Web Sites of Specific Relevance to Opium War:

• The Opium Trade (from The Maritime Heritage Project)
• Asia for Educators (from Columbia University)
• First Opium War Timeline (from Timelines.info)
• Lin Tse-Hsu's "Letter of Advice to Queen Victoria"
• The Economic, Social, and Political Effects of The Opium War (from Wakeman, Frederic Jr., The Fall of Imperial China, New York: The Free Press, 1975, page: 128)
• "The Opium War's Secret History" -from the New York Times, an American link to the Opium War
• The Anglo-Chinese Treaty of Nanking

Sites Helpful with the STEEEP Process:

• Library of Congress Country Studies - based on published set of books, can search within a country or across countries
• American Memory Historical Collections - multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text from the Library of Congress's Americana collections. There are currently more than 100 collections in the American Memory Historical Collections.
• Digital Collections for Primary Research - listing of web sites that included digitized historical resources
• FindArticles.com - Welcome to the first online article-search service.
  "Search for quality articles in more than 300 reputable magazines and journals." (from the GaleGroup)
• MagPortal.com - a bit like FindArticles.com but more popular titles. Does have a Directory like feature
• Avalon Project at the Yale Law School : Documents in Law History and Diplomacy (pre18th- 21st centuries)
• WWW Virtual Library - volunteer effort to index web based on broad disciplines (highly recognized as one of the best efforts of this type.)

Where in the World is . . . (A Geographic Perspective)

• Maps from the University of Texas at Austin (includes current and historical maps plus links to other sites)
• Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century (from Matthew White)
• Links to Historical Maps on Other Sites (compiled by Matthew White)
• Maps contained in ebrary. [Since this is a subscription database, off-campus access will require you to log in to our remote access service.] Once connected, go to the advanced search tab. Type the name of the place in the search box and change the "All Documents" option to "Maps."