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For the Irish Green Book and

for the Egyptian Red Book
What do you see? They are actually very similar collections of keywords, but not similar enough to produce the two books in the same subject heading list.Let's take a closer look at the Irish Green Book and see for ourselves how similar they are.
The style of the cartoons seems similar to the Egyptian Red Book and the publisher is the same. The format of publication is also very similar in size,materials, and number of pages.
"THE IRISH GREEN BOOK." By the author and joint-compiler of the "Egyptian Red Book," "Diary of the Gladstone Government,"&c.
The cover page tells us that the author of the "Egyptian Red Book" and the "Irish Green Book" are the same, although his or her name is not given.
And we do not have to look very far to see the familiar use of pithy quotes and verbal caricatures,
as well as the illustrated variety.

In relation to our original question, "What is a Red Book?," now we can add, "What is a Green Book?." Considering the association of the color green withIreland we must ask ourselves about the color red and its relationship with Egypt. We do not have to look very far to discover that the Egyptian flag is indeed red andthat red is the color internationally associated with the Ottoman Empire, which is historically to Egypt by politics and religion. The relationship between England andthe regions that are the subject of our two books, Ireland and Egypt, is a comparative subject that these works only hint at in a humorous way. There is roomhere for serious academic study, however, as a more thorough examination of the history of the three countries would reveal. Now let's go on to thelocation of more similar works in the library.

Finding similar works

Here we will be looking for material related to "The Egyptian Red Book." We could hope to find information on political cartoons in Britain in the latenineteenth century, other works of political satire, other cartoons that depict the characters in our work, and anything else that we can immediately get in hand tofurther our project in whatever direction our findings take us.

We are primarily interested at this point in locating other primary sources, meaningoriginal documents such as other works of political satire from the same period.

Library catalog

At most libraries, the days of the card catalog are long gone; instead, patrons search web-based catalogs such as WebCat, the onlinecatalog at Fondren Library. WebCat and similar tools offer a variety of search options to assist you in sifting through the variety of materials available to findthe exact item you are looking for. For a more in depth tutorial on online catalogs, visit our WebCat module .

Pull up the web page for the catalog; at most libraries, it is available immediately from the home page. Enter the subject heading--"Political satire, English" into thetextbox. Select the Subject option so that you are searching for other works with the same subject term.

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Source:  OpenStax, Studying political satire: "the egyptian red book". OpenStax CNX. Sep 19, 2006 Download for free at http://cnx.org/content/col10290/1.6
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