History Resource Center: World

Published by Gale

History Resource Center: World is a comprehensive online collection of full-text periodicals, reference works and primary source documents covering world history topics from pre-antiquity up to the present. The database also features a significant amount of newly available reference content – supported by additional primary source materials – and periodic content loads. This virtual library provides the resources needed – credible multicultural, global and research-based content – to study world history within a flexible and convenient electronic search tool.

History Resource Center: World seamlessly integrates seminal sources, including:

More than 1,600 primary sources from Primary Source Microfilm™ and other sources
36 secondary sources from Gale^™, Macmillan Reference USA^™ and Charles Scribner's Sons^® plus ten additional highly regarded (and often award-winning) encyclopedias and compendiums
Full-text articles from more than 150 academic journals
Newspapers and Newswires following current events, contextualized by materials on their historical backgrounds
More than 3,600 historical maps and atlases, and other editorially selected images
A searchable Timeline
Audio and video clips of historic events and notable figures
An improved and updated interface, with new searching and sorting capabilities

History Resource Center: World and History Resource Center: U.S. are cross-searchable for customers who purchase both databases.

Review:

"Created by area specialists, history scholars and librarians, History Resource Center: World offers a multicultural perspective and scholarly analysis for the study of international relations and global history, integrating coverage of European, Asian, African, Indian, and Latin American History."
--Library Journal, November 15, 2008

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