HIS/E&E 318: Environmental History of Latin America

Strategies for library database search statement language:

• Use an * to search for multiple forms of a word in a single search:​
  • coloni* = will search for: colonial, colonization, colonists, colonialist(s), etc.
  • environment* = will search for: environment, environmental, environmentalist(s), etc.

• Use "quotation marks" to have multiple words searched together as a phrase:
  • "el salvador"
  • "republican period"
  • "drug trade"

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• ​Use the word OR (in capital letters) to search for words with similar meaning -- always place within (  ):
  • (18th OR eighteenth)
  • (urban OR city)

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• Use the word AND (in capital letters) to combine different topics/concepts:
  • gold AND brazil AND environmental
  • peru AND ("post colonial" OR republic*)
  • "land reform" AND (19th OR nineteenth) AND "latin america"