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Nineteenth CenturyCollections Online
Nineteenth CenturyCollections Online
Ray Abruzzi, Associate [email protected]
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“The Books of the Future”
Pall Mall Gazette15 Sept 186919th Century British Library Newspapers
“The human mind will despair, perhaps of power to deal with the illimitable mass. May we hope that when things come to such a crisis, human labour of the literary sort may be in part superseded by machinery?
“Machinery has done wonders, and when we think of what literature is becoming it is certainly to be wished that we could read it by machinery, and by machinery digest it.”
------The Pall Mall Gazette, 15 Sept 1869
“The Books of the Future”
• Features multiple content types, including– Monographs (books) -- Manuscripts– Newspapers -- Ephemera– Photographs -- Statistics– Maps
• Features content from the “long (long) 19th century”
• Built incrementally, over a period years
• Sourced internationally from regions including– Africa -- Continental Europe – East & South Asia -- Latin America– The Middle East -- South Asia
• Includes content in original, non-Western languages
• Features cutting-edge technologies that serve the needs of today’s digitally native users
What is Nineteenth Century Collections Online?
Published in thematic Archives containing various Collections
NCCO
Archive 1 Archive 2 Archive 3 Archive 4
Collection A
Collection B
Collection C
Collection D
Collection A
Collection B
Collection C
Collection D
Collection E
Collection F
Collection G
Collection A
Collection B
Collection C
Collection D
Collection E
Collection A
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Photography: The World
through the Lens
Europe and Africa
Women: Transnational Networks
2013
BritishTheatre, Music & Literature: High & Popular Culture
Asia & theWest: Democracy & Cultural Exchange
British Politics and Society
Corvey Collection of European Literature1790-18402012
Publishes Four Thematic Archives Each Year from 2012 to 2014 or Possibly Longer
NCCOFour archives each year based on Customer Input
2014
NCCO Advisory Board
• John Merriman, Charles Seymour Professor of History, Yale University
• Jerome (“Jerry”) McGann, Professor of English, Founder of NINES, University of Virginia
• H.K. Kaul, Director, DELNET (ad hoc role, not regular member of the Advisory Board)
• Hilary Fraser, Geoffrey Tillotson Professor in Nineteenth-Century Studies, Birkbeck University of London
• Dominique Kalifa, Professor at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, Head of the Doctoral School of History and Director of the Centre of 19th Century History
• Tatiana Holway, Independent Scholar, Author, Researcher, and Editor, specializing in 19th-century social sciences
NCCO Advisory Board (3 new members!)
• Joris Van Eijnatten, Professor of Cultural History, Chair of the section ‘History of Culture, Mentalities and Ideas since 1500’, Utrecht University, Department of History and Art History
• Kathleen Banks Nutter, Archivist, Smith College
• John Wright, Director, Arts & Culture, Libraries and Cultural Resources, University of Calgary
• William Miller, Dean of University Libraries, Florida Atlantic University
• Damon Jaggars, Associate University Librarian, Columbia University
• The British Library• The Library of Congress• The National Archives (US)• The National Archives (UK)• Cornell University Library• Bodleian Library, University of Oxford• Boston Public Library• General Commission on Archives and His
tory, The United Methodist Church• London Metropolitan Archives• Library of the Religious Society of Friends• Yale University Divinity School Library• George Eastman House• London School of Economics and Politica
l Science Library
NCCO Partner Institutions and Sources (thus far)
• Manchester Statistical Society• Pusey House Library, St. Giles• Working Class Movement Library• Canterbury Christ Church University• The Victoria and Albert Museum• The Royal Collection, Windsor Castle• National Portrait Gallery, London• The Huntington Library• Museum of Science and Industry, Ma
nchester• U.S. National
Library of Medicine, NIH, Bethesda, MD
• Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
• University of Frankfurt• Gale is also in discussions with many
other prospective partners!
