Introduction
The resources listed below will help you research for your Country Timeline/Overview assignment. Use the tabs above to display resources for later assignments.
Contemporary country overviews
- Europa World Year BookProvides overviews and basic statistics for all countries, focusing on the present state of each. The most recent edition is available at the Van Pelt Reference Desk. Use the regional version of the Yearbook to find more information on your country.
- The Middle East and North AfricaThis is a more detailed "regional" version of the Europa Yearbook (above)
- Statesman's YearbookSimilar to Europa but with briefer overviews.
- Library of Congress Area Studies Series"Presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world." Coverage often ends a decade or more ago.
Historical Overviews
- Encyclopedia BritannicaLarge encyclopedia -- great for an online overview of the history and contemporary status of a country.
- Boom, bust, and the poor: Poverty dynamics in the Middle East and North Africa, 1970–1999An article from an economics journal which gives an overview of the problems of poverty in the Middle East and North Africa
Contemporary health overviews
- WHO--country overviewsIncludes a country brief, health profile, and status reports on selected health indicators. If you see a "more country data" link then click it!
- Encyclopedia of Global HealthFour volume print encyclopedia -- provides brief surveys of health conditions and the most serious health problems facing countries. Nearly comprehensive in its coverage.
- Comparative health systems : global perspectivesThe book has chapters on Jordan and Turkey.
