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Databases
Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures and the Environment
Publication coverage: 1534-1850
Documents early encounters in North America from 1534 to 1850.Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Publication coverage: 1473 - 1700
EEBO includes full text facsimiles of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473 to 1700.Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP)
Publication coverage: 1473 - 1700
The Text Creation Partnership, which provides highly searchable versions of the texts, has made the first 25,000 works freely available. The interface, at the University of Michigan, allows proximity and boolean searching within the available works, but does not search the full Early English Books Online (EEBO) database.Early European Books Collections
Publication coverage: 1450s-1700
EEB is a collection of digitized European books printed in the early modern period (1450s-1700).Publication coverage: 1600-1947.
East India Company is a collection of the digitized India Office Records held by the British Library in London.Database Search
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