Empire online.

Format:

Database & Article Index

Website/Database

Contributor:

Adam Matthew Publications.

Datagold, Ltd.

Henry Putney Beers Fund.

James Howard Weiss Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imperialism--History--Sources--Databases.

Imperialism.

Imperialism--Great Britain--History--Sources--Databases.

Colonies.

Colonization.

History.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Colonies--History--Sources--Databases.

Great Britain--History--Sources--Databases.

Colonization--Databases.

Colonies--Databases.

Genre:

Databases.

Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

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Place of Publication:

[Marlborough, England] : Adam Matthew Publications : Datagold, 2003-

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Summary:

This database offers approximately 60,000 images of original documents linked to essays by leading scholars in the field of Empire Studies. The sections cover Cultural Contacts, 1492-1969 (2003); Empire Writing and the Literature of Empire (2003/4); The Visible Empire (2004/5); Religion and Empire (2005/6); and Race, Class and Colonialism, c1783-1969 (2006/7). The images are sourced from about ten different libraries and archives around the world, including a strong core of document images from the British Library, including the Oriental and India Office Collections at the British Library; the University of Birmingham Library; the Bodleian Library, Oxford; and the Public Record Office and the State Records, New South Wales, Australia.

Notes:

Title from database home page (viewed May 11, 2005).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Henry Putney Beers Fund.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Howard Weiss Memorial Fund.

OCLC:

51973937

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.