Guide to the Materials for American History, to 1783, in the Public Record Office of Great Britain, Vol. 1 PDF Download

Author: Charles M. Andrews
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ISBN: 9781331175421
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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Excerpt from Guide to the Materials for American History, to 1783, in the Public Record Office of Great Britain, Vol. 1: The State Papers An important part of the work of the Department of Historical Research in the Carnegie Institution of Washington has from the beginning consisted in endeavors to make more available for students the materials for American history contained in European and other foreign archives. International relations, the transatlantic movement of population, and especially the long period of colonial dependence on Europe, have brought it about that the mass of such materials is very great. In dealing with them, the first step in natural order, for an endowed institution which has no special ends of its own to pursue but wishes to serve the interests of as large a number of historical scholars and societies as possible, is to make a general examination of each important foreign archive, and especially, at first, of the national or central archives of each country, and to prepare and publish a general guide to the materials which each is found to contain for American history. Fuller exploitation, by the preparation of complete calendars for selected portions of these archives, by the textual publication of the most important documents, or by the examination of provincial, local, and private archives, may follow later, but the first task is that of preparing and issuing a series of comprehensive guides. Of such manuals the Institution has already published several. Making a beginning with the small but interesting archives of the Cuban republic, it published in 1907 a Guide to the Materials for American History in Cuban Archives, by Mr. Luis M.Perez, now librarian to the Cuban House of Representatives. In 1907 the enormous wealth of American material in the great archives of Spain received a brief and preliminary treatment in a Guide to the Materials for the History of the United States in Spanish Archives (Simancas, the Archivo Historico Nacional, and Seville) by Professor William R. Shepherd of Columbia University. Next, the American riches of the Vatican archives and of the great national depositories in the same country were set forth by Professor Carl R. Fish of the University of Wisconsin in a Guide to the Material for American History in Roman and Other Italian Archives, published in 1911. In the present year, 1912, the Institution has brought out a Guide to the Manuscript Materials relating to American History in the German State Archives, prepared by Professor Marion D.Learned of the University of Pennsylvania. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.