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HIST 211: East Asian Environmental History (Fall 2024)

Getting Started

  1. Start by writing out your question or topic.
  2. identify key terms
  3. identify potential synonyms
  4. Use AND OR NOT to create search phrases. 
  5. Conduct several searches, revising keywords backed on subject terms & commonly used language in the articles/books.

Consider: is this a book-length topic or an article length topic?

Examples

  • Forestry in preindustrial China
    • Forestry
    • China
    • Preindustrial, premodern, early modern.
      • Forestry AND (China OR Chinese) AND (premodern OR preindustrial OR "Early modern")
  • the impact of rice cultivation in Korean History
    • rice
    • cultivation, agriculture, crops
      • rice AND (cultivation OR agriculture) AND korea*

Let's do it together!