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Conducting Historical Research: The Case of "Oriental Cairo" (col10291)
Keywords: British Empire, Cairo (Egypt), History -- Research, History --Methodology, library research, library resources, Oriental Cairo, People, Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton, TIMEA, Travelers in the Middle East Archive
Summary: This course guides you through how to conduct historical research by conducting a case study on Douglas Sladen's "Oriental Cairo: City of the 'Arabian Nights'" (1911), a work included in the Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA). It introduces some standard research techniques used by historians, such as ... and databases.
Subject: Humanities
Language: English
Popularity: 78.71%
Revised: 2006-10-23
Revisions: 4
Conducting Research with the British Parliamentary Papers (col10289)
Keywords: British Parliamentary Papers, guides to Parliamentary Papers, index to Parliamentary Papers, searching Parliamentary Papers, TIMEA, Travelers in the Middle East Archive
Summary: This course is designed to introduce you to the basic structure of the British Parliament and the organization of its historical documents.
Subject: Humanities
Language: English
Popularity: 81.68%
Revised: 2006-06-12
Revisions: 3
Studying Political Satire: "The Egyptian Red Book" (col10290)
Keywords: british empire, british parliament, cartoons, Egypt, Egyptian Red Book, General Charles Gordon, Khartoum (Sudan), Mahdi, parliamentary papers, political cartoon, political criticism, political satire british, Soudan, Sudan, TIMEA, Travelers in the Middle East Archive, William Gladstone
Summary: This course demonstrates how to conduct historical research through a case study of a nineteenth-century work of British political satire, "The Egyptian Red Book." It examines how to categorize historical documents, how to identify images of unknown figures, and how to decode satire from a different historical period. It ... research libraries.
Subject: Humanities
Language: English
Popularity: 81.37%
Revised: 2006-09-19
Revisions: 6
Understanding Material Culture: Deciphering the Imagery of the "Souvenir of Egypt" (col10301)
Institution: Rice University
Keywords: dictionaries, Egypt, encyclopedias, history, library resources, online research, orientalism, ornamental motifs, reference section, Souvenir of Egypt, symbolic themes, TIMEA, Travelers in the Middle East Archive
Summary: This course explores how to study material culture and political history through a series of research questions centered on the Souvenir of Egypt, a decorative silk from the nineteenth century that is included in the Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA). A variety of images are depicted on the ... historical significance.
Subject: Humanities
Language: English
Popularity: 77.46%
Revised: 2006-10-08
Revisions: 7
Accessing Subscription-Based Electronic Resources (m12583)
Keywords: accessing networked resources, History -- Methodology, History -- Research, TIMEA, Travelers in the Middle East Archive
Summary: Electronic resources such as databases, indexes and journals can be crucial for research projects, but many require a subscription. Your library may be a subscriber--and may provide you with a way to access the resource from your own home or office. This module, part of a course on doing ... Network (VPN).
Subject: Humanities
Language: English
Popularity: 77.82%
Revised: 2006-10-22
Revisions: 7
Analyzing Literary and Cultural References: Identifying the Texts in the Souvenir of Egypt (m13016)
Keywords: Art & Artifacts, dictionaries, Egypt, encyclopedias, history, History & Politics, library resources, online research, orientalism, ornamental motifs, reference section, Souvenir of Egypt, symbolic themes, TIMEA, Travelers In the Middle East Archive, visual culture
Summary: "Analyzing Literary and Cultural References: Identifying the Texts in the Souvenir of Egypt" examines the texts appearing in the imagery of a decorative silk called "Souvenir of Egypt," such as mottos and fragments of verse. The "Souvenir of Egypt" is a piece of ephemera included in the online Travelers in ... textual components.
Subject: Humanities
Language: English
Popularity: 86.06%
Revised: 2006-10-30
Revisions: 9
Analyzing Symbols in Artifacts: The Souvenir of Egypt (m13029)
Keywords: art & artifacts, dictionaries, Egypt, encyclopedias, history, library resources, online research, orientalism, ornamental motifs, reference section, Souvenir of Egypt, symbolic themes, TIMEA, Travelers in the Middle East Archive, visual culture
Summary: "Analyzing Symbols in Artifacts," section 5 of the 6-part course on "The Souvenir of Egypt," examines the symbols appearing in the imagery of a decorative silk focused on Egypt. Here, we will discuss how to interpret the meaning of each symbol in the silk using a variety of print ... cultural history.
Subject: Humanities
Language: English
Popularity: 92.21%
Revised: 2006-10-08
Revisions: 9
Borrowing Resources through Interlibrary Loan: Illiad (m12525)
Keywords: History -- Methodology, History -- Research, Interlibrary loan, library resources, TIMEA, Travelers in the Middle East Archive
Summary: This module, part of a series on conducting historical research, describes how to request works held at other libraries using interlibrary loan. It focuses on Illiad, one of the leading web-based interlibrary loan systems.
Subject: Science and Technology
Language: English
Popularity: 79.51%
Revised: 2006-10-22
Revisions: 7
Categorizing Historical Documents: What is a Red Book? (m12813)
Keywords: British Empire, British Parliament, cartoons, Egypt, Egyptian Red Book, General Charles Gordon, Khartoum (Sudan), Mahdi, microfiche, microform, Parliamentary Papers, political cartoon, political criticism, political satire british, Soudan, Sudan, TIMEA, Travelers in the Middle East Archive, William Gladstone
Summary: This module is a guide to the process of identifying what type of work you are researching and using that information to expand the potential of different research projects. You will be introduced to the process of categorizing the works you find in your research, locating similar and divergent works ... East Archive.
Subject: Humanities
Language: English
Popularity: 81.66%
Revised: 2006-10-05
Revisions: 10
Compiling a Bibliography: What else has Douglas Sladen written? (m12586)
Keywords: bibliography, biography, Cairo (Egypt), History -- Methodology, History -- Research, library resources, Oriental Cairo, People, Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton, TIMEA, Travelers in the Middle East Archive
Summary: "Compiling Bibliography" explores strategies and resources for compiling a bibliography of an author's works, using as an example the author Douglas Sladen, whose works "Oriental Cairo" and "Queer Things about Egypt" are included in the online Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA). We discuss using WorldCat and the ... historical research.
Subject: Humanities
Language: English
Popularity: 72.19%
Revised: 2006-10-12
Revisions: 5
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