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African History, from about.com
Read original documents and accounts from all periods in Africa's
long history. Remember to take into account the period in which a person was
writing and their corresponding world view.
http://africanhistory.about.com/cs/primarysources/
Africa Multimedia
Primary sources including photographs, images, maps and charts,
and essays.
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/history/ralph/referenc/africa.htm#primary
Images of Kenya: The Life and Times of Eddie Sadashiva Pereira
Images from Kenya. ... His continued opposition to British imperialism
in Kenya, the inflammatory anti-British articles he wrote for Kenyan newspapers
etc resulted ...
http://www.goacom.com/culture/biographies/eddiepereira/
Long Walk to Freedom
Excerpts from Mandela's autobiography A Long Walk to Freedom
on his life and Apartheid.
http://archives.obs-us.com/obs/english/books/Mandela/Mandela.html#top
Native Life in South Africa, Before and Since the European
War and the Boer Rebellion
Written by the first Secretary-General of the South African
Native Congress (which became the African National Congress or ANC) and provides
a firsthand account of life as a black person in South Africa during the early
20th century.
http://www.anc.org.za/books/nlife.htm
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Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes
Excerpts from the text, written in 1651. Absolutism
http://campus.northpark.edu/history/classes//Sources/Hobbes.html
Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan, Chaps 13-14, 1651
OF THE NATURAL CONDITION OF MANKIND AS CONCERNING THEIR
FELICITY AND MISERY Absolutism
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/hobbes-lev13.html
The Verse of Rudyard Kipling
... his grand style, the bard of British Imperialism, and in
... boundin' beggar - for you broke a British square ... No commercial distribution
of images or text from any ...
http://www.zeitcom.com/majgen/09kipling.html
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Charles Deering McCormick Collections: Seige of Paris
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/spec/siege/
Modern History Sourcebook: 19C France
Great links
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook21.html#France
The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day, Aug. 24, 1572
As recorded by statesman and historian, De Thou (1553-1617), who was a witness
to the events on St. Bartholomew Day as a youth. Here, he is relating the events
leading up to the Massacre and the orders of the Queen of France, Catherine
de'Medici.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1572stbarts.html
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Indian Nationalism
Excellent list of resources and links about nationalism in India.
Texts from Gandhi, Muslim League, and the Indian National Army.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/india/indiasbook.html#Indian%20Nationalism
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Letters of Philip II, King of Spain, 1592-1597
Letters from Philip II, King of Spain,
mainly to Don Diego de Orellana de Chaves, Royal Governor of Spain's northern
coast, date from the time of naval war against England and France, 1592-1597.
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/phil2/
They Still Draw Pictures
A collection of over 600 drawings by Spanish children made during
the Spanish Civil War in 1938.
http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/tsdp/index.html
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