Library Guides: International Development Studies: Print and Online Reference Books

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Suggested Reference Books

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Encyclopedia of Global Change by Andrew S. Goudie (Editor); David J. Cuff (Editor)
ISBN: 0195108256
Publication Date: 2001-12-13
Encyclopedia of International Development by Tim Forsyth (Editor)
Call Number: HD 82 .E547 2005 REF
ISBN: 041525342X
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
Encyclopedia of Media and Politics by Todd Schaefer; Thomas Birkland
Call Number: P 95.82 .U6 E47 2007 REF
ISBN: 1568028350
Publication Date: 2006-10-27
International Encyclopedia of Political Science by Bertrand Badie (Editor); Dirk Berg-Schlosser (Editor); Leonardo Morlino (Editor)
Call Number: JA 61 .I58 2011 V.1 REF
ISBN: 9781412959636
Publication Date: 2011-09-07
International Relations by David Weigall
Call Number: JZ 1161 .W45 2002 REF
ISBN: 0340763329
Publication Date: 2003-01-16
Keesing's Record of World Events
Call Number: D 410 .K4 1987 REF
An annual record of major world events.
The International Year Book and Statesmen's Who's Who
Call Number: JA 51 .I57 1969
ISBN: 00749621
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History by Joel Mokyr (Editor)
ISBN: 0195105079
Publication Date: 2003-10-16
The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Political Thought by Roger Scruton
Call Number: JA61 .S37 2007 REF
ISBN: 1403989516
Publication Date: 2007-03-15
Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies by Sangeeta Ray (Editor); Henry Schwarz (Editor)
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 1119076501
Publication Date: 2016
The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies brings together the most wide-ranging and up-to-date scholarship ever assembled on the colonial, postcolonial and neo-colonial condition, covering the period from 1492 to the present.