User-Driven Product Design – Actual Planning Input
The NCCO Platform: Signature Elements
Product Home Page
Search across all four archives or selected archives
Browse details about each archive
Explore Collections
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collection
Limit by Archive, Content Type, Document Type, Language,
Source Institution
Collection Overview
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Search within collection
Textual Analysis Tool
Enter word/phrase
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phrase/year
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Term Clusters: Find Related Ideas
Analyzes first 100 words each of 100 most relevant results and shows words
appearing together with your search term
Click on any section of the graph to display results on the right hand side
Manual Indexing of Manuscript Metadata
Manually indexed and searchable personal names,
place names and dates
Download OCR text of an entire document into ASCII
format
Downloadable OCR Text (for Printed Material)
Search Results
Further limit by detailed subject terms generated by sophisticated algorithm
Flip pages in thumbnail or view keyword in context
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User-Generated Tags
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Conduct Boolean Search by Keyword, Title, Author, Subject,
Full Text, etc.
Further Limit by:- Illustration- Archive- Content Type- Date- Document Type- Language- Collection- Periodical Title
Allow variations for “fuzzy” search
Platform: 2013 Improvements
• Incorporate new major content type – Photographs Display photos in a separate results “bucket” Photographs will be browseable in a “Gallery” view Use of NCCO research tools with photos (tagging, annotating, save,
Zotero, etc) See photographical illustrations in books both as individual photos and
within the context of the original monograph/periodical
• Improvements to Term Clusters for better analysis
• Improvements to the Graphing Tool to allow for more targeted searching (limit to collection/archive/subsets)
• Improvements in search to include more metadata and optimization of NCCO’s search algorithm
• Usability enhancements
Archives for 2012
Asia and the West
British Politics and Society
British Theatre, Music, and Literature
European Literature 1790-1840
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Approximately 1.4M pages
Major themes around the consular and diplomatic exchanges between the U.S., U.K. and many Asian nations, including:• Gunboat Diplomacy• Opium • Philippines War• Missionary activities • Unequal treaties • Expansion of international spheres of influence beyond the British
– Germany in the Shantung– French intrusions in Shanghai– Russia in north China
• Sino-Japanese war• Expansion of the railways in north and central China• America’s “Open Door policy”• The Boxer Rebellion• Rise of Bolshevism• Expansion of warlord-ism
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NCCO: Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange
Multiple Regions• Missionary and Socio-Economic Journals • Missionary Files: Methodist Episcopal Church
Missionary Correspondence, 1846-1949 (China, Japan, Korea)
• Records Relating to the United States Surveying Expedition to the North Pacific Ocean, 1852-1863.
Japan• British Foreign Office: Japan Correspondence,
1856-1923 • Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Japan (Hakodate,
Kanagawa, Nagasaki, Osaka, Kobe, and Yokohama), 1856-1906
• Despatches from U.S. Ministers to Japan, 1855-1906
• Minutes of Treaty Conferences between U.S. and Japanese Representatives, and Treaty Drafts, 1872
• Notes from the Japanese Legation in the United States to the Department of State, 1858-1906
• Selected Records of the U.S. Legation in Japan, 1855-1912
China• Despatches from U.S. Consuls in China (Amoy,
Antung, Canton, Chefoo, Chinkiang, Chunking, Foochow, Hangchow, Hankow, Hong Kong, Macao, Mukden, Nanking, Newchwang, Ningpo, Shanghai, Swatow, and Tientsin), 1790-1906
• Despatches from U.S. Ministers to China, 1843-1906
• Notes from the Chinese Legation in the United States to the Department of State, 1868-1906
• Selected Records of the U.S. Legation in China, 1849-1931
Korea• Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Seoul, Korea,
1886-1906 • Despatches from U.S. Ministers to Korea, 1883-
1905 • Notes from the Korean Legation in the United
States to the Department of State, 1883-1906
NCCO: Asia and the West - List of Collections (cont’d to next slide)
Thailand• Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Bangkok, Siam,
1856-1906 • Despatches from U.S. Ministers to Siam, 1882-
1906 • Notes from the Siamese Legation in the United
States to the Department of State, 1876-1906 • Selected Records of the U.S. Consulate in
Bangkok, Siam, 1856-1912
Singapore• Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Singapore, Straits
Settlements, 1833-1906
The Philippines• History of the Philippine Insurrection Against the
United States, 1899-1903, and Documents Relating to the War Department Project for Publishing of History, 1899-1903
• Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Philippine Islands (Manila, Iloilo), 1817-1899
Vietnam• Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Saigon, Vietnam,
1889-1906
Indonesia• Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Netherlands East
Indies (Batavia, Padang) 1818-1906
NCCO: Asia and the West - List of Collections (cont’d)
A sketch of the U.S. Consul in Manila, 1894
Approximately 1.1M pages Major themes around the domestic history of Britain, as seen from the inside, including:• Popular radicalism• Corresponding Societies of the 1790s• Trade union and Luddite disturbances of the 1800s and 1810s• End of the Napoleonic Wars• Hampden Club movement• Spa Fields Riots• Suspension of habeas corpus• March of the Blanketeers• Pentrich insurrectionists’ march on Nottingham• Peterloo Massacre • Cato Street Conspiracy• Queen Caroline Affair • Swing Riots • Reform Crisis of 1832
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NCCO: British Politics and Society
Growing calls for political reform, met with state resistance and marked a crisis of
legitimacy for both the government and the reform movements.
