J400: British Empire in Asia and Africa

Library Catalogs

IUCAT - online catalog of the IU Libraries' collections.

WorldCat - about - online "super-catalog" for most U.S. and some international libraries. Borrow materials from other libraries easily by clicking on "request materials from ILL." Good source for Asian and African newspapers and other uncommon primary source materials.

Secondary Sources

Academic Search (EBSCO) - about - Provides fulltext coverage of magazine, newspaper, and scholarly journals for almost every academic discipline.

Historical Abstracts - about - Index to journal articles, book chapters and theses about world history, 1450 to present

Oxford Reference Online - about - Approximately 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works. Each title may be searched separately and a search may also be made across all (see History section.) 

Bibliography of Asian Studies - about - Contains record of research and scholarly literature on Asia written in Western languages; includes books, journal articles, conference presentations, chapters in edited volumes, etc

JSTOR - about - Provides searchable full-text of historical runs of important scholarly journals in the humanities, arts, sciences, ecology, and business (good for primary sources also) 

Indexes and Bibliographies of Primary Sources

Index to the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers on CD-ROM (in-library use only) about - Cumulative index to all House of Commons Parliamentary Papers from 1801 to 1990. Microfiche of Papers housed in Microforms

Nineteenth Century Masterfile -about - searchable index of British and American periodicals in the nineteenth century; includes Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, 1802-1906, as well as Hansard's Index to Debates (British Parliament), 1803-1830.

Periodicals Index Online - about - searchable index of scholarly journals in a variety of languages, from their first issues through 1995 (some coverage of late 18th century, good coverage of 19th century). Periodicals Archive Online has full text for a selection of journals.

The British Empire in the Victorian Press, 1832-1867: A Bibliography (Wells Library - Research Coll. – Stacks Z2021.C7 P32 1987)

Records of the Colonial Office, Dominions Office, Commonwealth Relations Office, and Commonwealth ffice (Wells Library - GIMSS - Gov't Info - Reference - DA10 .B754 1995x v. 1)

Collecions of Primary Sources

Eighteenth Century Collections Online - about - Searchable electronic versions of nearly every book published in Great Britain in the 18th century

Making of the Modern World - Searchable electronic verisons of a large collection of primary sources relating to economics, commerce, finance, social conditions, politics, trade and transport, from 1450 through 1850.

Making of Modern Law - Searchable electronic version of 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926.

Empire Online - digital archive of manuscript and printed materials documenting cultural contacts in the British Empire

Times Digital Archive (The Times, London) - about - The full text of The Times (London), images of pages and articles, search and limit by date and article type

Internet Library of Early Journals - digital archive of several 18th- and 19th-century British journals. Searchable in varying degrees (some full text, some indexes)

Eighteenth Century Journals from the Hope Collection at the Bodleian Library, Oxford (Wells Library -  Microforms - ask staff) - microfilmed collection of 76 rare journals printed between 1714 and 1799

Colonial discourses (Wells Library - Microforms - PR9497.3 .C64) - large microfilm collection of British literature and travel writing relating to the Empire

Africa through western eyes (Wells Library - Microforms - DT32.5 .A375 1999) - large microfilm collection of first-hand accounts of travel and exploration in Africa (mostly 19th and early 20th-century)

Digital Colonial Documents (India) - digitized selection of key colonial documents

Web resources

IUB Libraries India Studies Collection

IUB Libraries African Studies Collection

J300-J400 Resource page

Victorian Web: British Empire Page