Free and subscription-based resources for Cultural Geography (GEO 150).
Click on the map region to view news headlines for that area, or search the World News Network- over 500 news sources in numerous languages - using the box below.
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ACLS History E-Books: A project of the American Council of Learned Societies, contains a growing collection of over 1200 scholarly titles selected by noted historians. Expanding coverage of nearly all time periods and locations. May be browsed by subject, or for highly specific topics you may wish to search the full text.
Ebrary: our largest collection of ebooks. The default Text and Key Fields search will show you all books containing your terms, with the most relevant titles at the top of the list. If you change the 'search in' field to Subject you can attempt to locate books that deal more specifically with the country assigned.
Search our Catalog for many more books on regions, countries and cultures. Some reference titles:
Magazines and Journals:
search
EBSCOhost and
select the field "Geographic Terms" or
ProQuest by "Location," or try
browsing for journals
by subjects such as
Geography,
Ethnic and Race Studies, and
Social and Cultural Anthropology. Some titles of note:
Journal of cultural geography
Progress in human geography
Social & cultural geography
The free website Political Database of the Americas offers "information about institutions and political processes, national constitutions, branches of government, elections, political constitutional studies and other subjects related to the strengthening of democracy in the region." Maintained by the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) at Georgetown University.
CultureGrams - World: brief summary data plus information about "religions and worldviews, arts and traditions, peoples and languages."
Encyclopedia Britannica Online: Country information includes a World Atlas and World Data Analyst for country snapshots, comparisons, and ranked statistics.
Facts.com: includes Country Profiles with maps and links to key news events from the World News Digest.
Gale Virtual Reference: numerous scholarly encyclopedias including the Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations, the Encyclopedia of Religion, and titles covering specific regions/cultures.
Oxford Reference Online: Scholarly reference works including A-Z of Countries of the World and A Dictionary of Geography.
Daily Life Online: Essays on numerous aspects of people's daily lives, ancient to modern, in many countries. This database was significantly revised in 8/2010 with much content moved into ABC-CLIO Ebooks.
World Almanac via FirstSearch: Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia and four almanacs, including the World Almanac and Book of Facts.
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BBC Country Profiles: "instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories." Includes transcripts, audio and video news stories.
CIA World Factbook: " information on countries, including facts and statistics on the people, government, economy, communication systems, transportation systems, military, and transnational issues.
Country Studies: produced by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress. Also links to their Portals to the World, "selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world."
NationMaster: Facts and statistics.
UNData - statistical information from the United Nations and several other international agencies.