• Papers of Great British Statesmen and Politicians
• Radicalism, Anti-Radicalism and Reform in England, 1769-1861, Original Papers and Minute Books
• Radical Politics and the Working Man in England
• Home Office: Domestic Correspondence from 1773 to 1861
• Home Office: Domestic Entry Books
• Home Office Papers and Records
• Home Office: Judges' Reports on Criminals
• Home Office: Post Office Correspondence
• Ordnance Surveyors' Drawings, 1789-1840
• Working Class Movement Card Catalogue
• People's History: Working Class Autobiographies
• British Trade Union History Collection
• Rare Radical and Labour Periodicals of Great Britain
• Diaries of Sir Frederic Madden
• Radicals and Reformers in Britain: The Papers of John Cam Hobhouse, 1809-1869
• Home Office: Disturbances Entry Books
• Discontent and Authority, 1820–1840
• Public Order, Discontent, and Protest in Nineteenth Century England, 1820–1850
• Hue and Cry and Police Gazette
• The Oxford Movement: Tractarian Pamphlets at Pusey House--The Halifax and Church Sub-Collections
• Series Two: The Papers of Sir Robert Peel (Prime Minister, 1834-1835, 1841-1845 and 1845-1846)
• Home Office: Registered Papers
• Civil Disturbance, Chartism and Riots in Nineteenth-Century England
• British Cabinet Papers, 1880–1916
• British Labour History Ephemera
• Colonial Defence Commission under Lord Carnarvon
• The Whitechapel Murders Papers: Letters Relating to the 'Jack the Ripper' Killings
• Economic and Social Investigations in England since 1833: Transactions of the Manchester Statistical Society
• Rare Freethought Militant 19thC Books
NCCO: British Politics and Society - List of Collections
• Approximately 1M pages
• An examination of the full spectrum of British cultural sensibilities, told through plays, musical compositions, fiction, novels, penny Dreadfuls and opera.
• Public concerts became big business in the nineteenth century as new concert halls were built to accommodate a burgeoning middle class interested in the arts as a form of self-improvement.
• This series of unique archival collections will provide an insight into Victorian musical and theatrical tastes by documenting what was performed and when, as well as casting light on the ‘behind the scenes’ business and practical aspects of concert promotion, by making available related archival material such as minute books and correspondence alongside the printed concert programmes.
NCCO: British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture
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• English Stage After the Restoration, 1733-1822• Receipts - Drury Lane• Drury Lane Under Sheridan, 1776-
1812Manuscript Plays and Correspondence• Archives of the Royal Literary Fund• Drury Lane Theatre Archive• King's Theatre Haymarket Archive• Oratorio Concert Programmes • Royal Philharmonic Society Archive• Royal Philharmonic Society Music Manuscripts• Lord Chamberlain's Plays• J.W. Davison Papers• Crystal Palace Handel Triennial• St James Hall Monday/Saturday Popular
Concerts• Wandering Minstrels Archive• Crystal Palace Saturday Concerts• Royal Albert Hall• Queen's Hall Programmes
• Konzert Programm Austausch• Popular Literature in Eighteenth and Nineteenth
Century Britain, Parts Three-Ten: The Barry Ono Collection of Bloods and Penny Dreadfuls
• Popular Literature in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain, Part Two: The Sabine Baring-Gould and Thomas Crampton Collections
• Sir George Smart Papers• Sir George Smart Programmes
NCCO: British Theatre, Music, and Literature - List of Collections (ongoing)
NCCO: Corvey Collection of European Literature: 1790-1840
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One of the most important literary discoveries of the second half of the 20th century was the recovery of the spectacular library of Victor Amadeus, the Landgrave of Hess-Rotenberg (1779-1834) collected during the first half of the nineteenth century by and housed at his castle (Castle Corvey) near Paderborn, Germany.
