This database features 20th-century content covering major events that shaped modern society—World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II.

It is a valuable resource not only for the study of economic thought, but also for those interested in the social forces unleashed by economic developments, as well as early 20th-century history, political science, philosophy, business and economic law, and women's studies.

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The Making of the Modern World (MOMW) is a series of approximately 87,000 European publications on social and economic history spanning 500 years from the mid-15th century to the mid-20th century. The original holdings include The Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature at the University of London, the Kress Library of Business and Economics at Harvard University, the Seligman Collection at Columbia University and the Hiroshima University of Economics, and the History of Economics Collection at the University of Kansas.

This is the database of about 800 publications of The Tokyo Institute for Municipal Research, about municipal problems and local self-government.

Part 1: 1922-1945

[Main Materials]
Pamphlet on Municipal Problems, Annual Report on Japanese City

Part 2: 1946-2017

[Main Materials]
History of  Metropolitan Institution, Urban Research Report, Municipal Problems Study Series

Ichikawa Fusae （1893‒1981）was a politician and a leader of the women's suffrage movement.
This database contains the vast amount of original documents she collected that remain at the Fusae Ichikawa Memorial Association "Women and Politics" Center.
The collection covers materials related to the women's movement from the prewar to the postwar period, beginning with the "New Women's Association" founded in 1919 with Hiratsuka and others, and ending with the postwar "New Japan Women's League" (founded in 1945).

Module 1 : LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940 Part I

This collection brings together approximately 1.5 million pages of primary sources on social, political, health, and legal issues impacting LGBTQ communities around the world. Rare and unique content from newsletters, papers, government documents, manuscripts, pamphlets, and other types of primary sources sheds light on the gay rights movement, activism, the HIV/AIDS crisis, and more.

You can search statistical data on every fields by prefecture, which you have to  group together from huge collection of books and microfilms without this database.
For example, you can easily get the data like following:

- Transition of rice production by prefecture in Meiji period
- Number of teachers of a certain prefecture by sex and age in prewar period

[Contents]
0.9 million images, 1.5 million records of Prefectural Documents on Statistics (1873-1972)
 

CNKI is the largest scientific literature online service in China.

With approximately 5,000 titles, this collection takes The Making Of The Modern World series into the early 20th century. Comprised mainly of monographs, reports, correspondence, speeches, and surveys, this collection broadens Gale's international coverage of social, economic, and business history, as well as political science, technology, industrialization and the birth of the modern corporation.

GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.

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Empire Online is a powerful and interactive digital resource to explore colonial history, politics, culture and society.