Campion Library: History Research Guides: Decolonization

USEFUL LINKS

Decolonization
When the United Nations was founded in 1945, some 750 million people, nearly a third of the world's population, lived in Territories that were dependent on colonial Powers. Today, fewer than 2 million people live under colonial rule in the 17 remaining non-self-governing territories. The wave of decolonization, which changed the face of the planet, was born with the UN and represents the world body’s first great success.
International School of History - Decolonization
This essay looks at decolonisation in Turkey, Iran, China, India, the Far East, Indo-China, Gold Coast, Algeria, Congo, Rhodesia
Decolonization of Asia and Africa, 1945–1960
Between 1945 and 1960, three dozen new states in Asia and Africa achieved autonomy or outright independence from their European colonial rulers.
Decolonization Resource Collection: Africa
A collection of links to primary and secondary sources on decolonization in Africa
Decolonization and Revolution
From the late 18th century, decolonisation was a central defining historical trend, which shaped the global system of states as it exists today through the release of revolutionary forces.

VIDEOS

This programme approaches the Third World as a series of areas each with varying degrees and various types of deprivation. It traces the origins og the division of one world into three, referring in passing to the problems inherited from colonialism and from decolonisation.

Evaluating Sources Libguide

Research is a process with many steps, and is rarely linear. A good researcher uses multiple sources and continually goes back and reviews their question and keeps adding new vocabulary and learning to their search. This Libguide has been created to provide support for your research tasks in this subject.

Before starting your research, it is good practice to think about and create a list of keywords that you can use to search for information on your topic. Google is very intuitive however databases usually require a search string. Here are a few tips to help you.

Words are sometimes spelled differently, for example, colonization is sometimes written as colonisation.

Many search engines and databases use Boolean logic to construct a search term. The asterisk is known as a wild card. The use of AND, OR and NOT can also be helpful.

Sometimes it is useful to use other words that mean similar or the same thing (synonyms)

Use quotation marks when you are searching for a phrase.

Using keywords that relate to the topic will focus the search

Examples

coloni*ation - will look for decolonization and decolonisation

Algeria AND (coloni*ation OR decoloni*ation)

decoloni*ation OR coloni*ation OR imperialism

DIGITAL RESOURCES

The following PREMIUM DIGITAL RESOURCES may be useful for research in this subject . However they are password protected and when you click on any of the icons below you will be re-directed to a page that requires authentication.

LIBRARY CATALOGUE

SHELF BROWSING

You can use Oliver to find books in the library however sometimes it is helpful to know the Dewey numbers for a subject. In doing so you will be able to find books on that subject in most libraries. It will also be useful at those times when you know the topic but don't know where to start looking.
Note that resources about specific events will be located within the Dewey division for the country where the event took place.

325	International migration & colonization

900	History & geography
910	Geography & travel
920	Biography, genealogy & insignia
930	History of ancient world to ca. 499
940	History of Europe
950	History of Asia; Far East
960	History of Africa
970	History of North America
980	History of South America
990	History of other areas
993	New Zealand
994	Australia
998	Arctic islands & Antarctica
999	Extraterrestrial worlds

REFERENCING

The Referencing Libguide has resources on how to cite/reference sources in research.

The Online Reference Generator allows you to create citations and bibliographies using the Harvard Referencing Style for a comprehensive list of resources.

MyBib is a free online service that allows users to generate citations and bibliographies. You can paste in a DOI, ISBN or URL and have the fields populate automatically. However it does not always provide the correct reference so you must check that all possible parts of the reference have been included.