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Politics Research Guide

Browse The Stacks

Browse the stacks on the 2nd floor to find research materials on Politics:

JA POLITICAL SCIENCE (GENERAL)
JC                             POLITICAL THEORY
JC 131-273 Modern state
JC 311-314 Nationalism
JC 329 Patriotism
JK POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION (UNITED STATES)
JK 2255-2391 Political parties
JK 2403-9593 State government
JS LOCAL & MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT
JV COLONIES & COLONIZATION
JV 6001-9480 Emigration, immigration, international migration
JX INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (used but obsolete)
JZ INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
JZ 1305-2060 Diplomacy. Political theory
JZ 4835-5490 International organizations

See the full J classification here.

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Other topics related to politics and political science can be found as follows:

E 183 American Foreign Policy (General)
E 249 Colonial America Foreign Policy
E 310 18th c. American Foreign Policy
E 661 19th c. American Foreign Policy
E 744-840 20th c. American Foreign Policy
HV 6430-6433 Terrorism, Counter/Bio terrorism, 9/11
JF.51                  Comparative Politics (General Theory)

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How to Read a Call Number

Books at HSU are organized by the Library of Congress Classification System. This means that the books are grouped by broad subjects alphabetically and numerically within a subject. This system helps you locate books on those topics by keeping them all together. Each book has it's own call number to help you find it in the broader subject and can also be given a more specific topic within the broad subject. HERE'S AN EXAMPLE Title: The Encyclopedia of Arthurian Literature. Call Number: DA 152.5 A7 C64 1992. This book has a subject of History with a sub-class of Great Britain (DA) and second sub-class of Early and medieval to 1485 (152.5). HOW TO READ A CALL NUMBER The first letters represent the broad subject (DA), The first set of numbers identify a more specific topic of a subject (152.5) The second set of letter/number combinations represents the author or the title of the book (A7 C64) and the last number is the year published (1992)