Selected Topics

Online Primary Source Collections for History lists digital collections at Harvard and beyond by topic

Asian/African Conferences

This is a rough, incomplete list of Asian international conferences with some documents.

Historical dictionary of international organizations in Asia and the Pacific, by Derek McDougall. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2002, xl, 232 p.

This HOLLIS search yields academic as well as intergovernmental conferences.

Congress of the Peoples of the East (September 1920)

To see the dawn: Baku, 1920-First Congress of the Peoples of the East, edited by John Riddell. New York : Pathfinder, 1993, 344 p.
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Greater East Asia Conference 5 Nov 1943 

Documents

Asian Relations Conference took place in New Delhi in March–April 1947

Speeches

Asian People’s Anti-Communist League (1953-1962)

Documents

Bandung Conference, 1955

Selected documents of the Bandung Conference; texts of selected speeches and final communique of the Asian-African Conference, Bandung, Indonesia, April 18-24, 1955. NY, Distributed by the Institute of Pacific Relations, 1955, 35 leaves ;
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The Second Asian African Conference (1965)

Documents

South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (founded 1985)

Association for Asian Union & Asia-Pacific Cooperation: A Non-Governmental Organization to promote the idea of UNITED ASIA (Founded Aug. 2001)

Documents

Asia Cooperation Dialogue (ACD) (founded 2002)

Black Internationalism

Find bibliographies in HOLLIS by searching your keywords plus the word Bibliography (which must be limited to subject in Advanced Search). For example, "Pan-Africanismn" bibliography.

A Bibliography of Black Internationalism, by Keisha N. Blain 
--Useful items found browsing this bibliography can be searched in HOLLIS to find more Subject terms and thus more sources

African Activist Archive Project

World communism: pamphlets from McMaster University

World communism; a selected annotated bibliography (bibliographic materials through September 1963). Prepared at the request of the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate. Library of Congress. Legislative Reference Service, 1971. 2 v. (88th Cong., 2d sess. Senate. Document, no.69)
Online version: vol. 1  --  vol 2
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Cultural Relations

Cuban culture and cultural relations (1959- ) Archival materials from the Casa de las Américas in Havana, which focuses on Cuban and Latin American writers and artists. Includes newspaper clippings and documents relating to its activities and publications since its founding in 1959.

Indian Freedom Movement

Role of India in Algeria's freedom struggle ed. by M.S. Deora. New Delhi, India : Discovery Pub. House, 1995. xvi, 208 p. FindIt@Harvard

Role of India in Morocco's freedom struggle, ed. by M.S. Deora. New Delhi : Discovery Pub. House, 1995. xiv, 171 p. FindIt@Harvard

Role of India in Tunisia's freedom struggle, ed. by M.S. Deora. New Delhi : Discovery Pub. House, 1995. xiv, 156 p. FindIt@Harvard

Searching Nationalism “Relations India” as a Subject keyword search (adjust from Limit to: anywhere to Limit to: subject) yields books on the influence of Indian nationalism on nationalism elsewhere.

Searching the phrase (in ""): "Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948 Influence" also yields pertinent material.

The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi and his political influence in South Africa, 1893-1914, a selective bibliography. By Susan Joan Kovalsky,.Johannesburg, University of the Witwatersrand, Dept. of Bibliography, Librarianship and Typography, 1971, iii, 27 p.
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Gandhi heritage portal

Collected works of Mahatma Gandhi Online 1888-1947

The Hindu conspiracy cases [electronic resource] : activities of the Indian Independence Movement in the U.S., 1908-1933.
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Migration

Background and Context

Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism

Immigration and asylum: from 1900 to the present (online), ed. by Matthew J. Gibney and Randall Hansen. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2005.

Encyclopedia of diasporas: immigrant and refugee cultures around the world (online), ed. by Melvin Ember, Carol R. Ember, and Ian Skoggard. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum, 2004.

Document Collections

Migration to New Worlds documents the movement of peoples from Great Britain, Ireland, mainland Europe and Asia to the New World and Australasia. Includes Colonial Office files on emigration, diaries and travel journals, ship logs and plans, printed literature, objects, watercolours, and oral histories together with secondary research aids.
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Statistics Sources

 

To find more statistical publications in HOLLIS:

Use Advanced search to search: Israel AND (immigration OR immigrants) AND Statistics

Find the proper subject terms (see HOLLIS page), for example: 

Israel Cities Statistics
Jerusalem statistics

The Methods and materials of demography, ed. by Jacob S. Siegel, David A. Swanson. 2nd ed. San Diego, Calif.: Elsevier Academic Press, 2004, 819 p. 
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HathiTrust Full Text (1980 ed.)
–Chapter on international migration

Analytical bibliography of international migration statistics, selected countries, 1925-1950. United Nations. Bureau of Social Affairs. New York, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, 1955, 195 p.
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International historical statistics, 1750-2010

League of Nations Statistical Yearbook  (1926-1944)  Migration Movements section is in the Territory, Population chapter

UN Statistics Resource Guide

Demographic yearbook. New York [etc.] Dept. of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office, United Nations, 1948- .
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UN Version
--Largely vital statistics: Population, birth, death rates, etc.
--Each issue (1949-1996) has a special topic. International Migration Statistics in 1977, 1989

UN Statistics Division: Demographic and Social Statistics: International Migration

UN Population Division International Migration 1990-2019

UNHCR: The UN Refugee Agency: Statistical Yearbooks, 1994-

Migration Data Hub (Migration Policy Institute)

Migration Data Portal

International migration, 1945-1957. International Labour Office. Geneva, 1959, 414 p.

International migrations, ed. by Walter Willcox. (Publications of the National Bureau of Economic Research, no. 14, 18) New York, 1929-31. 2 v.
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--I. Statistics compiled on behalf of the International Labour Office, Geneva, with introduction and notes by I. Ferenczi.
--II. Interpretations, by a group of scholars in different countries (Includes discussions of sources).

Statistical handbook of Middle Eastern countries : Palestine, Cyprus, Egypt, Iraq, the Lebanon, Syria, Transjordan, Turkey / Jewish Agency for Palestine, Economic Research Institute. 2d ed. Jerusalem : The Institute, 1945, viii, 183 p.
Microforms (Lamont)  |  Offsite Storage    |  Film W 17100
Widener  |  Offsite Storage    |  XP 2165
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Reprint of 1944 ed. with a few misprints corrected and supplement with new statistics
Includes detailed statistical breakdown of immigrants

Statistical handbook of Middle Eastern countries; Palestine, Cyprus, Egypt, Iraq, the Lebanon, Syria, Transjordan, Turkey. Jerusalem, 1944, viii, 166 p.
Widener  |  Econ 7974.10
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Analytical bibliography of international migration statistics, selected countries, 1925-1950. United Nations. Bureau of Social Affairs. New York, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, 1955, 195 p.
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United States

Statistical Yearbook of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1978-2001
Online Version

Yearbook of Immigration Statistics (Department of Homeland Security), 1996-present.

Frequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants and Immigration in the United States (Migration Policy Institute)

Essays with some Statistics

International migration, 1945-1957. International Labour Office. Geneva, 1959, 414 p.
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