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Anti-Calvin Online
Editor: Malcolm Walsby, University of St. Andrews
During the sixteenth century Protestant authors had grasped the importance of winning over the souls and minds of the French people from the outset and the production of Genevan presses was therefore mainly in French. This unique selection of writings reflects the Catholic response to Calvinism, with works attacking the precepts of Calvinism and those defending the Catholic doctrine against condemnations by Calvinists.
Subject: History
Start: 1500
End: 1600
Place: France
Archive of the Christian Student Movement of Cuba Online
Editor: Luis Martínez-Fernández, University of Central Florida
Subject: Religious Studies
Start: 1600
End: 2000
Place: Cuba
Archive of the Evangelical Theological Seminary of Cuba Online
Editor: Luis Martínez-Fernández, University of Central Florida
The Archive of the Evangelical Theological Seminary of Cuba (SETC) is part of the Archives of Christian Churches and Organizations in Cuba (CCOC). It consists of documents of the Seminario Evangélico Teológico of Matanzas, Cuba, from its foundation in 1946 to the present. It includes a.o. foundational documents, periodicals, correspondence, materials from distinguished professors and documents of the Conferencia Cristiana por la Paz, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Subject: Religious Studies
Start: 1600
End: 2000
Place: Cuba
Archives of Christian Churches and Organizations in Cuba Online
Editor: Luis Martínez-Fernández, University of Central Florida
The Archives of Christian Churches and Organizations in Cuba (CCOC) encompass three distinct archival collections: Archives of the Presbyterian Church in Cuba (Iglesia Presbiteriana-Reformada en Cuba, IPRC); Archive of the Evangelical Theological Seminary of Cuba (Seminario Evangélico Teológico, Matanzas, Cuba, SETC); and Archive of the Christian Student Movement of Cuba (Movimiento de Estudiantes Cristianos de Cuba, MECC), an affiliate of the World Student Christian Federation. These collections offer numerous possibilities for researchers interested not only in the history of Protestantism and Christian education but also provide windows onto Cuban history, society, and culture.
Subject: Religious Studies
Start: 1600
End: 2000
Place: Cuba
Archives of the Church of Uganda Online
The records in this collection document the history of the Church of the Province of Uganda. Christianity came to Uganda late compared with many other parts of Africa. The first Church Missionary Society missionaries arrived at King Mutesa's court on June 30, 1877. This was seventy-eight years after the founding of the Church Missionary Society in Great Britain. However, within eight decades, after having passed through much persecution, Uganda had become one of the most successful mission fields in the world. By 1914, through its indigenous teachers and a few European missionaries, nearly the whole of the area today called Uganda had already been evangelized. In 1961 the growth of the Church of Uganda was recognized in the Anglican Communion with the establishment of the Church of the Province of Uganda, Rwanda-Burundi and Boga-Zaire.
Subject: Religious Studies
Start: 1877
End: 1980
Place: Mukono
Archives of the Presbyterian Church in Cuba Online
Editor: Luis Martínez-Fernández, University of Central Florida
This collection makes available for research the records of the Iglesia Presbiteriana-Reformada en Cuba (IPRC) and predecessor Presbyterian churches and missions in Cuba, including a complete run of Heraldo Cristiano, the church’s newsletter, 1919 – 2010. Also included are the periodicals Juprecu and Su Voz, early mission records, originally maintained in English and later in Spanish. These include session minutes and membership/baptism/marriage/death records, as well as minutes of men’s, women’s, and youth groups, including their mission work in their communities.
Subject: Religious Studies
Start: 1600
End: 2000
Place: Cuba
Archives of the Presbyterian Church of Cuba Online (pre-2019)
Editor: Luis Martínez-Fernández, University of Central Florida
This collection makes available for research the records of the Iglesia Presbiteriana-Reformada en Cuba (IPRC) and predecessor Presbyterian churches and missions in Cuba, including a complete run of Heraldo Cristiano, the church’s newsletter, 1919 – 2010, which provides a framework for the history of the church. Also included are the periodicals Juprecu and Su Voz, early mission records, originally maintained in English and then in Spanish as the congregations took over management of their churches and schools from the mission workers. These include session minutes and membership/baptism/marriage/death records, as well as minutes of men’s, women’s, and youth groups, including their mission work in their communities.
Subject: Religious Studies
Start: 1600
End: 2000
Place: Cuba
Art Sales Catalogues Online
Editor: Frits Lugt
The Art Sales Catalogues Online (ASCO) publication offers easy access to complete historical art sales catalogues for the period 1600 to 1900. Lugt's Répertoire online database has been included in this publication and serves as the "entrance gate" to the catalogues.
Subject: Art History
Start: 1600
End: 1900
Place: The Netherlands
Avant-Garde and Architecture in Czechoslovakia 1909-1938
This collection, earlier published in a microfiche collection by IDC Publishers, makes available a number of leading periodicals and monographs with special importance for the study of the Czechoslovak avant-garde and architecture in the period before the Second World War. It gives an excellent picture of developments during this period.
Subject: Art History
Start: 1909
End: 1938
Place: Czechoslovakia
Book Sales Catalogues Online
Book Sales Catalogues Online offers a comprehensive bibliography of book sales catalogues printed in the Dutch Republic before 1801. This sophisticated database provides full access to some 3,750 digital facsimiles from ca. 50 libraries across Europe.
Subject: History
Start: 1599
End: 1800
Place: The Netherlands
Children’s Leisure Activities in Russia Online
Editor: Vitaly Bezrogov, Moscow and Catriona Kelly, Oxford
The material gathered here offers a unique insight into one of the most important and characteristic areas of socializing the young in early Soviet Russia, and a window into the mentality of the `first Soviet generations’ as well. It gives a representative overview of the different trends in children leisure activities and games and runs chronologically from 1917 to the late 1930s.
Subject: Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Start: 1920
End: 1950
Place: Russia
Chinese Film and Newsreel Scripts from the Cultural Revolution Online
Editor: Zhong yang xin wen ji lu dian ying zhi pian chang
Documentary films and newsreels were two of the major mass media and communication channels in China from the 1950’s through the 1970’s. They covered all aspects of social activities, though the emphasis was on developments in the building of a socialist country. The bulk of the items in the collection are transcripts for the documentary films and newsreels from the Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976.
Subject: Asian Studies
Start: 1946
End: 1980
Place: China
Cine Cubano: Latin America’s Oldest Film Magazine
In June 1960, less than nineteen months after the establishment of Cuba's revolutionary government, the first issue of Cine Cubano was published. Despite the turbulent times, it had a print-run of 20,000 copies and was launched as a monthly. The cover featured a photograph of ‘Rebeldes,’ the second episode of the movie Historias de la Revolución, which at the time was yet to be released. The new journal would become the longest ongoing film magazine of Latin America and continues to be published until today.
Subject: Latin American Studies
Start: 1960
End: 2019
Place: Cuba
Classic Brazilian Cinema Online
Editor: Carl J. Mora
A unique collection of digitized historical film magazines from the 1910s to the 1960s, providing students and researchers with easy access to rare an previously dispersed sources documenting the cinematographic history of the biggest country in Latin America, Brazil.
Subject: Latin American Studies
Start: 1943
End: 1958
Place: Brasil
Classic Mexican Cinema Online, 1902–1965
Editor: Carl J. Mora
Mexican cinema, from its beginnings in the late 1890s to its Golden Age (1930s to 1960), was consistently the largest and most important of all the Spanish-speaking countries.
Subject: Latin American Studies
Start: 1943
End: 1958
Place: Mexico
Climate Change and Law Collection
Editor: Human Rights Internet
This comprehensive collection of climate change and law documents contains original source, non-edited and non-redacted “grey literature” (non-peer reviewed) in English, centered on climate change and the law. Incorporated in the category of ‘law’ is any discipline of law which addressed climate change, including corporate law, environmental law and human rights law. Materials in the collection originate from a wide range of organizations in the public and private sector, institutions, and/or individuals, world-wide. A collection of this nature will be a significant resource, adding value to existing resources, and serving the needs of various actors and stakeholders needing access to documentation on climate change and the law. This collection is edited by the Human Rights Internet (HRI) http://hri.ca/, in Ottawa, Canada and is updated annually.
