POL498: Place and Politics: Find Books

Find articles, books (including ebooks), electronic government publications, streaming media and DVDs from the Library Search box on the library's home page.

Select "Advanced Search" to craft a more complex search structure

• Use quotes to search for a phrase
  • "political participation"
• Search by boolean keyword, combining different concepts using and
  • "political activism" and mining

• From the results page, use the "Tweak your results" feature to narrow your results to a specific format [book, peer-reviewed article, etc.]; Subject[s]; or Year of publication

• Use the subject terms associated with relevant results to link to additional items in the catalog that have the same subject terms

Try a Subject Heading browse in the online catalog (or click on subject headings within relevant records). A small sample of possible relevant subject headings includes:

• Cultural geography
• Geopolitics
• Geopolitics -- United States
• Geopolitics -- Middle East
• Human geography
• Natural resources -- political aspects 
• Africa -- politics and government
• United States -- politics and government