Nineteenth Century Collections Online: #1
Asia and the West
 
Explore international relations between Asian countries and the West during the nineteenth century

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Asia and the West (formerly known as Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange) features a range of primary source collections related to international relations between Asian countries and the West during the nineteenth century. These invaluable documents -- many never before available -- include government reports, diplomatic correspondence, periodicals, newspapers, treaties, trade agreements, NGO papers, and more, offering a look at the inner workings of international relations.

This resource allows scholars to explore in detail the history of British and U.S. foreign policy and diplomacy; Asian political, economic, and social affairs; the Philippine Insurrection; the Opium Wars; the Boxer Rebellion; missionary activity in Asia; and other topics. Asia and the West also includes personal letters and diaries, offering first-hand accounts and the human side of international politics, as well as nautical charts, maps, ledgers, company records, and expedition and survey reports from 1790 to 1949.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online is the most ambitious electronic scholarly archive of its kind, providing full-text, fully searchable content from a wide range of primary sources. Selected with the guidance of an international team of expert advisors, these primary sources are invaluable for a wide range of academic disciplines and areas of study, providing never-before-possible research opportunities for one of the most studied historical periods. Archives published in the program include works in Western as well as non-Western languages and are sourced from rare collections at libraries and other institutions from around the globe. Each individual archive within Nineteenth Century Collections Online presents the raw materials scholars require for their research.

Asia and the West is available on Gale's cutting-edge research platform. This state-of-the-art user experience was developed using our flexible Agile approach, incorporating user testing and feedback throughout the process to ensure that we are providing the features that scholars require -- such as detailed subject indexing and metadata, textual analysis tools, personalized user accounts, and more -- for research in the digital age.

Documents were sourced from the National Archives, Kew; the National Archives, United States; and other international collections and include:

• British Foreign Office: Japan Correspondence, 1856-1905
• Dispatches from U.S. Consuls in Osaka and Hiogo (Kobe), Japan, 1868-1906
• Dispatches from U.S. Consuls in Seoul, Korea, 1886-1906
• Chinese Missionary Gleaner (1853-1859)
• History of the Philippine Insurrection Against the United States, 1899-1903, and Documents
• Relating to the War Department Project for Publishing of History, 1899-1903
• Missionary Files: Methodist, Episcopal Church Missionary Correspondence, 1846-1912 (China, Japan, Korea)
• Notes from the Korean Legation in the United States to the Department of State, 1883-1906
• Philippine Insurgent Records, 1896-1901, with Associated Records of the U.S. War Department, 1900-1906, 1896-1906
• And much more