Start: 2014
End: 2016
Codices Hugeniani Online
Codices Hugeniani Online (COHU) offers the fully digitized archive of Christiaan Huygens (1629 - 1695), held at Leiden University Library. The archive includes notebooks and loose leafs with texts in the field of astronomy, mechanics, mathematics and music, as well as correspondence and annotated books.
Subject: History
Start: 1600
End: 1700
Place: United States
Codices Vossiani Graeci et Miscellanei Online
The Codices Vossiani Graeci et Miscellanei Online publishes the 174 manuscripts in Greek, and the 42 manuscripts containing both Latin and Greek, from the world-famous Isaac Vossius manuscript collection at Leiden University Library. Isaac Vossius (1618-1689) was a classical philologist and collector of manuscripts, maps, atlases and printed works; he had a particular interest in Greek manuscripts; his first publication was an edition of a Greek manuscript, and he taught Greek to Queen Christina I of Sweden during his time working at her court. This primary source collection offers, in total, 216 manuscripts comprising 27,205 leaves, giving a total number of images (including covers, spines, and fly-leaves) of c. 55,409. K. A. de Meyier’s Latin-language catalogue of the collection is available in digital format alongside the scanned manuscripts, providing users with essential information on the content, context, and physical appearance of each codex; an English-language summarised and updated version of the catalogue is also provided for each manuscript, including new and recent bibliographical references.
Subject: History
Start: 800
End: 1650
Place: The Netherlands
Codices Vossiani Latini
The Codices Vossiani Latini Online publishes all 363 codices which form the world-famous Latin part of Vossius’ manuscript collection held at Leiden University Library. The Codices Vossiani Latini count a large number of early medieval manuscripts (a whopping 76 Carolingian manuscripts dating from before 900), including major sources of many classic texts. The 363 codices in all comprise 40,278 openings, resulting in 84,266 images, including covers and flyleaves. .
Subject: History
Start: 800
End: 1650
Place: United States
Cold War Intelligence
Editor: Matthew M. Aid
This collection of 2,360 formerly classified U.S. government documents (most of them classified Top Secret or higher) provides readers for the first time with the declassified documentary record about the successes and failures of the U.S. intelligence community in its efforts to spy on the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
Subject: History
Start: 1945
End: 1991
Place: United States, Soviet Union
Colonial Period Korea Online
Editor: Ria Koopmans-De Bruijn
A unique collection of rare documents relating to the Japanese occupation of Korea, from the late nineteenth century up to 1945, representing a highly significant period in Korean history, and vital for a true understanding of many reflexes in the Koreas today. The collection is particularly important and timely because it preserves the intellectual content of publications which are at risk of disappearing for good.
Subject: Asian Studies
Start: 1890
End: 1945
Place: Korea
Compilation of Chinese Medicine Periodicals Online, 1897-1952
The Compilation of Chinese Medicine Periodicals Online, 1897-1952 is a collection of 49 different periodicals on Chinese medicine published in the Late Qing and Republican Periods in China. This collection includes 212 books of more than 120,000 pages. Considered one of the best sources for observing the changing nature of medical practice and education during the late Qing and Republican eras in China that is crucial to the development of medicine and science in China, this collection provides unique insight into not only the modern transformation of Chinese medicine, but also the larger role of medicine in Chinese society, as it includes published documents authored by prominent figures both in support of, and opposed to, Chinese medicine. The Chinese medical periodicals include not only news related to Chinese medicine, but also news of all kinds of current politics and information about society and culture.
Subject: Asian Studies
Start: 1897
End: 1952
Place: East Asia
Conrad Gessner's Private Library Online: The Revealing Hand-Written Notes of an Early Modern Polymath
Editor: Urs Leu, Zentralbibliothek Zürich
This source edition of Gessner’s private library contains those seventy eight books that Gessner read most carefully and annotated by hand. The marginalia in these books are so numerous that they almost constitute a new set of sources, which are of interest not only to historians and philologists but also to scholars of the history of early modern medicine and the natural sciences.
Subject: History
Start: 1505
End: 1558
Place: Switzerland
Contemporary Japan Online
Editor: Peter O'Connor
Quarterly journal Contemporary Japan (published in Japan from 1932 - 1954) has rightly been described as 'a relative beacon of rationality in increasingly chaotic and confusing times'. Virtually complete run.
Subject: Asian Studies
Critical Editions of the New Testament Online
Editor: Professor David C. Parker
This collection, earlier published in a microfiche collection by IDC Publishers, makes available the principal critical editions of the New Testament for the first time in a single collection online, including lists of variant readings and collections of manuscript transcriptions and collations from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century. In addition, a number of the most useful editions of the ancient versions and of ancillary materials have been included. The principal critical editions of the New Testament represent some of the highest achievements in biblical scholarship.
Subject: Biblical Studies
Start: 1698
End: 1923
Place: Leiden
Cuban Culture and Cultural Relations, 1959-, Part 1: “Casa y Cultura”
Editor: Project advisor: Arien González Crespo, Director,
Primary-source collection of ca. 45,000 fully-searchable documents from the Casa de las Américas in Havana, documenting the culture and cultural relations of Revolutionary Cuba and countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Subject: Latin American Studies
Start: 1959
Place: Cuba
Cuban Culture and Cultural Relations, 1959-, Part 2: Writers
Editor: Project advisor: Arien González Crespo, Director
This primary-source collection documents the literary, intellectual and cultural milieu of Revolutionary Cuba. Sourced from the archives of the Casa de las Américas in Havana, it provides unprecedented access to files covering more than a thousand writers, thinkers and artists from Cuba and abroad.
Subject: Latin American Studies
Start: 1959
Place: Cuba
Cuban Culture and Cultural Relations, 1959-, Part 3: Theater
Editor: Project advisor: Arien González Crespo, Director
Online collection of archival documents from the Casa de las Américas in Havana on the topic of Latin American and Caribbean theater and Cuban theater in particular.
Subject: Latin American Studies
Start: 1959
Place: Cuba
Cuban Periodicals: Cultural Magazines Published by Casa de las Américas, 1960–2009
Editor: Luisa Campuzano Sentí
Cuban Periodicals: Cultural Magazines Published by Casa de las Américas, 1960–2009
Subject: Latin American Studies
Place: Cuba
Cuban Pre-Revolutionary Cinema
Editor: Luciano Castillo Rodríguez
Cuban Pre-Revolutionary Cinema
Subject: Latin American Studies
Place: Cuba
Cult of Body Online
Editor: Louise McReynolds
This collection comprises unique material on sports and physical culture in Russia, 1891-1919 and is particularly significant because sports provided opportunities for transitions from tradition to modernity: athletic competition broke down class barriers, brought women into public spaces, and encouraged new modes of behavior and self-presentation.
Subject: Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Start: 1891
End: 1919
Place: Russia
Dutch Pamphlets Online
Editor: Knuttel, W.P.C.
Dutch Pamphlets Online comprises both the complete Knuttel collection from the National Library of the Netherlands and the Van Alphen collection from Groningen University Library. The famous Knuttel collection contains some 34,000 pamphlets, to which the Van Alphen collection adds another 2,800. There is no overlap between the two. Combined, these collections form an exhaustive treasure trove of primary texts on the history of the Low Countries between 1486 and 1853.
Subject: History
Start: 1486
End: 1853
Place: The Netherlands
Dutch-American Diplomatic Relations Online, 1784-1973
This collection consists of official Dutch-American diplomatic correspondence covering the period from 1784 to 1973. Taken together, the documents of this collection help scholars to shed further light on some of the most important watersheds in both European and American history and clarify the historical evolution of transatlantic relations from Thomas Jefferson to the end of the Bretton Woods System. This collection comprises 194,755 scans and is part of Transatlantic Relations Online: Digital Archives of the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies, which is the result of ongoing cooperation between the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies and Brill.
Subject: History
Start: 1784
End: 1973
Place: United States of America
Dutch-Catholic Immigration to the Americas Online: The Henk van Stekelenburg Collection, 1820-1960
Editor: Stekelenburg, H. van
Henk van Stekelenburg (1929-1999) was a prominent Dutch historian who worked mostly on Catholic emigration from the Dutch region of North Brabant to North America. This collection includes his manuscripts and detailed descriptions of the most relevant archival materials that he consulted. It also offers personal correspondence, research notes, interviews, bibliographical references, genealogical information, immigration records, and illustrations about Dutch-Catholic immigration to the US and Canada from 1820 to 1960.
