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POLS 161: Global Political Economy: Race, Labor, Power (HC)

POLS 161: Global Political Economy: Race, Labor, Powern (Borowiak) Spring 2023

Cities: Montréal

                                    Matias Garabedian,  Black Lives Matter, Montréal, June 7, 2020 (Source: flickr, Creative Commons 2.0)

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, 3 and 4 below, using keywords (Any Field in Tripod) rather than subjects will pick up results from chapter titles while the use of subject searches focuses on book content.

       (racis* OR racial*) AND ("united kingdom" OR "great britain" OR england) AND (cities OR city OR urban) [Any Field search]   Connect from Bryn Mawr College   Icon  Icon

        ("great britain" OR england) AND (racism OR "race relations" OR "black people") AND (city OR cities OR urban OR london) NOT history  [All Subjects]  Connect from Bryn Mawr College  Icon  Icon

       singapore AND planning [Any Field] Limited to 2010-present publications    Connect from Bryn Mawr College  Icon  Icon

       (labor OR work* OR union*) AND nairobi [All Any Field]  Connect from Bryn Mawr College  Icon  Icon

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

Beyond the Tri-College Collections

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 for titles owned by libraries around the world. Many of these items are available to you though interlibrary loan.  Use the  button to place requests.