New Library acquisitions for Latin America, the Caribbean, South and East Asia, & African history

World Scholar: Latin America & the Caribbean
A collection of primary source documents about Latin America and the Caribbean plus current academic journals and news feeds covering the region; reference articles and commentary; maps and statistics; audio and video.

Shen Bao, Shanghai News 1872–1949
Shen Bao, formerly transliterated as Shun Pao or Shen-pao (申報). Full-text access (1872–1949) covering politics, military, economy, culture and society from the later Qing Dynasty to the Republican Period.

Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1947-1980
Three archival collections drawn from the British Foreign Office files on the countries of South Asia from shortly before Indian partition and independence up to 1980.

Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966
Online archive to the United Kingdom’s Colonial, Dominion and Foreign Offices’ confidential correspondence relating to Africa between 1834 and 1966.

Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969
Digized archives based on ‘Confidential Print’ documents issued by the United Kingdom Foreign and Colonial Office and detailing the Egyptian reforms of Muhammad Ali Pasha in the 19th century, the Middle East Conference of 1921, the Mandates for Palestine and Mesopotamia and the Suez Crisis in 1956, upwards to the partition of Palestine, post-Suez Western foreign policy and the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Journal of Eastern African Studies  
A cross-disciplinary journal including archaeology, anthropology, cultural studies, development studies, economics, environmental studies, geography, history, international relations, literatures and languages, political economy, politics, social policy and sociology.

National Geographic Magazine 
The archive (1888-1994) features keyword searching and a Graphing Tool (enter a word or phrase to view a graph of how frequently your search terms have been used in National Geographic Magazine across time)A wonderful complement to those stacks and boxes of past issues in your basements and attics.

South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 
A humanities and social sciences journal focusing on the history, society, economy, culture and international relations of the South Asian region.

 

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