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The first cohesive and discreet reference work on the Jews of Muslim lands, particularly in the late medieval, early modern and modern periods.
User-friendly, powerful cloud-based mapping software for creating web maps and performing analysis. Includes access to ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World and premium content, including demographic, environmental, and imagery data.
Digitized materials from The Bancroft Library concerning over 400 years (ca. 1500-1920) of Mexican history. Drawing from the world-class Latin Americana Collection at The Bancroft Library, the documents cover a wealth of research interests, including Indigenous linguistic studies, records of the Mexican Inquisition, church and mission documents and sermons, administrative and land records, and a variety of manuscript and photographic records of the Revolution.
MGG Online builds on the second edition of Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG, 1994–2008), offering new and substantially updated content as well as continuous updates, revisions, and additions.
My China Roots is a family history database for the Chinese diaspora that includes millions of searchable ancestors in America and Southeast Asia.
Complete online access to the editions, interpretations and reference works on Nietzsche, including authoritative editions of the works and the letters, and all De Gruyter publications on Nietzsche.
Oxford reference spans 25 subject areas with 2 million digitized entries across Oxford University Press’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias.
Pharos provides hazard, use, and exposure information on chemicals and building products. NOTE: You must first register for an account using the link here and your Berkeley email address.
SUR, was a major twentieth-century Latin American literary magazine. The collection features over 50,000 pages, covers, ads, a corrected 6,300-entry index, manuscripts from its debut, and unpublished letters by Victoria Ocampo. Founded in 1931 by Argentine intellectual Victoria Ocampo (1890-1979), SUR was a highly influential journal in Latin America and Europe. It featured works by major literary, philosophical, and artistic figures such as Le Corbusier, Lacan, Sartre, Woolf, Borges, Cortázar, Silvina Ocampo, and Bioy Casares. SUR fostered cultural exchange by translating works, introducing Latin Americans to European writers, and vice versa. Ocampo's editorial choices and commentary promoted Argentine Liberalism amidst challenges like reactionary regimes, military rule, and economic turmoil, shaping intellectual discourse.
Tabloids recorded what broadsheet newspapers missed, and spoke what cannot be expressed by broadsheet newspapers. This resource would be a great complement of regular news resources published in the same time period. It would also provide much needed primary sources to academic programs in the area of history/art history, sociology, cultural/popular cultural studies, journalism studies and film studies.
VitalLaw (formerly Cheetah) is a legal research platform that provides access to statutes, cases, administrative agency materials, as well as treatises, reporters, newsletters, and blogs.
