Research Guides: HIST 208: Decolonizing Colonial Latin American and Caribbean History (HC): Books

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Crowned nun, 18th century, Mexico (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

Finding Scholarly Studies in Books

Use the Tripod catalog for your home institution 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 keyword search (called Any Field) in the Tripod Catalog to find some relevant material and then use the subject headings assigned to those titles to find more books.

"latin america*" AND colonial [Subjects] AND (race OR racial) [Any Field]

"catholic church" mexico history [Subjects]

(mexic* OR peru* OR "latin america*") [Subjects] AND (women* OR girl* OR gender*) AND "17th century" [Any field]

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

Tripod Catalog
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Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges each have their own Tripod catalog. To see digital material owned only by BMC, use the BMC Tripod link (tripod.brynmawr.edu). You will need to be on the BMC campus in order to access those digital resources.
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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A catalog of the holdings of books, journals, and other materials held by OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) member libraries. Includes manuscripts, maps, films and sound recordings.
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 title records owned by libraries around the world. Many of these items are available to you though interlibrary loan. Use the FindIt button to place requests.