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The American Studies Collection

The American Studies Collection was created by an endowment fund established by the Congress of the United States "in order to promote a thorough understanding of the United States" abroad. Designed expressly for university libraries outside the United States, the resulting collection of more than 1,300 volumes is a selective but authoritative library of literature and scholarship intended to provide foreign students, teachers and scholars with the opportunity to increase their understanding of American life and institutions, past and present.

The core of the Collection is a comprehensive selection of more than 1,000 titles, which were recommended by leading American scholars in the humanities and social sciences. Taken as a whole, these volumes suggest the diversity of American life and culture as well as the dynamism of recent scholarship. This part of the Collection includes major works from virtually all the disciplines that are germane to the study of American civilization. The collection is especially rich in titles in history, politics, government and law and includes other works in literary criticism, contemporary American fiction, poetry and belles lettres as well as outstanding works in the fine and performing arts, American philosophy and religion, and other aspects of U.S. society and culture.

Library of America
The Collection also contains the multi-volume Library of America, one of the most distinguished literary series in the history of American publishing--virtually a self-contained library of American thought and culture. The Library of America currently includes some 90 volumes that bring together in authoritative texts the landmark writings of classic American authors. Within the collection are the essential works of America's novelists and poets, historians and philosophers, journalists and statesmen. In some cases, the complete works of an author are contained in three or four compact volumes.

Documents of Democracy
Rounding out the Collection are these volumes, which include primary source documents and the private papers of key historical figures, appeared initially in conjunction with a major publishing project undertaken by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Approximately 100 volumes from that series were especially chosen for inclusion in this collection by a panel of scholarly experts working in consultation with the Commission. The panel has selected titles that exemplify the most significant aspects of the American past and are broadly representative of the chronological sweep of American history.

Library Sites
Working in collaboration with Department of State posts worldwide, the following institutions were selected to receive a set of the American Studies Collection. Each institution entered into a formal agreement with the U.S. mission in their country to house, maintain and provide open access to the collection.

Select the first letter of the country you seek.

A   B   C   D   E  F   G   H   I   J   K   L   M   N   O   P   Q   R   S   T   U   V   W   X   Y   Z

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ARGENTINA University of Palermo, Buenos Aires
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BANGLADESH University of Dhaka, Dhaka	BELARUS European Humanities University, Minsk
BRAZIL Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niteroi	BULGARIA Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski," Sofia
BURMA (Myanmar) Universities' Central Library, Rangoon (Yangon)
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CHILE Institute of Political Science University of Chile, Santiago	CHINA Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing
CHINA Hong Kong America Center, Sha Tin, Hong Kong	CHINA Nankai University, Tianjin
COLUMBIA Los Andes University, Bogota	CONGO Marien N'Gouabi University, Brazzaville
CZECH REPUBLIC Institute of International Studies Charles University, Prague
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DENMARK Aarhus University, Aarhus
E
ECUADOR Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito	EGYPT Cairo University, Cairo
ETHIOPIA Ethiopian Civil Service College, Addis Ababa
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GERMANY Center for U.S.A. Studies Martin Luther University – Halle-Wittenberg, Wittenberg	GHANA University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast
GREECE English Department Library Aristotle University, Thessaloniki
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INDIA Indo-American Centre for International Studies (formerly ASRC) Hyderabad	INDIA Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai
INDONESIA American Studies Center University of Indonesia, Jakarta	ITALY Centro Italiano di Studi Americani, Rome
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JAPAN Tohoku University, Sendai	JERUSALEM David Yellin College
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KAZAKHSTAN Kazakh State University of World Languages, Almaty	KENYA United States International University – Africa, Nairobi
KOREA Keimyung University, Taegu
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LATVIA University of Latvia, Riga	LITHUANIA The University of Klaipeda, Klaipeda
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MALI Ecole Normale Superieure, Bamako	MALAYSIA University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur
MEXICO Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City, D.F.	MEXICO Universidad de las Americas, Cholula, Puebla
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NEPAL Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu	NIGERIA Kenneth Dike Library University of Ibadan, Ibadan
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PAKISTAN University of Karachi Karachi	PERU Universidad de Lima, Lima
POLAND University of Lodz, Lodz	PORTUGAL Coimbra University, Coimbra
PORTUGAL Lisbon University, Lisbon
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ROMANIA Babes-Bolyai University, Clug-Napoca	RUSSIA Irkutsk State University, Irkutsk
RUSSIA St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg
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SLOVAKIA University Library Bratislava, Bratislava	SOUTH AFRICA University of Cape Town, Cape Town
SOUTH AFRICA University of South Africa, Pretoria	SPAIN Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona
SPAIN University of Alcala de Henares, Madrid	SRI LANKA University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya
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THAILAND Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok	TURKEY Bogazici University, Istanbul
TURKEY Ege University, Izmir
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UZBEKISTAN University of World Economy and Diplomacy Tashkent
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VENEZUELA Simon Bolivar University, Caracas	VIETNAM University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi

Acknowledgements
The American Studies Collection would not have been possible without the generous intellectual contributions and sustained cooperation of the following individuals and professional and scholarly organizations in the United States:

Professor Joyce Appleby, University of California, Los Angeles
The American Council of Learned Societies
The Organization of American Historians
The National Historical Publications and Records Commission
Bridge to Asia Foundation

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