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Journal locations
I have listed below the holdings of the
various NVCC campus libraries with regard to the journals suggested
for this assignment. Because of constantly changing policies, please
contact a reference librarian about specific campus library holdings.
Please note that History Today is not an acceptable source of articles, nor is
African Studies Quarterly. (Also, you may NOT do the "Jack the Ripper" article from
Essays in History.) All students within the VCCS have
access to VIVA and other Electronic Library resources,
including online databases such as InfoTrac Onefile, ProQuest Magazines and JSTOR.
These databases provide a full-text capability for finding journal articles for the
abstract assignment. Please note that the directions for remote
access to these databases and VIVA resources have changed recently, so be sure
to check for remote access directions at
www.nvcc.edu/library/proxy/.
For example, to look for an
article in JSTOR at the Loudoun campus:
- Go to the Loudoun campus library home page.
- Select Magazines.
- Select SearchBank.
- Select Select JSTOR--History; InfoTrac Onefile; or
ProQuest--Magazines.
- Select either refereed publications (or peer
reviewed in InfoTrac and ProQuest).
- Make sure a selected article is acceptable for
this assignment.
- Full text articles (DO NOT SELECT ABSTRACT OPTION) may be e-mailed, downloaded or printed (cost of $.20 per page)
If you have a question about a possible journal or a specific article, please contact
me at cevans@nvcc.edu.
Some library subscriptions (back issues are on the shelf or in microfilm), that I know about are, although these can change quickly:
Alexandria: American Historical Review,
Journal of Modern History.
Annandale: American Historical Review,
Journal of Modern History.
Loudoun: American Historical Review,
Journal of Modern History.
Manassas: American Historical Review.
Woodbridge: Journal of Modern History,
Journal of World History.
You might also wish to check your local
university library or possibly the county library.
There is
a trial
www site (part of Project Muse, which is available through
the VCCS Electronic Library) that contains some sample issues of acceptable journals for
the abstract assignment. If you are doubtful about an article at
this site, please contact your instructor. Other acceptable online journals include:
the University of Virginia's Essays in History,
Cromohs: Cyber Review of Modern Historiography and
Forum historiae iuris.
Required Abstract Style Considerations
The article abstract requires some very specific
writing requirements (abridged from the ABC-CLIO Abstractor's Handbook):
- The
abstract is a single, unindented, double-spaced paragraph not to exceed one page.
- Use complete sentences, although the first sentence of
your abstract may be a phrase assuming the article as a
subject, e.g., "Discusses the impact of the war."
- Omit
such circumlocutions as "argues that," "states that" or "concludes that."
- The author's argument
and conclusions are already the substance of the abstract. Avoid such phrases as "the author feels"
or "he thinks."
- Do not repeat the author's name in the body of the abstract.
- Avoid the passive
voice and use direct (not rhetorical) statements.
- Do not use any quotations from the article.
Required Abstract Bibliographic Information
- At the top left of your abstract,
you must include the following information: your name and date, the author's full name,
exact title of the article, volume number of the journal, year of publication and
complete page numbers (see examples below).
- If you find your article online, then there is some
additional
information that you need to include with your abstract (in the top left corner).
Please consult
Charlie's History Writing Center for
further information on the writing requirements of this course.
Sample
article abstracts
Lee W. Eysturlid, "Where Everything Is
Weighed in the Scales of Material Interest: Anglo-Turkish Trade, Piracy
and Diplomacy in the Mediterranean during the Jacobean Period." Journal
of European Economic History, 22 (1993): 613-26.
Relations between England and the Ottoman
Empire expanded in the latter half of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603),
partly due to the Mediterranean grain crisis of the 1560s which provided
England with the opportunity to increase its shipment of grain to the area.
In 1580 the Porte and England signed a trade agreement and, soon afterward,
English merchants formed the Levant Company to promote trade in Istanbul.
When James I (1603-1625) assumed the throne, the relationship between the
English and Turks changed. James, a Catholic, launched a verbal anti-Turk
crusade; however, trade continued to expand. Despite a lengthy debate over
a new charter for the Levant Company at the start of the reign, the charter
was renewed in 1605. The new century saw a rapid boom in commerce, especially
in textiles. Between 1609 and 1619, the export of cloth to the Turks increased
from 46 to 79 percent of total cloth exports. In general, trade proved
very lucrative, with profits of 300% not being unusual. One obstacle to
this trade was piracy, which continued under private control, no longer
sanctioned by the English crown.
Paolo M. Piergiovanni. "Technological Typologies
and Economic Organisation of Silk Workers in Italy from the XIVth to the
XVIIIth Centuries." Journal of European Economic History, 22 (1993):
543-64.
The organization of the silk industry in
Italy from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries remained basically
stable, exhibiting only minor variations on the putting-out system. Though
the manufacture of silk began in Italy as early as the ninth century, weavers,
the first group of silk workers to organize, only formed guilds in Venice
and Genoa in the 1200s. By the mid-fourteenth century, the silk trade had
organized in the cities with a distinct division of labor: winders, spinners,
dyers, warpers and weavers. Each specialized group had its own bargaining
power versus the merchants, and each had its own peculiar problems. The
extent and formality of organization also differed from city to city. In
general, the silk industry was extremely important to the economy of many
cities. For example, in the sixteenth century, Lucca had about 12,000 people
employed in the silk industry; while in Milan and Bologna about forty-two
percent of the population and in Genoa and Naples sixty percent were silk
workers. Because of this, cities often intervened to provide economic aid
during lean times. Until the 1700s, production, based on an integrated
putting-out cycle, did not change much, but, with the onset of the Industrial
Revolution, gradually weaving shifted to France with raw silk production
remaining in Italy.
Michael D. Gordin. "Measure of All the Russias: Metrology and
Governance in the Russian Empire." Kritika, 4 (Fall 2003): 783-815.
Dmitrii Mendeleev (1834-1907), the
Russian chemist who developed the periodic table of the elements, was a key figure
in the development of a regularized system of Russian weights and
measures. Previous efforts at standardization in Russia had occurred in 1799 and
1835. Under Paul I, a 1799 law emphasized policing the empire to enforce
previously-decreed standards. Then in 1835, under Nicholas I, a series of
administrative edicts provided new, more detailed standards. The need for more
precise standards was a result of the expansion of railroads in Russia and the
emergence of a growing science-technology community. It was Mendeleev, in the 1890s,
who began the final push for a rationalized system of Russian weights
and measures. In this case a major impetus was electrification of the country, since
all electrical devices at the time were calibrated in metric units. The 1899 standardization laws
focused on precision measurement. Mendeleev first sought to have all
Russian standards properly recalibrated for accuracy before proceeding on any
conversion to the metric system. As Mendeleev's second step, he attempted to set
up, not very successfully, a system of local verification stations.
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