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HIST 211: East Asian Environmental History (Fall 2024)

Databases

Important note: if you are getting too many results, go into "search options" and deselect "also search within the full text" and "apply equivalent subjects"

Examples

Based on the book searches we just conducted, how might we need to change our searches for articles?

  • 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*

Tips

  • try the same search in multiple databases because the results will differ
  • you may need to revise and simplify your results 
  • use the specialized functions of Historical Abstracts to avoid awkward phrases like "premodern"
  • pay attention to subject headings
  • remember that Korea, China, and Japan are Subject headings