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History: Assignment 114 -Prof Sandra Swart

Assignment 114 - Information

Please see information for each topic.

Videos on how to use databases are under the training videos tab.

There is a selection of books on Short loans see under History. This is only a guideline, please use our library catalogue to search for other books. Books on Short loans (Upper level next to the Information Desk – allowed to use only in the library 3 books for 3 hours at a time)

Also search for journal articles. Use databases Academic Search Premier and JSTOR with each topic.

Short loans under HISTORY 114 SWART & HISTORY 114 KOTZE

 

Topics

Assignments: History 114 Prof Sandra Swart

Due date: 25 March 2024

Topic 1: Agricultural revolution

Short loans BOOKS

  • Western Civilization - J Spielvogel : Chapter 1
  • Farming in Prehistory - Bender
  • The first farmers - Leonard, J
  • Inside the neolithic mind: consciousness, cosmos and the realm of the gods
  • Neolithic
Use keywords for book searches and databases Academic Search Premier & Google Scholar and JSTOR
hunter-gatherer
"agricultural societies"
gender
class
 
Topic 2: Organised religion
Short loans BOOKS
  • The History of Humanity volume 1
  • Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human societies
  • Western Civilization – J Spielvogel
  • The human past : world history and the development of human societies
  • Evolving brains, emerging gods : early humans and the origins of religion
 
Use keywords for book searches and databases Academic Search Premier & Google Scholar and JSTOR
religion
"sedentary communities"
"sedentary states"
religion AND "sedentary communities"
 
Topic 3: Domestication of Animals
Look at books on Neolithic period and the history of farming and agriculture shelf number 630.9
Short loans BOOKS
  • The Human past – S Scarre Chapter 6
  • Western Civilization – J Spielvogel Chapter 1
  • Civilizations – Perry Chapter 1
  • Farming in prehistory – B Bender
  • Guns, germs and steel – J Diamond Chapters 4-11
  • The first farmers – J Leonard
  • The first farmers – P Bellwood

Use keywords for book searches and databases Academic Search Premier & Google Scholar and JSTOR

Hunter gatherers

Domestication of animals

Neolithic revolution

 
Topic 4:  Piltdown hoax

Short loans BOOKS 

  • The fossil Chronicles
  • Seven Skeletons
  • A Search for Origins
  • The Piltdown men

Use keywords for book searches and databases Academic Search Premier & Google Scholar and JSTOR

Keywords:

Piltdown

Fraud AND archeology

"Human origins"

 

Topic 5: Black Death

Short loans BOOKS 

  • Dictionary of the Middle Ages Volume 2 (Very important source!)
  • The Black Death – R Gottfried
  • The Black Death – P Ziegler
  • The Black Death and the transformation of the West – D Herlihy
  • The Black Death 1346 – 1353. The complete history – O Benedictow
  • The Great Mortality – J Kelly
  • Epidemics and Pandemics: their impacts on Human history – JN van Hays
  • In the wake of the plague – N Cantor

Use keywords for book searches and databases Academic Search Premier & Google Scholar and JSTOR

bubonic plague

black death

 

Topic 6:  Colonisation

eg. UNESCO General History of Africa Vol VII

Also two Encyclopedias on the lower level green disk shelves:

Short loans BOOKS

  • Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara - volume 1 (colonialism / imperialism)
  • Encylopedia of African history - volume 1 pages 264+  R960.03 Enc 
  • Search on Library catalogue for books use the keywords : colonialism or imperialism

SEE also Yellow disk shelves lower level shelf number 960 General History books on Africa

Use keywords in databases Academic Search Premier & Google Scholar and JSTOR

Keywords:

Imperialism and history

Colonialism and history

Colonialism and reasons

Colonialism and causes

Colonisation AND Africa

 

Topic 6:  Scramble for Africa

Short loans BOOKS

  • Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara - volume 1 (colonialism / imperialism) pages 316?
  • Encylopedia of African history - volume 1 pages 264+
  • General history of Africa: Africa under colonial domination,  volume VII

Books on Reference: R960.3 , Green discs

Books on open shelves: 960.3, Yellow discs

Use keywords in databases Academic Search Premier & Google Scholar and JSTOR

"Berlin conference"

Africa

colonisation

imperialism

"scramble for Africa"

Topic 8:  Globalization

Short loans BOOKS

  • A splendid exchange – W Bernstein
  • The Routledge International handbook of globalization studies – B Turner
  • Globalization: a short history – J Osterhammel
  • Bound together – N Chanda
  • Heyday – B Wilson

Use keywords in databases Academic Search Premier & Google Scholar and JSTOR

globalisation AND politics

globalisation AND culture

globalization AND technology

globalisation AND economy

Search the library catalogue

globalization

Globalization and history

 

 

 

 

 

 

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