We now have access to two new humanities databases.
Empire Online is a full-text collection of original documents relating to Empire Studies, sourced from libraries and archives around the world.
Sections include:
– Section I: Cultural Contacts, 1492-1969
– Section II: Literature and Empire
– Section III: The Visible Empire
– Section IV: Religion and Empire
– Section V: Race, Class, Imperialism and Colonialism, c.1607-2007
Defining Gender, 1450-1910 is a full-text database of primary sources, covering 110 documents (books and periodicals) from the early modern period to the nineteenth century. Supporting material includes introductory essays, biographies, and chronologies.
Sections include:
– Section I: Conduct and Politeness
– Section II: Domesticity and the Family
– Section III: Consumption and Leisure
– Section IV: Education and Sensibility
– Section V: The Body
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- Books like sapphires : from The Library of Congress Judaica Collection / Ann Brener ; foreword by Martin J. Gross.
- Temples of knowledge : art & science / texts by Alberto Manguel, António Filipe Pimentel, Stefano Salis; photographs, Massimo Listri.
- Jewish languages and book culture / edited by Judith Olszowy-Schlanger & César Merchán-Hamann.
- The book-makers : a history of the book in eighteen lives / Adam Smyth.
- Ductus : an online course in paleography / course, Bernard J. Muir ; software and graphics, Nick Kennedy ; video and ms images, Graeme Smith.