NCCO: Corvey includes more than 10,200 titles from this important literary collection, comprising 17,600+ volumes of literary works in English, German and French, many of which are found only in this unique private collection.
“As a collection and archive of writing representative of British Romantic and early-Victorian
writing and of Continental Romanticism, the Corvey Collection is unmatched. A substantial
number of titles in the collection are unrecorded even in the catalogues of the British Library
and the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
“While well-known authors are of course represented in the collection, their numbers are far
outweighed by the great numbers of works by historically neglected and marginalized
authors whose lives and works have become the subjects of scholarly recovery during recent
decades, a recovery process that has in turn transformed the nature and direction of modern
scholarship in British and Continental Romanticism.
“The primary textual and archival research which the Corvey Collection makes possible in the
area of fiction in particular will fuel Romantic studies for decades to come, and will have a direct
and dramatic bearing on the shape and significance of the ongoing reassessment of Romantic
writing generally, in all the major literary genres.”
Stephen C. BehrendtUniversity Professor and George Holmes Distinguished Professor of EnglishUniversity of Nebraska – Lincoln
NCCO: Corvey Collection – Importance of the Collection
• Asia and the West: 100% of the content is available
• British Politics and Society: 100% of the content is available
• Corvey Collection: 100% of the content is available
• British Theatre, Music, and Literature – All but Lord Chamberlain’s Plays will be complete by 5/1/2013; the remaining content to be complete by mid-2013 *
* The remaining content for British Theatre, Music, and Literature is undergoing conservation work being done on the materials at the British Library
* MARC has now released for 2012 Archives
Content Load Schedule (as of January 2013)
Archives for 2013
Science, Technology, and
Medicine, 1780-1925
Photography: The World
through the Lens
Women: Transnational
Networks
Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization and Conquest
NCCO
Warning!!
The 2013 Archives are still in progress and the information presented here
may differ in details from the finished product – please check for updates
• Captures both journals and monographs and allows researchers to trace the emergence and dissemination of scientific ideas.
• Create an archive that is both wide and deep and to navigate the borders between the hard and social sciences.
• Major episodes in the development of science in our period include:– The Theory of Evolution and the Global
Reception of Darwin– The History of Electricity– The History of Mathematics– Color and Color Theory– American Civil Engineering– Social History of American Medicine– Periodical literature in biology, botany, chemistry,
ecology, entomology, zoology, and general science
NCCO: Science, Technology, and Medicine, 1780-1925 (approx 5M pages)
NCCO: Science, Technology, and Medicine, 1780-1925 Advisor
Daniel LewisDibner Senior Curator of the History of Science & TechnologyThe Huntington LibrarySan Marino, California
Research Associate Professor of HistorySchool of Arts and Humanities, HistoryClaremont Graduate Universityhttp://www.cgu.edu/pages/8174.asp
Books by Daniel Lewis:Iron Horse Imperialism: The Southern Pacific of Mexico, 1880-1951 (University of Arizona Press)The Feathery Tribe: Robert Ridgway and Modern Study of Birds (Yale University Press)
NCCO: Science, Technology, and Medicine, 1780-1925 Source Institutions
The Huntington LibraryVolumes previously housed at the Burndy Library and Dibner Institute at M.I.T. Topics include: Evolution and the Global reception of Darwin; History of Mathematics; History of Electricity; Civil Engineering ; and Color and Color Theory.
