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Examples of Primary Source Material in Midcat
Coverage Note:This guide lists examples of international resources that can be found searching MIDCAT, the Middlebury Libraries online catalog. It focuses on non-U.S. country resources as well as U.S. foreign relations with specific countries. It is not a comprehensive listing of all primary source material. Most of these resources are published in books or on microfilm and the links lead to the MIDCAT record for location information. A few online resources are included if they are part of our subscriptions. For additional online resources from library databases or websites, see the full History Research Guides for Latin America; Asia; Africa and the Middle East; United States; Ancient & Medieval History.
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MULTIPLE REGIONS
Early English Books Online [electronic resource]
Eighteenth Century Collections Online [electronic resource]
ProQuest Digital National Security Archive (DNSA) [electronic resource]
Foreign relations of the United States or directly from the U.S. State Department [electronic resource]
Foreign relations of the United States diplomatic papers [electronic resource]
Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States. The Lansing papers, 1914-1920. (In two volumes) Volume II. [electronic resource]
British Documents on the End of Empire: Imperial policy and colonial practice, 1925-1945
British Documents on the End of Empire: The Labour government and the end of empire, 1945-1951
British Documents on the End of Empire: The Conservative government and the end of empire, 1951-1957
ASIA
Asian Region (multiple countries)
Pan-Asianism: A Documentary History, Volume 1, 1850–1920
Pan-Asianism: A Documentary History, Volume 2, 1920–Present
Other routes : 1500 years of African and Asian travel writing
China and Tibet
Chinese Civil War and U.S.-China Relations: Records of the U.S. State Department's Office of Chinese Affairs, 1945-1955 [electronic resource]
U. S. Military Intelligence Reports, China 1911-1941 [microform]
Documentary History of the Truman Presidency
- Vol. 6 - The Chinese Civil War: General George C. Marshall's Mission to China, 1945-1947
The Marshall Mission to China, 1945 - 1947: The Letters and Diary of Colonel John Hart Caughey [Electronic Resource]
British Parliamentary Papers: China
Mao's road to power : revolutionary writings 1912-1949 (7 volumes)
The search for modern China : a documentary collection
They were in Nanjing : the Nanjing Massacre witnessed by American and British nationals
Tang China and the collapse of the Uighur Empire : a documentary history
European Colonialism in the Early 20th Century: German Colonies in Asia and the Pacific: From Colonialism to Japanese Mandates, 1910-1929 [electronic resource]
The Kissinger transcripts : the top secret talks with Beijing and Moscow
Beijing spring, 1989 : confrontation and conflict : the basic documents
An authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China [1797] - Midd Special Collections
Mission to Tibet : the extraordinary eighteenth-century account of Father Ippolito Desideri, S.J.
The diary of a Manchu soldier in seventeenth-century China : my service in the army
Five lost classics : Tao, Huanglao, and Yin-yang in Han China (translated)
The bamboo texts of Guodian : a study & complete translation
Early Chinese medical literature : the Mawangdui medical manuscripts (translated)
Find More - go/midcat, choose Advanced Search, Subject = China and Subject = sources. See example.
Japan
Japan at War and Peace, 1930-1949: U.S. State Department Records on the Internal Affairs of Japan [electronic resource]
Despatches from U. S. Ministers to Japan, 1855-1906 [microform, 82 reels]
Notes from the Japanese Legation in the United States to the Department of State, 1858-1906 [microform]
Notes to foreign legations in the United States from the Department of State, 1834-1906. Japan [microform]
European Colonialism in the Early 20th Century: German Colonies in Asia and the Pacific: From Colonialism to Japanese Mandates, 1910-1929 [electronic resource]
Documentary History of the Truman Presidency
- Vol. 1 - The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb on Japan
- Vol. 5 - Creating a Pluralistic Democracy in Japan: The Occupation Government, 1945-1947
- Vol. 22 - The Emergence of an Asian Pacific Rim in American Foreign Policy: Korea, Japan, and Formosa
Documentary History of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidency
- Vol. 7 - U.S. - Japanese Relations: Trade Relations and the Sino-Japanese War, 1938-1940
- Vol. 9 - U.S. - Japanese Relations, January - December 1941
Toward Pearl Harbor : the diplomatic interchange between Japan and the United States, 1899-1941
British Parliamentary Papers: Japan (1856 - 1899)
Report of the United States Education Mission to Japan
Trial of Japanese War Criminals: Documents
Occupation of Japan, policy and progress
Documents on the Tokyo International Military Tribunal : charter, indictment and judgments
"Dainty Japanese" or yellow peril? : Western war-postcards, 1900-1945 [translation].