This collection comprises 13,207 scans and 52 audio recordings and is part of Transatlantic Relations Online: Digital Archives of the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies, which is the result of ongoing cooperation between the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies and Brill.
Subject: History
Start: 1820
End: 1960
Place: United States of America
Dutch-Protestant Immigration to the Americas Online: The Stallinga-Ganzevoort Collection, 1890-1960
Editor: Ganzevoort. H.
This collection documents the activities of the Stichting Landverhuizing Nederland (SLN) in Brazil, the US, and (predominantly) Canada. Much of the material comes from the Canadian offices of the SLN, which was established in 1931 and remained open till the late 1950s with the purpose of selecting and assisting Dutch emigrants. Before the body of original documents was destroyed, the Canadian scholar Herman Ganzevoort had it microfilmed with the support of Gerrit Stallinga. The collection contains correspondence, reports, lists, and pamphlets regarding Dutch immigration to the Americas (mostly in English), as well as correspondence from and about individual immigrants’ experiences (mostly in Dutch). This collection comprises 17,055 scans and is part of Transatlantic Relations Online: Digital Archives of the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies, which is the result of ongoing cooperation between the Roosevelt Institute for American Studiesand Brill.
Subject: History
Start: 1890
End: 1960
Place: Canada
Early Russian Cinema Online
Editor: R.Yangirov†
This unique collection of Russian film periodicals from the last tsarist decade includes both sophisticated and more popular periodicals released by the major Russian film studios. Containing interviews with movie stars and now irretrievably lost screenplays, these journals will prove an invaluable source about the silent movie era and Russia's entertainment industry at the eve of the Revolution.
Subject: Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Start: 1910
End: 1918
Place: Russia
Early Western Korans Online
Editor: Hartmut Bobzin and August den Hollander
This remarkable collection demonstrates the impact of the holy book of Islam in Europe. Long before printing with movable type became common practice in the Islamic world, Korans had been printed in Arabic type in several European cities. The collection includes Korans and Koran translations, printed between 1537 and 1857, and is of interest to book historians, theologians, philologists, and scholars of Islamic Studies alike.
Subject: Middle East and Islamic Studies
Start: 1537
End: 1857
Place: Europe
Ephraim Deinard (1846-1930) Online
Editor: Brad Sabin Hill
The Hebrew publications of Ephraim Deinard comprise a trove of historical and bibliographic material relating to Russian, Palestinian, and American Jewish history, Crimean and Karaite studies, anti-Hasidic polemic, modern Hebrew literature, and antiquarian Hebrew booklore. These works – some of which are excessively rare – from libraries around the world are all made accessible in this unique collection.
Subject: Jewish Studies
Start: 1846
End: 1930
Place: United States
French Revolutionary Opinions Online
Editor: Erich Pelzer, Freiburg i. Brsg., Germany
The present collection presents the entire corpus of all public interventions by representatives in the National Convention during the trial of King Louis XVI from November 1792 to January 1793.
Subject: History
Start: 1792
End: 1793
Place: France
Girolamo Savonarola Online
Editor: Dr. Peter Amelung, Stuttgar
Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498) was among the first authors of the late 15th century to acknowledge the importance of printing as a means of propagating his ideas. Many regard him as one of Luther's predecessors. This edition contains the complete incunabular section of the Stuttgart collection, offering over 200 incunables of interest to theologians, historians, art historians, and book historians.
Subject: History
Start: 1452
End: 1498
Place: Italy
Grotius Collection Online: Printed Works
This is the online version of the IDC microfiche Grotius Collection, with the addition of all editions which the Peace Palace Library in The Hague acquired since the date of publication of the original product (1999), including one of only three known copies of the rare first state of the first edition of De Iure Belli ac Pacis, purchased in 2012. The result is an indispensable source of information covering a wide range of disciplines. From law, jurisprudence and diplomacy to philosophy, history and theology. This new collection enables scholars to examine the work of Hugo Grotius, quickly and efficiently online.
Subject: History
Start: 1000
End: 1900
Place: The Netherlands
Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic Printing in Baghdad Online
Editor: Brad Sabin Hill
The world’s foremost private collection of early and rare Hebraica housed in the Valmadonna Trust Library is the basis for this collection. It comprises a resource for the study of oriental printing, Hebrew liturgical history, Judeo-Arabic literature, and the history and culture of the most ancient Jewish Diaspora community. All of these bibliographic treasures are reproduced here for the first time.
Subject: Jewish Studies
Start: 18--
End: 1950
Place: Baghdad
Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, and Marathi Jewish Printing in India Online
The Valmadonna Collection of Hebrew and Jewish books from India is a unique resource for the study of oriental printing and lithography, Hebrew poetry and liturgical history, Eastern Judeo-Arabic literature, and the folklore traditions and vernacular writings of the Jews of South Asia. Brill makes the entire corpus of Indian Jewish literature accessible to researchers for the first time.
Subject: Jewish Studies
Start: 18--
End: 1998
Place: India
Heinrich Bullinger's Original Publications Online
Editor: Fritz Büsser
This collection contains a selection of the original Latin and German works by the Protestant Reformer Heinrich Bullinger. In some cases translations of Bullinger’s works into Latin, French, German, English and Dutch have also been included because of their importance. This selection is of particular value for Reformation research in that Bullinger has always been overshadowed by Calvin and Zwingli.
Subject: History
Start: 1526
End: 1904
Place: Switzerland
Historical Garden Design Online
A rich resource for garden, art and architectural historians, this primary source collection of 178 titles covers a broad range of subjects regarding the theory and practice of gardening, horticulture and garden design. Technological aspects are treated as well as garden ornaments, garden buildings, plant use, and the construction of green houses.
Subject: Art History
Start: 1600
End: 1850
Place: Europe
History of Modern Russian and Ukrainian Art Online
Editor: Charlotte Douglas, New York University
The collection documents the history of modern Russian and Ukrainian art. It encompasses critical literature, illustrated books, and art periodicals. The collection also offers a selection of early 20th century art-related serials. These historical sources of pre- and post-revolutionary art reflect the diversity of artistic thought in the first thirty years of the 20th century.
Subject: Art History
Start: 1907
End: 1930
Place: Russia, Ukraine
History of Religiosity in Latin America Online, c. 1830–1970
Until now it has been impossible to develop the study of religion in modern Latin America. The imprints of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that reflect local devotions and syncretist rituals, religious iconography and poetry, and the pastoral campaigns of the various churches and sects, went uncollected and unnoticed until the early 1960s, when Ivan Illich began to search for them and to collect them in the CIDOC Library of Cuernavaca, Mexico. The filming of a selection of material from this collection has been done in many libraries throughout Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina and Chile.
Subject: Latin American Studies
Start: 1897
End: 1972
Place: Peru
Hongkong Weekly Press Online
Brill’s Hongkong Weekly Press Online service closely follows first-hand a series of watershed incidents, including what led up to those and what followed during periods of significant unrest in then-British Hongkong of the 1920’s.
Subject: Asian Studies
Start: 1920
End: 1929
Place: China
Huguenots Online
Editor: Andrew Pettegree
This collection offers a comprehensive survey of the original writings of the French Huguenot authors, from the first stirrings of radical dissent in the 1530s through to the end of the century. The selection privileges first and foremost original writings of authors writing within France and for an exclusively French audience.
Subject: History
Start: 1530
End: 1600
Place: France
Human Rights Documents Online
Human Rights Documents Online is the largest online database on international human rights issues with almost 70,000 documents from nearly 700 nongovernmental human rights organizations (NGOs) worldwide, collected since 1980 by Human Rights Internet. A unique collection of "grey literature" material from small and large organizations working globally and locally, Human Rights Documents Online is an indispensable research tool for all concerned with human rights issues.
Start: 1980
Imperial Russia's Illustrated Press Online
Editor: Jeffrey Brooks
Nothing illuminates the lost world of late Imperial Russia better than the pictorial magazines of the era. The illustrated weeklies gathered in this collection open a wide window on Russian cultural, social, and political life. Each issue of these magazines contains surprises for historians and scholars of culture alike.
