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Bloomsbury Architecture Library

Bloomsbury Architecture Library www.bloomsburyarchitecturelibrary.com Available via annual subscription to institutions worldwide. Bloomsbury Architecture Library is a leading digital resource for the study of architecture, urbanism, and interior design. Its dynamic digital platform offers access to wide-ranging collections of text and image content, from architectural history to cutting-edge design guidance. Fully-searchable throughout, browsable by theme, or accessible through interactive features such as the visual timeline and world map, the content includes introductory guidance as well as in-depth research – making the Bloomsbury Architecture Library an ... read more

Bloomsbury Churchill Archive

Churchill Archives www.churchillarchive.com Take a Tour Available via annual subscription and perpetual access to institutions worldwide. Published in October 2012 by Bloomsbury Publishing in collaboration with the Churchill Archives Centre, the Churchill Archive is a digital library of modern international history. It includes more than 800,000 pages of original documents, produced between 1874 and 1965, ranging from Winston S. Churchill’s personal correspondence to his official exchanges with kings, presidents, politicians, and military leaders. This is more than a fantastic collection of primary source material; it is a unique online resource offering new insight ... read more

Bloomsbury History Theory and Method

Big Ideas. Key Debates. Laying the Global Foundations of History. Bloomsbury History: Theory & Method will be an educational resource dedicated to historiography and the examination of historical theory and methods using a global approach. Launching Autumn 2021. Will be available via annual subscription or perpetual access to institutions worldwide. Content Highlights 100 exclusive articles written by authors from 25 different countries across five continents that explore key concepts, thinkers, debates, methods for analysing primary sources, classic and cutting-edge theories, schools of thought and overviews and excerpts from scholarly works which shape ... read more

Bloomsbury Medieval Studies

Bloomsbury Medieval Studies September 2019 via subscription or perpetual access to institutions worldwide. Bloomsbury Medieval Studies is a new interdisciplinary digital resource with a global perspective. It will bring together high-quality secondary content with visual primary sources, a brand new reference work and pedagogical resources into one cross-searchable platform, to support students and scholars across this rich field of study. Image: © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - not for reproduction Content Highlights Fully-searchable access to a broad range of over 150 scholarly books including primary texts, resear ... read more

Brill Lexikon des gesamten Buchwesens Online

Lexikon des gesamten Buchwesens Online Online Publication Date: 02 Mar 2017 View PDF Flyer The aim of the Lexikons des gesamten Buchwesens (“Dictionary of the Book”) is to render the complete knowledge about the book in an academically reliable and exact manner, in alphabetical order. The book is understood as the graphical presentation of intellectual content with the aim of the preservation, transmission and dissemination of this content in society. All persons, institutions, facts, factors and procedures that play a role in the mediation of intellectual content between the author and the reader through the medium of the book are recorded. The di ... read more

Brill Art Sales Catalogues Online

Art Sales Catalogues Online Online Access to Complete Sales Catalogues from 1600-1900 Editor: Various Authors & Editors ISSN: 2210-7886 Annual update 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. The earliest art sales catalogues, also known as auction catalogues, appeared in the early 17th century, as simple leaflets. Over time, the catalogues grew into ext ... read more

Brill Basilica Online

Basilica Online Justinian's Corpus iuris in the Byzantine world Editor: Prof. Dr. Bernard Stolte Basilica Online is a fully-searchable online edition of the 17 volumes of the Basilica text and its scholia, as edited between 1945 and 1988 by H.J. Scheltema, D. Holwerda, and N. van der Wal. The Basilica is the single-most important source for Byzantine law throughout the period of the Byzantine empire, and is a major source for Byzantine studies more broadly. Added Features and Benefits - Most recent and accurate edition of the Basilica text and its scholia. - Fully searchable in both Latin and Greek. - All critic ... read more

Brill Bibliography of Arabic Books Online

Bibliography of Arabic Books Online A Bibliography of All Printed Arabic Language Books before 1960 Editor: William J. Kopycki ISSN: 1877-0045 View PDF Flyer The Bibliography of Arabic Books Online (BABO) aims to become a comprehensive bibliographic database containing information about virtually all books published in Arabic before 1960. BABO contains over 80,000 bibliographical records from the National Library in Egypt, the British Library and the Library of Congress. BABO will include Name Authority Files (NAFs) which list all the spellings variants of authors’ na ... read more

Brill Bibliography of the History and Archaeology of Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages

