意外とわかりにくい一次資料と二次資料の違いについて、太平洋戦争中の日系アメリカ人強制収容の文献を例にわかりやすく解説します。
Galeの刊行する10の文芸評論シリーズ2,400巻以上をPDF形式で収録するデータベースです。
"The comic images published in Punch have proved to be both relentlessly entertaining and endlessly informative to generations of readers…"
"The history of British imperialism during the nineteenth century describes a process of expansion and consolidation, its success all the more remarkable for its…"
"Changes in technology over the course of the nineteenth century had the effect of enabling faster travel and more efficient communication between the…"
For the whole of its publishing history, Punch was consistently fascinated with developments in flight and.... Punch's first significant engagement with aeronautics occurs in 1843 (two years after the magazine's founding), in response to William Henson's proposed Aerial Steam Carriage.
"The American Revolution was a civil war in every sense of the word, a fratricidal conflict that divided men and women throughout the Empire..."
The Daily Mirror has a good claim to be Britain’s most successful and influential newspaper. During its heyday, in the middle decades of the twentieth century, it offered a tremendously powerful, if stylised, expression of left-of-centre working-class popular culture in a country dominated by conservative, middle-class voices. At its peak, in 1967, it reached the unprecedented daily circulation of 5.25 million copies, a figure that none of its rivals has come close to matching, or likely ever will.
"During the first seventy-five years of the eighteenth century Britain emerged as the paramount world naval power. The ground work had been…"
The summoning of the two parliaments which met in 1640 was perceived by contemporaries as marking an end to the long period of personal rule by Charles I, but in institutional and archival terms, it was the year 1642 that marked the start of a unique phase in the history of English government.
"The history of British-Ottoman relations between 1713 and 1779 is therefore one of commerce and diplomacy intertwined, with foreign policy aims…"
フランス国立図書館の有名なエロティカ・コレクション《地獄》の歴史や特色について、同館重書部名誉司書のマリー=フランソワーズ・キニャールが解説します。
"Perhaps The Times Literary Supplement should have been renamed Survival, the title of the fictional wartime literary magazine…"
イギリスの日刊紙『タイムズ』の長い歴史にまつわる様々なエピソード集です。
18世紀英語・英国出版物集成(ECCO)にまつわるショートエッセイ集
経済学史・経済史古典文献集成(MOMW)にまつわるショート・エッセイ集
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