Mobilising Shame: Violence, the Media, and International Relations
Primary and secondary sources broadly related to the emergence of an “international community” in the 19th and 20th century; Originally created for HIST301T Transregional History and Methods.
Includes Bills and Acts, Command Papers, Commons and Lords Papers, Journals, and Debates from the 18th century through 2005. Learn more about this database.
Useful for Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings and reports. Also, some State Dept. documents could show up as House or Senate documents, e.g., “A decade of American foreign policy. Basic documents, 1941-49," is reproduced as 11308 S.doc.123.
Published sources
Use an advanced keyword search in the library catalog to focus on source material. Insert "Sources" in a subject field and add other terms in separate fields.
Many international newspapers are available on interlibrary loan from the Center for Research Libraries (CRL). We are a member institution with borrowing privileges.
Use this to search the full text of selected international newspapers from about 1980 to the present, depending on the specific newspaper. It does not include images.
The sections “Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange” and “Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest” look to be most useful.