Encyclopedias and Dictionaries provide "just the facts" - names, dates, events, relationships - and can provide you with enough information to start your scholarly research with confidance. The books listed here provide facts but also define key terms, identify key controversies or disagreements surrounding a topic, provide notes on a subject's historiography, and point you to further reading.
American immigrant cultures : builders of a nation
by
Levinson and Ember, eds.
Canada's diverse peoples : a reference sourcebook
by
Bumsted
Encyclopedia of Diasporas immigrant and refugee cultures around the world
by
Ember, Ember and Skoggard
Encylopedia of Canada's Peoples
by
Magosci, ed.
Ethnic Americans : a history of immigration
by
Dinnerstein and Reimers
Harvard encyclopedia of American ethnic groups
by
Thernstrom, ed.
Women in global migration, 1945-2000 : a comprehensive multidisiplinary bibliography
by
Hofstetter
Encyclopedia of Japanese descendants in the Americas : an illustrated history of the Nikkei /
by
Kikumura-Yano
The Kodansha bilingual encyclopedia of Japan = [taiyaku Nihon jiten].
