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>, Jonathan Winkler <jonathan.winkler@wright.edu> Date: Friday, November 6, 2009 6:24:37 AM Subject: Trinidad during World War II 1. Mike Yared <mike_yared@hotmail.com> 2. daniel spector <drspector@cableone.net> 3. Jonathan Winkler <jonathan.winkler@wright.edu> -----Message from: Mike Yared <mike_yared@hotmail.com>----- see:Area Handbook for Trinidad and Tobago at www.loc.gov and Latin American military history: an annotated bibliography.Author: David G LaFrance; Errol D JonesPublisher: New York : Garland, 1992.Series: Military history bibliographies, vol. 12; Garland reference library of the humanities, v. 1024ISBN: 082404634X 9780824046347OCLC Number: 25630234 www.worldcat.org Mike Yared mike_yared@hotmail.com -----Message from: daniel spector <drspector@cableone.net>----- I recall from my undergraduate days that there is limited time one can spend on a term paper (whatever it is called now). Going directly to newspaper accounts is time consuming. My advice is to approach the topic from the general to the specific, using what is found in more general sources to narrow investigation of more and more specific sources, and eventually to primary sources. The student might want to start with official histories of WWII such as the US Army "Green Books" and the Navy's official history of WWII directed by Samuel Morrison. There are plenty of encyclopedic sources out there that should be reviewed (Wikepedia is low on my list of reliable sources). I hope the tedium of research does not turn the student off on history as a field. He or she will find our discipline as much like that of a criminal investigator or journalist. Lot's of dead ends and very tedious, but very rewarding when the researcher comes up with the answers to questions all three disciplines (police investigator, journalist, and historian) ask: who, what, when, where, how, and most important and elusive why? I applaud the H-War Editor putting this on our site. This young historian may well become one of our editors a few years from now. Best Daniel E. Spector, PhD -----Message from: Jonathan Winkler <jonathan.winkler@wright.edu>----- Regarding Mr. Mertz's request for information on the relationship between the United States and Trinidad, he should immediately consult the recent book _Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation_ (UNC Press, 2007), by Harvey R. Neptune, as an appropriate place to start to contextualize the topic. It is a foreign relations, rather than a military, work, but the military relationship (the occupation of Trinidad by the U.S. military during the war) is the central issue. Jonathan Winkler Wright State University ________________________________ Jonathan Reed Winkler Associate Professor of History 370 Millett Hall Wright State University Dayton, OH 45435 www.wright.edu/~jonathan.winkler Jonathan Winkler <jonathan.winkler@wright.edu> ----- For subscription help, go to: http://www.h-net.org/lists/help/ To change your subscription settings, go to http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=h-war -----
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