History
Multiregional
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Archives Direct: Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1947-1980
Digitized British Foreign Office and Dominions Office files, covering 1947 to 1980, that document South Asia’s post-colonial politics, from India and Pakistan’s partition and Kashmir disputes to India’s Emergency, Bangladesh’s independence, Afghanistan’s Cold War brinkmanship, and regional diplomacy.
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AM Scholar Area Studies: China and Southeast Asia
Western perspectives on Chinese and Southeast Asian history and culture through primary sources from traders, missionaries, diplomats, and travelers spanning the 18th to 20th centuries.
Middle East
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Archives Direct: Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969
Digitized British government documents from the Confidential Print series, spanning 1839 to 1969, that follow Middle Eastern diplomacy and statecraft from the reforms of Muhammad Ali Pasha through the Suez Crisis, the Palestine mandates and partition, and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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Digital Dead Sea Scrolls
Includes a complete set of digitized images of all the Dead Sea Scrolls texts from the eleven caves surrounding Khirbet Qumran.
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Kotobarabia Modern Arab Renaissance CollectionAn e-book collection of leading authors from around the Arab world. Includes over 11,000 titles. Classified by 27 genres and subject areas. Searchable by author, title, subject and/or keywords.
East Asia
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AM Scholar Area Studies: Japan
Western perspectives on Japan's political, cultural, and social history through primary sources from writers, diplomats, missionaries, and travelers spanning the 15th to 20th centuries.
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Archives Direct: Foreign Office Files for China, 1919-1980
Collection of digitized British Foreign Office documents related to China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan in the twentieth century, including diplomatic dispatches, reports, correspondence, and analyses.
Explore British Foreign Office records revealing China’s political, social, and diplomatic transformation from 1919 to 1980. These primary sources trace events from the fall of the imperial system and the rise of the Republic to the Cultural Revolution, offering firsthand insight into British–Chinese relations, international diplomacy, and life in treaty ports like Shanghai and Hong Kong.
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Chinese Basic Ancient Books Library
Features 10,000 titles and 12,500 editions from China's pre-Qin to Republican periods, providing full-text and images for side-by-side comparisons of digitized texts and original manuscripts, including rare and variant editions across multiple fields.
Click Login to enter, then select 中國基本古籍庫 (Chinese Basic Ancient Books Database) OR 中國俗文庫初集 (The first collection of the Chinese Popular Library). The red text indicates authorized access.
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Chinese Pamphlets: Political Communication and Mass Education in the Early Period of the People's Republic of China
Features digitized propaganda pamphlets and visual materials used for political messaging and public education in early Communist China.
Mass education materials published in Hong Kong and mainland China, particularly Shanghai, between 1947 and 1954. These cartoon books, pamphlets, postcards, and magazines—covering topics like foreign threats, Sino-Soviet relations, production campaigns, and marriage reform—were produced by both Kuomintang (Nationalist) and Gongchantang (Communist) supporters.
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DuxiuThis bibliographical index database provides full text search capability to more than 600 million volumes of e-books and other materials including dissertations, journals, magazines, web pages and newspapers. The first 17 pages of each e-book are available for preview. Document delivery is also available.