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HIST 115: Postcards from the Atlantic World (HC)

History 115: Postcards from the Atlantic World (Saler) Fall 2023

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    It includes the print books at the other two colleges that you can request.  When searching for books in Tripod use the Books + Media channel.

You can Limit your results to ONLINE in the availability filter in the upper left corner of the results screen.

The following subject searches are a sampling of possibilities. To find materials on a topic, try doing a title search in the Tripod Catalog to find some relevant material and then use the subject headings assigned to those titles to find more books.

    africa AND (travel OR exploration)  AND "18th century" [Keywords]    Connect from Bryn Mawr College   Icon  

    africa history AND  ("18th century")  [Subjects]  Newest books first   Connect from Bryn Mawr College  Icon  

    ("native americans" OR "indians of north america") AND "18th century" [Subjects]    Connect from Bryn Mawr College   Icon  

    (slave* OR "free black*") [Subject] AND (women OR gender)  AND "18th century" [Keywords]  Connect from Bryn Mawr College  Icon  

    "atlantic ocean region"  [Subject] AND (religio* OR christian* OR islam* OR muslim*) [Keywords]  Connect from Bryn Mawr College  Icon  

    (caribbean OR brazil) AND  (sugar OR plantation*) AND ("18th century")  [Subjects]   Connect from Bryn Mawr College  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.