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Foreign Office Files for South East Asia, 1963-1980

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Foreign Office Files for South East Asia, 1963-1980

This collection follows the establishment of an independent Malaysia in 1963, following the release of the Cobbold Commission Report. Under President Sukarno, Indonesia strongly opposed this decision and hostilities between the two countries escalated. Alongside tensions with Malaysia, Indonesia would experience growing civil unrest in this period, with anti-Communist sentiments on the rise. Documents featured in this collection cover these fundamental events alongside a number of key themes, including trade, economic development and authoritarian rule in this period. – Publisher

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Categories: Asian & Middle East Studies, Databases, Government Information, History

Colonial Caribbean: Settlement, Slavery, and Empire, 1624-1832

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Colonial Caribbean: Settlement, Slavery, and Empire, 1624-1832

The first module of Colonial Caribbean documents the history of British colonies throughout the Caribbean from early settlement to the eve of the Slavery Abolition Act passed in 1833.   This module features volumes from The National Archives, UK sourced from 26 different Colonial Office (CO) series (sometimes referred to as file classes) which include material related to 27 Caribbean colonies.

The subjects covered by these volumes are many and varied; earlier materials deal with interactions with the indigenous inhabitants of the region, the establishment of colonies, including early legislation, correspondence requesting provisions and soldiers for defence, as well as arrangements for the building of fortifications. Material throughout the early eighteenth century often specifies dealings with and punishment of pirates and privateering within the region. – Publisher

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Categories: American Studies, Black Studies, Databases, History, Latin American Studies

Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1947-1980

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Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1947-1980

Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1947-1980 consists of the complete run of documents in the series DO 133, DO 134 and FCO 37, as well as all documents covering the Indian subcontinent in the FO 371 series. Events covered include independence and partition, the Indian annexation of Hyderabad and Goa, war between India and Pakistan, tensions and war between India and China, the consolidation of power of the Congress Party in India, military rule in Pakistan, the turbulent independence of Bangladesh and the development of nuclear weapons in the region. – Publisher

 

Section I: Independence, Partition and the Nehru Era, 1947-64

This section covers the period of the birth and development of the Indian and Pakistani states from the run-up to partition in August 1947 until the death of Jawarhalal Nehru, India’s first prime minister, in 1964. The region’s two principal states underwent a traumatic birth, with the violence and displacements of partition followed by tensions between India and Pakistan over Kashmir which erupted periodically into both skirmishes and full-blown warfare. The period also saw India clash militarily with Hyderabad in the wake of its ruler’s attempts to maintain independence, with Portugal over its unwillingness to give up Goa and its other Indian possessions and, less successfully, with China over disputed territories in the Himalayas. The majority of files in this section are from the FO 371 series, with smaller numbers from DO 133 and DO 134. – Publisher

Section II: South Asian Conflicts and Independence for Bangladesh, 1965-71

This section covers the period from Nehru’s death to the separation of Bangladesh from Pakistan and the subsequent war and humanitarian crisis. The period also saw renewed war between India and Pakistan over Kashmir (August-September 1965), the accession to power in India of Indira Gandhi, Nehru’s daughter, and the continuance of military government in Pakistan under Yahya Khan. Most files in this section are from the FCO 37 series, with small numbers from DO 133, DO 134 and FO 371. – Publisher

Section III: Afghanistan and the Cold War, Emergency Rule in India, and the Resumption of Civilian Rule in Pakistan, 1972-80

This last section covers the 1970s, a decade in which all the main states of the Indian subcontinent all experienced political upheavals and repression in varying degrees. Bangladesh emerged as an independent state but failed to achieve political stability, and Pakistan returned to civilian rule, in the wake of the military’s failure to prevent Bangladesh’s secession, before another military coup returned the army to power five years later. In India, the government of Indira Gandhi became increasingly dictatorial, jailing hundreds of opponents and declaring a state of emergency in 1975. In 1977, Gandhi’s government fell and India elected its first non-Congress prime minister. Events also began in Afghanistan which foreshadowed the chaotic conditions there of the 1980s and 1990s: the monarchy was overthrown by a coup in 1973, and a further coup in 1978 brought a communist regime to power. This was followed by internecine fighting within the government and a Soviet invasion in 1979, heralding a long, brutal civil war. The 1970s also saw India develop nuclear weapons and Pakistan begin development in response. All files in this section are from the FCO 37 series. – Publisher

 

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Categories: Asian & Middle East Studies, Databases, Government Information, History, Political Science

Docuseek Films Collection Upgrade to 3rd Edition

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Northwestern University Libraries now have access to films in the Docuseek upgrade to the third edition. Currently 118 new titles, with periodic additions to a total of 2400 full catalog titles by 2023. A title list is available here.

