The Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) was founded in 1830. The learned Society promotes the advancement of geographical science in all its aspects. The Society’s archive contains vast collections of documents, maps, photographs, expedition reports, manuscript materials and books, and span 500 years of geography, travel and exploration. The RGS holds one of the largest private map collections in the world. It includes one million sheets of maps and charts, 3000 atlases, 40 globes (as gores or mounted on stands) and 1000 gazetteers. The earliest printed cartographic item dates back to 1485.
This database is based on a bibliography by Joseph Sabin and contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. The collection includes books, pamphlets, serials and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and much more. The collection is updated regularly and currently contains over 9 million pages from more than 35 thousand t…
This database is based on a bibliography by Joseph Sabin and contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. The collection includes books, pamphlets, serials and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and much more. The collection is updated regularly and currently contains over 9 million pages from more than 35 thousand titles.
Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) focusing on the 15th century forward. Topics include world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and others. The collection indexes more than 3,100 academic historical journals in over 40 languages. Coverage dates vary by title.
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America: History and Life indexes literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With indexing for 1,700 journals from as far back as 1910, this database is a strong bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history. This database also includes citations and links to book and media reviews. The predominantly English-language journal coverage is balanced by an international perspective on topics and…
America: History and Life indexes literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With indexing for 1,700 journals from as far back as 1910, this database is a strong bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history. This database also includes citations and links to book and media reviews. The predominantly English-language journal coverage is balanced by an international perspective on topics and events, including abstracts in English of articles published in more than 40 languages.
This database contains a searchable collection of digital replicas of newspapers published in English and a variety of other languages. The collection focuses on the history and politics of diverse peoples and cultures during the 19th and early 20th centuries through eyewitness reporting, editorials, legislative updates, letters, poetry, advertisements, matrimony or death notices and more. Includes Latin American and South Asian Newspapers.
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The Global Press Archive includes newspapers in more than 30 languages and will ultimately include titles from over 80 countries. Many of the newspapers included are Hoover Institution collections now held by Stanford University or papers in the Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas. Wherever possible, titles are presented in their complete runs. The Archive currently contains four collections. In the Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese collection are 290 newspapers published in China during its transition from imperial rule to the establishment of the People’s Republic of China. In the Middle Eastern and North African collection are nearly 900,000 pages of content from 84 newspapers from Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Palestine, and Morocco covering 1870 to 2019. In the Independent and Revolutionary Mexican newspapers collection are over 1,000 titles from Mexico’s pre-independence, independence and revolutionary periods, 1807-1929. In the Imperial Russian Newspapers collection are 19 publications covering 189 years of history in Russia, from Peter the Great to Nicholas II and the Bolshevik Revolution.
This database is composed of survey data from the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) on democratic public opinion and behavior that covers the Americas (North, Central, South and the Caribbean). Survey results are incorporated into the database as they become available (surveys are conducted every two years), and the collection currently includes the results of over 80,000 interviews in over 25 countries.
This collection is focused on popular movie periodicals from the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema. It includes magazines such as Cinema Reporter (1943-1965) and Cine Mundial (1954-1955), rare copies of El Cine Gráfico from 1935 and the weekly El Mundo Ilustrado (1902-1910), dozens of film flyers, the personal scrap books of Fernando de Fuentes (1894-1958), reviews, movie stills, programs, and advertisements. The sources in this collection were previously accessible only in the archives of the Filmoteca de la UNAM in Mexico City. The database is targeted at scholars and researchers working on film and media studies, Latin American studies, and other aspects of the historical, social, and political impact of cinema.
This collection is focused on popular movie periodicals from the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema. It includes magazines such as Cinema Reporter (1943-1965) and Cine Mundial (1954-1955), rare copies of El Cine Gráfico from 1935 and the weekly El Mundo Ilustrado (1902-1910), dozens of film flyers, the personal scrap books of Fernando de Fuentes (1894-1958), reviews, movie stills, programs, and advertisements. The sources in this collection were previously accessible only in the archives of the Filmoteca de la UNAM in Mexico City. The database is targeted at scholars and researchers working on film and media studies, Latin American studies, and other aspects of the historical, social, and political impact of cinema.
Latin America & Iberian Database provides active full text to scientific periodicals locally published by publishers and academic institutions in various Latin American countries, in Spain and in Portugal. The main topics of interest represented in the database are economics, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and the humanities.
