Al-Ba’ath Al-Ba’ath was founded in 1948 as an organ of the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party. Functioning initially as an opposition newspaper to the Nasserist government, Al-Ba’ath became the government organ of Syria following the Ba’athist coup in 1963. Al-Ba’ath propagates the viewpoint of the Ba’ath Party through opinion columns and news coverage, while also including
Category: Asian & Middle East Studies
Global Census Archive (Russia, Soviet Union, Israel, Palestine, Colombia, Mexico) The Global Census Archive (GCA) is an innovative program to collect official census publications and related materials from around the world. East View’s Global Census Archive contains all available census publications associated with a given census (GCA-PUBS), such as official results, questionnaires, methodological works, public
Choya Shinbun Digital Archive Choya Shinbun was a major Japanese newspaper published in Tokyo during the early and mid-Meiji periods. Best known for its support of the Freedom and People’s Rights Movement, Choya Shinbun shaped public opinion during a political era that saw the establishment of the Meiji Constitution and the Imperial Diet. The Choya
Conflict in Indochina, Foreign Office Files for Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, 1959-1979 This collection of Foreign Office Files provides a comprehensive history of key events across Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos during a period of political upheaval, civil unrest and escalating conflict. Published in two sections, Conflict in Indochina explores the rising tension across Indochina after
Buddhist Digital Resource Center Core Text Collection 19 Archive of digital images of scanned Tibetan Buddhist literature from the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center. Access to digital texts provided by detailed indices called outlines. Literature can be retrieved by author, title, and subject. Also includes information in a knowledge base about relationships among works, people, institutions,
國立故宮博物院清代檔案檢索系統 / Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan Qing dai dang an jian suo xi tong / National Palace Museum Digital Library of Qing Archives Provides metadata searching and full image reproduction of Qing dynasty archival materials held at the National Palace Museum in Taiwan. Merger of: Database of biographical materials of Ch’ing historical
古籍輿圖檢索系統 / Gu ji yu tu jian suo xi tong / Ancient Book Map Retrieval System The new version of the “Ancient Books and Maps Retrieval System” integrates two full-text image databases such as the old version of “Rare and Ancient Books” and “Ming and Qing Maps”. Users can browse ancient book and map data
Periodicals of Central Asia and the Caucasus The Universal Database of Central Asia and Caucasus (UDB-CAC) includes a number of authoritative periodicals published in the Newly Independent States of the former Soviet Union. The sources are mostly in Russian and English and cover various issues of domestic and international importance. AP-Blitz, an information agency, offers
近代报纸数据库 / Jin dai bao zhi shu ju ku / Modern Newspapers in China The “Modern Newspaper Database” is a sub-database of the “General Database of Chinese Historical Documents” (中国历史文献总库. 近代报纸数据库 ) , developed by the Chinese National Library Press. It mainly focuses on the collections of the National Library, supplemented by newspapers from other
South Asia Commons – History and Culture South Asian History and Culture is a project to build the largest full text repository of quality South Asian books, magazines, reports, historical journals, video, audio, zines, newspapers, magazines, letters, diaries, and other primary source materials. The database provides in-depth, advanced searching, with centralized access to over 500
Müteferriqa Müteferriqa is an online research portal. It contains an exceptionally rich collection of printed materials published in the Ottoman Empire from the 18th to mid-20th century. It paves the way for interdisciplinary collaboration in historical research through its English and Turkish language support. Through its sleek Web interface, Müteferriqa lets you perform full-text search
Yehudit Henshke, Mother Tongue: The Preservation of Jewish Languages and Cultures Mother Tongue is a rescue initiative for documentation and preservation of endangered Jewish languages. It utilizes audio and visual tools to document speakers from varied Jewish communities, paying special attention to the language and culture of women and of peripheral communities whose voices have
