Subject Guides
History 86
Cultural, Technological, and Religious Exchange Along the Silk Roads
Search for books on your own using the following method. Go to the catalog
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Search for
"silk road" OR (trade routes AND china)
include quotation marks, parentheses, and connecting words
Click Words or Phrase
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revise your search by setting library to All (from Los Angeles Harbor College Library)
This will reveal materials at other libraries in our district. Many of these can be requested through intralibrary loan and delivered within a few days. Ask the librarian how.
Next, find articles in one of our full-text article databases, for example JSTOR
JSTOR only allows keyword searching, not subject searching, so choose your words carefully. Spelling counts!
Many good primary source materials can be found at this link:
http://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/
For similar sites, go to infomine.ucr.edu and search for silk road