Below are archives, libraries, and museums for Asian history. For additional
resources, see History: Archives, Libraries, and Museums.
To search for archival materials, use the resources at History: Databases and
Indexes: Archival Resources.
Bowman, John
S. Columbia Chronologies of Asian History and Culture. New York:
Columbia University Press, c2000.
HUNT REF-1 DS33 .C63 2000
Carr, Brian and and Indira Mahalingam, eds. Companion Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy. New York: Routledge, 1997. HUNT REF-1 B121 .C66 1997
Ember, Melvin, Carol R. Ember, and Ian Skoggard, eds. Encyclopedia of Diasporas: Immigrant and Refugee Cultures Around the World. 2 vols. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum, 2004. HUNT REF-1 JV6225 .E53 2004
Embree, Ainslie
Thomas, ed. The Encyclopedia of Asian History. 4 vols.
New York: Scribner, 1988.
HUNT REF-1 DS31 .E53 1987
Higham, Charles. Encyclopedia of Ancient Asian Civilizations.
New York: Facts On File, c2004.
HUNT REF-1 DS12 .H5 2004
Leeming, David
A. A Dictionary of Asian Mythology. New York: Oxford University Press,
2001.
HUNT REF-1 BL1005 .L46 2001
Levinson, David and Karen Christensen. Encyclopedia of Modern Asia. 6 vols. New York: Scribner, 2002.
HUNT REF-1 DS4 .L48 2002
Louis-Frédéric. Encyclopaedia of Asian Civilizations. 11 vols. Paris: Jean-Michel Place, c1987. HUNT REF-1 DS4 .L68 1987
Ng, Franklin,
ed. The Asian American Encyclopedia. 6 vols. New York:
Marshall Cavendish, c1995.
HUNT REF-1 E184 .O6 A827 1995
Preston, Ian, ed. A Political Chronology of Central, South and East Asia. London: Europa, 2001. HUNT REF-1 DS327.5 .P65 2001
Shavit, David. The United States in Asia: a Historical Dictionary. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990. HUNT REF-1 DS33 .4.U6 S46 1990
West, Barbara A. Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Asia and Oceania. 2 vols. New York: Facts On File, c2009.
HUNT REF-1 GN625 .W47 2009
Below are some databases and print indexes that you can use to find books and
articles on topics dealing with Asian history. For a more complete listing of
those relevant to History, see History: Databases and
Indexes. If you need help in selecting or using a database or index for
your research, please contact the Hunt Library reference desk.
America: History and Life (Carnegie Mellon users only)
1954-present (updated monthly).
Citations and some abstracts to journal articles, dissertations, and
book and media reviews on United States and Canadian history from prehistory to the present. Covers all historical topics, including foreign policy, and a variety of disciplines including popular culture, gender studies, anthropology, literature and folklore, etc. Also has a non-US history counterpart Historical Abstracts. You can also search America: History and Life and Historical Abstracts simultaneously.
Bibliography
of Asian Studies.
Online: 1971-present (updated trimonthly)
Available: Bibliography of Asian
Studies (Carnegie Mellon users only)
Print: 1969-1991.
HUNT REF-1/INDEX
Citations to books, journal articles, chapters in edited volumes, conference
proceedings, anthologies, and Festschriften, etc. All areas of Asian studies
are covered, including literature, history, economics, philosophy & religion,
anthropology, etc.
Historical Abstracts (Carnegie Mellon users only) 1954-present (Updated monthly).
Citations and some abstracts of journal articles, books, and dissertations on world history from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada). It covers all historical topics, including foreign policy, and a variety of disciplines including religion, gender studies, anthropology, political science, etc. Also has a U. S. and and Canadian history counterpart, America: History and Life. You can also search America: History and Life and Historical Abstracts simultaneously.
JSTOR
(Carnegie Mellon users only)
Search the full text of 13 Asian Studies journals. Dates vary by title of
journal. No current issues are included.
