We are pleased to announce that Cambridge University members now have trial access to Al-Mandumah Database for Arabic resources.
This trial ends on 25 June 2023.
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Al-Mandumah provides access to a series of databases with full-text content of Arabic scientific conferences, dissertations and academic journals from 1921 to present day. The databases included are:
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From the publisher website:
“Cambridge Archive Editions Online presents a wealth of historical reference materials which otherwise would remain unknown, difficult to access, or fragmentary. Considered collectively, this body of documents represents many thousands of original documents of the National Archives (UK) represented in facsimile, including numerous maps, on the national heritage and political development of many countries. The value and discoverability of this content is enhanced immeasurably through CAE’s document-level citations and rich indexing. For many years CAE has specialized in the history of the Middle East, Russia and the Balkans, the Caucasus, Southeast Asia, and China and the Far East. Now, through collaboration between Cambridge University Press and East View, these materials are made searchable and accessible as never before in e-book form.”
We are delighted to share the news of this online resource from off the press from the publisher Adam Matthew Digital.
First Folios Compared is an Open Access website created and hosted by AM. The site brings together digitised copies of Shakespeare’s First Folio, sourced from a wide range of institutions around the world, who kindly agreed to contribute their digital version to this project.
“As well as providing the digital images, each institution kindly shared any existing metadata connected to the document, which we have amalgamated to maximise the efficacy of the search and filtering functions in the site.”-About the project
First Folios Compared was built in 2023 in order to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the famous book’s publication and to create a unique research opportunity for all – the chance to compare over 50 First Folios together in the same place for the first time in history.
Professor Emma Smith, Hertford College, Oxford writes: “Although (or perhaps because) Shakespeare’s First Folio is probably the world’s most famous – and studied – secular book, there is still a real opportunity to make discoveries about individual copies. Take the Craven copy, for example: only recently identified as a First, rather than a later, Folio, it has hardly been studied at all. More people have looked in awe at these copies as high-value objects kept for senior researchers or behind glass for museum-style viewing, than have actually turned each page looking for details. First Folios Compared allows you to do this, at scale, for the first time. “
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“This collection is an essential resource for understanding the events in the Middle East during the 1970s.
“It addresses the policies, economies, political relationships and significant events of every major Middle East power. Conflicts such as the Arab-Israeli War, the Lebanese Civil War and the Iranian Revolution are examined in detail, as are the military interventions and peace negotiations carried out by regional and foreign powers like the United States and Russia.
“Commercial interests are also scrutinised, with in-depth analyses of Middle East nations’ economic stability and reviews of international arm sales policies. The activities of oil producing nations such as Saudi Arabia are closely monitored, with particular reference to the Gulf States and members of OPEC.
“Utilising the significant collection of diplomatic correspondence, minutes, reports, political summaries and personality profiles, students and researchers can explore a decade characterised by conflict.”
Founded in Seoul in 1890 and published by the Office of the Resident-General (tōkan) 1906-10, then, post-annexation, by the Office of the Government General (Sōtoku) of Korea, the Seoul Press is the English-language newspaper of record for the Japanese protectorate then colony in Korea, 1906-1945. From its acquisition in December 1906 by the Japanese Resident-General until its closure in 1937, the Seoul Press presented the case for Japan as the natural leader of East Asia. Run by a changing cast, most notably the historian of empire, Tokutomi Sōhō and the Anglo-Irish fixer John Russell Kennedy, the Seoul Press was edited by Japan’s ablest English-language publicists: Zumoto Motosada (1906-9), Honda Masujiroh (1909-10), Yamagata Isoh (1917-25) and Frank Y. Kim (1926-37).
This Primary Source is extremely rare, covering the period 1907-1937, yet with a 1910-1927 gap. As new issues emerge they will be added to this invaluable Primary Source at no extra cost to subscribers.
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Cambridge University members now have online access to the digital archive Europe and Africa, Colonialism and Culture published by Gale Cengage in the Nineteenth Century Collections Online series.
So many research topics emerged from the colonial conquest and the legacy of slavery in modern South African society—the Anglo-Boer War, imperial policy, and race classification among them—that this volatile corner of nineteenth-century history draws enduring interest from scholars and students. To support their research, Europe and Africa, Colonialism and Culture delivers monographs, manuscripts, and newspaper accounts covering key issues of economics, world politics, and international strategy.
The “Scramble for Africa” began with the arrival of missionaries and explorers to the “Dark Continent” in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Over the next 100 years, Africa would be “Christianized” by European missionaries; “commercialized” as an outlet for European-produced consumer goods and source for raw materials; and “civilized” by the establishment of European political institutions and the arrival of European settlers. Europe and Africa, Colonialism and Culture provides an in-depth look into the motivations, activities, and results of the European conquest of Africa in the nineteenth century.
