Among the primary sources included are iconic legal and constitutional documents such as the Code of Hammurabi, Magna Carta, and African Union Constitutive Act; famous treatises such as the Communist Manifesto, and Osama bin Laden's Declaration of Jihad against America; important international agreements from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to the Treaty of Versailles; and cultural and political declarations such as Gandhi's Quit India Speech and Nelson Mandela's Inaugural Address.
Milestone Documents of World Religions examines the key sacred texts and foundational documents of the world's primary religions, from ancient times to the present, providing researchers with a fresh perspective on how critical religious texts have influenced both the past and the present.
The European Library offers access to the resources of the 48 national libraries of Europe in 35 languages. Resources can be both digital (books, posters, maps, sound recordings, videos, etc.) and bibliographical.
This is a joint project by the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford. It aimed to digitize substantial runs of 18th and 19th century journals, and made these images available on the Internet, together with their associated bibliographic data.
This is a fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.
"Composed first in Spanish by Bartholomew de las Casas, a Bishop there, and eye-witness of most of these barbarous cruelties; afterward translated French and now taught to speak modern English."--verso
Reprint. Originally published in 1552.
A LANIC Web site(Latin American Network Information Center). LANIC is affiliated with the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS) at the University of Texas at Austin.
Harvard's Widener Library is the repository of many scarce and unique Latin American pamphlets published during the 19th and the early 20th centuries. These pamphlets are valuable primary resources for students and researchers working on Latin American history.
The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.