Empire Online

Empire Online (published by Adam Matthew Digital and one of the CRKN DCI products) is composed of primary source documents from libraries and archives around the world, with an especially strong core image collection from the British Library. Materials included are: exploration journals and logs, letter books and correspondence, periodicals and diaries, government papers, missionary [...]

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Defining Gender, 1450 – 1910

Defining Gender, 1450 – 1910 (published by Adam Matthew Digital and one of the CRKN DCI products) offers a wide range of digitized original sources including ephemera, pamphlets, commonplace books, diaries, periodicals, letters, ledgers, manuscript journals, poetry, receipt books and conduct and advice literature. Defining Gender is made up of five sections, each prefaced [...]

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China: Trade, Politics and Culture, 1793 – 1980

China: Trade, Politics and Culture, 1793 – 1980 (published by Adam Matthew Digital and one of the CRKN DCI products) provides a wide variety of orginal source material detailing China’s interaction with the West from Macartney’s first Embassy to China in 1793 through to the Nixon/Heath visits to China in 1972-74. It is comprised [...]

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Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490 – 2007

Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007 (published by Adam Matthew Digital and one of the CRKN DCI products) provides access to thousands of original manuscripts, pamphlets, books, paintings, maps and images. Documents are accompanied by contextual essays by leading academics. Published in three phases between 2007 and 2009, it will address major themes, [...]

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