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Africana Studies 235 & 236

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            Catalog

    • subject search: 
      • Africa – civilization
      • Africa – history
      • Africa – historiography
      • Africa – ethnography
      • Liberia – politics and government  (use any country name followed by politics and government)
    • keyword search: 
      • Ashanti
      • democra*
      • Nigeria
      • colonial* or imperial*
      • Liberia

 

            Databases

    • Google Scholar
    • Historical Abstracts
    • Humanities International Complete
    • JSTOR
    • Black Studies Center
    • Academic Search Premier

      Resources:

      Reference Collection:

      Arnold, Guy.  Historical dictionary of civil wars in Africa.  Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow
      Press, 1999.  (DT 21.5.G89 1999)

      Clegg, Claude Andrew.  The price of liberty: African Americans and the making of
      Liberia.  Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
      (DT 633.C58 2004)

      Déme, Mourtada.  Law, morality and international armed intervention:  the United
      Nations and ECOWAS in Liberia. New York : Routledge, 2005.
      (DT 636.D46 2005)

      Falola, Toyin.  Key events in African history:  a reference guide
      Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002. (DT 20.F34 2002)

      Levitt, Jeremy I.  The evolution of deadly conflict in Liberia:  from ‘paternaltarianism’
      to state collapse.  Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, 2005.
      (DT 631.L45 2005)

      Moran, Mary.  Liberia:  the violence of democracy.  Philadelphia : University of
      Pennsylvania Press, 2006.  (DT 636.M69 2006)

       

      Online resources:

      • Internet History Sourcebooks Project

      http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/africa/africasbook.html

      • eHRAF Collection of Ethnography

      Available through UT Libraries Anthropology Subject Guide
      http://www.lib.utk.edu/refs/anthropology/newdatabases.html

      • Historical Abstracts

      (Available through UT Libraries Databases)

      • Humanities International Complete

      (Available through UT Libraries Databases)


 


Link to Africana Studies Handout in Word here.

 

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    February 12, 2008