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 - Canada, Quebec, 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., "fur trade" will retrieve catalogue records containing the phrase fur trade |
| Boolean operators: | (...), AND, OR, NOT default: AND |
e.g., religion AND (Ontario OR "Canadian Confederation") will retrieve catalogue records containing the word religion AND either Ontario OR Canadian Confederation |
| Subject headings: | su:(___) | e.g., su:(Quebec (Province) History) will retrieve catalogue records assigned this subject heading |
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