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New Enyclopedia of Africa

     New encyclopedia of africa


This substantial expansion and reworking of the classic Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara (1997) covers the entire continent, from the Europe-facing shores of the Mediterranean to the commercial bustle of Cape Town.
 
The set addresses the entire history of African cultures from the pharaohs and the ancient civilizations, the colonial era and the emergence of 53 independent countries in the twentieth century, some of them, like Nigeria, newly emergent in world commerce and others deep in conflict.
 
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ISBN 13: 9780684314549
ISBN 10: 0684314541
Price: $517.00 until 30/10/07, thereafter $575.00

 

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British Library Newspapers

17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers and 19th Century British Library Newspapers
 
British Library Newspapers consists of two major collections from the British Library which span 300 years of newspaper publishing in the UK. The two collections combined contain nearly 3 million pages and 40 million articles and provide an enormous resource for research on all subjects including history, literature, social sciences, business and economics and the history of journalism and advertising.
 
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The Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003

The Economist and Gale are pleased to announce that the complete facsimile run of The Economist, 1843-2003, will be available online in 2007, with editorial, advertising and tabular matter fully searchable.
 
Researchers and students will now be able to access high quality primary sources, enabling them to facilitate comparisons of economic trends across continents and centuries.
 
Features and benefits:
  • Authoritative ‘leaders’ (editorials), news coverage, commentaries and letters on British, American and world politics and business
  • Special surveys and supplements on Countries and Industries
  • Renowned sections including 'Science and Technology'
  • Classified and display advertising profiling major companies, job opportunities, etc
  • Detailed topic search, facsimile pages, hit-term highlighting
  • Searchable 'covers gallery' and financial data
  • Key economic indicators post-1983 available in exportable format.
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State Papers Online, 1509-1714

Coming in Spring 2008
 
State Papers Online, 1509-1714 will unite the State Papers Domestic and Foreign and the Registers of the Privy Council, to create a new backbone for research and teaching projects in politics, government, and social economic and religious history.
 
Part One, to be published in Spring 2008, offers the complete collection of State Papers Domestic for the Tudor era (Henry to Elizabeth). Each of the original manuscript documents is reproduced in facsimile, with links to and from its fully-searchable Calendar (transcript or abstract) entry. By overcoming the difficulty of matching an individual Calendar entry to the original Paper; State Papers Online 1509-1714 marks a huge advance for historians in all disciplines.
 
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Post-War Europe: Refugees, Exile and Resettlement, 1945-1950

Post-War Europe: Refugees, Exile and Resettlement, 1945-1950 is a new online collection of primary source materials from the holdings of the Wiener Library and The National Archives in the UK and supports research and teaching on post-World War II Europe.
 
This unique archive covers the international politics leading the administration, care, repatriation and emigration of the Displaced Persons (DPs) as well as the situation and plight of the survivors, both Jews and non-Jews, of the Holocaust and World War Two, and their reintroduction to life and community. A large percentage of the DPs were refugees from Eastern European countries fleeing Soviet rule who were not able to return to their homelands until after the fall of the Berlin wall.
 
External Editor: Professor Dan Stone, Royal Holloway College, University of London
 
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Iraq 1914-1974: Middle East Online Series 2

An online publication in partnership with the National Archives, Kew
 
An essential contemporary resource for the understanding of modern Iraq, using primary source documents from The National Archives of the UK, this online fully searchable collection of British Government files covers the period from the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire during the First World War and the creation of the new state, to the rise of Saddam Hussein in 1974.
 
General Editor: Dr Charles Tripp, School of African and Oriental Studies, University of London
 
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