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Encyclopedias and Dictionaries for Politics and the Social Sciences

Cambridge History of Political Thought encyclopedia

In February, I was privileged to be part of a group of North American librarians who visited Cuba on the occasion of the 18th Havana International Book Fair, known in Spanish as the Feria Internacional del Libro de La Habana. This trip was generously supported by Cowles Library and the Drake University Center for the Humanities.

The Book Fair attracts a huge number of visitors every year from all segments of Cuban society and all parts of the island.

Crowd at the 2009 Havana International Book Fair - Havana, Cuba from M Djenno on Vimeo.

Cubans seem to seek and acquire reading material at any and every opportunity!

Prestigious Cambridge Economic Histories Online for Europe, Latin America, India, and the Greco-Roman world.

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After 1974, as thousands of previously classified United States government documents were declassified, the Declassified Documents Reference System was developed to organize the tremendous volume of material and to make it easily accessible to researchers. Declassified Documents Reference System has become a major and highly respected source of information about United States post-World War II domestic policy and international relations. It remains the only compilation of materials that are recorded as they are released by United States government agencies, the National Archives and Presidential Libraries. Declassified Documents Reference System contains over 78,000 documents, constituting more than 450,000 pages of material and is an unprecedented research tool for researchers, political scientists and policymakers around the world. Declassified Documents Reference System enables users to examine documents originating from a wealth of United States government official bodies and agencies, including:

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