Nineteenth Century
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“The Books of the Future”
Pall Mall Gazette
15 Sept 1869
19th Century British Library Newspapers
“The Books of the Future”
“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the literary sort may be in part superseded by machinery?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
What is Nineteenth Century Collections Online?
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Newspapers
Photographs
Maps
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-- Ephemera
-- Statistics
• Features content from the “long (long) 19th century”
• Built incrementally, over a period years
• Sourced internationally from regions including
– Africa
– East & South Asia
– The Middle East
-- Continental Europe
-- Latin America
-- South Asia
• Includes content in original, non-Western languages
• Features cutting-edge technologies that serve the needs of today’s digitally
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Published in thematic Archives containing various Collections
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Archive 3
Archive 4
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Publishes Four Thematic Archives Each Year from 2012 to 2014 or Possibly Longer
History of
Science,
Technology,
and
British Politics
Medicine
and Society
Photography:
The World
through the
Lens
British
Theatre,
Music &
Literature:
High & Popular
Culture
Four archives each year
based on Customer Input
NCCO
2013
2014
Asia & the
West:
Democracy &
2012 Cultural
Exchange
Europe
and Africa
Corvey
Collection of
European
Literature
Women:
1790-1840
Transnational
Networks
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 NineteenthCentury 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
NCCO Partner Institutions and Sources (thus far)
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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
History, 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
Political Science Library
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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,
Manchester
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!
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Archives for 2012
Asia and
the West
British Politics
and Society
NCCO
British Theatre,
Music, and
Literature
European
Literature
1790-1840
NCCO: Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange
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
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Sino-Japanese war
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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 - List of Collections (cont’d to next slide)
Multiple Regions
China
• Missionary and Socio-Economic Journals
• Despatches from U.S. Consuls in China (Amoy,
Antung, Canton, Chefoo, Chinkiang, Chunking,
• Missionary Files: Methodist Episcopal Church
Foochow, Hangchow, Hankow, Hong Kong, Macao,
Missionary Correspondence, 1846-1949 (China,
Mukden, Nanking, Newchwang, Ningpo, Shanghai,
Japan, Korea)
Swatow, and Tientsin), 1790-1906
• Records Relating to the United States Surveying
Expedition to the North Pacific Ocean, 1852-1863. • Despatches from U.S. Ministers to China, 18431906
• Notes from the Chinese Legation in the United
Japan
States to the Department of State, 1868-1906
• British Foreign Office: Japan Correspondence,
• Selected Records of the U.S. Legation in China,
1856-1923
• Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Japan (Hakodate, 1849-1931
Kanagawa, Nagasaki, Osaka, Kobe, and
Yokohama), 1856-1906
• Despatches from U.S. Ministers to Japan, 18551906
• 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
Korea
• Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Seoul, Korea,
1886-1906
• Despatches from U.S. Ministers to Korea, 18831905
• 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)
Thailand
Vietnam
• Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Bangkok, Siam, • Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Saigon, Vietnam,
1856-1906
1889-1906
• Despatches from U.S. Ministers to Siam, 1882-1906
• Notes from the Siamese Legation in the United
Indonesia
States to the Department of State, 1876-1906
• Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Netherlands East
• Selected Records of the U.S. Consulate in Bangkok, Indies (Batavia, Padang) 1818-1906
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
A sketch of the U.S. Consul in Manila, 1894
NCCO: British Politics and Society
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
Growing calls for political reform, met with
• Swing Riots
state resistance and marked a crisis of
• Reform Crisis of 1832
legitimacy for both the government and the
reform movements.
