New Digital Resources: Empire Online - original documents relating to the British Empire
Empire Online - original documents relating to the British Empire
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Empire Online is a full text database with original primary source documents and images, as well as scholarly essays covering the British Empire from 1492 to 1969. The Empire includes Africa, the Americas, Australia, Oceania, and South Asia.
The material is divided into 5 sections : 1) Cultural Contacts, 1492-1969 2) Empire Writing and Literature of Empire 3) The Visible Empire 4) Religion and Empire and 5) Race, Class, Imperialism and Colonialism c1607-2007. There is also searching by period, date, places, person and subject. |
You will find information on such diverse topics as Leprosy, Zionism, Kaffir War, Mission schools, Portuguese empire, Children's literature, Cricket, and Marriage in various formats:
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exploration journals and logs
periodicals
diaries, memoirs, and correspondence
official government papers
missionary papers
travel writing
slave papers
memoirs
fiction and children's adventure stories
traditional folk tales
exhibition catalogs and guides
maps
photographs and more !
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For remote access, please visit Connect from Home for details.
