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Search for keywords that describe your topic, ie:.
Oceania history church
Australasia mission history Empire
Australia "Church of England"
Use limiters, eg:
Initial search: Missions British History
- Books & More results limited by: Geographic Region: New Zealand and Subject: Missions, New Zealand
- Books & More results limited by: Geographic Region: New Zealand and Subject: Maori (New Zealand people)
Search by Author (advanced search) e.g. Samson, Jane
Advanced search: "London Missionary Society" AND missions AND (Australasia or Oceania or "Islands of the Pacific")
- Subject: church history and (Australasia or "Islands of the Pacific" or Oceania)
- Subject: missions and (Melanesia or Papua or Fiji)
- Subject: aboriginal and missions
Bibliographies
- Bibliography of British and Irish History OnlineRoyal Historical Society Bibliography
- National Library of Australia: Trove- select "available online" and "Australian content" to limit to Australian digital collections. Not all titles are open access.
- Bibliography of British history, 1851-1914Call Number: DA 530 Z9 H23 1976Contains 10,829 entries in 15 chapters. Bibliographies arranged chronologically and subsequently by regions and special topics. Good coverage of the British Empire. Also includes an index.
- Bibliography of British history, 1914-1989Call Number: DA 566 Z9 R63 1996Contains 27, 264 entries in 15 chapters. Bibliographies arranged under broad socio-economic-cultural-historical time periods. Good coverage of the British Empire and the Commonwealth. Also includes an index.
- Bibliography of Imperial, Colonial, and Commonwealth History since 1600 by
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- Books & More: books, government information, primary sources, etc.
You will find books at libraries across the U of A, and in our NEOS partner libraries. You can request books to be brought to the library of your choice. You can also request books that are already signed out.
Find Background Info
- Encyclopedia of ReligionTry searches such as: Australia and missionaries
- The Encyclopedia of MissionsCall Number: Request from Concordia: BV 2040 E5 1975
- The Australian EncyclopaediaCall Number: DU 90 A93 1996
- Australia: The Complete EncyclopediaCall Number: DU 90 A97 2001 folio
- The Oxford companion to Australian historyCall Number: DU 110 O93 2001
- The Oxford companion to Australian folkloreCall Number: GR 365 O98 1993