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HGIS de las Indias

Detail from <a href='https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/s/rp56bh' target='_blank'>'Carte De Hollande Et D'utrecht' (Covens et Mortier, 1750)</a> Historical geography for the Bourbon Spanish America through time (1701-1808), comprising settlements (lugares) and their temporally scoped position within the administrative territorial structure (territorios) of that period and region.

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An Historical Atlas of Central Asia

This dataset comprises 759 place records, digitized in 2018 from 15 of the 48 maps in this scholarly atlas. The maps' extensive sources, detailed in the Preface and Notes, include "...all reliable general surveys of Central Asian history, and schola…

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The World of Olaudah Equiano (Gustavus Vassa), 1745-1797

Olaudah Equiano, also known as Gustavus Vassa, was born in the Kingdom of Benin, enslaved as a child, and spent his adult life as a sailor, writer, and abolitionist. His autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, publis…