Subject: Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Start: 1901
End: 1918
Place: Russia
Israel's Messenger Online
The English language Zionist periodical Israel’s Messenger is an important source of knowledge about the Shanghai Jewish community in the years predating the establishment of the Jewish state and the role Jews of the time played in politics, science and international trade.
Subject: Jewish Studies
Start: 1904
End: 1941
Place: Shanghai
Japan Chronicle Online
Editor: Peter O'Connor
The English-language Japan Chronicle Weekly (1900–1940) is the newspaper of record for Japan’s engagement with modernity and its emergence, through war, political and social upheaval and seismic social change in East Asia, onto the world stage in the first half of the twentieth century. Historians of East Asia have long seen the Japan Chronicle as a uniquely valuable resource. This well-informed, controversial but always readable source of news and opinion on Japan and East Asia offers an intriguing and lively Japanese complement to the North-China Herald Online.
Subject: Asian Studies
Start: 1902
End: 1940
Place: Japan
Japan News-Week Online
Editor: Peter O'Connor
Japan News-Week was the last independent, foreign-owned English-language newspaper published in Japan. This exclusive holding runs from the first issue in November 1938 to within 6 months of the newspaper’s closure and the arrest of Mr Willa and Ms Argyll by Japanese ‘Special’ (Tokko) police on the evening before Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941, on a charge of espionage.
Subject: Asian Studies
Japan Times Weekly and Nippon Times Weekly Online
Editor: Peter O'Connor
The Japan Times Weekly (1938 - 1942) and its immediate successor the Nippon Times Weekly (1943), both magazines superbly illustrated in full-colour, were the flagship organs of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
Subject: Asian Studies
Start: 1938
End: 1943
Japan Year Books Online
Editor: Peter O'Connor
Published from the beginning of the war with China right up to the outbreak of the Korean War (1931 - 1952), the Japan Year Books present Japan’s news and statistics throughout the period. In its densely detailed fashion this is the name-rich, comprehensive Japanese view of the nation, reflecting its endeavours both during and after the war(s).
Essential, partial, yet accurate, these politically loaded historical sources will prove to be indispensable for any serious researcher of the period. A useful contrast to the China Year Books and Chinese Year Books published in Tianjin, Shanghai and elsewhere from 1915-1945.
Subject: Asian Studies
Start: 1931
End: 1952
Place: East Asia
Jewish Theater under Stalinism - Moscow
Editor: V. Ivanov
This collection contains sources on the Soviet theater, Jewish avant-garde art and the Kremlin’s policy toward Jews. It includes correspondence with ministries, state and authors; administrative documents; performed /submitted plays; notes by the censors; musical items for productions; press clippings; posters, programs and librettos; photographs of productions; personal documents of troupe members.
Subject: Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Start: 1931
End: 1949
Place: Russia
Latin American Anarchist and Labour Periodicals Online
Editor: Max Nettlau e.a.
This collection contains the periodicals that have been accumulated by the Austrian anarchist, historian and collector Max Nettlau (1865-1944), together with a number of later additions, held at the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam. The collection provides a richness of documentation pertaining explicitly to the formative anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist episode (1890-1920) in the history of Latin American labor movements.
Subject: Latin American Studies
Start: 1880
End: 1940
Manchuria Daily News Online
Editor: Peter O'Connor
The English-language Manchuria Daily News (1908 – 1940), published in Dalian (Darien), presents Japan’s case for its presence in China. From 1932 the Manchuria Daily News promotes? Japan’s newly founded vassal state Manchoukuo, as the showcase state for Japan’s cultural, political and technological leadership of Asia.
Complemented here by Manchuria Magazine, Manchuria Month, Contemporary Manchuria and the Manchuria Information Bulletin, the Manchuria Daily News offers scholars of the modern history of Japan in China a multifaceted view of competing Japanese agendas in the China theatre.
Subject: Asian Studies
Start: 1931
End: 1941
Place: East Asia
Mass Media in Russia Online (Parts 1 and 2)
Editor: Jeffrey Brooks
This unique collection contains complete runs of kopeck (penny) newspapers, the most widely circulated newspapers in the beginning of the 20th century. They document political and social developments in Russia from 1908 to 1918 and are a mirror of the colorful social and cultural life of the Russian capitals. This collection gives access to a rare source practically unavailable in Western libraries.
Subject: Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Start: 1908
End: 1918
Place: Russia
Mathematics General Collection | The Augustus De Morgan Collection, Part 2
Editor: Various advisors
The second part in a larger collection of rare books and manuscripts from the Augustus De Morgan Library, Senate House, University of London. Part 2 contains the general mathematics materials. Materials are from 1600-1871, including formative mathematical works of the era. Collected by the mathematician and historian Augustus De Morgan (1806-1871). De Morgan was one of the founding faculty members of London University precursor to UCL. His impressive personal collection is the Library’s founding collection.
Subject: History
Start: 1600
End: 1871
Place: Leiden
Mathematics: Arithmetic, Analysis & Function, Tables, and Weights & Measures
Editor: Various advisors
The third part in a larger collection of rare books and manuscripts from the Augustus De Morgan Library, Senate House, University of London. Part 3 contains the materials on Arithmetic, Analysis & Function, Tables, and Weights & Measures. Materials are from 1600-1871, including formative mathematical works of the era. Collected by the mathematician and historian Augustus De Morgan (1806-1871). De Morgan was one of the founding faculty members of London University precursor to UCL. His impressive personal collection is the Library’s founding collection.
Subject: History
Start: 1600
End: 1871
Place: Leiden
Middle Eastern Manuscripts Online 1: Pioneer Orientalists
Editor: Joseph Justus Scaliger (d. 1609), and Jacobus Golius (d. 1667)
Leiden University Library has a world famous collection of Middle Eastern Manuscripts. Its core collection is brought together by, among others, the Leiden Orientalists Joseph Justus Scaliger and Jacobus Golius. Included in the Scaliger collection are about a dozen manuscripts which belonged to Franciscus Raphelengius. These collections consist of extremely rare, sometimes unique, manuscripts.
Subject: Middle East and Islamic Studies
Start: 10th century
End: 1370
Place: Middle East
Middle Eastern Manuscripts Online 2: The Ottoman Legacy of Levinus Warner
This online publication consists of 140 volumes from the Warner Collection, totaling 45,809 pages of Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, and Persian texts. All these manuscripts were acquired by the great scholar Levinus Warner during his stay in Istanbul from 1644 until his death in 1665. The collection also includes several of Warner's diaries with research notes in various languages.
Subject: Middle East and Islamic Studies
Start: 1644
End: 1665
Place: Middle East
Middle Eastern Manuscripts Online 3: Arabic Manuscripts from the Hungarian Academy
This collection consists of 200 manuscripts with just over 300 works. In addition to 5 autographs, the highlights of the collection include: the earliest dated manuscript in the collection (Arab O. 013) a dated copy of a unique arrangement of a rare treatise written by al-Ṣāḥib Tāǧ al-Dīn (d. 707/1307) produced in the year of the author’s death; two rare Mamluk treatises on horsemanship (Arab F.2); and an anonymous compilation (Arab O. 027) about the lives of the outstanding men who lived in Medina in the 12th/18th century.
Subject: Middle East and Islamic Studies
Start: 1300
End: 1900
Place: Middle East
Middle Eastern Manuscripts Online 4: The Shangoda Collections from Dagestan
Subject: Middle East and Islamic Studies
Start: 1300
End: 1900
Place: Middle East
Military Architecture 1600-1900
Brill’s Military Architecture 1600-1900 contains a selection of 99 printed works that represents the revolutionary developments in fortification in Early Modern Europe in theory and in practice. This collection was published earlier in a microfiche collection by IDC Publishers.
Subject: Art History
Missionary Archives from Lesotho, 1832 - 2006
Missionary Archives from Lesotho, 1832-2006 contains both the ethnographic and historical archives of the first missionary in Lesotho, D.F. Ellenberger, as well as the complete run of the bi-weekly magazine, the Leselinyana, from 1863 till 2006. The collection also includes historical maps, church archives, personal registers (birth, baptism, and marriage), missionaries’ correspondence, and it features the first written documents from the region. The collection is an important source for historians, theologians, anthropologists, ethnographers and linguists, working on Southern Africa or with an interest in Southern Africa.