Bibliography of the History and Archaeology of Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages Editor: Professor Florin Curta, University of Florida ISSN: 2665-9506 View PDF Flyer The Bibliography of the History and Archaeology of Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages is a fundamental source of information for the study of the history and archaeology of medieval East Central and Eastern Europe, an area of great interference and symbiosis of influences from Scandinavia, Western Europe, the steppe lands of Eurasia, as well as Byzantium. The bibliography provides comprehensive coverage of all publications, in all languages, pertaining to this vast area of the European continent an ... read more

Brill Book History Online

Book History Online Editor: Andrew Pettegree, University of St Andrews ISSN: 2213-2732 Publication Type: E-Reference Work Imprint: BRILL Language: English Videos and Tutorials Book History Online CR Book History Online HU Book History Online PL Book History Online RO Book History Online RU Book History Online SK Book History Online (BHO) is the international bibliography in the field of book and library history. It provides a comprehensive survey of all scholarly publications written from a historical perspective. Included are monogr ... read more

Brill Book Sales Catalogues Online

Book Sales Catalogues Online Book Auctioning in the Dutch Republic, 1599 - ca. 1800 View PDF Flyer Book Sales Catalogues Online (BSCO) offers a comprehensive bibliography of book sales catalogues printed in the Dutch Republic before 1801. A sophisticated search menu provides access to some 3,750 digital facsimiles from ca. 50 libraries across Europe, including major collections in the Netherlands, Germany, Great Britain, France, and Russia. More catalogues will be added in the future. These catalogues are a key primary source for research on the history of the book and libraries, the history of ideas, the history of collecting, the history of literatur ... read more

Brill Codices Vossiani Latini Online

Codices Vossiani Latini Online ISSN: 2452-2988 View PDF Flyer Academic Advisor Andre Bouwman, Chief Curator of Western Manuscripts, Leiden University Library The Codices Vossiani Latini Online publishes all 363 codices which form the world-famous Latin part of Isaac 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. Famous are the oldest sources of Lucretius De natura rerum, of Ciceros philosophical works, and ... read more

Brill Cold War Intelligence Online

Cold War Intelligence The Secret War Between the U.S. and the USSR, 1945-1991 Editor: Matthew M. Aid This unique collection of well over 2,300 formerly classified U.S. government documents (most of them classified Top Secret or higher) provides readers for the first time with the documentary record of the successes and failures of the U.S. intelligence community in its efforts to spy on the Soviet Union during the Cold War. This document collection covers the period from the end of World War II in 1945 until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, but also includes a number of formerly classified historical reports and articles written by U.S. intelligence historians since t ... read more

Brill Companions Online

Brill Companions Online E-Book collection, consisting of 9 subject collections. www.brill.com/cbo Publication date: 10 September 2018 ISSN: 25899570 View PDF Flyer Brill’s Companions Online is a suite of e-book collections comprising state-of-the-art research companions in various subject fields within the humanities. Peer-reviewed and written by experts, these handbooks offer balanced accounts at an advanced level, along with an overview of the state of scholarship and synthesis of debate, pointing the way for future research. Designed for students and scholars, the books explain what sources there are, what methodologies and approaches are appropriate ... read more

Brill Cuban Culture and Cultural Relations 1959-

Cuban Culture and Cultural Relations, 1959- The Vertical Archive of the Casa de las Américas, Part 1: “Casa y Cultura” Online Publication ISSN: 2542-4947 Publication Type: Primary Source Online Imprint: BRILL Language: Spanish Unique access to 45,000 documents; • Covering almost 60 years of cultural relations between Revolutionary Cuba and abroad; • Full-text search functionality; • Including MARC21 catalog records. Casa de las Américas in Havana, Cuba, ranks among the most renowned cultural institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean. Ever since its creation in 1959, it has been ... read more

Brill Cult of Body Online

Cult of Body Online Advisor: Louise McReynolds Number of titles: 13 Languages used: Russian View PDF Flyer Location of originals: National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg 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 behaviour and self-presentation. Sports are essential to the evolution of the modern personality in terms of health, competitiveness and team play. The collection offe ... read more

Brill Digital Library of World War I

Brill's Digital Library of World War I ISSN: 2352-3786 View PDF Flyer Brill’s Digital Library of World War I is an online resource that contains over 650 encyclopedia entries plus 250 peer-reviewed articles of transnational and global historical perspectives on significant topics of World War I. This collection includes Brill’s Encyclopedia of the First World War, an unrivalled reference work that showcases the knowledge of experts from 15 countries and offers 26 substantial themed essays on the major belligerents, society and culture, diplomatic and military events, and the historiography of the Great War. T ... read more