Key topic areas include:
Partition of Africa and British imperial policy
The Anglo-Boer War, 1899–1902
Jameson Raid
Geopolitical rivalry between Britain, France, and Germany
Explorers’ use of rivers as highways to the interior of Africa
“It therefore seems probable that the fauna … worked its way into Abyssinia from Palestine, and entered Abyssinia by following the Erythrean River … even among the birds there are many species which support the view of the direct connection between Palestine and Eastern Africa. Thus in the oases at the northern end of the Red Sea and above the gorge of the Jordan there is a Sun-Bird (Cinnyris osae, Bonap.), belonging to a family not found in Africa north of the Sahara, though it ranges east and west through the tropical regions of Africa and Asia. The African Darter (Plotus levaillanti, Licht.) is common in Southern Africa, on the Zambesi, along the East African coast, and on the Niger; it is absent from Egypt, Nubia, and the whole of the north-east of Africa, but reappears in Syria, in the Lake of Antioch, and no doubt once extended along the Jordan.”–The Great Rift Valley Being the Narrative of a Journey to Mount Kenya and Lake Baringo with Some Account of the Geology, Natural History, Anthropology, and Future Prospects of British East Africa — Gregory, John Walter, 1864-1932 — 1896 — GALE|BARJQX093427386
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In Cambridge University Libraries we are proud to be recipients of the UKRI award enabling us to purchase high-priority, data rich electronic research resources to provide a step change in research capacity and research environment. The selection of resources has been informed by benchmarking with peer institutions and developing academic research priorities across multiple schools and themes, including diversification and the Global Humanities.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Asia and the West features a range of primary source collections related to international relations between Asian countries and the West during the nineteenth century. These invaluable documents — many never before available — include government reports, diplomatic correspondence, periodicals, newspapers, treaties, trade agreements, NGO papers, and more, offering a look at the inner workings of international relations.
This resource allows scholars to explore in detail the history of British and US foreign policy and diplomacy; Asian political, economic, and social affairs; the Philippine Insurrection; the Opium Wars; the Boxer Rebellion; missionary activity in Asia; and other topics. Asia and the West also includes personal letters and diaries, offering first-hand accounts and the human side of international politics, as well as nautical charts, maps, ledgers, company records, and expedition and survey reports from 1790 to 1949.
“Where Unsold Newspapers Go We once heard the story of how an English-language newspaper published in the Far East increased its circulation several thousand copies through the simple process of printing the extra copies over and above its legitimate sales and disposing of them to a commission merchant who shipped them to Java or Mamla to be used there as wrapping paper, the value of which at that time being about equal to the cost of news print. The newspaper publisher could certify to his circulation by proofs of the amount of paper used daily and in this manner supported his statement that his newspaper had the largest circulation in the Orient. It was evidently too good a thing to last long and other commission merchants soon entered into the competition for supplying the demand. In the exports from the port of Los Angeles for the year 1926, there appears an item of 27,229 tons of paper valued at Ş688.537, which the chamber of commerce expert says represents almost in its entirely unsold newspapers shipped to Asiatic ports for use as wrapping paper.
American export statistics show that quite a flourishing trade has been established in the Orient in unsold newspapers where they are used as wrapping paper by hawkers and venders. India, China and the Dutch East Indies are the largest markets. Java, Madura and Sumatra in 1925 imported 12,309 short tons, of which about 10,400 was furnished by the United States. Hong kong, in the first six months of 1925, imported 11,818 short tons; Shanghai, 1,275 short tons. Daüen, Korea, absorbed 8,719 short tons during the same year. British India is the largest customer for old newspapers, but most of them come from the United Kingdom. In 1925-26 she imported 31,660 short tons, of which 9,343 came from the United States. Most in demand are clean newspapers, with no colored supplement and relatively few pictures. Least in demand are the tabloid newspapers.”
Publication: The Far-Eastern Review (Manila, Philippines)Volume: XXIII , Issue: 5 May 1927 Missionary and Socio-Economic Journals
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Cambridge University members now have online access to the Classical Scores Library, complete volumes 1 through 5 on the ProQuest/Alexander Street Press Music Online platform.
Classical Scores Library is a series of five volumes with a mission to provide a reliable and authoritative source for scores of the classical canon, as well as a resource for the discovery of lesser-known contemporary works. The collections encompass all major classical musical genres and time periods from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. With full, study, piano, and vocal scores, this comprehensive collection will enhance the study of music history, performance, composition and theory for a variety of scholars.