Subject: Religious Studies
Start: 1832
End: 2006
Place: Lesotho
Mobilizing East Asia Online
Editor: Peter O'Connor
Mobilizing East Asia offers a carefully selected and tightly organized range of essential English-language newspapers, magazines, pamphlets and books following the descent into war in East and South-East Asia from the turn of the twentieth century to the 1950s. This exciting collection of newspapers and lavishly illustrated magazines, often in colour, shows the route from the defeat of Russia by Japan to Japan’s own defeat, through seismic upheaval in China and the onset of systemic change in Asia.
Subject: Asian Studies
Start: 1931
End: 1954
Place: East Asia
Moscow News Archives
Moscow News, founded in 1930, for years represented the official English-language press organ of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Its establishment stemmed from a large influx of foreign, mostly American, workers who emigrated to Russia during the Great Depression. Its mastermind was American journalist and activist Anna Louise Strong, who acted in cooperation with Stalin’s cultural propagandists with the aim of providing English-speaking newcomers with an informative – and often edulcorated – view of the Soviet standards of life. Thus, throughout the years, Moscow News served as a tool of positive propaganda that the Soviet regime employed to embellish and polish its public image. As a consequence, censorship heavily affected its rhetoric, narrative, and contents, determining which issues were worthy of being reported and which ones had to be dismissed or ignored. For this reason, the newspaper is a rich resource for those who are interested in assessing the internal mechanism of the Soviet Union’s cultural diplomacy and consensus-building machine.
Subject: History
Start: 1930
End: 1996
Place: Moscow
Moses Maimonides, Unparalleled Editions Online
Editor: Ilana Tahan, Hebraica Curator, British Library
One of the greatest Jewish sages of all times, Moses Maimonides, was not only an outstanding legal authority, compelling philosopher, and accomplished physician, but also the most influential Jewish spiritual leader of his age. The present selection of his works is wide in scope, since it embraces virtually the entire spectrum of Maimonides’ literary output.
Subject: Jewish Studies
Start: 1100
End: 1800
Muslims in Russia Online
Editor: S. Ishakov
This collection introduces the uniquely varied and poorly explored Russian Muslim population during one of the most dynamic periods of their history (1861-1918). It presents works written by and about Muslims. The value of this heritage is especially clear now that the historical and spiritual past of Muslims in Russia is being actively reconsidered.
Subject: Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Start: 1861
End: 1918
Place: Russia
North China Daily News Online
Editor: Peter O'Connor
Published, with a wartime break 1941-45, from 1864 to 1950, the North-China Daily News (in Chinese: Zilin Xibao), was the most influential foreign daily in East Asia, and the key source for the history of Western interests in China and the transnational history of East Asia. Published here in full colour 300 ppi scans from original issues and grayscale, this collection offers a greatly expanded run of the Daily edition from 1869-1949. There are unique holdings of The North China Sunday News Magazine, the Sunday Magazine Supplements and Special Supplements, a significant collection of the weekly Municipal Gazette, organ of the Shanghai Municipal Council from 1908-1940, and a selection of rare books from the imprint of the North-China Daily News and its parent, the North-China Herald.
Subject: Asian Studies
Start: 1923
End: 1941
Place: China
North China Standard Online
Editor: Peter O'Connor
The North-China Standard (in Chinese, Huabei zheng bao) presented Japan’s case for expansion and leadership in Asia to a growing readership in post-WW1 China and Japan. Despite its mission to present the case for Japan in China, two of the Standard’s three editors turned this sometime ‘propaganda rag’ into a real newspaper. Under the editorship of George Gorman in particular, the North-China Standard engaged with polemic and debate about Japan’s role in China, serving its Chinese and foreign readerships conscientiously and intelligently. Today, the North-China Standard constitutes a valuable ‘inside’ source for scholars of Japan and China, and of the ‘scramble for China’ in the 1920s.
Subject: Asian Studies
Start: 1919
End: 1927
Place: East Asia
Philipp Melanchthon Online
Editor: Timothy J. Wengert
This collection focuses on three types of literature in the Melanchthon corpus. First, it especially includes works not contained in more recent collections of Melanchthon’s works (i.e., the Corpus Reformatorum, Supplementa Melanchthoniana, and Melanchthon Studien Ausgabe). Second, it preserves important earlier printings of works. Third, it contains a copy of the four volume Opera omnia.
Subject: History
Start: 1521
End: 1598
Place: Germany
Popular Literature, Fiction and Songs in Imperial Russia Online
Editor: Jeffrey Brooks
The collection illustrates the chief genres of Russian popular literature and includes chivalric tales, historical fiction and updated fairy tales. From popular songs to fairy tales and war stories, the collection follows the evolution of the Russian language in its popular commercial print form, an evolution that the Bolsheviks interrupted, but one that has now resumed.
Subject: Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Start: 1800
End: 1918
Place: Russia
Pre-1600 Rare Books Collection: Mathematics, Astronomy, Physics, Philosophy & Theology, and Literature | The Augustus De Morgan Collection, Part 1
Editor: Various advisors
Almost 3,800 items on mathematics and its history, printed between 1474 and 1870, predominantly in English. Arithmetic is especially well represented, but algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, logarithms, probability, annuities, functions, astronomy and, to a far lesser extent, mechanics are all present. The collection includes multiple editions of popular or significant works, most notably Euclid’s Elements, and numerous bound pamphlets. Mathematical and astronomical landmarks jostle with obscure titles. Several items are extremely rare or, indeed, unique. De Morgan’s annotations enhance a significant minority. This is the Library’s founding collection.
Subject: History
Start: 1500
End: 2000
Place: Leiden
Prize Papers Online 1: American Revolutionary War and Fourth Anglo-Dutch War
Prize Papers Online 1 contains approximately 7,000 interrogations of members of the crew of ships taken during the American Revolutionary War and Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (ca. 1775-1784). It shows images of each interrogation (of two, three, sometimes even six or more pages). Answers to the fourteen most researched questions are transcribed and stored in a searchable database.
Subject: History
Start: 1775
End: 1784
Place: London
Prize Papers Online 2: Seven Years’ War and War of the Austrian Succession
Prize Papers Online 2 contains approximately 6,000 interrogations of members of the crew of ships taken during the War of the Austrian Succession and Seven Years’ War (ca. 1739-1763). It shows images of each interrogation (of two, three, sometimes even six or more pages). Answers to the fourteen most researched questions are transcribed and stored in a searchable database.
Subject: History
Start: 1739
End: 1763
Place: London
Prize Papers Online 3: First, Second and Third Anglo-Dutch War and War of the Spanish Succession
Prize Papers Online 3 contains approximately 4,000 interrogations of members of the crew of ships taken during the First, Second and Third Anglo-Dutch Wars (ca. 1652-1674) and the War of the Spanish Succession (ca. 1701-1733). It shows images of each interrogation (of two, three, sometimes even six or more pages). Answers to the fourteen most researched questions are transcribed and stored in a searchable database.
The Anglo-Dutch Wars (First: 1652-1654; Second: 1665-1667; Third: 1672-1674) were a series of wars fought between the English (later British) and the Dutch in the 17th and 18th centuries for control over the seas and trade routes. The Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (1780-1784) is part of PPO 1. This collection is part of Prize Papers Online (PPO).
Subject: History
Start: 1652
End: 1674
Place: London
Reformed Protestantism - East Friesland and North West Germany Online
Editor: Wim Janse
In the 16th century, the seaport town of Emden at the heart of East Friesland grew into the "mother church" of Dutch calvinism, which was the driving force behind the Dutch Revolt. The second part of this collection focuses on the cities in which early modern North Germany Reformed Protestantism was centered - Bremen and Emden.
Subject: History
Start: 1600
End: 1700
Place: Germany
Revolución y Cultura, 1967–2009
Editor: Project advisor: Luisa Campuzano Sentí
Electronic edition of the Cuban magazine Revolución y Cultura, spanning the years 1967–2009.
