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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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