Brill Dutch Pamphlets Online

Dutch Pamphlets Online The Knuttel Collection: 1486-1853 and Van Alphen Collection: 1542-1853 Editor: Various Authors & Editors ISSN: 2214-8264 View PDF Flyer The Knuttel Collection: 1486-1853 • Number of titles: 33,487 • Languages used: primarily Dutch but also French, German, Latin and English • Location of originals: the National Library of the Netherlands The Knuttel Collection at the National Library of the Netherlands is the most extensive pamphlet collection in the Netherlands. The thousands of pamphlets presented here constitute an essential source for understanding these tumultu ... read more

Brill Encyclopaedia of the Neo Latin World Online

Brill's Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World Online Editors: Philip Ford, Jan Bloemendal and Charles Fantazzi Flyer CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2014 With its striking range and penetrating depth, Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World traces the enduring history and wide-ranging cultural influence of Neo-Latin, the form of Latin that originated in the Italian Renaissance and persists to the modern era. Featuring original contributions by a host of distinguished international scholars, this comprehensive reference work explores every aspect of the civilized world from literature and law to ... read more

Brill Encyclopedia of Early Modern History Online

Encyclopedia of Early Modern History Online Editor: Friedrich Jaeger Executive editor of the English version: Andrew Colin Gow ISSN: 2352-0272 View PDF Flyer This English edition is available in combination with the German edition Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit Online. The Outright Purchase Price for the combined product can be found here. The Encyclopedia of Early Modern History offers 400 years of Early Modern History in one work. Experts from all over the world have joined in a presentation of the scholarship on the great era between the mid-15th to the mid-19th centuries. The perspective is European ... read more

Brill Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture Online

Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture Online Editor-in-Chief: Dan Diner, on behalf of the Saxonian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig Editorial Staff: Markus Kirchhoff (Head), Philipp Graf, Stefan Hofmann, Ulrike Kramme, Regina Randhofer, Frauke von Rohden, Philipp von Wussow. Consulting Editors of the English Edition: Cornelia Aust, Philipp Lenhard, Daniel Mahla ISSN: 2468-8894 Publication Type: E-Reference Work Imprint: BRILL Language: English This online English edition is available as a set alongside the German Enzyklopädie jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur. The prices mentioned are for the combined bundle of& ... read more

Brill Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages Online

Brill's Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages Online E-Reference Work Imprint: BRILL Language: English Edited by Gert Melville, Technische Universität Dresden, Martial Staub, University of Sheffield. English edition supervised by Francis G. Gentry and Tim Barnwell. Brill's Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages offers an accessible yet engaging coverage of medieval European history and culture, c. 500-c. 1500, in a series of themed articles, taking an interdisciplinary and comparative approach. Presenting a broad range of topics current in research, the encyclopedia is dedicated to all aspects of medieval life, organized in eight sections: Socie ... read more

Brill French Revolutionary Opinions Online

French Revolutionary Opinions Online The Trial of King Louis XVI, 1792 - 1793 Advisor: Prof. Dr. 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. View PDF Flyer Number of titles: 7 Languages used: French Background Introduction The trial and execution of King Louis XVI rank among the most spectacular events of the French Revolution. The trial in and by the National Convention was preceded by a number of personal errors of judgement by the king, compounded by po ... read more

Brill Girolamo Savonarola Online

Girolamo Savonarola Online Advisor: Peter Amelung The Incunable Collection of the Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart View PDF Flyer The Incunable Collection of the Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart Number of titles: 212 Languages used: Italian and Latin Location of originals: Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart 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. The rise of Florentine book illustrations is also closely linked with the dissemination ... read more

Brill Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection

Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection 2019 Author: Various Authors & Editors Institutional outright purchase price The Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection is a collaboration between Brill and Harvard University Asia Center. This collection includes 528 titles published by Harvard University Asia Center by June 2019. Nearly all titles belong to one of three monograph series: Harvard East Asian Monographs (about 410 titles), Harvard-Yenching Institute Monographs (about 90 titles), and the Harvard Contemporary China Series (about a dozen titles). Around 16-20 new titles will be added to the collection annually ... read more

