Research Guides -- History:
History of Asia
Books - Library Catalog / Electronic
Databases / Internet Resources
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Books and AV
Provides access to books, magazines, Reserve material, audio-visual material
(for example, videos), and web resources Search by subject or keyword. Search the MATC Library Catalog - Webcat.
- Most books on Asian history will be located in the 900’s - primarily in the 950's.
Academic Search Elite or Expanded Academic ASAP or Academic Onefile
Use these academic databases to find articles from scholarly and history journals. Full-text titles include Modern China, Journal of East Asian Studies, Harvard China Review, East Asia, Asian Perspectives, History Today, and many other history journals.
ArtStor
Digital Image collections including the Huntington Archive of Asian Art and the Mellon International Dunhuang Archive.
CountryWatch
Provides country-specific geopolitical intelligence on 192 countries in the world, including a brief history overview and other data.
JSTOR
Archive of scholarly journals. Titles include Far Eastern Quarterly, China Journal, Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Japanese Studies, and others.
Proquest All Collections
Full-text of national newspapers including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune; Selected Wisconsin newspapers including the Wisconsin State Journal, Captial Times, and The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; plus other national, ethnic press, local, and international newspapers and other publications. The Beijing Review, China News (Taipei), BBC Monitoring Asia, and the Wall Street Journal Asia are included. Proquest Historical Newspapers (below) must be searched separately
Proquest
Historical Newspapers
Chicago Defender (1921-1975) Chicago Tribune (1849-1985), New York Times(1851 – three years prior to present year )
Full page images of the Chicago Defender , Chicago Tribune, New York Times. Complete with illustrations, advertisements, obituaries, etc. as they appeared in the newspaper at that time.
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Asian Studies Virtual Library
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html
Australian National University
The
Avalon Project
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
A collection of documents in history and law from ancient civilizations to the
present.
Background Notes
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/
Information on countries provided by the U.S. Department of State.
Country
Studies
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
In-depth analyses of 85 countries including history, put out by the Library
of Congress.
Internet East Asian History
Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/eastasia/eastasiasbook.html
Full text historical documents and links for East Asian history.
Tiananmen Square
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB16/index.html
National Security Archive, George Washington University
A Visual sourcebook of Chinese civilization
http://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv
Illustrates the history of Chinese civilization through images, including a time line and maps.
World History Archives: East Asia
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/55/index.html
Hartford Web Publishing
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Citations
Chicago Style Citations
MATC Libraries History Research Guide
Knightcite
http://webapps.calvin.edu/knightcite/index.php
This is a free citation-producing service (MLA , APA, and Chicago) created by the Heckman Library at Calvin College.
MATC Virtual Writing Center
http://matcmadison.edu/is/writingcenter/
The MATC Writing Center is available to all students at MATC who have writing needs. The Center hopes to provide support and assistance to students from all programs and departments in which teachers assign writing projects.
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