LibGuides: History: World: Books

Finding Books

UC Library Search
This is the Library catalog for the entire UC Library system. Use your UCSB NetID to get full functionality, including the option to borrow books from other campuses through Interlibrary Loan (ILL).
WorldCat
The combined catalog for all UC libraries and libraries worldwide. Use the dropdown menu to limit your search to items held only at UC libraries
HathiTrust Digital Library
Repository of scanned books, journals, and other library materials. Use your UCSB NetID to download the full text of materials.

Finding eBooks

UC Library Search

Ebook Central (ProQuest)
Access to thousands of the UCSB Library's purchased ebooks via ProQuest Ebook Central
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
UCSB-purchased books from EBSCOhost's collection of reference, academic, general interest and professional electronic books, plus the EBSCOhost public domain collection.
Cambridge Core
ebooks that we have selectively purchased from Cambridge University Press. To limit your search to just materials that are accessible to UCSB users, check the "Only search content I have access to" box below the search box.
Brepols Medieval eBook Collection
European Medieval Studies

2017-2021 collections only. Please note that the Medieval Collection eBooks are in a system that also includes eBooks that UCSB does not have access to. Look for the green button which indicates your access once authenticated with VPN or via proxy server.
Center for Research Libraries e-Collections
Access to collections that are available through our membership in the Center for Research Libraries.
- African Newspapers: more than 40 newspapers published between 1800 and 1922 in Sub-Saharan Africa
- American Periodicals: North American special interest and general magazines, labor and trade publications, scientific and literary journals, and other historically significant titles of the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth centuries, prioritized for preservation.
- Brazilian Government Documents: Executive branch serial documents issued by Brazil’s national government between 1821 and 1993, and by its provincial governments from the earliest available to the end of the first Republic in 1930.
- Chinese Pamphlets - Political Communication & Mass Education: Pamphlets, picture books, and other propaganda issued during the early years of the People’s Republic between 1947 and 1954. This is the “street literature” of the revolution: comic books, leaflets, and other ephemera distributed to the general population of provincial cities and villages.
- Digital Library for International Reserach (DLIR) - CRL has partnered with the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) to develop the Digital Library for International Research. DLIR aims to provide bibliographic and full-text access to print collections and other media held at CAORC-sponsored overseas research centers and allied partners.
- Dziennik Zwiazkowy - The first ten years (1908–17) of Dziennik Zwiazkowy, founded in Chicago in 1908 by the Polish National Alliance. Representing local, national, and international issues of concern to the Polish community, the paper continues today as the Polish Daily News.
- Pamphlets and Periodicals of the French Revolution of 1848 - Pamphlets and periodicals from the French Revolution of 1848 held by the Center for Research Libraries.
- Slavery and Manumission Manuscripts of Timbuktu - Arabic nineteenth-century manuscripts relating to slavery and manumission in Timbuktu provide documentation on Africans in slavery in Muslim societies. From the Bibliothèque Commémorative Mama Haidara in Timbuktu, Mali.

Dissertations & Theses

A dissertation is a comprehensive, original research project written by a doctoral student to qualify for a PhD degree. A thesis is the equivalent product to obtain a Master's Degree. Check with your instructor to see if these are acceptable sources for your research.

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global
Full text database. Comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, including millions of works from thousands of universities.
Open Access Theses & Dissertations (OATD)

An index of over 1.6 million electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). To the extent possible, the index is limited to records of graduate-level theses that are freely available online.
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations

An international organization that promotes creation, access to, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) from academic institutions around the world. The NDLTD Union Catalog provides access to over a million ETDs.