Brill History of Modern Russian and Ukrainian Art Online

History of Modern Russian and Ukrainian Art Online Advisor: Professor 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. It also offers a selection of early20th 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. History of Modern Russian and Ukrainian Art Online: Monographs and Serials, 1907-1930 Scarcity Sources for the history of modern and avant-garde Russian and Ukrainian art have long ... read more

Brill Imperial Russias Illustrated Press Online

Imperial Russia’s Illustrated Press Online Advisor: Jeffrey Brooks View PDF Flyer Number of titles: 5 Languages used: Russian Location of originals: The National Library of Russia 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. Their editors traced the sweep of the Russian imagination at the apogee of Russian cultural power from the peak years of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy to the modernist era and the chaos of 1917. They captured imperial expansion, cultural ... read more

Brill Jesuit Historiography Online

Jesuit Historiography Online Editor: Robert A. Maryks Online Publication Date: 04 Aug 2016 ISSN: 2468-7723 View PDF Flyer Jesuit Historiography Online (JHO) is an Open Access resource offering over seventy historiographical essays written by experts. Aimed at scholars of Jesuit history as well as the many disciplines with which it intersects, each essay in JHO provides a summary of key texts from the earlier literature, a painstaking survey of more recent work, and a digest of archival and online resources. Crucially, each essay covers both Anglophone and non-Anglophone works and devotes attention to scholarship from Europe, Asia, Africa, ... read more

Brill Jewish Theater under Stalinism Online

Jewish Theater under Stalinism Online View PDF Flyer Number of titles: Fond 2307, opis’ 1-2 and Fond 2308, opis’ 1 - from the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art (RGALI), Moscow Dates: (inclusive): 1916-1950 Languages used: Russian, Yiddish, English, French, German, Hebrew, Ukrainian, Belarus, Georgian, Latvian EAD finding aids are available Location of originals: the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art (RGALI) in Moscow This collection of archival documents contains material that describes the history of Soviet culture and theatre, Jewish avant-garde art and the Kremlin’s policy toward Jewish society and cultur ... read more

Brill Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers Online 2019

Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers Ebook Collection Editor: Aaron W. Hughes ISSN: 2589-7438 The Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers Online is the online version of Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers. The series showcases outstanding Jewish thinkers who have made lasting contributions to constructive Jewish philosophy in the second half of the 20th century. Each volume is devoted to one particular thinker and is meant to show the thinker’s relationship to the Jewish philosophical past and to contemporary Jewish existence. Each volume follows the same structure: an overview essay, several seminal essays by the philosopher, ... read more

Brill Mass Media in Russia Online

Mass Media in Russia Online (Parts 1 and 2) View PDF Flyer Number of titles: 11 titles (Part 1), Penny (Kopeck) Magazines (Part 2) Languages used: Russian Location of originals: The National Library of Russia, St.-Petersburg This unique collection consists of complete runs of the kopeck (penny) newspapers, the most widely circulated newspapers in the beginning of the twentieth century, published under various titles in St. Petersburg and Petrograd (1908-1918) and also in Moscow (1909-1918). These (penny) newspapers document political and social developments in Russia in the pivotal years from 1908 to 1918 and at the same time provide a mirror of the colorful social ... read more

Brill Medieval Reference Library Online

Brill's Medieval Reference Library Online ISSN: 2213-2139 Publication Type: E-Reference Work Imprint: BRILL Language: English Brill's Medieval Reference Library Online offers online access to the following reference works in medieval studies: Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage (2009) Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle (2010, with 2016 update) Encyclopaedia of Medieval Dress and Textiles of the British Isles c. 450-1450 (2012, with 2016 update) Brill's Encyclopaedia of the Middle Ages, (NEW, September 2016) With over 4000 signed entries, plus over 200 illustrations, this is an indispensible online resour ... read more

Brill Middle Eastern Manuscripts Online 2

Middle Eastern Manuscripts Online 2 The Ottoman Legacy of Levinus Warner From Leiden University Libraries Languages used: Turkish, Arabic, Persian E-ISBN: 978 90 04 23595 3 Editor: Ilana Tahan, Hebraica Curator, British Library Advisors: Jan Schmidt, Leiden University and Arnoud Vrolijk, Leiden University Librarie View PDF Flyer This online publication consists of 140 volumes from the Warner Collection, totalling 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. This selection from the ... read more

