Core Sources in Middle Eastern and African History

Digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa. Includes a wide variety of scholarly materials contributed by Aluka's partners, ranging from archival documents, periodicals, books, reports, manuscripts, and reference works, to three-dimensional models, maps, oral histories, plant specimens, photographs, and slides. View a tutorial on this database here.

Collects annual reports on British colonies that provide detailed accounts of the day-to-day concerns and policies of colonial administrators. Include texts, statistics, maps, and illustrations and cover such topics as taxes and duties, military expenditure, civil establishment, legislation and proclamations, population data, import and export statistics, prisons, and meteorological observations. View a tutorial on this database here

Spans the full era of the modern European colonization of Africa, from the occupation of Algeria by France, through increasing British presence on the west African coast and around the Cape of Good Hope in the south, the Berlin Conference which set off the "Scramble for Africa", the high-water mark of economic exploitation of Africans in the Congo Free State, rivalries among European powers, and the era of withdrawal that followed the Second World War. Features 300 color maps.

Provides information on social conditions in developing nations and tracks missionary efforts to spread the gospel during the nineteenth century. Consists of incoming correspondence from the mission field and outgoing correspondence from the Board of Foreign Missions (BFM) of the Presbyterian Church headquarters. Other primary sources include diary accounts, sermon manuscripts, receipts of sale, and field accounts.