The Far Eastern Commission; a study in international cooperation: 1945 to 1952
Select documents on Japanese foreign policy, 1853-1868, translated
Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China Seas and Japan, performed in the years 1852, 1853, and 1854, under the command of Commodore M. C. Perry (in Midd Special Collections - Rare Books)
South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, etc.)
British Documents on the end of empire (all)
Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, 1947 - 1980
Britain in India, 1765-1905 (6 volumes)
Speeches and Documents on Indian Policy, 1750 - 1921 - volume 1 (Internet Archive)
Speeches and Documents on Indian Policy, 1750 - 1921 - volume 2 (Internet Archive)
Gandhiji's correspondence with the government
Gandhi’s Collected Works print (volumes 1-50) or online (volumes 1 - 96)
Towards freedom : documents on the movement for independence in India. 1945
India through foreign eyes : travellers in colonial India
Mutiny memoirs : being personal reminiscences of the great sepoy revolt of 1857
The Indian mutiny of 1857 / by Colonel G.B. Malleson ; with portraits and plans London, 1896.
The history of the Indian mutiny: giving a detailed account of the Sepoy insurrection in India... London, 1858-59
Sir Hugh Rose and the Central India campaign 1858
Just my luck : memoirs of a police officer of the Raj
Southeast Asia (Viet Nam, Malaysia, Cambodia, etc.)
British Documents on the end of empire (all)
Lyndon B. Johnson's Vietnam papers : a documentary collection
Vietnam documents : American and Vietnamese views of the war
Genocide in Cambodia : documents from the trial of Pol Pot and Ieng Sary
Central Asia and Afghanistan
Islamic Central Asia : an anthology of historical sources
Afghanistan and the U.S., 1945-1963: Records of the U.S. State Department Central Classified Files [electronic resource]
Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, 1947 - 1980
AFRICA & MIDDLE EAST
Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839 - 1969 [electronic resource] - UK documents
Confidential Print: Africa, 1834 - 1966 [electronic resource] - UK documents
British parliamentary papers. Colonies: Africa
The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415-1670 : a documentary history
Conversations with Myself / Nelson Mandela
European Colonialism in the Early 20th Century: German Colonies to League of Nations Mandates in Africa 1910-1929 [electronic resource]
European Colonialism in the Early 20th Century: French Colonialism in Africa: From Algeria to Madagascar, 1910-1930 [electronic resources]
British Documents on the end of empire (all)
Africa and the West : a documentary history from the slave trade to independence
Documents illustrative of the history of the slave trade to America
An account of the slave trade on the coast of Africa [electronic resource]
The diary of Antera Duke, an eighteenth-century African slave trader
West African narratives of slavery : texts from late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Ghana (print) or E-book
Journal of an expedition to explore the course and termination of the Niger with a narrative of a voyage down that river to its termination [Rare Books & Manuscripts - Special Collections]
From protest to challenge : a documentary history of African politics in South Africa, 1822-1990
Documents collected for volumes 5, 6, and 7 may be requested from CRL. See the Karis-Gerhart collection guide and Carter Karis collection guide.
Writing for Kenya : the life and works of Henry Muori
Telling our own stories : local histories from South Mara, Tanzania
Other routes : 1500 years of African and Asian travel writing
Corpus of early Arabic sources for West African history
An early modern dialogue with Islam : Antonio de Sosa's Topography of Algiers (1612)
Israel and the European Union : a documentary history
Arab political documents (1963 - 1965)
Palestine papers, 1917-1922 : seeds of conflict
Palestine betrayed : a British Palestine policeman's memoirs (1936-1948)
My memoirs : half a century of the history of Iraq and the Arab cause / Tawfiq al-Suwaydi
The Iraq War : a documentary and reference guide
Turkey and her arab neighbors 1953 - 1958: a study in the origins and failure of the Baghdad pact
The Middle East and North Africa in world politics: a documentary record (1535 - 1975)
LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN
Latin America & Caribbean Region (multiple countries)
Foreign Relations between Latin America and the Caribbean States, 1930-1944 [electronic resource]
Foreign relations of the United States. Diplomatic papers, 1940. (In five volumes.) Volume V. The American republics. [electronic resource].