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NCCO: British Politics and Society - List of Collections
• 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
• 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 SubCollections
• Series Two: The Papers of Sir Robert Peel (Prime
Minister, 1834-1835, 1841-1845 and 1845-1846)
• Home Office: Registered Papers
• Home Office: Post Office Correspondence
• Civil Disturbance, Chartism and Riots in NineteenthCentury England
• Ordnance Surveyors' Drawings, 1789-1840
• British Cabinet Papers, 1880–1916
• Working Class Movement Card Catalogue
• British Labour History Ephemera
• People's History: Working Class Autobiographies
• Colonial Defence Commission under Lord
Carnarvon
• 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
• 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 Theatre, Music, and Literature:
High and Popular Culture
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Approximately 1M pages
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An examination of the full spectrum of British cultural
sensibilities, told through plays, musical compositions,
fiction, novels, penny Dreadfuls and opera.
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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.
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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.
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NCCO: British Theatre, Music, and Literature - List of Collections (ongoing)
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English Stage After the Restoration, 1733-1822
Receipts - Drury Lane
Drury Lane Under Sheridan, 17761812Manuscript 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
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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 BaringGould and Thomas Crampton Collections
Sir George Smart Papers
Sir George Smart Programmes
NCCO: Corvey Collection of European Literature: 1790-1840
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.
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NCCO: Corvey Collection – Importance of the 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. Behrendt
University Professor and George Holmes
Distinguished Professor of English
University of Nebraska – Lincoln
Content Load Schedule (as of January 2013)
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Asia and the West: 100% of the content is available
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British Politics and Society: 100% of the content is available
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Corvey Collection: 100% of the content is available
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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
Archives for 2013
Photography:
Science,
Technology, and Warning!! The World
through the Lens
Medicine, 1780-1925
The 2013 Archives are still in progress
and the information
presented here
NCCO
may differ in details from the finished
product – please check for updates
Europe and Africa:
Commerce, Christianity,
Civilization and Conquest
Women:
Transnational
Networks
NCCO: Science, Technology, and Medicine, 1780-1925 (approx 5M
pages)
• 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
Advisor
Daniel Lewis
Dibner Senior Curator of the History of Science & Technology
The Huntington Library
San Marino, California
Research Associate Professor of History
School of Arts and Humanities, History
Claremont Graduate University
http://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 Library
Volumes 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 Library
Scientific 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 Medicine
The 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 University
The 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 Darwin
The 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 Engineering
Victor 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 theory
These 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 Electricity
The 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 Mathematics
The long nineteenth century is represented by 713 works.
NCCO: Science, Technology, and Medicine, 1780-1925
Collections
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New scanning of monographs from the Huntington Library, ~2M pages
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American Medical Periodicals, 1797-1900, originally from the National Library of
Medicine and other major institutions
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Scientific and Technical Periodicals from the Royal Society of London’s Catalogue of
Scientific Papers, 1800-1900 (300K+ pages)
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Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1812-1924, Minutes and
Correspondence (50K+ pages)
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Largest NCCO Archive in 2013, approx. 5M+ pages
NCCO: Photography: The World through the Lens (approx. 1.5M pages)
travel
death
street life
portraits
technology
crime
sport
anthropology
architecture
medicine
NCCO: Photography: The World through the Lens
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
Advisor
Professor Elizabeth Edwards
Research Professor and Director of the Photographic
History Research Centre
De Montfort University, UK
http://photoclec.dmu.ac.uk/node/84
http://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 Lens
Collections
•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 Lens
Collections
•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
NCCO: Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest
(approx 1.2M pages)
1893. Village market in
Afrique Occidentale Française
Henry Stanley meeting Dr. Livingstone
“Dr. Livingstone, I presume”
“Dividing up Africa” by Chancellor Bismarck,
1884-1885
1881. Cecil Rhodes
King Leopold II of Belgium
1900. Restoration and defense of British liberty in
South Africa
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NCCO: Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest
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
Advisors
Richard N. Price
Professor of History and Chair of the History Department;
formerly Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of History,
University of Maryland, College Park
http://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. Reed
Assistant 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."
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NCCO: Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest
Key Areas of Research/Events
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
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
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
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
NCCO: Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest
Collections
• 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: Women: Transnational Networks (approx 3M pages)
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
Advisor
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 Networks
Collections
•
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
Policy on Overlap
•
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.
Questions?
www.gale.cengage.com/nineteenthcentury
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