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African History

Research guide for sources in colonial and modern African history

Library Catalogue: Sofia

 

Search the Sofia Discovery tool for McGill's collection of resources: books, journals & articles, multimedia, and other resources, in both print or electronic format.

Useful Book Series

Tips for Searching the Catalogue

The monograph (a specialist book) is the primary means of scholarly communication in history as a discipline. Search the Sofia Discovery tool for McGill's collection of resources including books and eBooks.

You can search using words like - Africa, apartheid, hist*, etc.

Search tips for the library catalogue:

Truncation symbol: * e.g., hist* will retrieve catalogue records containing the words history, historical, historically, histoire, etc.
Phrase searching: "___" e.g., "Colonial Africa" will retrieve catalogue records containing the phrase Colonial Africa
Boolean operators: (...), AND, OR, NOT
default: AND
e.g., women AND (Rhodesia OR Zimbabwe) will retrieve catalogue records containing the word women AND either Rhodesia OR Zimbabwe
Subject headings: su:(___) e.g., su:(Sierra Leone--Social conditions--History) will retrieve catalogue records assigned this subject heading

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