Docuseek titles are available through NUsearch and at the publisher’s website.

Docuseek streams essential independent, social-issue and environmental films to colleges and universities, providing exclusive access to content from renowned leaders in documentary film distribution. – Publisher

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Categories: Databases, Radio TV & Film

Colonial Africa in official statistics, 1821-1953

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The late nineteenth century ‘Scramble for Africa’ saw European colonial powers carve up the African continent between themselves. The United Kingdom controlled the largest portion of territory, with its Colonial Regulations requiring an ‘Annual Blue Book’ to be submitted from each colony to the British Colonial Office. The Blue Book was an attempt to standardise statistical reports, primarily covering economic development as well as demographic, ecclesiastical, and public records.

This collection contains Blue Books and other archival material from 13 British colonies and protectorates in Africa compiled during the period 1821-1953. The standardised nature of the Blue Books enables comparisons to be drawn geographically (between colonies) and over time on issues from the slave trade and colonial economic practice to education and public health. – Publisher

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Categories: African Studies, Databases, Government Information, History

Sierra Leone Under Colonial Rule, in Government Reports, 1893-1961

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Sierra Leone Under Colonial Rule, in Government Reports, 1893-1961

This collection contains annual reports compiled by the British colonial government in Sierra Leone. The documents pre-date the establishment of the Sierra Leone Protectorate in 1896, covering the period up to the creation of an independent Sierra Leone state in 1961. The Annual Departmental Reports provide a comprehensive overview of the evolution of British colonialism in Sierra Leone. They are therefore a useful resource for students and historians alike. – Publisher

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Categories: African Studies, Databases, Government Information, History

British Online Archives: Colonial Law in Africa

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Colonial Law in Africa, 1808-1919

Originally known as the ‘Government Gazettes’, each item contains the colonial laws for the year they were published. The legal records also include property for sale, probate records and bankruptcy notices. This is the first part of the three part series ‘Colonial Law in Africa’. These items cover the Napoleonic Wars, the Boer War and the First World War. They also cover the abolition of the legal status of slavery. These gazettes were published alongside the African Blue Books of Statistics during the 19th and 20th centuries. – Publisher

Colonial Law in Africa, 1920-1945

Originally known as the ‘Government Gazettes’, each item contains the colonial laws for the year they were published. The legal records also include property for sale, probate records and bankruptcy notices. This is the second part of the three part series ‘Colonial Law in Africa’. These records cover the transfer of Southern Rhodesia from the British South Africa Company to colonial rule. A series of legal notices also reveal the impact of the Treaty of Versailles on Tanzania. The Second World War then led to a series of new laws in these colonies. These gazettes were published alongside the African Blue Books of Statistics during the 19th and 20th centuries. – Publisher

Colonial Law in Africa, 1946-1966

These gazettes contain copies of the laws and ordinances which were introduced in the years they cover. Each item was originally published as the Government Gazette for a colony and year. Their contents include tenders of property, probate records and insolvency notices. This is the third part of the three part series Colonial Law in Africa. These papers cover the Mau Mau uprising, the creation of the first legislative councils and legal changes to transfer power to those councils. These gazettes were published alongside the African Blue Books of Statistics during the 19th and 20th centuries. – Publisher

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Categories: African Studies, Databases, Government Information, History, Law

Socialism on Film: The Cold War and International Propaganda, Modules 2 and 3

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Socialism on Film: The Cold War and International Propaganda

In addition to Module 1: Wars & Revolutions, Northwestern University Libraries now have access to Module II: Newsreels & Cinemagazines and Module III: Culture & Society of Socialism on Film: The Cold War and International Propaganda.

