French Empires: Find Books
Books and Dissertations
Start with CLIO to find books and journals in Columbia University library collections. (Use the Pegasus catalog to find books and journals in the Law Library collection.)
Then try WorldCat, the largest online catalog in the world, with over 100 million book and journal records.
To find dissertations, start with Proquest Digital Dissertations. You can also check DART, the European e-theses portal. For French dissertations, see: ABES: SUDOC-Catalogue and STEP (Theses in preparation at French universities).
Other essential catalogs and resources include:
Center for Research Libraries
The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) makes primary and rarely-held research materials available to Columbia affiliates via interlibrary loan and document delivery. CRL holdings are strong in newspapers, foreign dissertations, and international materials.
Some useful subject headings for finding materials in CLIO:
- France > Colonies
- France > Colonies > History.
- Decolonization > West Indies, French > History.
- West Indies, French > Race relations > History.
- Imperialism > Social aspects > France
- Decolonization > Africa, North.
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