Databases
- Empire Online (Adam Matthew Digital) This link opens in a new windowOriginal primary source documents relating to Empire Studies, including decolonization, from libraries and archives around the world. Diaries, images, letters, records.
- Foreign Office Files for China, 1919-1980 (Adam Matthew Digital) This link opens in a new windowThis collection makes available all British Foreign Office files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan between 1919 and 1980. Foreign Office Files is having technical difficulties at this time. If you are located on the Boston campus, please try this link for better service.
- African Newspapers Series I (Readex/Newsbank) This link opens in a new windowCovers about 1800-1922. This collection of historical African newspapers provides coverage of the people, cultures, issues and events that shaped the continent. Themes include the first world war, Zulu Wars, settler colonialism and the rejection of Western imperialism.
- Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange (Gale Cengage) This link opens in a new windowA selection of records that constitute a political and social history of Western interaction with a number of Asian countries during the nineteenth century, chiefly consisting of British Foreign Office and United States consular and diplomatic records.
- Caribbean History & Culture, 1535-1920 (Readex/Newsbank) This link opens in a new windowMore than 1,200 fully cataloged and searchable books, pamphlets, almanacs, broadsides and ephemera cover the history of this broad region from the 16th century to the early 20th century.
- Hindustan Times 1960-2000 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new windowAccess to the second most widely read English newspaper in India, covering subjects such as colonialism and post-colonialism, British and world history, class and gender issues, international relations, comparative religion, international economics, terrorism, and more.
- Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture, Law This link opens in a new windowThis collection brings together all known 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.
Online Resources
- Internet Modern History Sourcebook- ImperialismLinks to primary sources about imperialism from Fordham University.
- Punch Magazine Imperialism CartoonsA collection of political cartoons relating to colonialism and imperialism from Punch, a British magazine of humor and satire, which ran from 1841-2002.
- The Imperial Eye: Picturesque Photography and Printed Media in the British EmpireThis collection focuses on early photographic and published media employed by the British and other European powers to document ancient religious sites and practices, with an emphasis on documentation of Buddhist and other Western cave complexes of India within the former Bombay Presidency.
- Dutch Colonial MapsA large collection of c. 11,000 map sheets and c. 250 atlases of the Dutch colonies from the former library of the Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen (Royal Tropical Institute).