Brill Military Architecture 1600-1900

Military Architecture 1600-1900 Publication date September 30, 2018 E-ISSN – n.a. Previously published on microfiche Online version is scanned from microfiche Other bibliographical data MARC21 records available Full text searchable 99 titles. Title list on brill.com Languages used: English, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Latin When Leonardo sought for a job at the court of Milan he presented himself as an expert in the military arts who in times of peace also could make a decent sculpture and Michelangelo was head of fortifications when the troops of Charles V besieged Florence. Military architecture was considered to be an art that was studied ... read more

Brill Richard Wagner Online

Richard Wagner Online First published 2018 View PDF Flyer This resource 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 Secondary Literature of the Nineteenth century; Wagner’s Mein Leben, 1870-1880; Mathilde Wesendonck's Complete Published Writings. Richard Wagner Online The bibliography on Richard Wagner is huge. He has stirred passions, love, and hatred in equal measure - sometimes (as in the case of Friedrich Nietzsche) within the same breast ... read more

Brill Russian Anarchist Periodicals of the Early 20th Century Online

Russian Anarchist Periodicals of the Early 20th Century Online View PDF Flyer Number of titles: 19 Languages used: Russian Location of originals: National Library of Russia, Russian Academy of Sciences Library This collection of writings 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. Furthermore, these materials shed new light on the relationship of the anarchists with the Bolsheviks and the Soviet State, and also reveal the impact of anarchist ideas on the literature and art of the p ... read more

Brill Russian Avant-Garde Online

Russian Avant-garde Online Advisor: A. Krusanov Number of titles: 778 Languages used: Russian E-ISBN: 978 90 04 19267 6 View PDF Flyer Location of originals: The National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg 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 off ers an exceptionally varied and well-balanced overview of one of the most versatile movements in Russian literature. The books in this collection can be regarded as objects of art, illustrated by famous artists such as Malevich, Goncharova and Lisitskii. This collection ... read more

Brill Russian Military Intelligence on Asia Online Archive series 1651-1917

Russian Military Intelligence on Asia Online Archive series 1651-1917 Dates (inclusive): 1651-1917 Dates (bulk): 1850-1917 Languages used: Russian and French, also German and English, Chinese, Latin, Dutch, Japanese, Arabic, Turkish, Italian, Greek, Persian, Korean, Mongolian and Norwegian ISBN: 978 90 04 19257 7 View PDF Flyer Location of Originals: Rossi? ski? gosudarstvenny? voennoistoricheski? arkhiv (RGVIA), Moscow. Fonds 444-451 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 th ... read more

Brill Russian Military Intelligence on Asia Online Secret prints 1883-1914

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. Languages used: Russian ISBN: 978 90 04 19258 4 View PDF Flyer Location of Originals: National Library of Russia, Saint Petersburg One of the most remarkable pre-revolutionary Orientological publications is the little-known, classified “Collection of Geographical, Topographical and Geographical Materials on Asia” (Sbornik geografi cheskikh, topografi chesk ... read more

Brill Russian Ottoman Relations Part 1

Russian-Ottoman Relations Online, Part 1 The Origins, 1600-1800 View PDF Flyer Advisor: 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. Number of titles: 193 Languages used: Western languages, German, French, English Location of originals: National Library of Russia in St. Petersburg Relations between the Ottoman Empire and Russia were ... read more

Brill Russian Ottoman Relations Part 2

Russian-Ottoman Relations Online, Part 2 Shifts in the Balance of Power, 1800-1853 Advisor: Maurits van den Boogert View PDF Flyer Number of titles: 120 Languages used: Western languages, German, French, English Location of originals: National Library of Russia in St. Petersburg 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 ... read more

Brill Russian Ottoman Relations Part 3

Russian - Ottoman Relations Online Part 3 The Crimean War, 1854-1856 Advisor: Maurits van den Boogert View PDF Flyer In this collection on the Crimean War, 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. Number of titles: 372 Languages used: Western languages, German, French, English Location of originals: National L ... read more

Brill Russian Ottoman Relations Part 4

Russian-Ottoman Relations Online, Part 4 The End of the Empires, 1857-1914 View PDF Flyer Number of titles: 263 Languages used: Western languages, German, French, English Location of originals: National Library of Russia in St. Petersburg The position of the Ottoman Empire continued to decline during the second half of the nineteenth century. Succumbing to foreign pressure, the sultan had decreed far-reaching reforms in favor of his non-Muslim subjects in 1856. Less than two decades later the Ottoman Empire went bankrupt and had to allow foreign bankers to supervise its finances. The Ottomans found themselves increasingly marginaliz ... read more