The British LibraryScientific publications from 1780 to 1925, drawing on many early periodicals from the beginning of printing into the early 20th century.
U.S. National Library of MedicineThe U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) is the world’s largest biomedical library. The NLM is the source of American Medical Periodicals, 1797-1900.
Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel UniversityThe Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia is contributing two film archives : Scientific & Technical Periodicals from the Royal Society of London’s Catalogue of Scientific Papers, 1800-1900, and Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1812-1924, Minutes and Correspondence.
NCCO: History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, 1780-1925 A closer look at the Huntington Library’s collection
Theory of Evolution and the Global Reception of DarwinThe William Mohr collection at the Huntington is one of the great personal collections of Darwinania. Consisting of 1,600 books, along with caricatures, engravings, and photographs, it includes over 1,000 different editions of Darwin's writings and over 500 supporting volumes by his contemporaries and followers. The Huntington’s other substantial collection is the 171-volume John A. Moore Gift, which collects volumes dealing with the reception of Darwin's views in Europe and the U.S.
Civil EngineeringVictor Darnell assembled a collection documenting the practice of structural and civil engineering in 19th-century America. The collection is rich in both primary and secondary books, including such essential resources as a nearly complete run of Engineering News. The collection’s main focus is on American bridges and engineering, and there is a substantial amount of material from Great Britain and continental Europe. The Huntington holds copies of nearly all American bridge patents through 1900, with a calendar and index of patentees.
NCCO: History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, 1780-1925 A closer look at the Huntington Library’s collection
Color and color theoryThese holdings probably constitute the largest grouping of books on color and color theory available today in North America. The material takes in all aspects of the questions of color, ranging from high theoretical matters of the nature of light to practical guides to the mixing of colors and color nomenclature. Approximately 430 of those works date to between 1870 and 1920.
History of ElectricityThe Burndy holdings include one of the major collections in the history of electricity in North America. The history of electricity printed collections include the theoretical literature that preceded the invention of the light bulb, including technical journals such as the Transactions of the Illuminating Engineering Society; popular literature such as Park Benjamin's The Age of Electricity (1886); as well as trade publications such as Juice (1909-1913).
History of MathematicsThe long nineteenth century is represented by 713 works.
• New scanning of monographs from the Huntington Library, ~2M pages
• American Medical Periodicals, 1797-1900, originally from the National Library of
Medicine and other major institutions
• S
cientific and Technical Periodicals from the Royal Society of London’s Catalogue of S
cientific Papers, 1800-1900
(300K+ pages)
• Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1812-1924, Minutes and Corresponde
nce
(50K+ pages)
• Largest NCCO Archive in 2013, approx. 5M+ pages
NCCO: Science, Technology, and Medicine, 1780-1925 Collections
NCCO: Photography: The World through the Lens (approx. 1.5M pages)
death
crime
technology
anthropology
medicine
street life
sport
architecture
travel
portraits
The invention of photography initiated a mania for documenting our surroundings. Numerous explorers, artists, scientists and ordinary people set out to document in photographs local and oriental lands.
The result was a vast collection of images of remote places, the landscapes of the American West, scientific records of archaeological digs and anthropological studies, architectural records, police photography, images of war, and images of the urban and rural poor - to name a few.
NCCO: Photography: The World through the Lens
This NCCO archive will contain collections of these photographic images captured by people in all walks of life: images which became such a fundamental part of 19th-century life – professional and manual work, and private and public leisure and family life.
It serves multiple departments and several inter-connecting areas of research and study:
19th-Century Studies, Victorian Studies: visual documentation of life Colonialism: visual documentation of the west’s exploration of, trade with,
and settlement in foreign lands Anthropology and Ethnology: early visual records from field trips Cultural Studies: researchers of photography’s impact on social culture Science, Theory of Evolution Forensic Science, Medicine, Criminology
NCCO: Photography: The World through the Lens
Aim - a research resource – not just a picture library
Photography as record• Visual documentation of our heritage• Art works, architecture• Exploration and topographical record• Daily life• Significant events• Press photography• People and portraiture – cartes des visites
Photography as evidence, identification• Press photography, photographs used in science, criminology,personal identification Photography as reproduction• Illustrations in newspapers, books, magazines
Photography as an art form• Early photographers were painters
Photography as Science• Early photographers were opticians or scientists
NCCO: Photography: The World through the Lens
Professor Elizabeth EdwardsResearch Professor and Director of the Photographic History Research CentreDe Montfort University, UKhttp://photoclec.dmu.ac.uk/node/84http://www.dur.ac.uk/ias/fellows/1112/edwards/
Vice-President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
Project leader for PhotoCLEC http://www.heranet.info/photoclec/professor-elizabeth-edwards
Working on photography and historical imagination in late nineteenth and early twentieth century England.
