Databases

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Europe and Africa, Colonialism and Culture provides a wealth of source material that illustrates the impact of European conquest on Africa throughout the nineteenth century, covering key area topics such as the partition of Africa and British imperial policy; the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902; the Jameson Raid; geopolitical rivalry between Britain, France and Germany; explorers' use of rivers as highways to the interior of Africa; Anglo-French relations and the Fashoda Incident; economic and social themes; the Witwatersrand gold mining industry; miner-farming disputes in Zimbabwe; missionaries' efforts to suppress the slave trade; origins of corporate capitalism in South Africa; the dream of an Afrikaner Utopia; classifying race; African responses to imperialism; colonial and customary law; Chinese emigration; and transnational evangelicalism.