HIST 480: Empire & Nature -- Professor Lewis-Nang'ea: Primary Sources

Spanning five centuries, and charting the rise and fall of empires around the world, Empire Online enables researchers to explore colonial history, politics, culture, trade, travel, and society. With primary source material from African, American, French, Dutch, Indian, Spanish, Portuguese, German and British perspectives, Empire Online provides varying points-of-view for comparative research. The vast selection of printed, manuscript and visual primary source documents available within this digital resource are supported with interactive teaching tools to enable the demonstration of the theories, practices and consequences of empire.

Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa brings together materials from various archives and libraries throughout the world which document colonial rule, dispersion of exiles, international intervention, and the worldwide networks that supported successive generations of resistance within the region. The resource consists of 76 different collections of more than 20,000 objects and 190,000 pages of documents and images, including periodicals, nationalist publications, records of colonial government commissions, local newspaper reports, personal papers, correspondence, UN documents, out-of-print and other particularly relevant books, pamphlets, speeches, and interviews with those who participated in the struggles.

The Library licenses multiple primary source collections on the Archives Unbound platform, which focus on African Studies and Asian Studies. Collections include: Liberia and the U.S.: Nation-Building in Africa, 1918-1935; Papers of American Missionaries to Asia: Missionaries associated with Fujian and Taiwan, 1889-1976; Evangelism in China: Correspondence of the Board of Foreign Missions, 1837-1911; Papers of Old Shanghai; Policing the Shanghai International Settlement 1894-1945; Shanghai International Settlement: Shanghai Municipal Council Reports; The Minutes of the Shanghai Municipal Council; and European Colonialism in the Early 20th Century.

Part of the World Newspaper Archive, more than 70 newspapers published between 1800 and 1922 in Sub-Saharan Africa offer an unrivaled viewpoint into a time of drastic change. A wide range of colonial era viewpoints is chronicled in titles from Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Zimbabwe and other locales.

Gale Primary Sources is an integrated research environment that allows users to search across all of their Gale primary source collections.

Spanning five centuries, and charting the rise and fall of empires around the world, Empire Online enables researchers to explore colonial history, politics, culture, trade, travel, and society. With primary source material from African, American, French, Dutch, Indian, Spanish, Portuguese, German and British perspectives, Empire Online provides varying points-of-view for comparative research. The vast selection of printed, manuscript and visual primary source documents available within this digital resource are supported with interactive teaching tools to enable the demonstration of the theories, practices and consequences of empire.

The Digital South Asia Library provides digital materials for reference and research on South Asia, including books and journals, full-text dictionaries, bibliographies, images, maps, and statistical information from the colonial period through the present.

Part of the World Newspaper Archive, these colonial-era titles were published in India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka from 1864-1922. Among the key publications: Amrita Bazar Patrika (Calcutta), Bankura Darpana (Bankura), Madras Mail (Madras), Tribune (Lahore) and the Ceylon Observer (Sri Lanka). Languages include English, Bengali, and Gujarati.

Gale Primary Sources is an integrated research environment that allows users to search across all of their Gale primary source collections.

Spanning five centuries, and charting the rise and fall of empires around the world, Empire Online enables researchers to explore colonial history, politics, culture, trade, travel, and society. With primary source material from African, American, French, Dutch, Indian, Spanish, Portuguese, German and British perspectives, Empire Online provides varying points-of-view for comparative research. The vast selection of printed, manuscript and visual primary source documents available within this digital resource are supported with interactive teaching tools to enable the demonstration of the theories, practices and consequences of empire.

Gale Primary Sources is an integrated research environment that allows users to search across all of their Gale primary source collections.

Spanning five centuries, and charting the rise and fall of empires around the world, Empire Online enables researchers to explore colonial history, politics, culture, trade, travel, and society. With primary source material from African, American, French, Dutch, Indian, Spanish, Portuguese, German and British perspectives, Empire Online provides varying points-of-view for comparative research. The vast selection of printed, manuscript and visual primary source documents available within this digital resource are supported with interactive teaching tools to enable the demonstration of the theories, practices and consequences of empire.

European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750 is a free archive of indexed publications related to the Americas and written in Europe before 1750. It includes thousands of valuable primary source records covering the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of Native American peoples.

Latin American Newspapers, Series 1 & 2—part of CRL's World Newspaper Archive—feature nearly 300 historical Latin American newspapers. Titles from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Venezuela, and elsewhere offer unprecedented coverage of the people, issues, and events that shaped this vital region between 1805 and 1922.

World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean provides a portal with access to reference, periodicals, multimedia, reports, studies, journals, newspapers, and statistical data. An archive of digitized primary documents focus on the history of Latin America and the Caribbean back to the early 1800s through the contemporary period sourced from collections in the U.S. and abroad. The archive and portal serve as both integrated and standalone resources.

Based on Joseph Sabin's landmark bibliography, this collection contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. Included are books, pamphlets, serials and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and much more. With over 6 million pages from 29,000 works, this collection is a cornerstone in the study of the western hemisphere.

Gale Primary Sources is an integrated research environment that allows users to search across all of their Gale primary source collections.

Spanning five centuries, and charting the rise and fall of empires around the world, Empire Online enables researchers to explore colonial history, politics, culture, trade, travel, and society. With primary source material from African, American, French, Dutch, Indian, Spanish, Portuguese, German and British perspectives, Empire Online provides varying points-of-view for comparative research. The vast selection of printed, manuscript and visual primary source documents available within this digital resource are supported with interactive teaching tools to enable the demonstration of the theories, practices and consequences of empire.

Indigenous Peoples: North America sources collections from across Canadian and American institutions, providing insight into the cultural, political and social history of Native Peoples from the seventeenth into the twentieth century. Including diverse manuscripts; book collections; newspapers from various tribe and Indian-related organizations; materials such as Bibles, dictionaries and primers in Indigenous languages all enable students' examination of important primary source materials.

Based on Joseph Sabin's landmark bibliography, this collection contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. Included are books, pamphlets, serials and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and much more. With over 6 million pages from 29,000 works, this collection is a cornerstone in the study of the western hemisphere.

Gale Primary Sources is an integrated research environment that allows users to search across all of their Gale primary source collections.

A selection of 4,000 images of people, places and events across Canada and around the world taken from the popular 19th-century magazine. Canadian Illustrated News was published in Montreal, Quebec from 1869 to 1883 and was notable for its innovative use

European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750 is a free archive of indexed publications related to the Americas and written in Europe before 1750. It includes thousands of valuable primary source records covering the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of Native American peoples.

This HeinOnline collection brings together a multitude of essential legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery. Cases go into the 20th century, because long after slavery was ended, there were still court cases based on issues emanating from slavery.