• Finding Books
• Reference Books
• Article Databases

Finding Books

Use the GCC Library Catalog to locate books related to the topics in the question. For example, if you're supposed to researching the Crusades (origins, motives, results, related social and economic problems, etc.), look for books on the Crusades as a subject. See the sample catalog search below. You can also do a search for history sources by entering a country's name followed by the word "history." For example,

• syria history
• egypt history
• china history

Note: If you don't find any results after doing a Subject Browse search, try a Keyword search instead.

Your results from the above search will look like the following:

You will have to use various sources to locate the necessary information; it's very unlikely that one book will answer all parts of your research question. Look in the Table of Contents and index to identify which sections of the book discuss the origins, results, etc. of the Crusades.

 

Reference Books

Reference books are a great source of background information.

Atlas of the Crusades

REF 911 R573a

Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History

REF 903 B513

Cambridge Encyclopedia of China

REF 951.003 C178

Dictionary of Buddhism

REF 294.303 K37d

Dictionary of Chinese History

REF 951.003 D579d

Dictionary of Medieval Civilization

REF 909.070321 D131d

Empires at War: A Chronological Encyclopedia

REF 355.009303 G118e

Encyclopedia of Barbarian Europe: Society in Transformation

REF 940.103 F843e

Encyclopedia of Religion and War

REF 291.17873 E56

Encyclopedia of the Crusades

REF 909.07 A556e

Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life: A Tour Through History from Ancient Times to the Present

REF 390 G816

Historical Atlas of China

REF 912.51 H568h, 1966

Larousse Encyclopedia of Ancient and Medieval History

REF 909.07 L332

Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia

REF 909.09767 M489

Muslim Almanac: A Reference Work on the History, Faith, Culture and Peoples of Islam

REF 297 M987

 

Article Databases

The following article databases can be accessed from the GCC Library's home page at http://www.glendale.edu/library.

• Biography Resource Center
• Daily Life Online
• ProQuest