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Background Notes on Countries of the World
    • Politics, foreign policy, human rights, history, economic and demographic information from U.S. State Department
    • Summarizes each country's history, economy, and foreign policy
    • Updated on a staggered basis every few years
    • The latest edition of the paper copy is in the Map Library as G59.U58
CIA World Factbook
  • Brief information about a country's population, ethnicity, politics, economics, transportation and military
  • Demographic data includes age, sex, birth and death rates, ethnicity, and literacy
  • The corresponding paper copy is in Doc.Cen. G 122 .U56--Doc.Ref
Columbia Gazetteer of the World
 
    • Dictionary of places and place names, including cities, bridges, maritime or geological features, states, provinces
    • Each entry provides detailed information on the place, its history, and current economy as appropriate
    • Search by place name, type of place or keyword
Commonwealth
  • Secretariat of the British Commonwealth countries
  • Brief identification of the 53 British Commonwealth countries with information on their society, history, geography, and politics
  • Links to official government web pages
  • Quarterly newsletter and international agencies for which the Commonwealth countries are members
Country Briefings
 
    • Brief economic and economic policy forecasts
    • Summary economic data for past four years (GDP, unemployment, consumer prices)
    • Lengthier summary of recent political history
    • Current exchange rates
    • More extensive analysis (country reports, country surveys, risk data, cost of food) are available to UMich Users through EIU campus license
Country Commercial Guides
    • Economic and political factors for U.S. citizens exporting to various countries
    • Includes laws, contacts, key imports and exports
    • Choose name of country and report type country commercial guides from the main menu
Country Profiles
    • Arranged by country with links to newspapers, profiles, government agencies and statistics as well as economic, demographic, and environment reports
    • Sources primarily include US and international documents, such as the IMF country reports or FAO special studies
eHRAF Collection of Ethnography
    • Books and articles on cultures of the world
    • Texts converted by the UMich Humanities Text Initiative on an on-going basis
    • Search by simple keyword, Boolean logic, or Outline of World Cultures classification
Go Global
    • Calculate distances and compare time between major world cities
    • National holidays for the current month
    • Voltage and power converter requirements in various countries
    •  Telephone dialing codes for various countries as well as time differentials
Historical Abstracts, 1963+ (Umich Only)
  • Contains citations and abstracts of the worldwide literature from approximately 2100 journals and, since 1980, books and dissertations on political, diplomatic, economic, social, cultural, and intellectual history and related areas of the social sciences and humanities
  • Covers the history of the world since 1450 except for the United States and Canada with works published after 1970
  • Paper copy: D1 .H652, 1955+
 
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