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HIST 495: Empires

Books

Helmke Library Catalog
Use Library Search to find books, journals, media, and digital resources. Does not include articles.

Proquest Ebook Central
Search across a large collection of mostly academic e-books. See also eBook Collection (EBSCOhost).
WorldCat
Provides access to the OCLC database with more than 1 billion bibliographic records for materials in all formats held by libraries in the U.S. and around the world.

Google Books
Search the full text of books. Copyright (as applicable) will prevent you from reading the full text in Google. If you find a book of interest, search Helmke Library's Catalog or WorldCat to locate a print or digital copy.

Scholarly Article Databases

Historical Abstracts
This bibliographic database covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada), 15th century to the present. For U.S. history, see America: History and Life.
JSTOR
Search the full text of journals in many disciplines, including over 450 journals in history. You can narrow by date and also scroll down to narrow by discipline. Also includes book reviews.
Google Scholar
Full text searching of books and articles. If you find a title of interest, try the "cited by" link. See also https://books.google.com/.

Reference Sources

Reference sources often recommend books and articles and are also helpful with becoming oriented to historically significant people, events and concepts:

Gale Virtual Reference Library
A collection of e-reference books from a variety of publishers.

Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism Since 1450 by Benjamin Thomas (editor)
Publication Date: 2007
Includes slightly longer entries, each with an accompanying bibliography.
Encyclopedia of the Age of Imperialism, 1800-1914 by Carl Cavanagh Hodge (Editor)

Oxford history of the British Empire Companion Series

Oxford Reference Online Premium
A collection of e-reference books from Oxford University Press.

Oxford History of the British Empire by Nicholas Canny
Available in print.

Primary Sources

Library Catalogs

Helmke Library Catalog
The Library's catalog includes a large a collection of primary sources, both in print and online. Below are a few examples of the types of sources you might find:

"Hồ Chí Minh 1890 1969"
world war translated;

HathiTrust
HathiTrust is a digital archive of books and other materials. Full text access for many pre-1923 materials. You can search either the catalog or the full text. Here are a few examples:

Morroco [1900-1909, Full View]
france war women [1910-1919]
belgium congo [1900-1909, English]
Annual Register, 1758-1907

Document Delivery (Interlibrary Loan)
Request items not owned by Helmke Library. This free service is an easy way to access almost any published book or article of interest. This will take approximately 1-2 days for digital items and 1-2 weeks for physical media.

Newspapers

Times (London) Digital Archive 1785-1985
The complete digital edition of the Times of London.

Daily mail historical archive 1896-2004 by Gale (Firm), issuing body
Publication Date: 2010
A high circulating British newspaper originally aimed at the newly-literate lower and middle classes.

Colonial Africa Newspapers from the British Library
Includes 23 newspapers with coverage from 1821-1922.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chinese Newspapers Collection
Includes the Chinese Repository and the North China Herald
Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003

19th Century British Library Newspapers (see British Library Newspapers 1600-1950)
A collection of digitized newspapers produced by Gale.

Periodicals: Collections

NewsVault
Cross-searches Gale historical newspaper and periodical collections. Includes the Economist Historical Archive, the Financial Times Historical Archive, Listener Historical Archive, Sunday Times Digital Archive and the Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive. Links to individual titles are available in IUCAT.
British Periodicals
An extensive collection, produced by ProQuest, covering 1681 - 1939, with periodicals on literature, culture, the arts, history and politics.

Travel and Tourist Periodicals: Selections from the British Library
Includes 16 publications, covering 1848-1913.
19th Century UK Periodicals
An extensive collection, produced by Gale, covering 1800-1900.

Periodicals: Selected Titles

The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal
a leading outlet for the English language missionary community in China, with a number of Chinese readers as well.

North China Herald
a major English-language newspaper published in China from the 1850s to the 1940s. It is a major source for the history of the foreign presence in China in that period. It was the official journal for British consular notifications and announcements of the Shanghai Municipal Council, and published translations of Chinese official notifications and news from across China.
African Mail
The official publication of the British Cotton Growing Association and the West African Sanitation of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Originally titled the West African Mail (1903-1907) until it was renamed the African Mail (1907-1917).
African World, 1905-1913
A major business weekly published in London.
Annales de l'Extrême Orient et de l'Afrique, 1878-1891
A French-language periodical published by the Société Académique Indo-Chinoise.

Digital Collections: Featured Resources

U. K. Parliamentary Papers
Includes papers from the House of Commons (1700-present) and House of Lords (1800-1910) as well as Public Petitions to Parliament (1833-1918) and Hansard (1803-2005). The Parliamentary Papers are an essential primary source for Britain, its colonies, and the wider world. They are the working documents of government for all areas of social, political, economic, and foreign policy.

