East View is making the following collections available through the Digital Archival Collections Group Purchasing Scheme:
https://www.eastview.com/resources/books-and-e-books/archive-editions/
Documentary resources on political, territorial, and ethnic issues
East View Archive Editions™ (formerly Cambridge Archive Editions) is an extensive portfolio of primary source document collections covering a variety of historical events spanning the 18th-20th centuries. First established in 1979 in the United Kingdom, Archive Editions began by publishing its collections in multi-volume print form and later, through a collaboration between East View and Cambridge University Press, as e-book collections encompassing some 1,200 volumes presenting selected primary source documents.
The Archive Editions e-book collections feature a wide range of the most important documents from the British Government records, creating a true survey of an historical period, political movement, or a country’s development. Content includes over 1,200 volumes with nearly 700,000 pages of primary sources and over 750 maps.
The East View Archive E-Book collections – All Access includes 141 E-Books covering the following four regions:
East and Southeast Asia – 10 titles, 92 volumes
https://www.eastview.com/resources/books-and-e-books/ae-east-southeast-asia/
Covering the geographic areas of Japan, China, Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan and, under the title Straits Settlements, Penang, Singapore, Malacca and Labuan. These titles deliver insight with historic political and economic reports and a sound basis for research of East and South-East Asia.
Near and Middle East – 120 titles, 966 volumes
https://www.eastview.com/resources/books-and-e-books/ae-near-middle-east/
Britain has a rich history with Middle Eastern countries via its East India Company trade routes up through the Persian Gulf. The British archives have particularly deep veins of material on boundary formation, tribal relations, state development and political relations.
North America – 1 title, 9 volumes
https://www.eastview.com/resources/books-and-e-books/ae-north-america/
“America and Great Britain: Diplomatic Relations 1775-1815” is the first Archive Editions collection covering North America. It is also the first full color collection.
Slavic, Balkan and Caucasus – 10 titles, 56 volumes
https://www.eastview.com/resources/books-and-e-books/ae-slavic-balkan-caucasus/
Featuring a number of maps, this collection covers political and ethnic boundary issues in Albania, Kosovo, Armenia, Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece. This valuable historical collection also covers the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and oil resources in Russia and the Caucasus.
