January 26, 2008

Online Library of Liberty - It attracts



The main page of this library declares, “to encourage study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals”.

The library is being run as an educational enterprise by Liberty Fund, Inc. in Americas and Europe. According to the main page of the site, it is based in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Presently, the online library has one thousand books available on-line. Apart from them, there is a section wherein one can find original documents. Many documents are related to the history of America.

In addition to that there is a forum which has numerous articles written by experts. When this feature is compared with Gutenberg project, this library acquires its own character. The Gutenberg project also has articles on different authors but they are written in association with Wikipedia project. The articles written on Liberty Library are exclusive. In addition to that there is feature of Timeline for each author. It makes good source for an academic and scholarly work. The Timeline feature definitely score for Liberty Library over and above Gutenberg. The second feature is that there is a group of classifications over which the available material is spread. It helps the user to undertake a study as per some established school of thought or a time period already decided and accepted by academic and intellectual world. That is other thing that I will still go with Gutenberg project.

The books placed in the Liberty Library belongs to Enlightenment period. This is the period which becomes basis for the study of eighteenth and nineteenth century historic development. I am interest in these two centuries. Therefore, it attracts me more.

The Liberty Library has adopted Amargi as its logo. It is a cuneiform symbol from Sumerian culture. It literary means return to mother. This is the main concept of the library which is to seek a social order which has a real liberty. No doubt, somewhere is the concept reflects the core ideas of Rousseau and
Enlightened period of literature.

January 24, 2008

Online Books on History by D. D. Kosambi, the Mathematician

One can access the classic books authored by the Indian Mathematician D. D. Kosambi on line.

The following books can be accessed on an Indian version of Guttenberg project run by an individual (Arvind Gupta, the Child toy maker from IIT).

Indian Numismatics

Introduction to the Study of Indian History

History and Society, Problems and Interpretations

Culture and Civilization of Ancient India

Myth and Reality

Combined Methods in Indology and Other Writings

Kosambi was a mathematician. However, his book titled Introduction to the Study of Indian History laid the road for the Marxian historiography on Indian history. A related observation and comment had been made in my earlier post.

January 23, 2008

What is History by E. H. Carr

One can read the classic book "What is History" by E. H. Carr online at the following link:

What is History? by E. H. Carr.



Attention Readers:



The above link is not functioning.

You are requested to seek the following path to access the book.

Kindly visit http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/

On the main page, click the link "English".

You will reach the library of Arvind Gupta. On that page, drag down and reach a category "Inspiring Books". Under that category you can locate the "What is History?" by E. H. Carr. That is a zip file. Today, that is August 12, 2008, when I accessed it, I found it functional and working well. I hope that will satisfy your quest.

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