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World Civilization

Suggested Print Books

Book title: The year 1000 : when explorers connected the world -- and globalization began
Book title: A fistful of shells : West Africa from the rise of the slave trade to the age of revolution
Book title: The Global Economy

Book Collections

Search the RCC Library Catalog for books in the library's print collection.

Print books are shelved upstairs in the Library by subject area. Each book has a label attached to the spine with an alphanumeric code, known as the call number. The following suggests the call number ranges for this class:

C: Auxiliary Sciences of History
CB: History of Civilization

D: History
DA: Great Britain
DAW: Central Europe
DB: Austria.  Liechtenstein.  Hungary.  Czechoslovakia
DC: France
DD: Germany
DE: Greco-Roman world
DF: Greece
DG: Italy
DH: Low Countries. Benelux Countries.
DJ: Netherlands (Holland)
DJK: Eastern Europe
DK: Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics.
DL: Northern Europe
DP: Spain
DQ: Switzerland
DR: Balkan Peninsula
DS: Asia
DT: Africa
DU: Oceania (South Seas)
DX: Romanies

E/F History of the Americas

Another good place to search for books is the WorldCat database. This searches for books that are in libraries worldwide. Any book not available at RCC can be requested through interlibrary loan (ILL).

Use your email username and password to access eBook collections off-campus. The collections most relevant to World Civilization are:

Book Services

You have several options if we do not own a book you need.

Not sure which option you should choose? Call us at (910) 410-1749 and ask for a librarian. Email us anytime at libref@richmondcc.edu.