| AdHoc
Image and Text Database on the History of Christianity |
a faculty-library initiative at
Yale Divinity School that provides digital resources
for teaching and research related to the history of Christianity":
searchable & browsable database |
| All
Empires |
"a database for the all the
empires in history," with discussion forums |
 The
Ancient East Asia Website |
"an independent website devoted
to the archaeology and prehistory of China, Japan and
Korea": special reports; news; archaelogists' pages;
related Internet sites & resources; archives; bibliography |
 ArchAtlas:
Archaeological Atlas Project |
Project
begun at Univ. of Oxford, using "satellite imaging & electronic mapping to understand how & why early farming & urban communities developed where they did, & how they spread across the world": contagious diseases; origins of farming; trade routes; obsidian trade; tellspotting;
Fertile Crescent; environmental change; Andean civilizations;
east-west contacts; portages; culture areas, etc. |
| Articles & Documents
Related to Cold War in Asia |
Chen Jian & David L. Wilson, ""All
Under Heaven is Chaos': Beijing, the Sino-Soviet Border
Clashes, & the Turn Toward Sino-American Rapproachement,
1968-69 (p. 155-175 print; 22-42); Kathryn Weathersby, "Deceiving
the Deceivers: Moscow, Beijing, Pyongyang, & the
Allegrations of Bacteriological Weapons Use in Korea," p.
176-185 print or p. 43-52 of PDF); Milton Leitenberg, "New
Russian Evidence on the Korean War Biological Warfare
Allegations: Background & Analysis," p. 185-199
print or 52-66 PDF (Cold War International History
Project Bulletin 11, Winter 1998) |
| Asia's
Place in World History |
UC Irvine historian R. Bin Wong's
lecture on "how Americans think about Asia and its
place in world history and ... new ways of integrating
East Asian subjects into the larger curricula" (Columbia
University, Sept. 2002; RealVideo format) |
| Asian
Communist Parties Contend for Leadership in Revolutionary
Nationalist Movments |
Essay by Vincent K Pollard, University
of HawaiÂi at Mânoa (last modified, 24 May 2004) |
| The
Asian Socialist Conference in 1953 as Precursor to
the Bandung Conference in 1955 |
Kyaw Zaw Win on the contributions
of Asian socialist parties to the Non-Aligned Movement
(Proceedings of the 15th Biennial Conference of the Asian
Studies Association of Australia in Canberra, 2004; PDF
format) |
| Asians
of the Century |
Time Asia on the most
influential Asians of the century (Aug. 23-30, 2000) |
| BBC:
History - Topics |
Ancient history; archaelogy; church & state;
science & discovery; society & culture; wars & conflict;
your history |
| Cold
War International History Project (CWIHP) |
Virtual library with searchable
collection of documents, working papers, & articles
from the CWIHP Bulletin |
| David
Rumsey Historical Map Collection |
Focusing "on rare 18th & 19th
century North & South America cartographic history
materials," but also including "Historic maps
of the World, Europe, Asia & Africa" |
| Discoverers
Web |
"links & information on
voyages of discovery" by Western & non-Western
explorers from ancient to modern times |
| Dutch
Portuguese Colonial History |
Marco Ramerini's comprehensive
survey, including colonial remains, linguistic heritage,
maps, chronology, bibliography, & coverage of individual
regions & colonies |
| East
Asia History Forums |
Online "research forums, designed
for researchers of various topics in the many areas of
East Asian history" |
| East
Asia in the 8th Century |
Noboru Ogata's essay with clickable
map, & descriptions & aerial photos of major
East Asian historical cities |
| Finding
World History: East Asia |
From World History Matters site
(George Mason University), a guide to online sources
of East Asian history |
| Historical
Exchange Rates |
Tool for finding the exchange rate
for any year or range of years between the U.S. dollar & other
currencies |
| Historical
Text Archive: Links : Asia |
"high quality articles, books,
essays, documents, historical photos, and links [on Asia],
screened for content" |
| Historical
Maps of Asia |
From the Perry-Castañeda
Map Collection of University of Texas Library |
| In
the Footsteps of Marco Polo |
"A journey through the Met
to the land of the Great Khan": Marco Polo & the
Mongol Empire; the journey; continue the adventure |
| International
Dunhuang Project |
Project "to promote the study & preservation
of manuscripts & printed documents from Dunhuang & other
