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History 335

Hunger in History
Prof. Grant
Spring 2008
 

Background Materials

The Cambridge world history of food
Location: Reserve TX353 .C255 2000
The dictionary of American food & drink
Location: REF TX349 .M26 1983
Encyclopedia of food and culture
Location: Reserve GT2850 .E53 2003
Encyclopedia of human nutrition
Location: REF QP141 .E526 2005
Foods & nutrition encyclopedia
Location: REF TX349 .F575 1983
Food and nutrition information guide
Location: REF TX601 .S95 1987
McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of food, agriculture & nutrition
Location: REF TX349 .M2
On food and cooking : the science and lore of the kitchen
Location: REF TX651 .M37 2004
The World food book : an A-Z, atlas, and statistical source book
Location: REF HD9000.5 .W567
World hunger : a guide to the economic and political dimensions
Location: REF HD9000.5 .B32 1981
World hunger : a reference handbook
Location: REF HD9000.5 .K883 1991
Worldmark encyclopedia of cultures and daily life
Location: REF GN333 .W67 1998 


 
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Finding Books

Use ALEX, the library catalog, to find books on your topic.

  • Search topics by SUBJECT or KEYWORD
     
  • Search on the following subject headings:
    [subject]-Collections
    [subject]-Correspondence
    [subject]-Diaries
    [subject]-Interviews
    [subject]-Narratives
    [subject]-Personal narratives
    [subject]-Quotations
    [subject]-Sources
    Cookery
    Diet
    Food
    Food Habits
    Food writing
    Metabolism.
    Eating disorders
    Food supply
    Nutrition policy
    Nutrition
    Women food writers
    under ethnic groups, and individual animals and groups of animals, e.g. Fishes--Food;
    and individual foods and beverages, e.g. Bread, Milk

 
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Finding Journal Articles

*Academic Search Premier
general
AGRICOLA
crops, food supply
America: History and Life
North American history
Biological Abstracts
foods, nutrition, toxicology
Historical Abstracts
non-North American history
Humanities and Social Sciences Retrospective, 1907-1984
general
LexisNexis Academic
recent newspaper articles
PubMed
medical, nutrition
ScienceDirect
all sciences
WorldWide Political Science Abstracts
government, public policy

 

 
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Finding Primary Resources

Ad*Access (1911-55) 
American Memory Project
American Broadsides and Ephemera, 1770-1876
ARTstor
America's Historical Newspapers
   Early American Newspapers Series I, 1690-1876 
   Early American Newspapers Series II, 1758-1900
   Early American Newspapers Series III, 1829-1922

Early American Imprints – Evans, 1639-1800
Early American Imprints- Shaw Shoemaker, 1801-1819

Emergence of Advertising in America (1850-1920)
Historic News York Times, 1851-2002

Internet Archive: Moving Image Archive
Collection of thousands of videos ranging from classic full-length movies to daily alternative news broadcasts and user-uploaded videos (See rights information.)
 
Of particular note is the Prelinger Archives, an online collection of approximately 2,000 ephemeral (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films made between 1927 and 1987.

Times (of London)
Full text and page images of the London Times from 1785-1985.

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Get Help

For assistance with this course, contact:

Kristin Strohmeyer
Reference Librarian/Coordinator of Instructional Services
Burke Library
859-4481
kstrohme@hamilton.edu

 
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(Reviewed: February 29, 2008)