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This collection make available all British Foreign Office files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan between 1919 and 1980. The revolution which overthrew the millennia-old imperial system heralded a period of turmoil in China which would last for the best part of forty years. Encapsulated by the rivalry between the Nationalist Chiang Kai-shek and the Communist Mao Zedong, the turmoil of warlordism, competing governments, civil wars and Japanese invasion ended only when the Communist Party emerged as masters of a reunified China in 1949. Throughout most of this period the major European powers, the United States and Japan maintained considerable political and economic interests in China, most notably in the foreign concessions in Shanghai and other ‘treaty ports’.The years following the communist revolution were to see upheavals of a similar magnitude, as the civil war was followed by the economic chaos and mass starvation of the Great Leap Forward, and then Mao’s efforts to return to prominence through the socio-political alterations of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.

This collection of files from the Foreign Office (later the Foreign and Commonwealth Office) and Dominions Office focuses on the political and social history of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. 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.

Incorporating the Taishō to the Shōwa periods, these papers throw light on Anglo-Japanese ties in a time of shifting alliances. Documenting Japan’s journey to modernity, the files discuss a period in which the country took on an increasingly bold imperialist agenda. This database consists of diplomatic dispatches, correspondence, maps, summaries of events and diverse other material, this collection from the rich FO 371 and FO 262 series unites formerly restricted Japan-centric documents, and is enhanced by the addition of a selection of FO 371 Western and American Department and Far Eastern sub papers.

An invaluable tool for understanding the modern Middle East. Sources are from the National Archives, UK. Document coverage is currently for 1971-1974, Arab-Israeli War and the Oil Crisis.

This resource will, when completed, contain a century’s worth of correspondence from the British legation and consulates in the cities of imperial and republican China, documenting Sino-British relations and myriad aspects of Chinese history from 1830 to 1939. Themes explored in the sources include politics, diplomacy, international relations, trade and the economy, military conflict, public health, missionaries, migration, war and revolution. Subscription currently contains section I: Wars and Treaties (1830-1895).

Foreign Policy, the magazine of global politics, economics and ideas, features significant articles on political science and international relations.

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The Rotunda American Founding Era Collection Early Access project was conceived jointly by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission and staff at Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (now Virginia Humanities), and the Papers of George Washington editorial project to provide scholars, students, and the American public the opportunity to see documents collected by the Founders edition projects at an earlier stage in the documentary editing process. The six Founding Fathers projects focus on the Papers of Benjamin Franklin; the Papers of George Washington; the Adams Papers; the Papers of Thomas Jefferson and The Papers of Thomas Jefferson–Retirement Series; the Papers of James Madison; and the Papers of Alexander Hamilton.

The ARTFL implementation of the FRANTEXT database (formerly the Trésor de la Langue Française) consists of over 2600 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. The eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries are about equally represented, with a smaller selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts. Genres include novels, poetry, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises. Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy.

The documents in Frontier Life reveal the existence of Anglophone settlers on the edges of their world from circa 1650-1920. It covers the following regions: American East, American Midwest, American Southwest & California, Canada, North- and West- African expeditions, Southern Africa, Australia and New Zealand.