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The Avalon Project at Yale Law School
Pre-Eighteenth Century Documents
http://elsinore.cis.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/pre18th.htmEighteenth Century Documents
http://elsinore.cis.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/18th.htmNineteenth Century Documents
http://elsinore.cis.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/19th.htmTwentieth Century Documents.
http://elsinore.cis.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/20th.htmTwenty-First Century Documents (2001-present)
http://elsinore.cis.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/21st.htm
British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries: From 1500-1900
Includes the immediate experiences of 201 women, as revealed
in approximately 40,000 pages of diaries and letters. Particular care has been
taken to index this material so that it can be searched more thoroughly than
ever before. NOTE: You'll need
to register and have a password to enter.
http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/BWLD/
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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/
Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes
Excerpts from the text, written in 1651. Absolutism
http://campus.northpark.edu/history/classes//Sources/Hobbes.html
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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
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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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/
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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The Islamic World since 1945
Prepared for Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area
Handbook Program sponsored by the Department of the Army. These are full descriptions
of the countries concerned, in terms of history, geography, economy, etc. There
are also useful bibliographies. [At LOC]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/islam/islamsbook.html#The%20Islamic%20World%20Since%201945
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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
Music and Nationalism
Audio files with explanations
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/NATMUSIC.html
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Charles Deering McCormick Collections: Seige of Paris
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/spec/siege/
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Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Contains 60 volumes of Romantic Poetry, extensive contemporary
critical reviews, as well as material specially written for this database by
leading scholars. NOTE: You'll
need to register and have a password to enter.
http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/swrpLive/
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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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Discoverers Web: Primary Sources
Primary sources on voyages of discovery that can be found on the web. Primary
sources are the texts the travellers themselves wrote on their voyages.
http://www.win.tue.nl/cs/fm/engels/discovery/primary.html
Modern History Sourcebook: Leif Ericson
The Discovery of North America
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1000Vinland.html
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