Brill Russian Revolution Centenary E-Book Collection

Russian Revolution Centenary E-Book Collection ISBN13: 9789004351998 Format: E-Book Imprint: BRILL Language: English Brill's Russian Revolution Centenary E-Book Collection offers unique access to carefully selected E-Books, covering numerous aspects of the Russian Revolution, its genesis and antecedents, its context, its impact, its adherents and opponents in Russia and beyond, and its aftermath. The books were published between 2007 and 2017. The Collection is aimed at students and scholars in the fields of: Russian Revolution Anarchism Marxism Communism Sociology Critical Social Sciences Social & Cultur ... read more

Brill Sixteenth Century Pamphlets Online

Sixteenth Century Pamphlets Online / Flugschriften Online Editor: Hans-Joachim Köhler ISSN: 2210-7916 View PDF Flyer 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, propaga ... read more

Brill Soviet Cinema Online Archival Documents from RGALI 1923-1935

Soviet Cinema Online Archival Documents from RGALI 1923-1935 Advisor: Richard Taylor Languages used: predominantly Russian, occasionally other European languages E-ISBN: 978 90 04 19270 6 View PDF Flyer Location of originals: Russian State Archive of Literature and Art (RGALI) 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. They include minutes of board meetings and discussions of the major issues confronting the medium during a crucial period in its ... read more

Brill Soviet Cinema Online part 1 Journals part 2 Newspapers

Soviet Cinema Online part 1 Journals part 2 Newspapers Advisor: Rashit Yangirov View PDF Flyer Part 1: Journals Online Number of titles: 27 Languages used: Russian Part 2: Newspapers Online Number of titles: 20 Languages used: Russian Location of originals: National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg 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. These publications are largely absent from book collections in the West, and are now presented for the first time as a large, complete set. They s ... read more

Brill The History of Afghanistan Online

The History of Afghanistan Online Fayż Mu?ammad K?tib Haz?rah's Sir?j al-taw?r?kh View PDF Flyer Translation and edited by: R.D. McChesney and M.M. Khorrami The Sir?j al-taw?r?kh is the essential text for any scholar wishing to understand Afghanistan’s history. It forms the core text of historical writings from within Afghanistan for the period, 1747-1919. Mystery surrounded the work for decades to how many volumes existed. After the discovery of suppressed parts of the third and missing fourth volumes, Brill can now offer this extended resource, as it was originally envisaged by its author, in an accessible English language ... read more

Brill The SHAFR Guide Online

The SHAFR Guide Online An Annotated Bibliography of U.S. Foreign Relations since 1600 General Editor: Alan McPherson, Temple University ISBN13: 9789004315891 Copyright Year: 2017 Format: Online Imprint: BRILL Language: English Videos and Tutorials SHAFR PL SHAFR LT The SHAFR Guide Online: An Annotated Bibliography of U.S. Foreign Relations since 1600 is a 2.1 million-word online annotated bibliography of historical work covering the entire span of U.S. foreign relations. It aims to jump-start the research of both students from high school to graduate school as well ... read more

Brill U S Intelligence on Asia 1945-1991

U.S. Intelligence on Asia, 1945-1991 Editor: Matthew M. Aid ISSN: 2542-7113 Publication Type: Primary Source Online Imprint: BRILL Language: English The purpose of this unique online collection is to provide 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 (1945-1991). Particular emphasis is given to America’s principal antagonists in Asia during the Cold War era: the People’s Republic of China, North Korea and North Vietnam. However, countries such as Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, Si ... read more

Brill U S Intelligence on Europe 1945 1995

U.S. Intelligence on Europe, 1945-1995 Editor: Matthew M. Aid This unique 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. Scope: U.S. Intelligence operations in Western Europe U.S. Intelligence operations in Eastern Europe U.S. Intelligence gathering on Western European communist parties Economic intelligence gathering Monitoring European anti-nuclear groups in the 1980s Intelligence gathering on terrorist groups ... read more

Brill U S Intelligence on the Middle East 1945-2009

U.S. Intelligence on the Middle East, 1945-2009 Editor: Matthew M. Aid Publication Type: Primary Source Online Imprint: BRILL Language: English 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 ... read more

