than subjects) will pick up results from chapter titles.

        algebra*  AND (muslim* OR arab*)  AND history  [Keyword search]   Connect from Bryn Mawr College   Icon  Icon

        mathematics AND history  [Subjects]  AND (arab* OR muslim* OR islam* OR "middle east*") [Keywords]  Connect from Bryn Mawr College  Icon  Icon

        "history of science" [Subject] AND (decolon* OR colon* OR asia* OR world OR global) NOT "20th century" [Keywords]   Connect from Bryn Mawr College  Icon  Icon

        astronom* [Keyword]  AND history india* [Subjects]   Connect from Bryn Mawr College  Icon  Icon

 

Beyond the Tri-College Collections

An important place to look for many materials not owned by the Tricollege Libraries. This combined library catalog contains more than 500 million records for material owned by libraries around the world. Many of these items are available to you though interlibrary loan.  Use the  button to place requests.  Also note that older books, reports and dissertations are often listed with open access URLs.