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The first cohesive and discreet reference work on the Jews of Muslim lands, particularly in the late medieval, early modern and modern periods.
User-friendly, powerful cloud-based mapping software for creating web maps and performing analysis. Includes access to ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World and premium content, including demographic, environmental, and imagery data.
This resource consists of British intelligence files that were gathered on Afghanistan in the context of the British rivalry with the Russian Empire in the Great Game, and also to control and govern the local Pashtun tribes in British territories.
This collection documents British attempts to impose imperial order on the Pashtun tribal lands that made up the border between Afghanistan and the North-West Frontier Province of British India.
A searchable index holding bibliographic information on European academic journals in the Social Sciences and Humanities. 2004 - current. At the moment more than 12,200 journals are included and 10 million articles are available through ERIH PLUS powered by Dimensions.
Indian Political Intelligence (IPI) monitored activities of groups and individuals trying to undermine the British colonial government in India. Declassified in 1997, these files are a primary source on revolutionary movements in British India.
MGG Online builds on the second edition of Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG, 1994–2008), offering new and substantially updated content as well as continuous updates, revisions, and additions.
My China Roots is a family history database for the Chinese diaspora that includes millions of searchable ancestors in America and Southeast Asia.
Complete online access to the editions, interpretations and reference works on Nietzsche, including authoritative editions of the works and the letters, and all De Gruyter publications on Nietzsche.
Oxford reference spans 25 subject areas with 2 million digitized entries across Oxford University Press’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias.
Pharos provides hazard, use, and exposure information on chemicals and building products. NOTE: You must first register for an account using the link here and your Berkeley email address.
Published six times per month from February–July 1930, this illustrative journal provides critical insights into the Soviet Union’s brief but notable experiment with a five-day workweek, comprising four workdays followed by a day of rest. The Piatidnevka Digital Archive offers crucial insights into the Soviet Union's 1930 experiment with a five-day workweek, featuring rich visual and textual content. Feb-July 1930
Published six times per month from February–July 1930, this illustrative journal provides critical insights into the Soviet Union’s brief but notable experiment with a five-day workweek, comprising four workdays followed by a day of rest.
SUR, was a major twentieth-century Latin American literary magazine. The collection features over 50,000 pages, covers, ads, a corrected 6,300-entry index, manuscripts from its debut, and unpublished letters by Victoria Ocampo. Founded in 1931 by Argentine intellectual Victoria Ocampo (1890-1979), SUR was a highly influential journal in Latin America and Europe. It featured works by major literary, philosophical, and artistic figures such as Le Corbusier, Lacan, Sartre, Woolf, Borges, Cortázar, Silvina Ocampo, and Bioy Casares. SUR fostered cultural exchange by translating works, introducing Latin Americans to European writers, and vice versa. Ocampo's editorial choices and commentary promoted Argentine Liberalism amidst challenges like reactionary regimes, military rule, and economic turmoil, shaping intellectual discourse.
Tabloids recorded what broadsheet newspapers missed, and spoke what cannot be expressed by broadsheet newspapers. This resource would be a great complement of regular news resources published in the same time period. It would also provide much needed primary sources to academic programs in the area of history/art history, sociology, cultural/popular cultural studies, journalism studies and film studies.
Established in 1924 in Ashgabat, Turkmenskaia iskra (The Turkmen Spark), named after Lenin’s newspaper Iskra, was a Russian-language publication affiliated with the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Turkmenistan.
VitalLaw (formerly Cheetah) is a legal research platform that provides access to statutes, cases, administrative agency materials, as well as treatises, reporters, newsletters, and blogs.