NCCO: Photography: The World through the LensAdvisor
NCCO: Photography: The World through the LensCollections
• British Admiralty Office Photographs
• Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the Royal Archives, Windsor
• Records of the Copyright Office of the Stationers' Company: Photographs
• The Hill and Adamson Albums: photographs by David Octavius Hill and Robert
Adamson, 1843-1848
• Photographic Collection of the Royal Asiatic Society
• Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures and Meiji and Taisho Eras in
Photographs from the National Diet Library, Japan
• Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period
• Bauduin Collection
• Photographs from the Wellcome Library
NCCO: Photography: The World through the LensCollections
• British Colonial Office: Photographic Collection
• British Journal of Photography and Annual, 1854-1914
• Early Rare Photographic Books from Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester, UK
• Early Rare Photographs from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
• The Photographic News, 1859-1908
• and a digitisation of the extraordinary "History of Photography" microfilm collection
which contains rare journals and early printed manuals, treatises, and catalogues of
photography sourced from 28 institutions including George Eastman House library,
Rochester, Columbia University, New York Public Library, Yale University and the
Science Museum, London - every work you can imagine is included.
• Photographic Collection of the Royal Asiatic Society
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1881. Cecil Rhodes 1900. Restoration and defense of British liberty in South Africa
King Leopold II of Belgium
“Dividing up Africa” by Chancellor Bismarck, 1884-1885
1893. Village market in Afrique Occidentale Française
Henry Stanley meeting Dr. Livingstone “Dr. Livingstone, I presume”
NCCO: Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest (approx 1.2M pages)
The “Scramble for Africa” began with the arrival of missionaries and explorers in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Over the course of the next 100 years, Africa would be “Christianized” by European missionaries; “commercialized” as an outlet for European-produced consumer goods and source for raw materials; and “civilized” by the establishment of European political institutions and the arrival of European settlers.
This Archive comprises two themes: • Exploration, military, and missionary activities• Economic and political imperialism in the last quarter of the 19th century
Researchers will be able to trace the development of missionary work and glory and gold-seeking explorers in Africa through essential monographs, manuscripts, and newspaper accounts. This theme revolves around the notions of economics, world politics, and international strategy.
Through a variety of official government documents, political papers of prominent individuals, and the press, researchers can trace the development of British strategic imperatives, French and Belgian desire for the expansion of trade and raw materials, and Germany and Italy’s late entrance onto the imperial stage.
NCCO: Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest
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NCCO: Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and ConquestAdvisors
Richard N. PriceProfessor of History and Chair of the History Department; formerly Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of History, University of Maryland, College Parkhttp://www.history.umd.edu/Bio/price.html
Recently published:Making Empire: Colonial Encounters and the Creation of Imperial Rule in Nineteenth-Century Africa (Cambridge, 2008)Albion Prize Award by the North American Conference on British Studies
Charles V. ReedAssistant Professor, History & Political Science , Elizabeth City State University
Dr. Reed is working on a book project titled "Royal Subjects, Imperial Citizens: The Royal Tour and the Making of British Imperial Culture, 1860-1911."