Subject: Latin American Studies
Start: 1967
End: 2009
Place: Cuba
Richard Wagner Online
This edition presents a broad cross-section of the Wagner literature of the nineteenth century as held by the Zentralbibliothek Zürich, which possesses one of the world’s finest collections of Wagneriana. The collection consists of three parts - Secondary Literature of the Nineteenth century; Wagner’s Mein Leben, 1870-1880; Mathilde Wesendonck‘s Complete Published Writings.
Subject: Art History
Start: 1853
End: 1898
Place: Switzerland
Russian Anarchist Periodicals of the Early 20th Century Online
Editor: Rashit Yangirov†
This collection reveals the eventful history of Russia during the revolutionary era, from the perspective of metropolitan and provincial newspapers and journals published by the most radical political forces. These materials shed new light on the relationship of the anarchists with the Bolsheviks and the Soviet State, and reveal the impact of anarchist ideas on the literature and art of the period.
Subject: Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Start: 1917
End: 1920
Place: Russia
Russian Avant-garde Online
Editor: A. Krusanov
This collection represents works of all Russian literary avant-garde schools. It comprises almost 800 books, periodicals and almanacs most of them published between 1910-1940 and thus offers an exceptionally varied and well-balanced overview of one of the most versatile movements in Russian literature.
Subject: Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Start: 1904
End: 1946
Place: Russia
Russian Military Intelligence on Asia Online Secret Prints, 1883-1914
The bulk of the Secret Prints consists of first-hand accounts composed by contemporary travelers to lesser-known reaches of Asia. Most were Russian army officers, many of whom had extensive training in geography and related disciplines.
Subject: Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Start: 1883
End: 1914
Place: Russia
Russian Military Intelligence on Asia: Archive series, 1651-1917
The 19th century was a time of rapid Russian expansion in Asia. While its western borders were largely fixed in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars, the Romanov autocracy still found many outlets for its imperial energies in the East. Imperial Russia’s Asian march coincided with a revolution in intelligence.
Subject: Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Start: 1651
End: 1917
Place: Russia
Russian Theater in the Early 20th Century Online
Editor: Pavel Dmitriev
The collection of theater periodicals provides a detailed picture of metropolitan and provincial Russian theater, and reflects the cultural life in Russia at the turn of the 20th century. It is a unique source for a wide range of scholars in history, cultural studies, theater history and sociology, and provides a unique opportunity to savour the distinctive atmosphere of Russia’s Silver Age.
Subject: Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Start: 1904
End: 1924
Place: Russia
Russian-Ottoman Relations Online, Part 1: The Origins 1600-1800
Editor: Maurits van den Boogert
Brill presents a unique collection of rare primary sources on a vital and dynamic part of the history of Turkey, Russia, the Middle East and Western Europe. These sources provide detailed insights not only in the military ebb and flow of Russian-Ottoman relations, but also in their effects on European public opinion.
Subject: Middle East and Islamic Studies
Start: 1600
End: 1800
Place: Russia
Russian-Ottoman Relations Online, Part 2: Shifts in the Balance of Power, 1800-1853
Editor: Maurits van den Boogert
This collection includes discussions of diplomatic treaties like those of Bucharest of 1812 and Adrianople (Edirne) of 1829; the commercial and military issue of access to the Black Sea; eye-witness accounts from war theaters; and plans for, and ideas about, future confrontations. The fact that many different perspectives are represented in this collection makes it extra attractive.
Subject: Middle East and Islamic Studies
Start: 1800
End: 1853
Place: Russia
Russian-Ottoman Relations Online, Part 3: The Crimean War (1853-1856)
Editor: Maurits van den Boogert
In this collection Russian views are represented by Anatole Demidov (1812-1870), traveler and patron of the arts; the discussion on the peace by former diplomat Tchihatchef; and the accounts of the Russian veteran, Piotr Andreevich Viazemsky (1792-1878). The opinions of two Turkish officers, Rustem Effendi and Seid Bey, and the views of Algerian poet Muhammad b. Ismail (1820-1870) are also included.
Subject: Middle East and Islamic Studies
Start: 1853
End: 1856
Place: Russia
Russian-Ottoman Relations Online, Part 4: The End of the Empires, 1857-1914
The material in the final part of this series is again highly diverse. Some works focus on trade, while others portray individual Ottoman or Russian statesmen. Some are personal accounts, whereas others are polemical or propagandistic. The collection is a veritable treasure trove of original sources, personal views, military analyses and national(istic) policy statements, which have never before been published together.
Subject: Middle East and Islamic Studies
Start: 1857
End: 1914
Place: Russia
Screen and Stage Online
Editor: Rashit Yangirov†
This unique collection of Russian theater and film periodicals, which also includes material on other forms of entertainment (cabaret theater, circus) and mass culture in pre-revolutionary Russia consists of various types of material ranging from sophisticated journals to cheaply produced magazines published in the last three decades of the Tsarist regime.
Subject: Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Start: 1889
End: 1919
Place: Russia
Seoul Press Online
Editor: Peter O'Connor
The Seoul Press (publ. 1907-1937) was Japan’s Korean news flagship, its mission to validate the natural justice of Japanese imperialism in Korea, and Japan as the redeeming, organising and modernising force in East Asia. the Seoul Press represented the Japanese administration of Korea to the world. Missing from this collection are the years 1910 – 1927. As missing issues arise, they will be added to this invaluable Primary Source at no extra cost to subscribers.
Subject: Asian Studies
Start: 1907
End: 1937
Place: East Asia
Sephardic Editions, 1550-1820 Online
Editor: Harm den Boer
Meyer Kayserling's Biblioteca española-portugueza-judaica (1890) is a hallmark of Iberian and Jewish bibliography. It reveals the importance, richness, and variety of the culture produced by the Jews of Spain and Portugal, both the exiles of 1492 and the many converted Jews - the "New Christians" or "conversos" - who returned to Judaism between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries.
Subject: Jewish Studies
Start: 1550
End: 1820
Place: Europe
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema Collection Online
This collection contains the study collection of photographs; some drawings, tracings and prints; and correspondence with friends and patrons of the Dutch painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912) who moved to England in 1870 where he became very famous.
Subject: Art History
Start: 1877
End: 1922
Place: The Netherlands
Sixteenth Century Pamphlets Online / Flugschriften Online
Editor: Hans-Joachim Köhler, Hildegard Hebenstreit-Wilfert, Christoph Weismann
This series contains some 11,000 German and Latin pamphlets printed in the Holy Roman Empire. The pamphlets from 1501-1530 are concerned with the early Reformation movement, the Peasants' War, the threat presented by the Turks, and the various conflicts among the Western European countries. The pamphlets from 1531-1600 deal with a broad spectrum of themes, the Turkish wars, the revolt of the Netherlands, the persecution of French protestants, the status of Calvinists and Zwinglians in the Holy Roman Empire, propaganda against the papacy and the Jesuits, intra-Protestant theological quarrels, the building of confessional networks, witch-hunting, and anti-Jewish polemics.
Subject: History
Start: 1501
End: 1600
Place: The Netherlands
Slavonic Bibles Online
Collection of the earliest part of the Slavonic early printed books of the Moscow University Library, consisting of 40 Slavonic bibles and Cyrillic religious books printed in the 15th and 16th centuries, including editions of the Gospels, New Testaments, Acts and Epistles, and Psalms.
Subject: Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Start: 1488
End: 1874
Place: Russia
Soviet Cinema Online - Periodicals and Newspapers 1918-1942
Editor: Rashit Yangirov†
The collection includes Soviet film magazines and newspapers from the 1920s and 1930s, reflecting the most interesting and fertile period in the history of Russian Film.
Subject: Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Start: 1918
End: 1942
Place: Russia
Soviet Cinema Online. Archival Documents from RGALI, 1923-1935
Editor: Richard Taylor
The documents in this collection cover the period when state monopoly control over the Soviet cinema industry - production, distribution and exhibition - was being established and this is why they cover a number of different organizations and institutions.
Subject: Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Start: 1923
End: 1935
Place: Russia
The Archives of the Church in North India - Archival Collection
A collaboration with Yale University, the online version of The Archives of the Church in North India comprises archival and printed material from the Gujarat Diocese of the Church of North India. The archives have been divided into two sections: the archival collection, consisting of meetings, correspondence and reports, and the monograph collection of early printed monographs from mission presses. Title lists and MARC21 records are available.
