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79-200: Historical Evidence and Interpretation:

Sugar and Work: Empire and Migration: A Resource Guide

Background Books Government Documents Journal Articles

Magazine Articles Newspaper Articles Statistics

Background

Use these resources to get more information on a particular topic, to clarify facts, etc. Longer encyclopedia articles may illustrate major issues in a particular topic, and usually include a bibliography of relevant resources.

• Ciment, James. Encyclopedia of American Immigration. 4 vols. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2001.
  HUNT REF-1 304.873 E56

• Chaliand, Gérard and Jean-Pierre Rageau. Penguin Atlas of Diasporas. New York: Viking, 1995.
  HUNT REF-1 304.8 C43P

• Flanders, Stephen A. Atlas of American Migration. New York: Facts on File, 1998.
  HUNT REF-1 304.80973 F58A

• Garcia, Antonio Santamaria. "Sugar Plantations." In Encyclopedia of Cuba: People, History, Culture, edited by Luis Martínez-Fernández, D. H. Figueredo, Louis A. Pérez Jr., and Luis González, vol. 1, pp. 118-120. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2003.
  HUNT REF-1 972.91 E56 vol. 1

• Kit, Wade A. "Sugar Industry." In Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, edited by Barbara A. Tenenbaum, vol. 5, pp. 187-188. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1996

• Pan, Lynn. Encyclopedia of the Chinese Overseas. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999.
  HUNT REF-1 304.80951 E56
  See esp. "The Caribbean" and "Spanish America," pp. 248-258.

• Pollitt, Brian H. "Sugar." In Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures, edited by Daniel Balderston, Mike Gonzalez and Ana M. López, vol. 3, p. 1427. New York: Routledge, 2000.
  HUNT REF-1 972.9003 E56 vol. 3

• Segal, Aaron. Atlas of International Migration. New Jersey: Hans Zell Publishers, 1993.
  HUNT REF-1 304.8 S45A

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Books

To find books on your topic, use the catalogs listed below.

Some search terms might be: west indies caribbean area cuba

perhaps in combination with: labor sugar indentured servants chinese east indians

If you need help finding books on your topic, ask at the Hunt Library reference desk. The reference staff can help you identify appropriate terms and search strategies to use for your topic.

• Cameo
  Catalog of the materials in the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries, including books, periodicals (journals, magazines, newspapers), videos, etc.

• Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
  Catalog of Pittsburgh's public libraries. Carnegie Mellon faculty, staff, and students can borrow materials by getting a Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh library card at the Main Library lending desk. Library Cards are free to residents of Allegheny County (bring proof of address), as well as out-of-town college students residing in the county (bring your Carnegie Mellon ID card and proof of local address). You can also have materials brought to one of the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries by the Courier Service via Illiad by noting the library and call number in the notes field.

• Pittcat (University of Pittsburgh Libraries)
  Catalog of the University of Pittsburgh Library System, including all branch campus libraries. Carnegie Mellon faculty, staff, and students can borrow materials by getting a Special Borrower's card at the Hillman Library circulation desk with their Carnegie Mellon ID cards and proof of current Carnegie Mellon affiliation. See University of Pittsburgh Library System Reciprocal Borrowing Agreement for details. You can also have materials brought to one of the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries by the Courier Service via Illiad by noting the library and call number in the notes field.
  Hillman Library has such books as:
  • Creoles and Coolies, or, Five Years in Mauritius
    DTY469.M4 B3 1971
  • Indian Unrest: reprint, revised and enlarged, from 'The Times.
    DS480.C54
  • Annals of Rural bengal
    DS485.B41 H9 1970
  • Forest Life in Ceylon
    DS489.K71

• Worldcat (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  1200-present (Updated daily)
  Citations to books, titles of journals, manuscripts, and other materials in libraries throughout the United States, as well as some international libraries. You can limit your search to books by by selecting Book in the Type option. Each record will let you know which libraries have that item. Use E-ZBorrow or the Interlibrary loan service Illiad for materials not in the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries.

