Research Guides: Asian and Middle East Studies Resources: Reference Resources

Area Studies Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of Modern Asia
DS4 .L48 2002
Encyclopedia of Ancient Asian Civilizations
DS12 .H5 2004
Oxford encyclopedia of the Islamic world
DS35.53 .O96 2009
Encyclopedia of India
Ref DS405 .E556 2006
Southeast Asia : a Historical Encyclopedia
Ref DS524 .S68 2004
Encyclopedia of China
Ref DS735.A2 B47 2009
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture
Ref DS779.23.E5 2005
Japan Encyclopedia
Ref DS821 .F73 2002
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Japanese Culture
Ref DS822.5.E516 2002
Encyclopedia of World Cultures
Ref GN307.E53 1991

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Primary Sources

China, America and the Pacific This link opens in a new window Primary source material connected to the trading and cultural relationships that emerged between China, America and the Pacific region between the 18th and early 20th centuries.
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China: Trade Politics and Culture, 1793-1980 This link opens in a new window Primary sources relating to China and the West, 1793-1980. Includes almost any aspect of Chinese history during the two centuries of social and political upheaval that ultimately recreated China into a modern power.
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China: Culture and Society This link opens in a new window Primary source East Asian pamphlets spanning from 1750-1929 as well as scholarly essays and interactive chronologies.
Confidential Print Middle East This link opens in a new window Primary source collection originally issued by the British Government and covers 1839 to 1969, including the countries of the Arabian peninsula, the Levant, Iraq, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Egypt and Sudan. It includes the Middle East Conference of 1921, the mandates for Palestine and Mesopotamia, the partition of Palestine, the 1956 Suez Crisis, and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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East India Company This link opens in a new window Containing royal charters, correspondence, trading diaries, minutes of council meetings and reports of expeditions, this resource shows the history of British trade and rule in the Indian subcontinent from 1599 to 1947.
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Foreign Office Files for China, 1919-1980 This link opens in a new window Archive of the British Foreign Office Files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan from 1949-1976.
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Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1947-1980 This link opens in a new window Archive of the British Foreign Office Files from 1947-1980 focusing on the political and social history of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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Foreign Office Files for Japan, 1919-1952 This link opens in a new window British Foreign Office Files from 1919-1952, documenting Japan’s ascent to the rank of a global superpower through diplomatic dispatches, correspondence, maps, summaries of events and other materials.
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Foreign Office Files for the Middle East, 1971-1981 This link opens in a new window British diplomatic correspondence, minutes, reports, political summaries and personality profiles related to the Middle East during the 1970s.
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India, Raj and Empire This link opens in a new window Primary source materials documenting the history of South Asia between the foundation of the East India Company in 1615 and the granting of independence to India and Pakistan in 1947.
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Meiji Japan This link opens in a new window Personal and professional papers of Edward Sylvester Morse (1838-1925), one of the first Americans to live in Japan. It includes written materials and research files regarding his study of evolutionary theory, scientific methodology, ethnology and also documents life in Japan before Western modernization.
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