Central Asian sites"; interactive database of over
20,000 items with full search facility |
| International
Institute of Social History: Asia Department |
Information on its
Asian collection, including the Henk Sneevliet Archive & other
materials on China, Indonesia, Burma, & South & Central
Asia |
| Internet
East Asian History Sourcebook |
Texts & images selected by
Paul Halsall of Fordham University |
| Maritime
Asia |
Online exhibition "Discovering
Asia's ceramic development over half a millennium - through
shipwrecks of the 14th to 19th centuries"; topic
pages on "Asian maritime & trade chronology
to 1700 AD," "Malaysia at the crossroads," etc. |
| The
Marxists Internet Archive |
Writings of Marxists, & history
of Marxism |
| More
New Evidence on the Cold War in Asia |
Articles in Cold War International
History Project Bulletin 8/9 (Winter 1996; PDF
format) |
| New
Evidence on the Cold War in Asia |
Documents & analysis related
to Mao's conversations with Krushchev 1958-59, Le Duan & Vietnam's
break with China, etc. (Cold War International History
Project Bulletin 12/13, Fall/Winter 2001; PDF format) |
| New
Global History: Articles |
"an initiative that seeks
to encourage both theorizing & the carrying out of
empirical research concerning the processes of globalization" |
| Old
World Traditional Trade Routes |
Site supporting "online research
in the field of dromography & provides a public-access
electronic archive of geo/chrono- referenced data on
land, river & maritime trade routes of Eurasia & Africa
during the period 10,000 BCE - circa 1820 CE" |
| The
Silk Road |
Oliver Wild's illustrated account
of "one of the world's oldest & most historically
important trade routes & its influences on the culture
of China, Central Asia & the West " |
| The
Silk Road: Trade, Travel, War and Faith |
British Library exhibition focusing
on 5 illustrated themes: development of the book and
the invention of printing; languages and scripts of the
eastern Silk Road; buddhas and bodhisattvas; play on
the Silk Road -- with map & viewable Diamond
Sutra;
the Silk Road sky |
| Silk
Road Narratives: A Collection of Historical Texts |
Chinese, central Asian & European
sources from the 1st century BC to the 17th century |
| Silk
Road Seattle |
"a collaborative public education
project using the "Silk Road" theme to explore
cultural interaction across Eurasia": texts; cities & architecture;
traditional culture; teaching/learning guides; virtual
art exhibit, etc. |
| Southeast
Asia in the Ming Shi-lu |
Geoff Wade's translation of & commentary
on texts from the Veritable Records of the Ming Dynasty
related to the history of Southeast Asia & the many
Yunnan Tai polities later incorporated into China: searchable
online database; browseable by year, reign, place names, & personal
names (National University of Singapore) |
| SouthEast
Asian Images & Texts (SEAiT) Project |
Digital archive of historical photography
at the University of Wisconsin |
| Strategic
Traditions for the Asia-Pacific Region |
Stephen Peter Rosen's analysis in The
Naval War College Review (Winter 2001) |
| Sultan's
Lost Treasure |
Companion site to Nova program on "a
French-led expedition to recover thousands of porcelain
and other artifacts from a centuries-old Chinese shipwreck
off the coast of Brunei" |
| Tables
of Modern Monetary History: Asia |
by Kurt Schuler: monetary authorities,
exchange rate basis, & other information by country |
| Tables
of Modern Monetary History: Asia |
References; table of monetary authorities |
| This
Day in Asian History |
A resource of the Asia Society |
| Trading
Places: The East India Company and Asia 1600-1834 |
British Library's exhibition, with
virtual gallery |
| UNESCO
Sector for Culture: Caravanserais |
Gateway to free information about "Caravanserais
(or khans) ... buildings specially built to shelter men,
goods and animals along ancient caravan routes, in particular
along the former Silk Roads": history of the Silk
Roads; UNESCO's 'Integral Study of the Silk Roads: Roads
of Dialogue' project |
| United
States Military Academy's Department of History: Atlases |
Military maps from ancient warfare
to wars & conflicts since 1958 |
| ViVa:
A Bibliography of Women's History in Historical & Women's
Studies Journals |
International Institute of Social
History's bibliography compiled from over 100 European,
American & Indian journals, & searchable by keyword & year
of publication |
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