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This new acquisition is funded by a grant from UKRI (UK Research and Innovation) for building capacity through strategic investment in research priorities.
In Cambridge University Libraries we are proud to be recipients of the UKRI award enabling us to purchase high-priority, data rich electronic research resources to provide a step change in research capacity and research environment. The selection of resources has been informed by benchmarking with peer institutions and developing academic research priorities across multiple schools and themes, including diversification and the Global Humanities.
African-American Music Reference is a comprehensive reference database that chronicles the rich history of African-American music through 1970. This database brings together the most important reference texts in this subject area, including discographies and bibliographies combined with song sheets, images and other print resources.
The database offers the first comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression – and the only electronic access to this coverage. Resources include biographies, anthologies, encyclopedias, images, lyrics (digitized and fully searchable), song sheets, chronologies, critical textbooks, a comprehensive discography of the top African-American artists, and links to editorially selected Web resources. It contains more than 50,000 pages of reference materials that include rare and previously unpublished items.
“Go-go is not only non-stop, but also largely improvisatory, with only the hint of a play list established at the beginning of any performance. A go-go proceeds largely on gut instinct as the band reacts to and interacts with the crowd. Make no mistake about it–at a go-go the distinction between the audience and the band is very narrow indeed. There is an ongoing dialogue (much like in a good marriage or any other close, cooperative venture) with give and take and call and response helping to establish the communication necessary for an intimate and satisfying experience. In strong contrast to a performance by a folk-pop artist like Jackson Browne or Tracey Chapman, where the audience is warmly appreciative and enthusiastic but rarely overbearing, go-go crowds are always “in your face” while interacting with the band. Because the go-go community is largely racially segregated and most of its adherents reside in close proximity, the members often know one another well, so go-gos tend to be social as well as musical events. The fans let you know what they want to hear and how good a job the band is doing; they express themselves vigorously and loudly, in no uncertain terms. Go-go fans, in short, are demonstrative, not at all shy, and overwhelmingly black.”–
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Anarchism and the Russian Revolution Anarchists – being a small but highly radical group in pre-revolutionary Russia – lacked printing facilities within their own country and were forced to initiate their propaganda activities from abroad. During the February Revolution of 1917, the leaders of the anarchist movement (Petr Kropotkin, Apollon Karelin, Vsevolod Volin, Alexandr Ge and others) were released from prison, and from internal and external exile, and anarchist literature and periodicals were legalized in Russia. This collection reveals the eventful history of Russia during the revolutionary era, from the perspective of metropolitan and provincial newspapers and journals published by the most radical political forces. Furthermore, these materials shed new light on the relationship of the anarchists with the Bolsheviks and the Soviet State, and also reveal the impact of anarchist ideas on the literature and art of the period.
Periodicals from the Major Cities and the Provinces The revived anarchist groups issued brochures, pamphlets, newspapers and journals and re-published the old works of the theoreticians of anarchism. From an ideological and political point of view, Russian anarchism was divided into a host of sub-movements. Consequently, the anarchist periodicals were characterized by a wide diversity of content. By the spring of 1918, anarchist groups of various convictions were active in 130 cities and towns all over the country. Various sources indicate that they were publishing up to 55 newspapers and journals. This collection presents the most interesting samples of that period. Leading publications were those originating from Petrograd and Moscow: the newspapers Anarkhiia (circulation 20,000 copies) and Burevestnik, as well as the weekly journals Svobodnaia Kommuna (10,000 copies), Volnyi golos truda (15,000 copies), Golos truda, Golos anarkhista. The newspapers and journals from Kiev, Kharkov and Krasnoyarsk presented in this collection are particularly rare documents, since most anarchist publications from the province have not survived.
Anarchism and Avant-garde Art in Revolutionary Russia Special attention should be given to the various connections of anarchism with radical trends in Russian art and literature. The informal alliance of artist radicals with radicals in the political field was strengthened by the fact that the anarchists were actively involved in various organs of new Soviet power during the months following the October Revolution of 1917. Moreover, in these early days, the artistic policy of the Bolsheviks was largely based on the principles of anarchism, and their actions were guided by anarchist manifestos, particularly their decree on the “nationalization of art” (1918). Anarchist ideas had a strong impact on the futurists, concerning a revolutionary transformation of life. Of particular interest is the newspaper Anarkhiia, which prominently featured the section “Creative Work”. This section included regular contributions by Kazimir Malevich, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Aleksei Gan, O’lga Rozanova, Natan Altman, Arthur Lourié and Nikolai Punin. Their articles represent a wide scope of creative interests among the artistic avant-garde, from music and painting to the ‘proletarian’ theatre and cinematography.
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