Brill Weapons of Mass Destruction

Weapons of Mass Destruction The Top Secret History of America’s Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Warfare Programs and Their Deployment Overseas Editor: Matthew M. Aid Publication Type: Primary Source Online Imprint: BRILL Language: English At its peak in 1967, the U.S. nuclear arsenal consisted of 31,255 nuclear weapons with an aggregate destructive power of 12,786 megatons – more than sufficient to wipe out all of humanity several hundred times over. Much less known is that hidden away in earth-covered bunkers spread throughout the U.S., Europe and Japan, over 40,000 tons of American chemical weapons were stored, as well as thousands ... read more

Brill Western Travellers in the Islamic World Online

Western Travellers in the Islamic World Online Languages used: English, German, French, Italian, Latin Advisor: 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. Contents Background Location of originals For more info ... read more

Brill World of Children Artek Pioneer Camp Archives 1944-1967 Online

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DeGruyter Byzantinische Bibliographie Online

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DeGruyter Constitutions of the World from the late 18th Century to the Middle of the 19th Century Online

Constitutions of the World from the late 18th Century to the Middle of the 19th Century Online / Verfassungen der Welt vom späten 18. Jahrhundert bis Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts Online Sources on the Rise of Modern Constitutionalism / Quellen zur Herausbildung des modernen Konstitutionalismus Ed. by Dippel, Horst DE GRUYTER SAUR Language: English, German Over 1,600 constitutional documents, amendments and draughts of constitutions can be searched in full text documents from 50 countries in Europe and North and South America digital facsimiles edited, annotated and indexed version subject index with 600 subjects in 20 languages Non-restrictive DRM &nda ... read more

DeGruyter Deutsch-judische Quellen aus Palastina Israel 2016

Deutsch-jüdische Quellen aus Palästina / Israel Bibliographie und ausgewählte Originalwerke (1890–2000) (German-Jewish Sources from Palestine/Israel: Bibliography and Selected Works (1890–2000)) Editor-in-Chief: Kilcher, Andreas Managing Editor: Edelmann-Ohler, Eva DE GRUYTER OLDENBOURG One-time purchase of all content. Language: German Year: 2016 Top resource for everybody studying German-Jewish literature, history and culture, but also for students of the history of Zionism and Israel Ca. 1,500 bibliographic entries, of which ca. 250 of the most relevant and rare titles are linked to the original source in full text (ca. 25,0 ... read more

DeGruyter Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopadie Online

Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie Online (Dictionary of German Biography Online) Ed. by Vierhaus, Rudolf In cooperation with Engelhardt, Dietrich / Fischer, Wolfram / Koch, Hans Albrecht / Moeller, Bernd / Saur, Klaus G. DE GRUYTER SAUR ISSN: 2193-2832 Language: German First Year: 2009 Clearly structured and user-friendly An array of search criteria facilitates fast and easy access to biographical information Hyperlinks provide access to the biographical details of individuals mentioned in DBE articles Non-restrictive DRM – allows for an unlimited number of simultaneous users campus / institution-wide Aims and Scope T ... read more

DeGruyter Deutsche Geschichte im 20 Jh Nationalsozialismus Holocaust Widerstand und Exil 1933 1945 Online

Deutsche Geschichte im 20. Jh. Nationalsozialismus, Holocaust, Widerstand und Exil 1933-1945 Online (20th Century German History Online – National Socialism, Holocaust, Resistance and Exile 1933–1945) One-time purchase of all content. Language: German Video/tutorial Click here to listen to the audio presentation National Socialism Holocaust EN National Socialism Holocaust HU National Socialism Holocaust LT National Socialism Holocaust PL National Socialism Holocaust SK Approximately 40,000 primary sources with about 450,000 pages 18,000 biograp ... read more

DeGruyter Deutsche Geschichte im 20 Jh Tagesrapporte der Gestapo Wien Online

DeGruyter Deutsche Geschichte im 20 Jh Tagesrapporte der Gestapo Wien Online Tagesrapporte der Gestapoleitstelle Wien 1938–1945 (Daily Reports of the Gestapo Headquarters Vienna 1938–1945) One-time purchase of all content. Language: German 741 daily reports, 5,795 pages Unique source with information on almost 16,000 people Other records are incomplete due to deliberate destruction of documents and bomb damage. Previously unpublished, rarely used records on the politically motivated persecution of “public enemies”. The database is an ideal supplement to the situation and status reports from other parts.? Non-restrictive DRM – al ... read more

