HIST 211: East Asian Environmental History (Fall 2024)

Using the catalog, limit to books and ebooks. 

Try the searches we used earlier to find article.

Since we are no longer in a specialized history database, we may need to add an extra search term, such as Atlantic or History.

NOTE:

Our Catalog included primary sources, so limit the publication date to no earlier than, say, 1985. 

• 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*

• Pay attention to subject headings!
• Is your topic a full book topic or an article topic?
• how can you narrow your topic?
• You may need to revise your search.
• look at chapters
• Japan, Korea, China are all subject headings. Search them as Subjects to narrow results further.
  • example

Check worldcat to see if there are books on your topic we do not own!

You may need to add AND history as a subject, and will need to limit to English.