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Src: The Asian Studies Monitor ISSN 1329-9778
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html
03 Apr 1998
Country Studies/Area Handbooks Online
The Library of Congress, Washington D.C, USA
Self-description:
"A continuing series of books prepared by the Federal Research Division
of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook
Program sponsored by the Department of the Army. [...] Most books in
the series deal with a particular foreign country, describing and
analyzing its political, economic, social, and national security
systems and institutions, and examining the interrelationships of
those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors.
Each study is written by a multidisciplinary team of social scientists."
Site contents in Apr 1998 - 85 countries.
[The date in round brackets indicates the year of
publication by the Government Printing Office, the code 'f/o'
means 'forthcoming online' - ed.]. The studies of Asian countries include:
Armenia (1994), Azerbaijan (1994), Bahrain (1993), Georgia (1994),
Iran (1987), Iraq (1988), Israel (1988), Jordan (1989), Kuwait (1993),
Lebanon (1987), Oman (1993), Qatar (1993), Saudi Arabia (1992), Soviet
Union [former] (1989), Syria (1987), Turkey (1987), United Arab
Emirates (1993), Bangladesh (1989), Bhutan (1993), Cambodia (1990),
China (1988), India (1996, f/o), Indonesia (1994), Japan (1994),
Kazakstan (1997, f/o), Korea, North (1994), Korea, South (1992),
Kyrgyzstan (1997, f/o), Laos (1995), Maldives (1995), Mongolia (1991),
Nepal (1993), Pakistan (1995), Philippines (1993), Singapore (1991),
Sri Lanka (1990), Tajikistan (1997, f/o), Thailand (1989),
Turkmenistan (1997, f/o), Uzbekistan (1997, f/o), Vietnam (1989).
Revised editions in progress -
Afghanistan, Brunei, Burma, China, Malaysia.
Volumes planned -
Australia, Pacific Island Nations.
[Maps and charts are in PDF (Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0) format. Search
across all countries or any combination of countries is provided - ed.]
URL http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
Link submitted by: Steven A. Leibo (leibo@cnsvax.albany.edu) and Robert L Worden (rwor@loc.gov)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
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