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- See midcat for other years and regions
Foreign relations of the United States, 1955-1957. Volume VI. American republics: Multilateral; Mexico; Caribbean. [electronic resource]
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- See Midcat for other years and regions
Latin America, 1941-1961 [microform] O.S.S./State Department intelligence and research reports ; pt. 14
Latin America, special studies, 1962-1980 [microform]
Latin America, special studies, 1980-1982. Supplement [microform]
Soviet relations with Latin America, 1918-1968; a documentary survey
Diplomatic correspondence of the United States: inter-American affairs, 1831-1860
Afro-Latino voices : narratives from the early modern Ibero-Atlantic world, 1550-1812
Colonial Latin America : a documentary history
Colonial lives : documents on Latin American history, 1550-1850
Cronicas de America (in Spanish)
Note: This is a series of reprinted primary sources which are scattered throughout the library collection.
Princeton University Latin American Microfilm Collection
Latin America since Independence: A history with primary sources [electronic resource]
Latin American Independence: An Anthology of Sources [electronic resource]
Latin America Readers (multiple titles & countries)
Caribbean
Contrary voices : representations of West Indian slavery, 1657-1834
Letters and people of the Spanish Indies, sixteenth century
Documentary History of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidency
- Vol. 19 - Cuba, the Good Neighbor Policy and Abrogation of the Platt Amendment
A Black Soldier's Story: the Narrative of Ricardo Batrell and the Cuban War of Independence
The Cuba reader: history, culture, politics
Central America and Mexico
Codex Bodley : a painted chronicle from the Mixtec Highlands, Mexico
General history of the things of New Spain : Florentine codex / Bernardino de Sahagún
Translation of Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España
Letters from Mexico / Hernan Cortes
Records of the Department of State relating to Internal Affairs of Nicaragua, 1910-1944 [microform]
Confidential U.S. State Department central files. Nicaragua, 1945-1949: internal affairs and foreign affairs [microform]
Confidential U.S. State Department central files. Nicaragua, 1950-1954: internal affairs and foreign affairs [microform]
Confidential U.S. State Department central files. Nicaragua, 1955-1959: internal affairs and foreign affairs [microform]
South America
Early Brazil : a documentary collection to 1700
Children of God's fire : a documentary history of black slavery in Brazil
True Account of the Conquest of Peru
NORTH AMERICA
A documentary history of the Negro people in the United States (7 volumes)
Diplomatic correspondence of the United States: Canadian relations, 1784-1860
A source-book of Canadian history; selected documents and personal papers
Spanish-American War: A Documentary History with Commentaries
EUROPE & RUSSIA / Soviet Union / CIS
Europe (Medieval Period)
The Voice of the Middle Ages : in personal letters 1100-1500
Medieval Iberia : readings from Christian, Muslim, and Jewish sources
Basic documents in medieval history
Life in the Middle Ages / selected, translated and annotated by G. G. Coulton
Europe - World Wars
England, Great Britain, UK, Ireland
Irish University Press series of British parliamentary papers
Laws of the kings of England from Edmund to Henry I.
The Trial of Charles I : a documentary history. (Also in print Davis Family Library KD372.C53 T75 1989)
Stuart royal proclamations (2 volumes)
Russia / Soviet Union
Soviet relations with Latin America, 1918-1968; a documentary survey
Revolutionary Russia : a history in documents
Documents of Soviet History
v. 1. The triumph of Bolshevism, 1917-1919 -- v. 2. Triumph and retreat, 1920-1922 -- v. 3. Lenin's heirs, 1923-1925 -- v. 4. Stalin grasps power, 1926-1928 -- v. 5. Revolution from above, 1929-1931 -- v. 6. Restoration of order, 1932-1934 -- v. 7. Foundations of Stalinism, 1935-1937 -- v. 8. Road to war, 1938-1940 --
The Maisky diaries : red ambassador to the Court of St James's, 1932-1943
Party, state, and citizen in the Soviet Union : a collection of documents
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