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Primary Sources: Prehistory – Middle Ages

Tips on how to identify, access, and use primary source materials.

General Anthologies

The Human Record: Sources of Global History by Alfred J. Andrea; James H. Overfield
Call Number: MAIN D5 .A53 2005
ISBN: 0618370404
Publication Date: 2004

Asia

Before Orientalism: Asian peoples and cultures in European travel writing, 1245-1510 by Kim M. Phillips
Call Number: READ ONLINE
ISBN: 0812245482
Publication Date: 2013
Chinese Civilization by Patricia Buckley Ebrey (Editor)
Call Number: MAIN DS721 .C517 1993
Islamic Central Asia: an anthology of historical sources by Scott C. Levi; Ron Sela, Eds.
Call Number: READ ONLINE
ISBN: 0253353858
Publication Date: 2010
Sources of Chinese Tradition by Irene Bloom; Wm. Theodore de Bary; Mixhael Cohen
Call Number: MAIN DS721 .D37 1999
Sources of Japanese Tradition by Wm. Theodore de Bary; Donald Keene; George Tanabe; Paul Varley
Call Number: DS821 .S68 2001 READ ONLINE
Sources of Korean Tradition by Peter H. Lee; W. Theodore De Bary; Yôngho Ch'oe; Hugh H. W. Kang; Edward J. Schultz
Call Number: MAIN DS904 .S69 1997

Africa

Thus Ruled Emir Abbas by Allen Christelow (Editor)
Call Number: READ ONLINE
ISBN: 160917268X
Publication Date: 1994
Public Documents from Sinnar by Jay Spaulding; Muòhammad Ibråahåim. Abåu Salåim (Editor); Muḥammad Ibrāhīm Abū Salīm
Call Number: READ ONLINE
ISBN: 1609172973
Publication Date: 1989

Western

Christian Society and the Crusades, 1198-1229: Sources in Translation by Edward Peters (Editor)
Call Number: READ ONLINE
ISBN: 9780812207361
Publication Date: 2011
Sources of the West by Mark Kishlansky
Call Number: MAIN CB245 .S578 2008
ISBN: 9780205568390
Publication Date: 2007

Near East and Middle East

The Ancient Near East: Historical sources in translation by Mark W. Chavalas
Call Number: MAIN DS62.2 .A63 2006
ISBN: 9780631235811
Publication Date: 2006
The Correspondence of the Kings of Ur by Piotr Michalowski
Call Number: READ ONLINE
ISBN: 1575066505
Publication Date: 2011

Greece & Rome

The Hellenistic Period: Historical Sources in Translation, 2nd ed. by Roger S. Bagnall (Editor); Peter Derow (Editor)
Call Number: READ ONLINE
ISBN: 0470794011
Publication Date: 2008
This presents 175 documents that capture the political, social, economic, and religious dynamism of the Hellenistic world and the Ptolemaic kingdom.
Roman Letters: An Anthology by Noelle K. Zeiner-Carmichael
Call Number: READ ONLINE
ISBN: 9781118617366
Publication Date: 2013

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