British Empire

Books

• Library catalog
  Keyword and subject searches in the Library's catalog are good starting points when first exploring a topic. Search results can be narrowed with facets such as topic, era, language or region. Facets are located on the right hand side of the results screen.

  Examples of Library of Congress subjects:
  Opium trade - China
  Opium trade - India
  Convict labor - Australia - History
  Penal colonies - Australia - History
  
  Examples of keyword searches:
  Ireland - India - Empire
  Ireland and Britain and occupation
  

• WorldCat
  A catalog of library holdings worldwide. WorldCat will indicate any local library holding s and also offers an inter-library loan request option.
• Dissertations & Theses Full Text
  A comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses with over 2.4 million dissertations and theses included from around the world.
  The often extensive bibliographies in dissertations can be invaluable. Hard to find primary sources may be transcribed and translated in the appendix.

  Example:
  Brobst, Peter John.  The official mind of the Great Game: Sir Olaf Caroe, Indian independence, and world power, 1939-1954. Ph.D. diss., The University of Texas at Austin, 1997.

• E-Z Borrow and Interlibrary Loan
  Interlibrary loan is available for books and journals that are not owned by Falvey. EZ-Borrow is usually faster than interlibrary loan, since the books come from a local library network. EZ-Borrow can be used for books that the Library owns, but that are currently checked out by somebody else.

Encyclopedias, Companions & General Histories

• New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
  See entries on Empire and Imperialism, Colonialism, Anticolonialism: South East Asia.
• Encyclopedia of European Social History
  See entries on Imperialism and Domestic Society, Explorers, Missionaries, Traders, The World Economy and Colonial Expansion, Imperialism & Gender, and more.
• New Cambridge History of India (21 volumes)
• Cambridge History of South-East Asia (2 volumes)
• Encyclopedia of India
• Encyclopedia of Irish History & Culture
• Oxford Companion to British History
• Oxford Companion to Australian History
• Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Journal Articles

Use the databases listed below to find peer-reviewed journal articles on your topic. Contact me if you have any questions.

• Historical Abstracts
  Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present. Indexed journals include the Europe Asia Studies, the Australian Historical Studies, and the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History.

  Example of a peer-reviewed journal article:
  Frankema, Ewout. 2010. "Raising revenue in the British empire, 1870-1940: how 'extractive' were colonial taxes?." Journal of Global History 5, no. 3: 447-477.

Use to link to the full text of an article or the interlibrary loan link to request the article from another library.

Primary Sources

• Catalog

  LC subject:  Great Britain - Colonies - History - Sources
  LC subjects: Jamaica and correspondence
  LC subjects: Australia and diaries

• WorldCat
• Eighteenth Century Collections Online
• Sabin Americana, 1500-1926
  Works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's.
• Making of the Modern World
  61,000 works of literature on economic and business published from 1450 through 1850.
• The Times Archives, 1785-1985
• British Periodicals
  Hundreds of British journals spanning the late 17th through early 20th centuries.
• 19th Century U.K. Periodicals
  Part 2: Empire: Travel and Anthropology, Economics, Missionary and Colonial includes the complete run of 91 magazines with topics ranging from the abolition of the slave trade within the British Empire in 1807 to the first Opium Wars (1839-42) and the “scramble for Africa” in the 1880s and 1890s.

Citing Your Sources

• The Chicago Manual of Style
  Available online and in print.
  Use the Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide for easy reference.
  16th edition online only.
  Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
  Information desk copy:  Z253.U69 2003
• RefWorks
  Never type a bibliography again! RefWorks will help you easily gather, manage, and store bibliographic citations for all types of information, as well as generate footnotes and bibliographies.

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