Sourced from the archives of the British Film Institute (BFI), this resource makes available the superb ETV-Plato Films collection amassed by British communist Stanley Forman in the years following the Second World War. The collection consists of films produced almost exclusively in the communist world and later versioned into English for distribution in the West. All the films included in this resource have been digitised from the original 16mm and 35mm film reels.

Socialism on Film documents the communist world from the Russian Revolution through to the late 1980s. The digitised films cover all aspects of the socialist experience from everyday life and society to culture, the Cold War, memory and current affairs. Footage includes documentaries, newsreels and feature films. Geographically the films deal with the Soviet Union alongside significant groupings of material on Vietnam, China, Korea, the German Democratic Republic and Eastern Europe, Britain, Spain, Latin America and Cuba. – Publisher

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Categories: Databases, History, Political Science, Radio TV & Film, Slavic

105 Oxford Scholarship Online E-books

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Northwestern University Libraries now has access to the following Oxford Scholarship Online e-books. Access through the Library’s catalog NUsearch. Purchased through the BTAA E-book Pilot Program.

Infectious disease ecology of wild birds / edited by Jennifer C. Owen, Dana M. Hawley, and Kathryn P. Huyvaert.

The gene’s-eye view of evolution / J. Arvid Ågren.

The new statistics with R: an introduction for biologists / Andy Hector.

Applied statistics with R: a practical guide for the life sciences / Justin C. Touchon.

A hidden legacy: the life and work of Esther Zimmer Lederberg / Thomas E. Schindler.

How giraffeswork / Graham Mitchell.

Sustainable governance of natural resources: uncovering success patterns with machine learning / Ulrich Frey.

Explaining research: how to reach key audiences to advance your work / Dennis Meredith.

Framboids / David Rickard.

The dragon in the West: from ancient myth to modern legend / Daniel Ogden.

Disorienting empire: Republican Latin poetry’s wanderers / Basil Dufallo.

Revaluing Roman Cyprus: local identity on an island in antiquity / Ersin Hussein.

The art of complicity in Martial and Statius: Martial’s Epigrams, Statius’ Silvae, and Domitianic Rome / Erik Gunderson.

Human-like machine intelligence / edited by Stephen Muggleton and Nicholas Chater.

Monetary policy in low financial development countries / Juan Antonio Morales and Paul Reding.

Democracy, the market, and the firm: how the interplay between trading and voting fosters political stability and economic efficiency / Hervé Crès and Mich Tvede.

Histories of everyday life: the making of popular social history in Britain, 1918-1979 / Laura Carter.

Useful objects: museums, science, and literature in nineteenth-century America / Reed Gochberg.

The glory and the sorrow: a Parisian and his world in the age of the French Revolution / Timothy Tackett.

Utopia’s discontents: Russian émigrés and the quest for freedom, 1830s-1930s / Faith Hillis.

Everyday Zionism in East-Central Europe: nation-building in war and revolution, 1914-1920 / Jan Rybak.

Britain’s Levantine Empire, 1914-1923 / Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal.

Law’s ideal dimension / Robert Alexy.

Crafting trade and investment accords for sustainable development: Athena’s treaties / Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger.

Rebel courts: the administration of justice by armed insurgents / René Provost.

Jews, sovereignty, and international law: ideology and ambivalence in early Israeli legal diplomacy / Rotem Giladi.

Global regulatory standards in environmental and health disputes: regulatory coherence, due regard, and due diligence / Caroline E. Foster.

The law of EU external relations: cases, materials, and commentary on the EU as an international legal actor / Jan Wouters, Frank Hoffmeister, Geert de Baere and Thomas Ramopoulos.

Abusive constitutional borrowing: legal globalization and the subversion of liberal democracy / Rosalind Dixon and David Landau.

How antitrust failed workers / Eric A. Posner.

Automation anxiety: why and how to save work / Cynthia Estlund.

International law and corporate actors in deep seabed mining / Joanna Dingwall.

Principles matter: the Constitution, progressives, and the Trump Era / Carlos A. Ball.

