French Colonial Legacies: Finding Books and Media

Search the Cheng Library online catalog for books and media. If you need journal articles, go to our Databases page.

Here are some approaches for finding books and media

1. Search for a specific individual such as Pierre Brazza or Jean-Baptiste Marchand
2. Use combinations of key words such as
• Belgium colonies or France colonies
• Rwanda history or Indochina history
• Slavery France
• France relations west indies
• French colonization or Africa colonization
• Caribbean literature french
• Racism France       
• Caribbean literature french
3.   Search for keyword and then folllow the highlighting links for the best subjects (example below)

Search WorldCat to locate resources in other libraries.