Subject: Religious Studies
Start: 1851
End: 1965
Place: India
The Archives of the Church in North India - Monograph Collection
A collaboration with Yale University, The Archives of the Church in North India Online comprises archival and printed material from the Gujarat Diocese of the Church of North India. The Monograph collection includes:
- Monographs printed by the Irish Presbyterian Mission Press in Surat, India.
- Monographs printed by other mission presses in India.
- Monographs printed outside India and relevant for research purposes.
Subject: Religious Studies
Start: 1851
End: 1965
Place: India
The Chinese Students’ Monthly Online
The Chinese Students’ Monthly is the first magazine published by Chinese students in the United States from 1906-1931. This publication became the official organ of the enlarged Chinese student organization: The Chinese Students’ Alliance in the U.S.
Subject: Asian Studies
Start: 1906
End: 1931
Place: The United States
The Civil & Military Gazette Online, 1876-1963
Editor: Peter O'Connor
The Civil & Military Gazette constitutes one of the most significant drivers of power in the long empire of information connecting, informing and controlling British India. This South Asian Primary Source offers the most comprehensive holding of The Civil & Military Gazette available, eighty-seven years in all, covering British rule in India from its imperial height, through the Rebellion or ‘Mutiny’ of 1857, recurring nationalist risings, imperial massacres and war to Partition and its aftermath in the independent nationhood of India and Pakistan.
Subject: Asian Studies
Place: India
The Daily Worker Online
The Daily Worker was the official mouthpiece of the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) between 1924 and 1958. While performing this function, the newspaper represented nevertheless much more than just a tool of political propaganda. Originally, its articles and campaigns were intended to raise working-class awareness in the US and to promote the tenets of socialism there. However, gradually, The Daily Worker started to appeal to a broader audience, not just rank-and-file Communists. Its main target became the victims of the Great Depression, the masses of the unemployed, the dispossessed, and the marginalized minorities packing American metropolises. Its reports covered a wide range of subjects, from policy reforms to labor strikes, from civil rights to housing and urban planning, from foreign policy to sports, literature, and general culture.
Subject: History
Start: 1922
End: 1968
Place: USA
The Fulbright Archives Online, 1949-2016 (excerpts): Papers of the Dutch-American Fulbright Program
In 1949, the Fulbright Program was set up in the Netherlands as well. In order to better coordinate academic exchanges between the Netherlands and the US, the two countries formally established a bilateral United States Educational Foundation (USEF) in Amsterdam. Since then, that organization has changed its name twice. In 1972, USEF became the Netherlands America Committee for Educational Exchange (NACEE). NACEE in turn became the Fulbright Center in 2004. The documents collected by the USEF, NACEE, and the Fulbright Center are held by the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS) in Middelburg. However, due to privacy regulations and classification, the only part of this collection that is digitally available is its Section G. This collection comprises 6,851 scans and is part of --Transatlantic Relations Online: Digital Archives of the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies--, which is the result of ongoing cooperation between the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies- and Brill.
Subject: History
Start: 1949
End: 2016
Place: United States of America
The Guatemala Collection
Spanning more than four hundred years, The Guatemala Collection: Government and Church Documents for Sacatepéquez (1587-1991) concentrates primarily on the national era, particularly 1824-1948. The vast majority of the documents—correspondence, annual reports, statistics, letters, litigation—found within The Guatemala Collection are copies from the Archivo General de Centroamérica and the Archivo Histórico Arquidiocesano “Francisco de Paula García Peláez” (formerly known as Archivo Eclesiástico de Guatemala) in Guatemala City. In recent years, the latter has seldom been opened to the public. Colonial documents mainly come from the Archivo General de Indias in Seville, Spain. A few of the documents and transcripts come from the Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica (CIRMA) in Antigua. In general, the documents are organized by place, theme, and chronology.
Subject: Latin American Studies
Start: 1587
End: 1991
Place: Guatemala
The Hongkong News Online
Editor: Peter O'Connor
The Japanese Occupation holding of The Hongkong News started publication in 1941, right after the Christmas Day surrender of the British Crown Colony, and lasted up to August 17, 1945, the very last week before Hongkong's liberation. The paper had previously launched in ca.1940 at separate premises in the Crown colony. This complete run of The Hongkong News as published during the Japanese Occupation offers scholars the voice of Japan from Hongkong, a voice rightly described as 'a close, unvarnished, daily view of the recolonizing mind-set of the new masters of East Asia'. Brill's Hongkong News was scanned from an immaculate original and is now available online for the first time with full-text-searchable functionality.
Subject: Asian Studies
Start: 1920
End: 1929
Place: China
The Hungarian Reformation Online
Editor: Graeme Murdock
This collection offers a comprehensive survey of the original Hungarian reformers’ writings. It includes texts from the first stirrings of reform in the 1540s to works written for the established churches during the 1650s. It is an invaluable resource concerning the Lutheran Reformation, the development of international Calvinism, the Catholic Reformation and the emergence of Anti-Trinitarianism.
Subject: History
Start: 1547
End: 1881
Place: Hungary
The Italian Reformation Online
The theological profile of the Italian reformation has not been researched sufficiently. Obviously, such an exploration requires knowledge of the primary texts. Critical editions, however, are very rarely available. This collection offers a synopsis of the diversity of the manifestations of the Italian Reformation and will therefore facilitate research in the fascinating, still largely fallow area.
Subject: History
Start: 1500
End: 1871
Place: Italy
The North China Herald Online
Editor: Robert Bickers
The North China Herald is the prime printed source for the history of the foreign presence in China from around 1850 to 1940s. No other newspaper existed over such an extended period, and covers it in such incredible depth and variety. The fully text-searchable North China Herald Online will be one of the primary resources on a period which continues to shape much of China’s world and worldview.
Subject: Asian Studies
Start: 1850
End: 1950
Place: China
The Reformation in Heidelberg Online
Editor: Richard A. Muller
This collection aims to illuminate the intellectual and religious developments during the reigns of Ottheinrich (1556-1559) and Frederick III (1559-1576). Primarily, it wants to present the complete works of the major Heidelberg figures. Secondarily, its aim is to illuminate the theological development of the Palatinate including the origins and reception of the Heidelberg Catechism.
Subject: History
Start: 1500
End: 1600
Place: Germany
The Times Supplements
In 1908, Lord Northcliffe bought The Times newspaper and set about transforming its fortunes. For a short period it issued a series of geographically-based supplements gratis. The regular supplements were: The South American Supplements (44 issues: 30 July 1910 – 24 Feb 1914); The Japanese Supplements (6 issues: 19 July 1910 – 16 Dec 1916) and The Russian Supplements (28 issues: 15 Dec 1911 – 27 Jan 1917). The Norwegian Supplement (18 May 1914) was a one-off. These supplements represent valuable source material for such fields as British World Studies, Area Studies of Japan, Russia and South America, International Relations, Media History and Transnational Opinion and Propaganda Studies. Lavishly illustrated, each title was tailored to support The Times’ broad editorial position and ongoing Foreign Office priorities. The Japanese Supplements, for example, were aimed at reinforcing the Anglo-Japanese Alliance of 1902-22, in the context of growing German influence in Japan. Talented artists and contributors were engaged in filling the supplements, ranging from foreign statesmen to expatriate journalists and publicists, including those hired by the nations concerned. These supplements would likely have continued beyond 1917, but were affected by acute paper shortages in that year and, in the case of the Russian Supplements, by the 1917 Revolution. The Times also issued one-off special issues associated with the Great War, and regular Reviews of the Year, retrospectives published on New Year’s Day of the succeeding year.
Subject: History
Start: 1910
End: 1916
The Week, 1933-1946
Essential reading in all the chancelleries not only of Europe and the Americas, but in Tokyo, Beijing and Chongqin, for all its seeming amateurishness, its snickering asides and shoestring budget,The Week told all the movers and players of its day just how little they thought of each other, exposed the fairweather alliances of the 1930s and the utter futility of gentlemanly undertakings. Dismissed, denied and praised to the skies as much by its contemporaries as by its successors, Claud Cockburn's The Week is as essential reading in our day as it was in its heyday.
