J300: European Imperialisms: an archive of stories, cartoons and films
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Welcome to the library resources page for J300: European Imperialisms. Here you'll find a selection of useful print and online resources, as well as suggestions and tips for your research for this course.
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On this page: Background information - Primary sources: Anthologies | Newspapers and journals | Cartooons | Books, archives, documents - Secondary sources
Illustration: detail of Pears Soap advertisement, 1899 (Library of Congress) |
Background information
Blackwell Reference Online - collection of authoritative reference works including Blackwell Companion to Nineteenth-Century Britain, Blackwell Companion to the History of the Middle East, Blackwell Companion to Literature and Film, and others.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - in-depth historical/biographical coverage of individuals connected to British history
Oxford Reference Online - includes useful, authoritative sources such as Oxford Encyclopedia of Africa, Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World, Oxford Companion to British History.
The Oxford history of the British Empire / editor-in-chief, Wm. Roger Louis. [Find at IU: DA16 .O95 1998]
Colonialism: an international, social, cultural, and political encyclopedia / Melvin E. Page, Penny M. Sonnenburg.
[Find at IU: JV22 .C65 2003]
Encyclopedia of the Literature of Empire. / Mary Ellen Snodgrass. [Find at IU: PN56.I465 S66 2010]
Primary sources
Anthologies of primary source readings
Empire and identity: an eighteenth-century sourcebook/ edited by Stephen H. Gregg. [Find at IU:
The British empire / edited by Jane Samson. [Find at IU: DA16 .B69 2001]
The imperialism reader; documents and readings on modern expansionism / edited by Louis Snyder [Find at IU:
Archives of Empire / edited by Mia Carter with Barbara Harlow. [Find at IU:
Great Britain: foreign policy and the span of empire, 1689-1971; a documentary history. Edited with commentaries by Joel H. Wiener. Introd.: J. H. Plumb. [Find at IU:
Africa and the West : a documentary history from the slave trade to independence / William H. Worger, Nancy L. Clark, and Edward A. Alpers. [Find at IU:
Politics and Empire in Victorian Britain. A Reader. / Edited byAntoinette Burton [Find at IU: JV1017 .P65 2001]
Newspapers and journals
African Newspapers - 40 fully searchable African newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries.
British Newspapers 1600-1900 - digitized collection of historic newspapers, newsbooks, ephemera and national & regional papers from British Isles, 1600-1900. See also Times Digital Archive (The Times, London), 1785-1985 and Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003. For India, see Times of India, 1838-2001.
Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003 - digitized version of The Economist.
Nineteenth Century Serials Edition (NSCE) - Online edition of six "progressive" nineteenth-century British periodicals and newspapers.
19th Century UK Periodicals and British Periodicals - two large collections of British journals and magazines.
Periodicals Index Online - Citations to articles in scholarly journals in several languages, from their first issues through 1995 (good coverage of the 19th and early 20th centuries).
Cartoons
Vintage Cartoons - commercial web site offering a huge collection of out-of-copyright cartoons.
Lewis Walpole Library Digital Collections - digitized collection of 18th and 19th-century British satirical drawing and prints, and cartoons.
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires. [Find at IU: NE55 .L7 A3]
TIP: To find books about cartoons, search IUCAT with these subject terms:
caricatures and cartoons
wit and humor pictorial
politics and government humor
politics and government caricatures and cartoons
history caricatures and cartoons
Books, government documents, archival sources
IUCAT - the IU Libraries online catalog. Use it to find both primary and secondary sources. You can also search WorldCat, a giant super-catalog of the combined holdings of most US and some international libraries.
TIP: to find primary sources, try one of these two search techniques:
limit the date of publication to the time period you're researching
OR use the subject term sources, for example, great britain colonies history sources
TIP: to find a film/video in IUCAT, use the DVD/Video Search option
TIP: to find fiction in WorldCat, use the sub-type limits: any content-->fiction
HathiTrust Digital Library - enourmous collection of books digitized by Google and by academic libraries. Use the Advanced Full Text Search option to search for keywords in the full text while also searching by subject and date.
British and Irsh Women's Letters and Diaries - collection of British and Irish women's personal writings from 500-1900.
Empire Online - digital collection of printed and archival materials relating to empire, covering Africa, the Americas, Australasia, Oceana, and South Asia, 1492-1962.
House of Commons Parliamentary Papers - searchable full text of the British House of Commons Parliamentary Papers from the 18th to the 20th centuries.
British Documents on Foreign Affairs-Reports and Papers from the British Foreign Office Confidential Print. Africa, 1848-1961. [Find at IU: DA45 .G72 CO879]
Making of the Modern World - Materials on early economics, commerce, trade, transportation, industry, manufacturing, political systems and social history, 1460-1914.
Secondary sources
OneSearch@IU - mega-search engine for academic research. TIP: once you have search results, look in the left sidebar for source types. Choose Academic Journals and/or Books to help narrow your results to serious scholarship.
Historical Abstracts - index to journal articles, book chapters and dissertations about world history, 1450 to present.
JSTOR - giant full text collection of important scholarly journals.
TIP: to search only history journals in JSTOR, use the Advanced Search -->Narrow by discipline -->History.
TIP: use JSTOR for primary sources too --limit your search results by date
Film Literature Index - FLI (with access to fulltext articles), Film Index International and International Index to the Performing Arts - three online sources for scholarship on film studies
MLA International Bibliography - index to journal articles and book chapters about literature (use to find analysis of works of fiction --also covers some film studies scholarship.)
Literature Resource Center - Biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of authors from all time periods in many genres. Search by author, title, genre, literary movement or literary themes.
last updated September 3, 2012
