New E-Resources at Northwestern

China, Trade, Politics & Culture, 1793-1980 : Sources from the School of Oriental and African Studies

China: Trade, Politics and Culture 1793-1980 is based on substantial collections of unique manuscript materials held at the library of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and the British Library in London, supplemented by additional sources from Cambridge University Library, the Church Missionary Society Archive, the Council for World Missions Library, Duke University, the National Archives at Kew, the Alexander Turnbull Library at the National Library of New Zealand and Yale Divinity Library.  In addition we have included a range of rare printed materials including missionary periodicals, atlases and books which help to contextualize the other sources.

The Scope of the collection

This project provides a wide variety of original source material detailing China’s interaction with the West from Macartney’s first Embassy to China in 1793, through to the Nixon/Heath visits to China in 1972-74. – Publisher’s blurb.

Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook

The Yearbook for Economic History publishes essays on economic history, reports and discussions on current research and literature.   It presents new research and projects aimed for economic and social historians.

Text in English or German.

Access to this title is restricted to the Northwestern University Evanston campus.

Shakespeare Survey

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism.

Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year’s textual and critical studies, and of the year’s major British performances.  Shakespeare Survey Online makes all issues of the Survey, including over 90% of the original images, available online for the first time. – Publisher’s blurb.

Poe Studies : History, Theory, Interpretation

Poe Studies provides a forum for interpretive, cumulative dialogue about Poe’s life and writings; about the cultural and material contexts that conditioned the production and reception of his work; and about his interrelationships with other writers, especially those who work in traditions of dark romanticism. – Publisher’s blurb.

Perdita Manuscripts : Women Writers, 1500-1700

The manuscripts in this site were written or compiled by women in the British Isles during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and they have been sourced from archives and libraries across the United Kingdom and the USA. One of the key attractions of Perdita Manuscripts is that it brings together little known material from widely scattered locations.

This resource is produced in association with the Perdita Project based at the University of Warwick and Nottingham Trent University. “Perdita” means “lost woman” and the quest of the Perdita Project has been to find early modern women authors who were “lost” because their writing exists only in manuscript form. – Publisher’s blurb.

Annual Review of Marine Science

The Annual Review of Marine Science provides a perspective on the field of marine science. The journal draws from diverse topics within the major disciplines of coastal and blue water oceanography (biological, chemical, geological and physical) as well as subjects in ecology, conservation and technological developments with the marine environment as the unifying theme. – Publisher’s blurb.

Dialogue

Dialogue is the official journal of the Canadian Philosophical Association. Its purpose is to publish high quality peer-reviewed scholarly articles, book symposia, critical notices, and book reviews in English and in French, in support of the Association’s mandate to promote philosophical scholarship and education. – Publisher’s blurb.

International Theory : A Journal of International Politics, Law and Philosophy

International Theory (IT) promotes theoretical scholarship about the positive, legal, and normative aspects of world politics respectively. IT is open to theory of absolutely all varieties and from all disciplines, provided it addresses problems of politics, broadly defined and pertains to the international. – Publisher’s blurb.

Collected Letters of John Millington Synge

Part of the Oxford University Press Past Masters series, this database contains:

Synge, J. M. The collected letters of John Millington Synge. Volume I: 1871-1907. Edited by Ann Saddlemyer. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1983.

Synge, J. M. The collected letters of John Millington Synge. Volume II: 1907-1909. Edited by Ann Saddlemyer. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1984.