LibGuides: Database Guides : New and Updated Resources: JSTOR Primary Sources

Overview - JSTOR Primary Sources

JSTOR Primary Sources consists of three online collections of historic documents and images:

19th Century British Pamphlets
Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa
World Heritage Sites: Africa

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JSTOR Primary Sources: Detailed Descriptions

Nineteenth Century British Pamphlets This link opens in a new window
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Over 26,000 pamphlets digitized by leading UK Research Libraries, providing sources for public debates covering the key political, social, technological, and environmental issues of 19th century Britain.
Throughout the 19th century, pamphlets were an important means of public debate, covering the key political, social, technological, and environmental issues of their day. Research Libraries UK (RLUK) developed this collection of pamphlets containing the most significant British pamphlets from the 19th century held in British research libraries.

The digitization of more than 26,000 pamphlets from collections in seven universities in the UK spanning more than one million pages brings together a corpus of primary sources for the study of sociopolitical and economic factors impacting 19th-century Britain.
Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa This link opens in a new window
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Primary sources on liberation struggles in southern Africa, including Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.
The liberation of Southern Africa and the dismantling of the Apartheid regime was one of the major political developments of the 20th century, with far-reaching consequences for people throughout Africa and around the globe. This collection focuses on the complex and varied liberation struggles in the region, with an emphasis on Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. It brings together materials from various archives and libraries throughout the world documenting colonial rule, dispersion of exiles, international intervention, and the worldwide networks that supported successive generations of resistance within the region.
World Heritage Sites: Africa This link opens in a new window
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Images and other sources providing visual, contextual, and spatial documentation of African World Heritage sites,
World Heritage Sites: Africa links visual, contextual, and spatial documentation of African heritage sites. The materials in World Heritage Sites: Africa serve researchers in African studies, anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art history, Diaspora studies, folklore and literature, geography, and history, as well as those focused on geomatics, advanced visual and spatial technologies, historic preservation, and urban planning. The collection is also a tool for museums, libraries, NGOs, and government organizations that manage or oversee cultural heritage sites, as well as for experts and professionals engaged in the conservation and management of such sites.

Electronic Resource Information

Platform: JSTOR

Full-text: All items

Content Update: Finished collections.

Provider: JSTOR / California State University, Electronic Core Collection (CSU ECC)

LibGuide/Springshare URL: https://library.csustan.edu/jstor-primary-sources

Library PURL: https://libpurl.csustan.edu/s/purl.php?2471

OneSearch:

19th Century British Pamphlets (collection record; Books @ Stan State, Everything @ Stan State)

Wilson Anti-Slavery Collection (sub-collection record, Books @ Stan State, Everything @ Stan State)

A Brief Notice of American Slavery and the Abolition Movement (Articles @ Stan State, Everything @ Stan State)

Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa (collection record)

No sub-collection or item level records in OneSearch.

World Heritage Sites: Africa (collection record)

No sub-collection or item level records in OneSearch.