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Empire Online
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- Adobe Acrobat Reader
- Description
- Empire Online is a fulltext collection of essays and associated primary sources for the
study and especially the teaching of the history of empires and empire building in the modern era.
The essays and documents are divided into five sections: I) Cultural Contacts, 1492-1969; II) Empire
Writing & the Literature of Empire; III) The Visible Empire; IV) Religion & Empire; and V)
Race, Class, Imperialism and Colonialism, c1607-2007. Each section consists of three to five
extended essays by a noted historian. Linked within each essay are PDFs of relevant primary
documents, approximately 175 per section. The database focuses primarily on the British Empire and
is designed especially to give students the experience of accessing and analyzing primary documents
within an historical context.
- Help
- There is a Help tab in the upper right of each screen.
- User tools and features
- The search interface in the upper right allows you do a keyword search within the essays and
documents or to browse by topic, personal name, or location. The Teaching tab has step-by-step
instructions on how to incorporate the material in the database into a course management site.
- Dates covered
- 1492-2007.
- Updating frequency
- The database is complete.
- Sources
- Essays and primary documents, including atlases, monographs, autobiographies, reports of government
agencies and voluntary organizations, magazine articles, fiction, sermons, letters, and diaries.
- Type of coverage
- Full-text essays in HTML format; full-text primary documents in PDF format.
- Print counterpart or related resources
- Not applicable.
- Producer/content provider
- Varies.
- Vendor/electronic presentation provider
- Adam Mathew Digital
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