A theory of African constitutionalism / Berihun Adugna Gebeye.

Justifying contract in Europe: political philosophies of European contract law / Martijn W. Hesselink.

Policing the borders within / Ana Aliverti.

The customary international law of human rights / William A. Schabas.

Enhanced cooperation and European tax law / Caroline Heber.

A conflict of laws companion / edited by Andrew Dickinson and Edwin Peel.

The history and growth of judicial review. Volume 2, The G-20 civil law countries / Steven Gow Calabresi.

Parameters of predicate fronting / edited by Vera Lee-Schoenfeld and Dennis Ott.

The diachrony of differential object marking in Romanian / Virginia Hill and Alexandru Mardale.

Highly irregular: why tough, through, and dough don’t rhyme – and other oddities of the English language / Arika Okrent; illustrated by Sean O’Neill.

Writing at the origin of capitalism: literary circulation and social change in early modern England / Julianne Werlin.

Metacinema: the form and content of filmic reference and reflexivity / edited by David LaRocca.

Complicating articulation in art cinema / Benedict Morrison.

Genre and extravagance in the novel: lower frequencies / Jed Rasula.

Paul Muldoon in America: transatlantic formations / Alex Alonso.

Literary cosmopolitanism in the English fin de siècle : citizens of nowhere / Stefano Evangelista.

Translating early modern China: illegible cities / Carla Nappi.

The soul of the American university revisited: from protestant to postsecular / George M. Marsden.

Seeing justice: witnessing, crime and punishment in visual media / Mary Angela Bock.

The critique of commodification: contours of a post-capitalist society / Christoph Hermann.

Surviving collapse: building community toward radical sustainability / Christina Ergas.

Beyond interdisciplinarity: boundary work, communication, and collaboration / Julie Thompson Klein.

A very nervous person’s guide to horror movies / Mathias Clasen.

Business ethics for better behavior / Jason Brennan, William English, John Hasnas, and Peter Jaworski.

Honoring trans and gender-expansive students in music education / Matthew L. Garrett and Joshua Palkki.

Composing with constraints: 100 practical exercises in music composition / Jorge Variego.

The mind’s ear: exercises for improving the musical imagination for performers, composers, and listeners / Bruce Adolphe.

Honesty: the philosophy and psychology of a neglected virtue / Christian B. Miller.

The ascetic ideal: genealogies of life-denial in religion, morality, art, science, and philosophy / Stephen Mulhall.

Radical skepticism and epistemic intuition / Michael Bergmann.

Women philosophers in the long nineteenth century: the German tradition / edited by Dalia Nassar and Kristin Gjesdal.

Vagueness and the evolution of consciousness: through the looking glass / Michael Tye.

Practical thought: essays on reason, intuition, and action / Jonathan Dancy.

Forms and structure in Plato’s Metaphysics / Anna Marmodoro.

A middle way: a non-fundamental approach to many-body physics / Robert W. Batterman.

Science, technology, and virtues: contemporary perspectives / edited by Emanuele Ratti and Thomas A. Stapleford.

Philosophy and the moving image: selected essays / Noël Carroll.

The fragmented mind / edited by Cristina Borgoni, Dirk Kindermann, and Andrea Onofri.

Oxford studies in medieval philosophy. Volume 9 / edited by Robert Pasnau.

Oxford studies in agency and responsibility. Volume 7 / edited by David Shoemaker.

Wrongdoing and the moral emotions / Derk Pereboom.

Rethinking moral status / edited by Steve Clarke, Hazem Zohny, and Julian Savulescu.

The riddle of vagueness: selected essays 1975-2020 / Crispin Wright.

How social science got better: overcoming bias with more evidence, diversity, and self-reflection / Matt Grossmann.

Borderlands: Europe and the Mediterranean Middle East / Raffaella A. Del Sarto.

The long game: China’s grand strategy to displace American order / Rush Doshi.

Taking stock of shock: social consequences of the 1989 revolutions / Kristen Ghodsee and Mitchell A. Orenstein.

Future publics: democracy, deliberation, and future-regarding collective action / Michael K. MacKenzie.

