TRIAL: Collections for the Study of African, African-American and Caribbean History, Literature and Culture

University of Liverpool staff and students have trial access to Collections for the Study of African, African-American and Caribbean History, Literature and Culture, until 23rd October 2015.

To access this trial go to:
http://ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/login?url=http://infoweb.newsbank.com
(login required off-campus).

The following collections are available:

Caribbean History and Culture: Imprints from the Library Company of Philadelphia (1535-1920)

More than 1,200 fully cataloged and searchable books, pamphlets, almanacs, broadsides and ephemera cover the history of this broad region from the 16th century to the early 20th century.

Major subject areas covered include Atlantic Studies, Diaspora Studies, Economic Studies, History of Medicine, Ethnicity and Gender Studies, Latin America and Slavery.

Works include multi-volume histories of the region, letters, diaries, trial records, confessions, ship logs, military reports, government documents and much more.

African History and Culture: Imprints from the Library Company of Philadelphia (1540-1920)

More than 1,300 fully cataloged and searchable books, pamphlets, almanacs, broadsides and ephemera cover the history, peoples, and social and economic development of the African continent from the 16th century to the early 20th century.

Major subject areas covered include Africana Studies, Atlantic Studies, Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies, Economic Studies, Slavery and Diaspora Studies.

Works include historical narratives, social histories, maps, navigational logs, military reports, government documents, demographic studies, anthropological studies, natural histories, personal and personal memoirs and much more.

Black Authors: Imprints from the Library Company of Philadelphia (1556-1922)

More than 550 fully catalogued and searchable works by black authors from the Americas, Europe and Africa.

Major subject areas include Literature, Ethnic History, Colonialism, Gender Studies, Slavery, Diaspora Studies and related fields.

Works include personal narratives, autobiographies, histories, expedition reports, military reports, novels, essays, poems and musical compositions.

After trying the collections, please leave your comments below. You can choose the anonymous option to comment without needing to have a Blogger account, but it helps if you include your name in your feedback so that we can follow up on comments

TRIAL: Electronic Enlightenment

We have a trial of Electronic Enlightenment, from Oxford University Press, until 8th June 2013.

To access this trial go to http://www.e-enlightenment.com/.

For off-campus access, use AppsAnywhere. If we acquired this resource we would link to it via EZproxy as usual.

Electronic Enlightenment is the most wide-ranging online collection of edited correspondence of the early modern period, linking people across Europe, the Americas and Asia from the early 17th to the mid-19th century — reconstructing one of the world's great historical “conversations”.

Electronic Enlightenment includes 60,647 historical documents. Listen in on the first global social network as 7,476 historical figures discuss everything from religious tolerance to animal rights, vulcanology to classical archeology, economic modelling to celebrity culture.
After trying Electronic Enlightenment, please leave your comments below. You can choose the anonymous option to comment without needing to have a Blogger account, but it helps if you include your name in your feedback so that we can follow up on comments.