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A digitized collection of original documents relating to Empire Studies, sourced from libraries and archives around the world. It covers: cultural contact, empire writing and literature of empire, the visible empire, religion and empire, race, class & colonialism worldwide.
It includes both "manuscript and printed material and a broad range of document types; written by men and women from both the European and the non-European perspective:" exploration journals and logs, letter books and correspondence, periodicals, diaries, official government papers, missionary papers, travel writing, slave papers, memoirs, fiction, children's adventure stories, traditional and folk tales, exhibition catalogues and guides, maps, marketing posters, photographs, and illustrations, including many in colour. It has five thematic sections:
Section I: Cultural Contacts, 1492-1969
Section II: Empire Writing and the Literature of Empire
Section III: The Visible Empire
Section IV: Religion and Empire
Section V: Race, Class and Colonialism, 1607-2007