Everyday peace: how so-called ordinary people can disrupt violent conflict / Roger Mac Ginty.

Promoting justice across borders: the ethics of reform intervention / Lucia M. Rafanelli.

The eye and the whip: corruption control in the Americas / Paul Lagunes.

Authoritarianism and the evolution of West European electoral politics / Erik R. Tillman.

Global race war: international politics and racial hierarchy / Alexander D. Barder.

Suffer the children: a theoretical foundation for the human rights of the child / Richard P. Hiskes.

Beyond turnout: how compulsory voting shapes citizens and political parties / Shane P. Singh.

Health politics in Europe: a handbook / edited by Ellen M. Immergut, Karen M. Anderson, Camilla Devitt, and Tamara Popic.

Seeing women, strengthening democracy: how women in politics foster connected citizens / Magda Hinojosa and Miki Caul Kittilson.

Collaborative advantage: forging green industries in the new global economy / Jonas Nahm.

Genomic politics: how the revolution in genomic science is shaping American society / Jennifer Hochschild.

Body schema and body image: new directions / edited by Yochai Ataria, Shogo Tanaka, and Shaun Gallagher.

Science denial: why it happens and what to do about it / Gale Sinatra and Barbara Hofer.

Understanding the prefrontal cortex: selective advantage, connectivity, and neural operations / Richard Passingham.

Parenting made complicated: what science really knows about the greatest debates of early childhood / David Rettew.

The age of agility: building learning agile leaders and organizations / edited by Veronica Schmidt Harvey and Kenneth P. De Meuse.

Teaching disability: practical activities for in class and homework / Rhoda Olkin.

Ethics and epidemiology.

Positive medicine: disrupting the future of medical practice / David Beaumont.

Shariah and the halal industry / Mohammad Hashim Kamali.

The Fellowship Church: Howard Thurman and the twentieth-century Christian left / Amanda Brown.

Varieties of atheism in science / Elaine Howard Ecklund and David R. Johnson.

Textual transmission in contemporary Jewish cultures. Volume XXXI / edited by Avriel Bar-Levav and Uzi Rebhun.

Melville’s wisdom: religion, skepticism, and literature in nineteenth-century America / Damien B. Schlarb.

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Categories: Anthropology, Asian & Middle East Studies, Biological Sciences, Classics, Cognitive Science, Communication Studies, E-Books, Education & Social Policy, Geological & Environmental Sciences, Medicine, Music, Philosophy, Psychology, Statistics

Journal of Higher Education in Prison

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Journal of Higher Education in Prison

The Journal of Higher Education in Prison (est. 2019) is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes exclusively on topics and issues relevant to the field of higher education in prison. In so doing, it provides the field a forum to discuss praxis and the ways that theory can and should inform teaching and learning in prison. At its core, this journal is rooted in a desire for a world where systemic punishment is not a central feature of life in the United States. – Publisher

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Jacoby Online

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Jacoby Online

Includes:

Brill’s New Jacoby
Brill’s New Jacoby, Second Edition
Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker Part I-III
Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker Part IV
Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker Part V

‘Jacoby’ is short for die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker (FGrHist, or FGrH), a collection of ancient Greek historic texts that were lost, except for fragments (citations, extracts and summaries) found in other sources. Most of these fragments are attributed to a particular author and/or work in the source text, but some remain anonymous and can only be categorized by their subject matter. Consequently most entries in Jacoby Online focus on a lost author, but some entries contain anonymous fragments on a particular era or region, or even a single fragmentary text from a papyrus or manuscript. – Publisher

Brill’s New Jacoby is a fully-revised and enlarged edition of Jacoby’s Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker I-III, providing new texts of the ancient historians in many instances as well as several new historians and many new fragments of existing historians that were either unknown to Jacoby or excluded by him. Especially important is that for the first time ever commentaries are provided on the final 248 historians in FGrHist I-III, which Jacoby was unable to prepare before his death. In addition, and also for the first time, Brill’s New Jacoby presents facing English translations of all the testimonia and fragments, new, critical commentaries on all the testimony and fragments, and a brief encyclopedia-style entry about each historian’s life and works, with a select bibliography. – Publisher

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