Download - Isla 410
Primary sources for the History of the
Modern Middle East
Anaïs SALAMONHead Librarian – Islamic Studies [email protected]
Today
Primary sources discussion
Sample search activity
Results presentation
Questions
60 min.
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Archives Print Materials Newspapers Travel
literature Diaries Drawings Audio Newspaper Articles Biographies Testimonies Autobiographies Microforms Maps
Posters Inventories Video Personal
Journals Internet Resources Records Atlases Digital Materials Photographs Letters
Primary sources
Sources of history
Where to start?
Research tip #1
1 – Go to the Description de l’Égypte website
2 - Search for: women
3 –Search for: femmes
Hands-on
http://descegy.bibalex.org/http://descegy.bibalex.org/
Research tip #2
1 – Go to the McGill Library
catalogue
2 - Search for: Sudan or
Egypt
3 –Refine your search
using the left-hand side
menu options
4 - Expand your search to
Libraries Worldwide
Hands-on
Research tip #3
Keyword versus Subject word
Proceed to searching both the following phrases in the Library catalogue, and compare the number of results:
Great Britain Colonies History 19th century (keyword)
Great Britain Colonies History 19th century (subject)
Hands-on
Research tip #4
What you are looking for Appropriate subheadings
Archival materials
- documents- archives- reports- sources
Personal writings
- diaries- personal narratives- correspondence- testimony- description and travel
Pictorial materials
- maps- atlas- posters- pictorial works- photographs- drawings
Search for the following using the “advanced search” feature of the Library catalogue:
Memoirs (kw) + Egypt (su)
Sudan (kw) + biography (su)
Omdurman, Battle of, Omdurman, Sudan, 1898 (su) + diaries (su)
Sudan (kw) + pictorial works (su)
Arab countries (su) + atlas (ti)
Egypt (su) + maps (su)
Hands-on
Monographs
Monographs
DT43-154 Egypt
DT154.1-159.9 Sudan
Microfilms & microfiches
Confidential Print: Middle East
http://www.archivesdirect.amdigital.co.uk/CP_MiddleEast
Foreign Broadcast Information Service
PAIS International
The Listener
African Online Digital Library
Internet Archive
Internet Library Sub-Saharan Africa
Sudan Open Archive
World Digital Library
1. How debates in Great Britain about the colonial Empire in Egypt and the Sudan have changed?
2. How did the British officials cast their colonial project in Egypt: (Evelyn Baring, Earl of Cromer)?
3. How did American missionaries cast their project of bringing “civilization” to the region?
4. How academic histories of British colonialism in the Sudan have changed?
5. How did the British officials cast their colonial project in the Sudan (Gordon of Khartoum)?
6. How academic histories of British colonialism in Egypt have changed?
Sample research topics