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Government Documents

British:

• Great Britain. Parliament. Sessional Papers.
  1696-1900.
  UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, HILLMAN LIBRARY, GROUND FLOOR, MICROPRINT J301
  Public bills, committee reports, commissioners' reports, and accounts and papers. This latter category includes Command papers, papers presented to Parliament by order of the king or queen. They include state papers (treaty series, country series, miscellaneous), policy or white papers, annual reports, reports of Royal Commissions, tribunals and commissions of inquiry, departmental committees, and statistical reports. Some command papers of interest:
  • 1859, Cmd. 2452, Papers Relative to Immigration to the West Indies: presented to Parliament, August 1857.
  • 1861, Cmd. 2887, Correspondence between Her Majesty and the Emperor of the French Relative to the Emigration of Labourers from India to the French Colonies.
  • 1871, Cmd. 393, Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Enquire into the Treantment of Immigrants in British Guiana (with accompanying volumes of evidenc, etc.)
  • 1878-9, Cmd. 2437, Papers Relative to the Condition of Indian Immigration in Grenada
  • 1884-5, Cmd. 4366, The Recent Coolie Disturbances in Trinidad

  To find others, use

  • Subject Catalogue of the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, 1801-1900
    UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, HILLMAN LIBRARY REFERENCE Z2019 c63 1988 V. 1-5
    Volume 5: The Dominions and Colonies. Slavery and the Slave Trade. Defence and the Armed Services. Foreign Affairs and Diplomacy
    The Dominions and Colonies section is broken down by particular colonies, with the documents listed in chronological order. There is also a subject index in the back.

  • Irish University Press Series of British Parliamentary Papers. [General] Index.
    UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, HILLMAN LIBRARY REFERENCE f z2009 .I73 [compact shelving 68-70]
    Hillman has vols. 4-8:
    • 4. 1852-1869. Bills, reports, estimates, accounts, and papers.
    • 5. 1801-1852. Bills, printed by order of the House of Commons.
    • 6. 1870-1879. Bills, reports, estimates, accounts, and papers.
    • 7. 1880-1889. Bills, reports, estimates, accounts, and papers.
    • 8. 1890-1899. Bills, reports, estimates, accounts, and papers.
    Pick the range of years you want, then use subject index in back. Entries give additional subject terms to use.

  For each of these indexes, a complete citation will look like this:

  Correspondence Relating to Royal Comm. of Inquiry into Condition of Indian Immigrants in Mauritius. 1875 [c1118] LIII.201.

  Command Papers will have their numbers in brackets rather than parenthesis.

  Once you have the complete citation information on the document you need, to find the actual document listed in these indexes, go to the British Sessional Papers in the UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, HILLMAN LIBRARY MICROFORMS room. These papers are located on the back wall of the microforms room, under number J301. They will be in year (session order), then volume order. Locate the year and volume you need. The microcards in the box will be arranged by volume and page, with this information listed on the upper right hand corner. Locate the volume and page you need. Microprint readers are available, staff can show you where they are and how to use.

• The Times Digital Archive (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  1785-1985.
  In the Advanced Search, select the Politics and Parliament portion of News and combine with terms for your topic and date ranges to locate reporting on the Parliament, especially the House of Commons.

• Great Britain. Parliament. The Parliamentary Debates. London: Published under the superintendence of T.C. Hansard, 1820-1829.
  UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH HILLMAN LIBRARY General Collection J301 H619
  Print: v.1-20 <1820-1829>

• Great Britain. Parliament. Hansard's Parliamentary Debates. [S.l.: s.n.], 1829-1891 (London: T.C. Hansard).
  UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH HILLMAN LIBRARY General Collection J301 H619
  Print: 2:21-25;3:1-356 <1829-1830;1830-1891>

• Great Britain. Parliament. The Parliamentary Debates/ United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Reuter's Telegram Co., 1892-1908.
  UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH HILLMAN LIBRARY Temporarily Shelved at Storage Facility - REQUEST via Illiad
  Print: v.1,1-199 <1892-1908>

American:

• LexisNexis Congressional (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  Use the Historical Indexes to find citations to published and unpublished committee hearings, committee prints, Senate executive documents and reports, American State papers, etc. A reference librarian can help you determine if there is a copy of the document you want in Hunt Library, since most will not show up in Cameo. Be prepared to go to either the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh or Hillman Library, University of Pittsburgh for most goverment documents of this period.

• Register of Debates (American Memory, Library of Congress)
  1824-1837.

• Congressional Globe (American Memory, Library of Congress)
  1833-73.

• Congressional Record (American Memory, Library of Congress)
  1873-75.

