| Resource Name & Link to Resource: | Country Studies (Area Handbooks) |
| Description: | Description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world from a series of books published between 1988 and 1998. These online versions of books previously published in hard copy (with the exception of a born-digital study on Macau and an unpublished partial draft study on Afghanistan) by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress as part of the Country Studies/Area Handbook Series sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Army between 1986 and 1998 cover 101 countries and regions. Each study offers a description and analysis of the country or region's historical setting, geography, society, economy, political system, foreign policy, and national security. |
| Resource Type(s): | E-Book(s), Government Publication, Key Database(s), Reference Tool |
| Access information: | Free resource - available to everyone on the Internet |
| Fulltext: | Fulltext is available. |
| Vendor Name: | Library of Congress |
| Research Guides: | Countries, Geography, Political Science, Reference Sources |
