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History of Africa, Asia, Middle East

Background Information | Journal Articles | Books & Videos

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Audio | Images | Newspapers
Primary Sources | Reviews | Websites

Background Information

	Blackwell Reference Online - History (Blackwell) A collection of full-text reference books in history. [more info] Campus/Remote
	Cambridge Histories: Regional History (Cambridge University Press) Online access to complete full text of the respected Cambridge Histories of:  Africa, Ancient China, China, Early Inner Asia, Egypt, and Iran. Lengthy signed articles and rich bibliographies.  Keep in mind that some volumes were published over 20 years ago; if so, you will want to use other sources to update the bibliographies. [more info]
	Encarta Africana (Microsoft Corp.) A multimedia encyclopedia of Africans and people of African descent ... [more info] Reference Desk
	Guide to Reference (ALA) A selective guide of reference sources, organized by academic discipline... [more info] Campus/Remote
	History Resource Center: World (Gale) A comprehensive collection of reference, full-text articles from leading scholarly publications, primary sources, and images, maps and charts... [more info] Campus/Remote
	Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection (Oxford University Press) Database of full-text scholarly reference books on all subjects... [more info] Campus/Remote

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Journal Articles

	Annee Philologique (Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique) [guide] An index with abstracts to scholarly work covering all aspects of Greco-Roman antiquity... [more info] Campus/Remote
	Historical Abstracts (EBSCO) An index with abstracts to more than 2000 periodicals on world history from 1450 to the present ... [more info] Campus/Remote
	Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 (HW Wilson) Indexes articles in the subjects of gerontology, history, international relations, journalism, law, linguistics... [more info] Campus/Remote
	Index Islamicus (CSA) Indexes journal articles, conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews on Islam... [more info] Campus/Remote
	JSTOR Full online text and images for back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics... [more info] Campus/Remote
	Project Muse (John Hopkins University Press) An index of journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics... [more info] Campus/Remote
	Royal Historical Society Bibliography of British and Irish History (Royal Historical Society) This resource will cease as of 1/1/2010.  Please begin using Historcial Abstracts. An index to scholarly historical writing on the British Isles, Commonwealth and Empire... [more info] Unrestricted
	WilsonWeb OmniFile (HW Wilson) An index with abstracts and some full text covering all subjects, including humanities and social sciences... [more info] Campus/Remote

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Books & Videos

	ACLS Humanities E-Book (American Council of Learned Societies) Collection of over 2100 books of high quality in the humanities online ... [more info] Campus/Remote
	Annee Philologique (Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique) [guide] An index with abstracts to scholarly work covering all aspects of Greco-Roman antiquity... [more info] Campus/Remote
	ARTFL: American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language Provides the complete text of nearly 2,000 French works including classic works of French literature, non-fiction prose, and technical writing. [more info]
	C19: The Nineteenth Century Index (Chadwyck-Healey) C19: The Nineteenth Century Index is an all-inclusive bibliographic tool for 19th-century research... [more info] Campus/Remote
	ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online (Gale) Provides digital editions of nearly all books published in Great Britain in the 18th century... [more info] Campus/Remote
	Historical Abstracts (EBSCO) An index with abstracts to more than 2000 periodicals on world history from 1450 to the present ... [more info] Campus/Remote
	Index Islamicus (CSA) Indexes journal articles, conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews on Islam... [more info] Campus/Remote
	LEO Library Catalog (JMU) [more info] Internet
	Royal Historical Society Bibliography of British and Irish History (Royal Historical Society) This resource will cease as of 1/1/2010.  Please begin using Historcial Abstracts. An index to scholarly historical writing on the British Isles, Commonwealth and Empire... [more info] Unrestricted
	WorldCat (OCLC) Catalog of over 62 million titles cataloged by libraries worldwide ... [more info] Campus/Remote

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Audio (Music, Spoken word , etc.)

	Africa South of the Sahara Serves as a guide to Internet resources on African cultures and peoples. Sites are organized by country and topic. [more info]
	Smithsonian Global Sound (Alexander Street Press) The world's musical and aural traditions, in streaming audio... [more info] Campus/Remote

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Images

	Africa South of the Sahara Serves as a guide to Internet resources on African cultures and peoples. Sites are organized by country and topic. [more info]
	AP Images (Accuweather/AP) Image a database containing the Associated Press's current year's photo report and a selection of images... [more info] Campus/Remote
	ARTstor Image database containing images of architecture, painting, sculpture... [more info] Campus/Remote
	ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online (Gale) Provides digital editions of nearly all books published in Great Britain in the 18th century... [more info] Campus/Remote
	LIFE Photo Archive Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. [more info] Internet

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Newspapers

	Access World News (Readex) Provides full-text for over 600 U.S. and over 700 international news sources. [more info] Campus/Remote
	New York Times: Historical (ProQuest) Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue to about 3 years ago... [more info] Campus/Remote
	Washington Post: Historical (ProQuest) Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue to about 15 years ago... [more info] Campus/Remote

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Primary Sources

	ABZU: A Guide to Information Related to the Study of the Ancient Near East on the Web   Abzu guides the user to data on the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean world... [more info]
	ARTFL: American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language Provides the complete text of nearly 2,000 French works including classic works of French literature, non-fiction prose, and technical writing. [more info]
	C19: The Nineteenth Century Index (Chadwyck-Healey) C19: The Nineteenth Century Index is an all-inclusive bibliographic tool for 19th-century research... [more info] Campus/Remote
	Digital National Security Archive (Chadwyck-Healey) This database is the most comprehensive collection available of significant primary documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945 ... [more info] Campus/Remote
	ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online (Gale) Provides digital editions of nearly all books published in Great Britain in the 18th century... [more info] Campus/Remote
	Empire Online (1492-1962) Full text primary source documents, including original manuscripts and printed material... [more info] Campus/Remote
	Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database Contains records of nearly 35,000 trans-Atlantic slaving voyages made between 1514 and 1866... [more info]

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Reviews

	Annee Philologique (Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique) [guide] An index with abstracts to scholarly work covering all aspects of Greco-Roman antiquity... [more info] Campus/Remote
	Index Islamicus (CSA) Indexes journal articles, conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews on Islam... [more info] Campus/Remote

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Websites

	Africa South of the Sahara Serves as a guide to Internet resources on African cultures and peoples. Sites are organized by country and topic. [more info]

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This page last reviewed by P. Hardesty on 11/26/2008