• Historical New York Times (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  1851-ca. 1999.
  Locate reporting on the U. S. Congress

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Journal Articles

Journal articles are written by scholars in the field, and are the type of article your professors usually expect to see in your papers, supporting your thesis. They are located by use of databases, which usually cover journal articles in a particular field. While you might find a few articles in a search of the surface web by using a search engine like Google, you will find many more by using these specialized databases, which Google, and even Google Scholar, do not search.

• America: History and Life (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  1964-present (updated monthly).
  Citations, some abstracts, and some full text links to journal articles, dissertations, and book and media reviews on United States and Canadian history from prehistory to the present. Use the advanced search to search or browse subject terms. Use the Time Period line to limit to a particular century, e. g. 1800H or even a particular decade, e. g. 1850d. You can combine one or more decades, e. g. 1850d or 1870d or 1880d

• Bibliography of Asian Studies (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  1971-present.
  Search citations to books, journal articles, chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, etc., in all areas of Asian studies.

• Historical Abstracts (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  1967-present (updated monthly).
  The best resource for finding citations and some abstracts of journal articles, books, and dissertations on world history from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada), with some links to full text. It covers all historical topics and a variety of disciplines including religion, gender studies, anthropology, political science, etc. Most of the books and dissertations are from 1979 to the present. To limit your search to only books and/or journal articles, click on the button to the right of the Document Type line. Mark the document type(s) you want, then click on Paste Term. To limit your search to English language materials, type in english on the Language line. Use the Time Period line to limit to a particular century, e. g. 1800H or even a particular decade, e. g. 1850d. You can combine one or more decades, e. g. 1850d or 1870d or 1880d.

If full text links for journal articles are not provided, click on the SFX button to see retrieval options. This is only for journal article citations, and may not be available in all databases. Otherwise, use Cameo to see if materials are in the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries. If they aren't, you can use the Interlibrary Loan options to either borrow or obtain a photocopy of the material.

Depending on your topic, other scholarly databases may be of use, too. See Databases by Name and Databases by Subject for additional resources. If you need help finding scholarly articles on your topic, ask the reference staff at the Hunt Library reference desk.

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Magazine Articles

• HarpWeek (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  1857-1912
  Search and display the full text of Harper's Weekly

• Nineteenth Century in Print: Periodicals (American Memory, Library of Congress)

• 19th Century Masterfile (Carnegie Mellon users only)

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Newspaper Articles

Newspaper articles can give a sense of the importance of an event or reaction to it. With each of these databases you can limit your search by a particular time period. Using the Advanced Search in these databases gives you the most search options.

• Historical New York Times (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  1851-ca. 1999.
  Search and display the full text of newspaper articles from the New York Times.

• The Times Digital Archive (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  1785-1985.
  Search and display the full text of newspaper articles from the Times (London).

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Statistics

• Census of India Reports from 1871-1901 (La Trobe University)
  A work in progress, with 1640 pages of text online, and images still being loaded.

• Historical Data (Digital South Asian Library)
  Statistical Abstract Relating to British India, 1840-1920.

• Historical Statistics of the United States: Colonial Times to 1970. Washington, D. C.: U. S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, 1976.
  HUNT REF-1 317.3 U25ABS SUPP. 1970
  Historical Statistics of the United States on CD-ROM: Colonial Times to 1970 [CD-ROM]. New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
  HUNT REF-1 317.3 U25ABS SUPP. 1970A

• Mitchell, Brian R. International Historical Statistics: Africa, Asia and Oceania, 1750-2000. 4th ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
  HUNT REF-1 316 M68I4

• Mitchell, Brian R. International Historical Statistics: the Americas, 1750-2000. 5th ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
  HUNT REF-1 317 M68I5

• Mitchell, Brian R. International Historical Statistics: Europe, 1750-2000. 5th ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
  HUNT REF-1 314 M68I5

• Statistical Abstracts (U. S. Census Bureau)
  1878-present.
  Print versions are in Hunt Library Reference, 317.3 U25ABS

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Unclear of where to start or what to do? Contact Sue Collins, Liaison Librarian for History sc24@andrew.cmu.edu (for Carnegie Mellon faculty, staff, and students only). You can also see when Sue will be at the Hunt Library Reference Desk, available to help, by logging on to My Andrew and selecting "View Calendar" from the menu on the left. Use the "View Agenda" icon, and search "Susan Collins."