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Search Diamond, the Libraries' online catalog, to find books owned by Temple University Libraries. You may wish to browse a list of titles associated to the following Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):

• Conflict Management
• Deterrence (Strategy)
• Diplomacy
• Diplomacy -- History
• International Relations
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• International Relations -- History
• Militarism
• Military Art And Science -- Technological Innovations
• Military Doctrine -- United States
• Military History
  • view 7 related subjects
• Military Research -- United States
• Peace
• Peace Building
• Peace -- History
• Security -- International
  • view 8 related subjects
• United States. Air Force -- Reorganization
• United States. Army -- Reorganization
• United States. Navy -- Reorganization
• United States -- Foreign Relations
• United States -- Military Policy
• War
  • view 32 related subjects
• War and Society
• War -- Forecasting
• War -- History
• War on Terrorism

in honor of the PBS documentary The War, find below a list of Temple-owned books about the 6-month long Battle for Guadalcanal. Clicking on a title will open up a new page with complete citation including call #. Follow the TUlink icon () to check circulation status (e.g., IN LIBRARY or ON LOAN). Requires three mouse clicks to reach the book's record in Diamond.

Feel free to contact me if you would like to learn how to set up a similar bibliography for a class project.

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Use the library catalog to search for books on your topic.

Still can't find what you're looking for? Try searching in these catalogs:

With the exception of MERLN, the following databases provide access to full-text eBooks. Reference books -- dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, etc. -- serve as excellent starting points for your research.

ABC-CLIO eBooks

This database consists of encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other reference works.

Selected ABC-CLIO eBooks:

• African Americans at War: An Encyclopedia, c2004 [ABC-CLIO | print]
  
• Encyclopedia of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: The Political, Social, and Military History, c2006 [ABC-CLIO | print]
  
• Encyclopedia of World War II, c2005 [ABC-CLIO | print]
  
• Women and War: An Encyclopedia from Antiquity to the Present, c2006 [ABC-CLIO | print]
  

ACLS Humanities E-Book Project

This database currently provides access to over 1,200 full-text history books. The project's goal is to offer undergraduate researchers a core collection of secondary history texts.

Selected ACLS eBooks:

• Deterrence in American Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice, c1974 [ACLS E-Book Project | print]
• The Devil and John Foster Dulles, c1973 [ACLS E-Book Project | print]
• War in the Tribal Zone: Expanding States & Indigenous Warfare, 2000 printing [ACLS E-Book Project | print]

California Digital Library

An ambitious digitization project undertaken by the University of California Libraries. While relatively few titles are available to the general public, several works -- including those listed below -- are accessible without restriction.

Selected California Digital Library eBooks:

• War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East, c2000 [California Digital Library | print]
• Wars of the Third Kind: Conflict in Underdeveloped Countries, c1993 [California Digital Library | print]

CIAO Books (Columbia International Affairs Online)

CIAO Books will appeal to those studying force and diplomacy, international affairs, and military history.

Selected CIAO eBooks:

• Friends or Rivals? The Insider's Account of U.S.-Japan Relations, c1996 [CIAO Books | print]
• Shift or Rift: Assessing U.S.-E.U. Relationships After Iraq, c2003 [CIAO Books]

CredoReference [formerly XReferplus]
Large collection of online reference books, including The Reader's Companion to Military History, c1996.

 

Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans (1639-1800)

Full-text, primary-source database of 37,000 titles listed in Charles Evans's American Bibliography. EAI, Series I "is the definitive resource for every aspect of life in the 17th- and 18th-century British colonies of North America, from. . . foreign affairs, diplomacy. . . the Revolutionary War. . . and just about any other topic imaginable" (NewsBank).

Click the Subjects tab. Choose Military from the list of topics. Among the 76 subtopics listed can be found books on:

African American Soldiers	Mutiny
Armies	Prisoners of War
Cavalry	Recruiting and Enlistment
Conscientious Objectors	Soldiers
Desertion, Military	Spies
Diplomatic and Consular Service	Standing Army
Draft	Tactics
Hospitals, Military	Transportation, Military
Military Art and Science	War
Military Courts	Warships
Military History	Weapons

Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819)

Covering every aspect of life during the early decades of the United States, this rich primary source collection provides full-text access to 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century.

Early English Books Online (EEBO)

From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this collection contains over 96,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475 - 1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661). Find early titles on diplomatic and military topics by searching on the subject headings listed for EAI.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)

ECCO is based on the English Short Title Catalog, and contains the full-text of 150,000 book titles published in Great Britain between 1701 and 1800. ECCO provides, "in essence, [easy access to] every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas" (ibid.). Using Basic Search, enter keyword(s) of choice (e.g. diplomacy, military, war), then choose Title in the adjacent "Search type" drop down. Search results will be fewer but more relevant than if full-text search is employed.

Making of America Books via the University of Michigan (full-text resource)

"Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history primarily from the antebellum period through reconstruction. . . . The book collection currently contains approximately 9,500 books with 19th century imprints." From the homepage, click on Other Searches in MoA. Enter keyword(s) of choice (e.g. diploma*, militar*, war*), and then restrict search to either title or subject fields. As with ECCO, search relevancy tends to be greater using this technique. If more results are desired, expand search to include full-text.

Military Education Research Network (MERLN)

Worldwide military libraries catalog of books and other materials. MERLN "represents a consortium of military education research libraries that work together to provide access to a variety of unique electronic resources for the use of researchers and scholars." Titles of interest, if not already owned by Temple, can be requested through PALCI E-ZBorrow.

netLibrary

netLibrary is an eBook pioneer. Perform an Advanced search using the subject headings suggested above.

Selected netLibrary eBooks:

• Double-edged Diplomacy: International Bargaining and Domestic Politics, c1993 [netLibrary | print]
• European Warfare: 1660-1815, c1994 [netLibrary | print]
• Post-Cold War Conflict Deterrence, c1997 [netLibrary | print]
• War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East, c2000 [netLibrary | print]

Oxford Reference Online

Click on the Military History link located under Subject Reference.

Selected Oxford eBooks:

• The Oxford Companion to American Military History, c2000 [Oxford Reference Online | print]
• The Oxford Companion to Military History, c2001 [Oxford Reference Online | print]
• The Oxford Companion to World War II, c1995 [Oxford Reference Online]

Reference Universe

Covers back-of-the-book indexes and article titles in over 5,000 subject encyclopedias and other reference works held by Temple and other libraries. The Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy (c2002) and the Encyclopedia of U.S. Foreign Relations (c2002) are but two significant Temple-owned reference works indexed by Reference Universe.