DeGruyter Die Tagebucher von Joseph Goebbels Online

Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels Online (The Diaries of Joseph Goebbels) One-time purchase of all content. Language: Germany The more than 6,000 diary entries by Joseph Goebbels (approx. 16,800 pages) form an outstanding contemporary source for the years 1923 to 1945. For the first time the diaries can be searched electronically based on a subject index. Further features: search by date, place and name. “A once-in-a-century record of the failure of German idealism and of the triumph of an ideologically based contempt for mankind.” (Elke Fröhlich) Non-restrictive DRM – allows for an unlimited number of simultaneous users c ... read more

DeGruyter Historisches Worterbuch der Rhetorik Online

Historisches Wörterbuch der Rhetorik Online Ed. by Ueding, Gert One-time purchase of all content. Language: German 1,300 articles electronically searchable User can search by various criteria: lemma, keyword, person, literature, or article author Articles are thematically linked with each other. Digital object identifiers (DOI) for each article ensure citability. Multilingual lemma search User Guide available Non-restrictive DRM – allows for an unlimited number of simultaneous users campus / institution-wide Aims and Scope The Historisches Wörterbuch der Rhetorik [Historical Dictionary of Rhetoric] is the only comprehe ... read more

DeGruyter Hitler Quellen 1924 1945 Online

Hitler Quellen 1924-45 Online RSA-Edition – Hitler-Prozess – Domarus-Edition (Hitler – Sources Online) One-time purchase of all content. Language: German Year: 2013 The database contains nearly 9,000 pages of the three original print editions. Three key sources for Hitler research are now available in a single database that documents the full spectrum of Hitler’s world-view. Important features: the database can be searched by topic thanks to an integrated subject index; it is also searchable by date, place, name, and publication title. “What makes the present edition so significant is not least the fact that it documen ... read more

DeGruyter Klemperer Online 2019

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DeGruyter Vossische Zeitung 1918-1934 Online

Vossische Zeitung 1918-1934 Online One-time purchase of all content. Language: German Year: 2010 Excellent source for contemporary and cultural history New systematic access options to material not previously indexed Complete holding – illegible pages and missing pages or issues are replaced High quality digitization – the newspapers and supplements are specifically digitized according to their contents and images are reproduced in gray scale Full text search Easy access to the issues and supplements through a calendar function Navigation via electronic lists of contents Non-restrictive DRM – allows for an unlimited number of simultaneous ... read more

Taylor and Francis English Historical Documents

English Historical Documents English Historical Documents Online is available for institutional purchase on a perpetual access basis. English Historical Documents is the most comprehensive, annotated collection of documents on British (not just English) history ever compiled. The content is based on the print series, covering the years 500 to 1914 and including around 5,500 primary sources, all selected by leading historians. It has over the years become an indispensable resource for generations of students, researchers and lecturers. EHD is now available in its entirety online. To provide you with first-rate, intelligent searchability, Routledge have teamed ... read more

Taylor and Francis Europa World Plus

Europa World Plus Europa World Plus is the online version of the Europa World Year Book and the nine-volume Regional Surveys of the World series. The Europa World Year Book is renowned as one of the world's leading reference works, covering political and economic information in more than 250 countries and territories, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. The Europa Regional Surveys of the World offer in-depth, expert analysis at regional, sub-regional and country level. Europa World Plus is the online version of the renowned The Europa World Year Book and the nine Europa Regional Surveys of the World. All 10 product components are available in Europa World on ... read more

Taylor and Francis History of Feminism

Routledge History of Feminism Academic Editor Ann Heilmann is Professor of English Literature at Cardiff University, UK History of Feminism is a new online platform that brings together the best and most relevant scholarship from Taylor & Francis, its imprints, and its authors. This resource will provide both academics and students with an in-depth research tool for studying the subject of feminism over the long nineteenth century (1776–1928). It contains an extensive range of primary and secondary resources, including full books, selected chapters, and journal articles, as well as new thematic essays, and subject introductions on its structural themes: Politics ... read more

Taylor and Francis Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism

Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism launched on May 9th 2016 and is the largest and most comprehensive resource available for all those involved in the study of modernism. An accessible and intuitive online platform, Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism brings together a wealth of interdisciplinary content about the Modernist period, and is the ideal starting point for any research in modernism. With over 2,000 articles from experts in the field, supported by over 130 images, Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism is a vital tool for students and researchers. The content is fully cross-referenc ... read more