Trial access to Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires since 1820

Until 4th December 2020, students and staff can access the Alexander Street's (ProQuest) Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires since 1820.

The multimedia collection displays the history of modern empires through women’s eyes and is organized around more than 35 document clusters. Documents not in English are accompanied by an English abstract. 

Sources have been drawn from numerous archives, including the Archivo Nacional de la República de Cuba, Habana, Cuba; the Burke Library Special Collections, Columbia University; Harvard Divinity School Library; Centre des Archives Diplomatiques de Nantes (CADN); Diliman Library, University of the Philippines; the National Archives Repository, Pretoria; Yale University Library, and many others. Virtually all the content is available online for the first time. Most of the content is in-copyright, and video and audio content is also included.

This archive and database includes documents related to the Habsburg Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the British, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, and United States empires, and settler societies in the United States, New Zealand, and Australia. A large, innovative section focuses on the voices of Native Women in North America.

This one-of-a-kind resource has research, teaching, and learning applications and can stand on its own or serve as a supplement to the 150,000-page Women and Social Movements, International. Researchers will:

• Acquire access to colonial and postcolonial sources.
• Compare the lives of women in different empires in colonial and postcolonial contexts.
• Study transnational issues, such as prostitution, relations between colony and metropole, governance, popular culture, citizenship, employment, health and medicine, education, domestic life, intimacy and sexuality, children, and intermarriage.
• The variety of sources and the scope of coverage (representing all continents) make Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires since 1820 applicable to courses in women’s history, women’s studies, world history, religion, social and cultural history, post-colonial studies, sociology, and political science.

Access to the e-book collection is available to students and staff based on IP authentication and via remote access.

Provider: ProQuest - Alexander Street

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Any observations, comments and suggestions can be sent to knjiznica@fdv.uni-lj.si.