Empires and world history from the fifteenth century to the First World War (Paper 21)

• Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy: digital library of documents relevant to fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy and government, ranging from ancient times to the present
• Bibliography of Asian Studies*: bibliographical database covering articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia published since 1971
• Bibliography of Japanese history up to 1912: online bibliography of Japanese history up to 1912
• Cambridge Histories Online*: full texts of the Cambridge History series (titles include The Cambridge history of Latin America, The Cambridge history of the native peoples of the Americas, The Cambridge history of South-east Asia, The Cambridge economic history of India)
• Electronic Enlightenment: wide-ranging online collection of edited correspondence of the early modern period, linking people across Europe, the Americas and Asia from the early 17th to the mid-19th century
• Empire Online*: online collection of original documents relating to empire studies; includes exploration journals, periodicals, government papers, maps, and has links to other useful Empire Studies websites
• Index Islamicus*: bibliographical database of books, articles and reviews on Islam and the Muslim world
• Internet History Sourcebooks: collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented for educational use; includes African, East Asian, global, Indian, Islamic, and modern history
• International Dunhaung Project: The Silk Road Online: international collaboration to make information and images of all manuscripts, paintings, textiles and artefacts from Dunhuang and archaeological sites of the Eastern Silk Road freely available on the Internet
• Islamic Heritage Project: digital library of hundreds of Islamic manuscripts, maps, and published texts from Harvard's library and museum collections, ranging in date from the 10th to the 20th centuries
• Royal Commonwealth Society Library: website of the Royal Commonwealth Society Library, which includes photographs and exhibitions
• South Seas: online information resource for the history of European voyaging and cross-cultural encounters in the Pacific between 1760 and 1800
• University Library newspaper archives*: provides online access to archives of various newspapers, both British and foreign
• World Digital Library: online database of significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world; includes manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings
• World History & Cultures (Library of Congress): access to selected online collection content from the Library of Congress, arranged by region

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