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
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
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.

American Contact : Objects of Intercultural Encounter and the Boundaries of Book History by Rhae Lynn Barnes (Editor); Glenda Goodman (Editor)
ISBN: 9781512825763

Publication Date: 2024-08-06

A Jesuit report captures the last words of a Wendat leader and enslaved people repurpose an invitation to a ball in colonial Antigua. Countless material texts resulted from intercultural encounters in the Americas. Presenting 48 biographies of objects, this collection explores the dynamics of power and resistance,
Collecting Across Cultures by Daniela Bleichmar (Editor); Peter C. Mancall (Editor)
Publication Date: 2011-03-17
Cultural Contact and the Making of European Art since the Age of Exploration by Mary D. Sheriff (Editor)
Publication Date: 2010-06-21
Global Design History by Glenn Adamson (Editor); Giorgio Riello (Editor); Sarah Teasley (Editor)
Publication Date: 2011-04-20
Europeans and Africans by Michał Tymowski
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
Publication Date: 2019-02-28
Global Interactions in the Early Modern Age, 1400-1800 by Charles H. Parker
Publication Date: 2010-09-30

Available as E-book.
Group Identity in the Renaissance World by Hannah Chapelle Wojciehowski
Publication Date: 2011-08-22
Lettered Artists and the Languages of Empire: Painters and the profession in early colonial Quito by Susan Verdi Webster
Publication Date: 2017-09-27
Lexikon of the Hispanic Baroque by edited by Evonne Levy and Kenneth Mills
ISBN: 9780292753099
Making Worlds : Global Invention in the Early Modern Period by Angela Vanhaelen, ed.
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.
The Routledge Companion to Global Renaissance Art by Stephen J. Campbell; Stephanie Porras
ISBN: 9781032261584

Publication Date: 2024-01-01

This companion examines the global Renaissance through object-based case studies of artistic production from Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Europe in the early modern period. Main themes include workshops, the migrations of artists, objects, technologies, diplomatic gifts, imperial ideologies, ethnicity and indigeneity, sacred spaces and image cults.
Spectacular Wealth by Lisa Voigt
Publication Date: 2016-12-13

Finding Primary Sources

Afro-Latino Voices by Kathryn Joy McKnight (Editor); Leo Garofalo
Publication Date: 2009-12-01

A groundbreaking book . . . provides a broad and rich sampling of documents recording the early modern voices of the African diaspora. . . . Wills, testaments, letters, and historical chronicles are some of the sources that scholars from various disciplines present in this anthology.
Empire and Identity : An Eighteenth-century Sourcebook by Stephen H. Gregg
ISBN: 1403921407

Publication Date: 2005-10-17

This anthology of primary material brings together literary and non-literary texts from the 18th-century focusing on issues including commerce and colonialism. Britons' sense of identity see-sawed between embattled vulnerability and unassailable supremacy. Empire was crucial in shaping this, but contact with other peoples often threw into sharp relief or transformed this sense of identity.
The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415-1670 : A Documentary History by Malyn Newitt (Editor)
ISBN: 9780511779954

Publication Date: 2012-06-05

This book brings together documents - all in new English translation - that illustrate aspects of the encounters between the Portuguese and the peoples of North and West Africa in the period from 1400 to 1650. This period witnessed the diaspora of the Sephardic Jews, the emigration of Portuguese to West Africa and the islands, and the beginnings of the mass enslavement of Black people. Documents also describe the evolution of the black Portuguese communities in Guinea and the islands.
The Spanish Pacific, 1521-1815: A Reader of Primary Sources Volume 1 by Christina Lee (Editor); Ricardo Padrón (Editor)
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.