Guide to Parliamentary Papers
From Proquest

Digital Collections

China: Trade, Politics & Culture
Primary source collection from Adam Matthew Digital on China and the West, 1793-1980, with documents relating to the Chinese Maritime Customs service, the Amherst and Macartney embassies, letters relating to the first Opium War, survivors’ descriptions of the Boxer War, collected diaries and personal photographs of the Bowra family. Also includes sources related to the missionaries in China from 1869-1970 and periodicals such as The Chinese Recorder, Light and Life Magazine, and The Land of Sinim: the North China Mission Quarterly Paper.

Opium in Primary Sources
A guide from Boston College Libraries

Middle East Online Series: Iraq 1914-1974
One of Gale's Archives Unbound collections, this series offers the widest range of original source material from the Foreign Office, Colonial Office, War Office and Cabinet Papers from the Anglo-Indian landing in Basra in 1914 through the British Mandate in Iraq of 1920-32 to the rise of Saddam Hussein in 1974

Middle East Primary Sources: British Documents
A guide from Duke University Libraries
Statutes of the old South African Colonies: 1714-1910
From the University of Pretoria
British Foreign Office: Japan Correspondence, 1856-1905
Includes 904 manuscripts, from the National Archives (UK).
Selected Colonial Office Files on Africa
Includes 158 manuscripts, 1794-1919, from the National Archives (UK).

Nineteenth Century Collections Online
See below for a sample of the collections included with this database. Try also the Advanced Search and Explore Collections.

19th Century Travel Literature
Includes over 2,500 accounts, covering the late 18th century to the early 1920s.
British Cabinet Papers, 1880-1916
Includes 157 manuscripts, originally from the National Archives (UK) and the British Library.
British Colonial Office: Photographic Collection
A collection of 138 photographs, 1850s-1920s.
Journey to the East Indies and Asia : selected journals and papers
Includes 9 books and 51 manuscripts, 1800-1906.
Personal Narratives and Reminiscences of the Exploration of Africa
Includes 72 full text books, 1836-1913, in English, French, German or Spanish.
Publications of the Cape Colony
Includes 31 statistical registers and bluebooks, 1872-1909 (with statistical tables about earlier years).
Scientific and technical periodicals from the Royal Society of London's catalogue of scientific papers 1800-1900
A large collection with both U.S. and European content.

Websites

Colonization of Africa
A digital exhibit from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at New York Public Library.
EuroDocs
A guide to official documents, organized by country. Includes transcriptions, facsimiles and translations related to European history. For print versions, try looking for the item in the catalog or WorldCat.
Europeana 1914-1918 – Untold Stories & Official Histories of WW1
Created in collaboration with the British Library and the University of Oxford, among others.
European History Primary Sources (EHPS)
A searchable index of scholarly digital repositories related to the history of Europe. You can do keyword searching or browse by country, time period, subject or type of source.
European Library
You can search the collections of the 48 National Libraries of Europe and other leading european research libraries. After searching, you can click on "Collections" for digitized materials. If you find books of interest, try searching for the title you found in the Helmke Library Catalog or WorldCAT.
Fordham University Sourcebook on Decolonization
Fordham University Sourcebook on Imperialism
Images of Colonialism
From Harvard University
India Office Records
From the Qatar Digital Library (QDL). See also the research guide from the British Library.
Imperial War Museums Collections
After searching, try the "Filter Your Results" option.
Medical History of British India
Digitized materials from the National Library at Scotland.
Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA)
Hosted by Rice University.
United Nations Documents
See also HathiTrust.
British Library Online Gallery
Digital South Asia Library
From the University of Chicago Libraries.

Citation Guides

Chicago Manual of Style - Purdue OWL
Consult the options at the left hand side of the screen for info. on creating a bibliography. From the OWL Purdue Writing Lab.
Chicago/Turabian Documentation Style
From the University of Wisconsin Madison Writing Center
Turabian Footnote/Endnote Style
From the Georgetown University Library

A Pocket Guide to Writing in History by Mary Lynn Rampolla A Pocket Guide to Writing in History is a brief, inexpensive, and easy-to-use guide to the writing and research skills needed for undergraduate history courses. Its concise yet comprehensive coverage of every step of the research and writing process—including detailed advice on documenting sources and avoiding plagiarism—have made A Pocket Guide to Writing in History the trusted choice in history.
ISBN: 9781457690884
Publication Date: 2015-01-16