Subject: History
Start: 1933
End: 1946
Place: Asia
The Yearbook of the Imperial Theaters Online
This impressive annual periodical, published during the period 1890-1915, offers an incredible wealth of exciting material concerning the late imperial stage in Russia. Its pages include repertoires, critical essays and reviews of theatrical performances, chronicles of metropolitan theater life, articles discussing a wide range of topics as well as information about the actors.
Subject: Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Start: 1890
End: 1915
Place: Russia
Trans-Pacific Online
Editor: Peter O'Connor
The monthly, soon weekly American-owned Trans-Pacific (1919-1940) reported from Tokyo on American commercial and political interests in East Asia.
Subject: Asian Studies
Start: 1919
End: 1940
Place: East Asia
Transatlantic Relations Online : Digital Archives of the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies
Editor: Fazzi, D.
The Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS) is an archive, public library, research center, and graduate school based in Middelburg, the Netherlands. Established in 1986 as the Roosevelt Study Center and completely renovated in 2017, the RIAS’s mission is to foster the study of American history in Europe, to facilitate research on the history of American politics, culture, and society, and to explore the historical development and trajectories of Dutch-American and, generally, transatlantic relations. The RIAS carries out such a mission under its motto “Pursuing the Rooseveltian Century,” which means that it supports academic research investigating the evolution of American society and its institutional settings, the changing nature of the relationship between the US government and its citizenry, the consolidation of modern political leadership, the evolution of American diplomacy and empire, and the performative roles played domestically and internationally by such ideas as freedom, security, and equality.
Subject: History
Start: 1784
End: 1960
Place: United States of America
Translations of the Peking Gazette Online
Translations of the Peking Gazette Online is a comprehensive database of approximately 8,500 pages of English-language renderings of official edicts and memorials from the Qing dynasty that cover China’s long nineteenth century from the Macartney Mission in 1793 to the abdication of the last emperor in 1912. As the mouthpiece of the government, the Peking Gazette is the authoritative source for information about the Manchu state and its Han subjects as they collectively grappled with imperial decline, re-engaged with the wider world, and began mapping the path to China’s contemporary rise.
Subject: Asian Studies
Start: 1793
End: 1912
Place: Peking
U.S. Intelligence on Asia, 1945-1991
Editor: Matthew M. Aid
This collection provides students and researchers with the declassified documentary record about the successes and failures of the U.S. intelligence community in the Far East during the Cold War.
Subject: History
Start: 1945
End: 1991
Place: United States
U.S. Intelligence on Europe, 1945-1995
Editor: Matthew M. Aid
This collection of over 4,000 formerly classified U.S. government documents provides a comprehensive survey of the U.S. intelligence community’s activities in Europe, including Eastern Europe, Turkey and Cyprus, covering the time period from the end of World War II to the fall of the Iron Curtain and beyond.
Subject: History
Start: 1945
End: 1995
Place: United States
U.S. Intelligence on the Middle East, 1945-2009
Editor: Matthew M. Aid
Since 1945, the U.S. intelligence community has had to cover a half-dozen major wars and several dozen smaller but equally bloody armed conflicts in the Middle East, as well as innumerable civil wars, border clashes, armed insurgencies, and terrorist attacks. This comprehensive document set sheds light on the U.S. intelligence community’s spying and analytic efforts in the Arab world, including the Middle East, the Near East, and North Africa. It covers the time period from the end of World War II to the present day, up until the 2002-2003 Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) assessments, the Global War on Terror, the Iraq War, and Iran’s nuclear program.
Subject: History
Start: 1945
End: 2009
Place: United States
Warfare in North America, c. 1756-1815 | British Perspectives
This collection makes available a wide selection of original documents held at The National Archives, London, concerning warfare in North America from the Seven Years’ War to the War of 1812, giving a unique insight into the turbulent transition of the American colonies from British rule to independence.
Subject: History
Start: 1756
End: 1815
Place: United States of America
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Editor: Matthew M. Aid
This collection provides students and researchers with the declassified documentary record concerning the U.S. government’s nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs covering the period from the end of World War II to the present day.
Subject: History
Start: 1945
End: 2016
Place: United States
Western Books on China up to 1850 Online
This collection comprises a descriptive, annotated bibliography of 654 early Western books on Imperial China up to 1850, all to be found in the Library of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. The collection is based on the book Western Books on China published up to 1850 by John Lust.
Subject: Asian Studies
Start: 1600
End: 1850
Place: China
Western Travellers in the Islamic World Online
Editor: Maurits van den Boogert
Accounts of travel are a popular and accessible source for research on historical relations between “East” and “West” and are attractive for specialists and non-specialists alike. In the pre-modern period a large number of such accounts were published all over Europe. Predominantly covering the Ottoman Empire, the collection also stretches into Ethiopia, Central Asia, Afghanistan, North Africa, and of course Iran.
Subject: Middle East and Islamic Studies
Start: 1520
End: 1907
Place: Middle East, Africa
World Council of Churches Online: Relations with the Roman Catholic Church
The present collection, World Council of Churches: Relation with the Roman Catholic Church, makes available a section of the ecumenical archives covering the period 1948-1992. These archives are of great interest and frequently consulted by researchers working on the history of the ecumenical movement. The different sections contain, among others, correspondence with Pope Paul VI, Pope John Paul II, Cardinal Bea and the Community of Taizé, personal notes, press cuttings, reports and unpublished material.
Subject: Religious Studies
Start: 1948
End: 1992
Place: Vatican
World Council of Churches Online: World War II Era Records
Editor: Advisor: Fernando Enns, VU University Amsterdam
Collection of documents from a section of the World Council of Churches Archives, dealing with Germany and fifteen other countries during the period 1932-1957. Documents include: newspapers, press clippings, press releases, telegrams, correspondence, minutes, manuscripts and personal notes. The collection includes correspondence and personal letters of such notable individuals as Dietrich Bonhoeffer, George Bell, Hans Schönfeld, Karl Barth, James McDonald, Georges Casalis, Adolf Freudenberg, Martin Niemöller, Otto Dibelius, Gerhart Riegner, Marc Boegner, and Willem Adolf Visser 't Hooft. The archives document not only the issues and events of the War, but also the beginning years of the World Council of Churches.
Subject: Religious Studies
Start: 1932
End: 1957
Place: Geneva (Switzerland)
World Council of Churches: Dialogue with People of Living Faiths
The desire of the World Council of Churches to open a dialogue with Hindus, Buddhists, Jews and Muslims resulted in the 1971 Dialogue with People of Living Faiths and Ideologies (DFI) program. This program supports interreligious multi-lateral and bi-lateral dialogue with partners of different faiths. This collection details the various meetings at which such dialogues were organized. This collection contains papers presented at the Ajaltoun Consultation in 1970, correspondence written by Stalnely J. Samarth and S.W. Ariarajah and various documents and papers related to Samartha’s study on “The Word of God and the Living Faiths of Men”. Also included are various preparatory documents and press releases that describe the World Conference of Religions for peace and documents that provide information on the various Multifaith consultations, including the Christian-Hindu dialogue, the Christian-Muslim dialogue and the Christian-Buddhist dialogue.
Subject: Religious Studies
Start: 1948
End: 1992
Place: Vatican
World Council of Churches: General Correspondence
The General Correspondence archives of the World Council of Chrurches contain the seminal letters leading up to the decision to found the World Council of Churches in 1938, the correspondence detailing the Council’s formative years until 1948 and goes on to cover the period until 1966, during which Dr. Visser ‘t Hooft was General Secretary. The oldest letters in the collection date from the 1920s. Taken as a whole, the General Correspondence archives of the World Council of Churches document a period of immense significance, both in terms of the ecumenical movement and indeed the history of the world. They include many letters to prominent politicians and national leaders from the period around the Second World War and may therefore be of great relevance
Subject: Religious Studies
Start: 1914
End: 1961
World of Children - Artek Pioneer Camp Archives, 1944-1967 Online
Artek's Archive reflects the recreation camp's history between 1944 and 1967, containing government documents on Soviet social and health policies, administrative, medical and financial records, transcripts of meetings, materials on educational and ideological work carried out in the camp statistical reports, food rations and provision standards, letters from Soviet and foreign children, diaries etc.
Subject: Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Start: 1944
End: 1967
Place: Russia