If
full text links for journal articles are not provided, click on to see retrieval options. This
is only for journal article citations, and may not be available in all databases.
Otherwise,
use Cameo and the Find e-journal list
to see if materials available to you. If they
aren't, you can use Illiad, the interlibrary loan service for books and journals, to obtain the material. For books only, you can also use EZ Borrow (books get here in about 3-5 days)
Below are some major journals in Asian history. Use the library catalog
and the Find e-journal list
to search for other journal titles in the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries,
or use the databases listed
above to find journal articles on particular topics. For additional titles,
see History: Journals.
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies (Carnegie Mellon users only) Full text: v. 69, no. 2, December 2009-present. Harvard
Journal of Asiatic Studies (Carnegie Mellon users only)
Full text: v. 1-55, 1936-ca. current minus 5 years.
Print: v. 1, 1936-present
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, HILLMAN LIBRARY
Modern
Asian Studies (Carnegie Mellon users only)
Full text: v. 32, 1998-present. Modern
Asian Studies (Carnegie Mellon Users only)
Full text: v. 1, 1967-v. 32, 1998.
Below are some pictorial sources for specific areas of Asian History. Some of
the general resources listed at History: Pictorial
Resources may be useful, too.
Empire Online (Carnegie Mellon users only)
15th-20th Centuries
Provides full text access to rare primary sources that covers 5 aspects of the colonial experience. It has a thematic layout spanning Cultural Contracts, Literature of the Empire, Religion, Race, Class, and Imperialism. Materials cover Africa, North and South America, the Caribbean, India, Asia, the Middle East, Australasia and the Islands of Oceania. Materials included are: exploration and journals logs to travel logs, diaries, official government papers, missionary papers, maps, photographs, letter books and correspondence, etc.
Bills - drafts of legislation, to be reviewed through various parliamentary stages. If the Bill passes through these stages, it will become an Act of Parliament.
House Papers - documents resulting from the work of the House and its Committees.
Command Papers - Government papers (from Ministers) conveying information or decisions the Government wishes to draw to the attention of the House, presented ‘by Command of Her Majesty’.
Odo, Franklin. The Columbia Documentary History of the Asian American Experience. New York: Columbia University Press, c2002. HUNT STACKS-2 E184 .O6 C63 2002
Slavery, Abolition, and Social Justice, 1490-2007 (Carnegie Mellon users only)
1490-2007
Search and browse the full text of original manuscripts, pamphlets, books, paintings, and maps. There is extensive coverage of topics such as the African Coast; the Middle Passage; the varieties of slave experience (urban, domestic, industrial, farm, ranch and plantation); Spiritualism and Religion; Resistance and Revolts; the Underground Railroad; the Abolition Movement; Legislation; Education; the Legacy of Slavery and Slavery Today. The database covers all geographic areas. You can search for relevant documents or browse the ones relating to Asia Pacific.
Eccleston, Bernard, Michael Dawson, and Deborah McNamara, eds. The Asia-Pacific Profile. New York: Routledge, in association with The Open University, c1998. HUNT REF-1 E184 .O6 C63 2002
Mitchell, Brian R. International Historical Statistics: Africa, Asia & Oceania, 1750-2000. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. HUNT REF-1 HA4675 .M552 2003
Gall, Susan B. and Timothy L. Gall, eds. Statistical Record of Asian Americans. Detroit: Gale Research Inc., c1993. HUNT REF-1 E184 .O6 S73 1993
Nohlen, Dieter, Florian Grotz, and Christof Hartmann, eds. Elections in Asia and the Pacific: a Data Handbook. 2 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. HUNT REF-1 JQ38 .E44 2001
to see retrieval options. This
is only for journal article citations, and may not be available in all databases.
Otherwise,
use Cameo and the Find e-journal list
to see if materials available to you. If they
aren't, you can use Illiad, the interlibrary loan service for books and journals, to obtain the material. For books only, you can also use EZ Borrow (books get here in about 3-5 days)