InfoGuides: Core Sources in Middle Eastern and African History: Find Books and Imprints as Primary Sources

Library Catalogs

Mason Library Catalog
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WRLC Catalog
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Center for Research Libraries
The University Libraries is a member of The Center for Research Libraries (CRL). This international consortium of university, college, and independent research libraries provides our scholars with deep and diverse collections including many foreign language and ethnic newspapers as well as many archival collections available via microfilm.

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Provides records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries, such as books, music, videos, microform, digital content, and medieval manuscripts.

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Major Collections

American Theological Library Association (ATLA) Historical Monographs Collection: Series 1 This link opens in a new window
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Collects titles from the 13th century through the 1893 World Parliament of Religions with the majority of titles from the 19th century. Covers diverse topics such as philosophy, the evolutionary debate, the Reformation, spiritualism, prayer, ancient linguistics, archaeology, devotionals, and ethics. Includes many volumes in Aramaic, Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, and other languages , documenting the recovery of languages used during the biblical era and provides an in-depth view of the way that biblical languages emerged during the nineteenth century.
American Theological Library Association (ATLA) Historical Monographs Collection: Series 2 This link opens in a new window
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Collects titles published from 1894 through 1923 that address subjects including the conflict between religion and science, the growing interest in Eastern religions and other world religions, and significant shifts in the religious identification of Americans.
ACLS Humanities E-Books This link opens in a new window
Searchable collection of scholarly books in the humanities by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) in collaboration with thirty-one learned societies, over 100 contributing publishers, and the Michigan Publishing division at the University of Michigan Library.
Gutenberg-e This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text history eBooks published in cooperation between the American Historical Association and Columbia University Press.
HathiTrust This link opens in a new window
A digital preservation repository and access platform for long-term preservation and access services for public domain and in-copyright content from a variety of sources, including Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and in-house partner institution initiatives.
Statesman's Yearbook This link opens in a new window
Provides concise geographic, historical, economic, political, social and cultural overviews of each country in the world; and biographical profiles of current and key past leaders. The complete archive, from 1864 to present, is included. Features major international organizations and a tool for easy comparison of a wide range of data fields across all countries of the world.