The online version of the five-volume Encyclopedia of Human Rights, edited by David Forsythe, offers comprehensive coverage of all aspects of human rights theory, practice, law, and history in over 300 entries signed by leading scholars and human rights experts. The coverage includes major figures, organizations and institutions, human rights events and crises, and human rights norms. – Publisher’s blurb.
The Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals collection covers the period 1800 to 1900. When complete it will make available full runs of nearly 600 titles, some of which exist only in a single copy, such is the fragile state of much nineteenth-century printed material. – Publisher’s blurb.
The database will contain over six million pages of nineteenth-century journalism, fully searchable, sourced from the British Library, the National Library of Scotland and other specialist libraries. Records for individual titles will be available via NUcat shortly.
The Antiquaries Journal aims to reflect the multi-disciplinary nature of the study of material culture, publishing a balanced mix of papers from all periods, from prehistory to the recent past. It will be essential reading for archaeologists, architectural and art historians and material culture specialists, as well as those involved in conservation in its broadest application. – Publisher’s blurb.
Vestnik Evropy - Вестник Европы
One of the first Russian literary and political journals. Together with literature and arts the journal enlightened its readers on problems of internal and foreign policy of Russia, history and political life of foreign countries. It became conservative since 1815. – Publisher’s blurb.
Access to all content – T. 1 (1802)-t. 174 (1830).
The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review is a peer-reviewed journal, which primarily focuses on the social history of modern Russia. It publishes articles based on earlier unknown documents from Russian archives. – Publisher’s blurb.
Russian History’s mission is the publication of original articles on the history of Russia through the centuries, in the assumption that all past experiences are inter-related. Russian History seeks to discover, analyze, and understand the most interesting experiences and relationships and elucidate their causes and consequences. – Publisher’s blurb.
East Central Europe is a peer-reviewed journal of social sciences and humanities with a focus on the region between the Baltic and the Adriatic, published in cooperation with the Central European University.
The journal seeks to maintain the heuristic value of regional frameworks of interpretation as models of historical explanation, transcending the nation-state at sub-national or trans-national level, and to link them to global academic debates. – Publisher’s blurb.
Scientific and historical overviews of natural disasters followed by a chronological survey of the worst or most notable disasters in history, including such recent events as the 2004 tsunami and Hurricane Katrina. – Publisher’s blurb.
Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450
The Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450 provides students and researchers with a much-needed, comprehensive resource on the subject of colonialism and expansion. From a global perspective, the set traces many facets of colonial growth and imperialism, and much more. – Publisher’s blurb.
The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest : 1500 to the present
The Encyclopedia is a comprehensive resource covering the history of protest and revolution over the past 500 years – throughout the modern era of mass movements.
The first historical encyclopedia of its kind, it contains:
