COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL
STUDIES RESOURCES
Web
resources on British empire are more plentiful than those related to the
colonial empires of other European powers. Sites devoted to the French colonial
empire are rapidly multiplying, although they tend to be more specialized
(geographically, thematically, etc.).
Colonial & Imperial History
GENERAL/COMPARATIVE
Journal
of Colonialism and Colonial History [Project Muse, requires UI login]
Journal
of Imperial and Commonwealth History [Online from 2003. Requires UI login]
Colonialism and Imperialism: A Working
Bibliography,
by Ashwani Vasishth (USC)
A
wide-ranging bibliography of works in colonial and imperial history, a bit out of
date at this point, since it was last updated in 2000.
H-Net
discussion list for scholars of empire in all disciplinary, geographical, and
chronological fields.
Imperialism section of The Internet
Modern History Sourcebook, ed. Paul Halsall
Collection
of links to primary documents related to 19th- and 20th-century
empires.
Slave
Trade Archives Project, UNESCO
The
result of a six-year international project (1999-2005) to improve the
conservation and accessibility of archives related to the Atlantic slave trade
through preservation and digitization involving archives in eleven countries.
Slavery Resources,
Sue Peabody (University of Vancouver)
A page
of links to online resources for the study of slavery, compiled by Sue Peabody,
distinguished historian of women and slavery and University of Iowa alumna!
BoondocksNet, Jim Zwick
Award-winning
site with sharp analysis and extensive primary documentation of colonial issues
around the turn of the 20th century, especially in the United
States. Includes one of the largest digital collections of historical political cartoons from the 19th and
early 20th centuries, as well as a wealth of resources (texts,
cartoons, photographs) related to the Congo Reform Association and Rudyard Kiplings White Mans Burden.
FRANCE
French
Colonial Historical Society
Socit franaise dhistoire doutre-mer
Society
of French scholars of overseas history. Now includes a wonderful page of links
to (mostly) French-language sites worldwide related to French overseas
territories past and present.
Site of
a new association founded by Daniel Lefeuvre (Universit de Paris VIII
Seine-Saint-Denis) in response to recent polemics about Frances colonial
history. Hosts an online journal, news blog, and directory of researchers
dedicated to illuminating the historical diversity and complexity of Frances
colonial past.
New
French page of conferences, seminars, and research programs investigating the
relationships between economics, culture and the Outre-Mer.
Histoire et colonies, Toulon section of the Ligue
des Droits de lHomme
A very
good collection of articles on Frances colonial history, with an emphasis on
human rights issues, representations, and memory.
Bibliographie:
lhistoire coloniale de la France de 1871 a nos jours, Bibliothque dinformation public
(Centre Pompidou, Paris)
Annotated
bibliography of works from the BPI collections, compiled in conjunction with
the conference Histoires coloniales: hritages et transmissionsm, held at the
library 18-19 Nov 2005.
Articles
on the French colonies, from James Chastains Encyclopedia of 1848
Revolutions.
French Colonies, by Robert Aldrich
Senegal in 1848, by Bruce Vandevort
Association
Connaissance de lhistoire de lAfrique contemporaine Collection, Special
Collections, Getty Research Library
Important
visual collection of popular culture, ephemera and photographs depicting the
French African colonies, c. 1880-1975. Assembled by the ACHAC research group
under the direction of Pascal Blanchard (f. 1990), donated to the Getty in
1997. The ACHAC site itself is no longer operational.
Colonial Algeria, A. Garcia
Personal
website of A. Garcia devoted to colonial French Algeria, in French. Includes a
selection of digitzed colonial-era texts, including a collection of twelve
pamphlets published in 1930 by the Comit mtropolitain du Centenaire de
lAlgrie, and links to other colonial Algeria-themed sites, many maintained by
pied-noir organizations.
Algrie ancienne, Alain
Spenatto
Another
personal website from a bibliophile with a particular interest in Algeria.
Offers a collection of over seventy digitized works related to Algeria, dating
from the 14th to the 20th centuries and downloadable in
.PDF format.
Francophone Africa, by Tony Chafer and Paul Wright
(University of Portsmouth)
Excellent
collection of resources on francophone West Africa: images, bibliographies,
conferences and other scholarly initiatives, official government sites.
Voyages en Afrique,
Bibliothque nationale de France
Dossier
of travel accounts from Gallica, the BNFs virtual library.
Images et colonies, Archives nationales du Sngal
Selection
of old postcards of the French colonies from the collections of the Senegalese
national archives. The full collection of some 1,500 postcards is available on
a CD-ROM
edited by M. Adama Aly Pam of the Archives nationales du Sngal and the
Universit Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar.
Images anciennes dAfrique,
Association Images et Mmoire
Virtual
exhibition of colonial-era postcards of the French Sudan (Mali) sponsored by
the Association Images & Mmoires and UNESCOs Mmoire du Monde program.
The full collection is available on a CD-ROM, Cartes postales dAfrique de
louest (1895-1930) .
Nouvelle-France, Horizons Nouveaux:
Histoire dune terre franaise en Amrique/New France, New Horizons: On French
Soil in America, Library and
Archives of Canada
Beautifully-produced
exhibition of 350 archival documents relating the history of New France from
the first voyages of discovery to the end of the French Regime. Produced in
conjuction to mark the quadricentenary of Samuel Champlains first voyage to
North America.
La
Louisiane franaise, 1682-1803, Ministre de la culture et de la
communication de France
Another
beautiful website of essays and primary documents developed to mark an
important anniversary, this time the bicentenary of the Louisiana Purchase. Written
by historian Gilles-Antoine Lenglois (Universit de Paris-XII).
The French Desire for Uranium, Nicholas Pedersen
A very
interesting occasional paper on the colonial dimensions of French nuclear
policy from the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International
Security at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Riots in France, SSRC
An
excellent collection of essays commissioned by the SSRC from leading scholars
of French colonialism, immigration, and urban policy on the riots in suburban
France of October-November 2005.
BRITAIN
British Empire Studies, at the British Library
The British Empire Gateway, Dr. Jane Samson (University of Calgary)
On-line
resources for scholarship and teaching on the British Empire and Commonwealth.
History in Focus, Empire, Institute of Historical
Research
A
London-based gateway to carefully-selected resources in colonial and imperial
studies.
The British Empire—An Overview, Victorian Web
Articles,
primary sources, and other internet resources related to the British Empire.
South Asian
Literature: Some Primary Sources, Frances Pritchett (Columbia University)
A
wonderful site with links to electronic primary sources relating to South Asia,
including an impressive collection of texts by South Asians and Britons from
the colonial era.
Postcolonial Studies
The
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Criticism, ed. Michael Groden and Martin
Kreisworth
Postcolonial
Studies,
developed by Deepika Bahri in the English Department, Emory University
Useful
introduction to postcolonial studies and theory.
Contemporary
and Postcolonial Literature in English, National University of Singapore
Resources of Interest to Colonial Historians
American Institute for Maghrib Studies
Interdisciplinary
area studies organization that sponsors an annual conference, a dissertation
workshop for graduate students, and fellowships for research and language study
in Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco. Administers three Council of American
Overseas Research Centers in Tunis, Tangiers, and Oran.
MESA, Middle East Studies Association
Africa Web Links:
An Annotated Resource List, ed. Dr. Ali B. Ali-Dinar (University of
Pennsylvania)
The
leading online resource center for all things Africa-related, hosted by the
Penn African Studies Center.
Animated Atlas of African
History, 1879-2002, developed by Rolando Peata and Nancy Jacobs
Downloadable
map tracks political, economic and demographic change and conflict in the
African continent year-by-year from the age of imperialism to the present.
Great for teaching.
South
Asian Studies Organizations, a listing from the Columbia University
Libraries
The Coombsweb for Asia-Pacific Studies,
Australian National University