Guides: POLI 432: State-building in the Gulf: Actors, Practices, and Narratives: Primary Sources

Newspapers

International Newsstream (ProQuest)
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Recent news content from outside of the US and Canada. Archives back decades featuring full-text newspapers, newswires, and news sites. Includes The Times (London), The Bangkok Post, El Norte, Financial Times, The Guardian, Jerusalem Post, South China Morning Post, The Daily Telegraph, Asian Wall Street Journal, and the BBC Monitoring series of publications.
Nexis Uni
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Research tool containing news, cases, law reviews, company information, country information, or other publications.
Factiva
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News articles from over 32,000 top news sources from around the world.

Nexis Uni
- Enter the name of the person whose speech you are interested in
- Search "News" then under publication time, select "News Transcript"
- Use the date option to narrow down the results
Academic Search Complete
- Specify "speech" in the Document Type box
You can also find speeches transcribed in books

The easiest way to find government documents is to use a Google Advanced search where you can specify the URL of the website you want to search.

Gale Primary Sources
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Resource that brings together Gale's digital archives in a single cross-search interface. Content includes monographs, manuscripts, newspapers, photographs, and maps, and permits term frequency and term cluster searching.
AM Explorer (Adam Matthew)
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Search across Adam Matthew databases held by McGill Library.
Text mining is permitted, but certain conditions apply. Please contact Digital Scholarship Hub
Foreign Office Files for the Middle East (Adam Matthew)
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Contains diplomatic correspondence, minutes, reports, political summaries and personality profiles, geared to understanding the events in the Middle East during the 1970s. It addresses the policies, economies, political relationships and significant events of every major Middle East power.
Text mining is permitted, but certain conditions apply. Please contact Digital Scholarship Hub