The Flag follows the Bible and the Primer: Christianity and Civilization
Establishment of Foreign Missions
Missionary Societies Religion as an extension of
Imperialism Colonial Education and Native culture
Adventures in Equatorial Africa: Explorers & Exploration
Mapping the sources of rivers Government expeditions to “plant” the
flag Search for natural resources and gold Commerce and Politics Did Henry Stanley’s explorations cause
the Age of Exploration in Africa? King Leopold and the Congo Expeditions
NCCO: Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and ConquestKey Areas of Research/Events
From the Boer’s Great Trek to the Fashoda Incident
Partition of West Africa Cecil Rhodes & Cape-to-Cairo hegemony Carl Peters and German Treaty-Making African response to colonial administration The East India Company in Africa Congress of Berlin, 1884-1885
Boer War to World War I South African war Influence of empire on European
society, culture & politics European Geopolitics and Africa Colonial federation movement Invasion of German colonies
• Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Grand Bassa, Liberia, 1868-1882
• Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Zanzibar, British Africa, 1836-1906
• Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Lourenco Marques, Mozambique, Portuguese Africa, 1854-1906
• Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Cape Town, Cape Colony, 1800-1906
• Yale Divinity Library Missionary Periodicals• Exploration Narratives from the Library of Congress ,
1836-1913 • The African Mail, 1903-1917• Colonial Africa Newspapers from the British Library• Deutsche Kolonialzeitung, 1884-1922• General Commission of the Methodist Church Africa
missionary records• Die Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft -- Kolonialbibliothek
(Colonial Africa Society Library), University of Frankfurt
• International Population Census: Africa, 1820-1919• The Papers of Joseph Chamberlain, Colonial Secretary
Files• Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Frankfurt: German Colonial Society, Kolonialbibliothek
• Colonial Office Papers (examples): – Correspondence relating to Cape of Good Hope– Nyasaland Original Correspondence, 1904-1910
• Foreign Office Papers: (examples)– Africa, Equatorial & Central: Maps and Plans– AFRICA: Reports. Dr. Baikie's Niger Expedition, 1855– War in South Africa• British Cabinet Papers (example)– CAB 37/28/44L: Draft Agreement respecting
territorial proposed to the Portuguese Government• India Office Records and Personal Papers (example)
– Immigration from India to British Central Africa– British influence north of the Zambezi– Native races in German East Africa
• British Library Western Manuscripts on Africa– Expedition d'Etudes du Haut Congo– Correspondence of Sir Campbell-Bannerman– Letters from Leopold II, King of the Belgians
• Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House, University of Oxford
– Selected Collections relating to Africa
• National Library of Scotland, Maps Division– Bartholomew Archive (selections)
NCCO: Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest
Collections
Highlights and explores issues at the intersection of gender and class, from the late 18th century to the era of suffrage in the early 20th century.• Further deepens NCCO’s coverage of European movements in the nineteenth
century with sources from the United States and other regions• Focuses on key 19th century trends, topics, and events through the gender lens:
• Social reform movements and groups• High and “low” culture• Literature and the arts• Immigration• Daily life• Religion
NCCO: Women: Transnational Networks (approx 3M pages)
Kathleen Banks Nutter, Ph.D.• Manuscripts Archivist, Sophia Smith Collection
Library• Research Interests: United States, late 19th and 20th centuries;
women, labor, culture, and politics; public history. Courses (formerly) taught included the US History Since 1877 survey, Women and Work in Twentieth-Century America, and The Long Decade: America in the 1960s
Scholarly Works: The Necessity of Organization: Mary Kenney O'Sullivan and Trade Unionism for Women, 1892-1912 (Garland Publishing, 2000)
NCCO: Women: Transnational NetworksAdvisor
• The Diaries of Elizabeth Fry, 1797-1845
• Quaker Women’s Diaries: 18th -19th Centuries
• Our Corner (periodical for women)
• The Journal of the American National Women’s Trade Union League
• The Women Worker 1908-1910
• British Birth Control Material at the British Library of Political and Economic
Sciences: 1800-1947
• Mary Braddon Archives and Personal Papers
• History of Women Collection
NCCO: Women: Transnational NetworksCollections
• Gale is working with our partner libraries and archives to ensure that the content in the NCCO Archives is not already available digitally through other means, privately, commercially, or publicly.
• There may be instances where individual documents or portions of collections included in the NCCO Archives are--or become-- available electronically, elsewhere. Gale seeks to keep that to an absolute minimum.
• It is Gale’s intent to provide valuable and unique content to our students and researchers in a way that fits the needs and outcomes of libraries, students, and researchers.
Policy on Overlap
