Europe and Africa:
Commerce, Christianity,Civilization, and Conquest
Supports Research In• Nineteenth-century African studies,colonialism, religion, sociology,economics, politics, international
relations, military history,  and more.

Program Overview
Nineteenth Century Collections Online is the most ambitious scholarly digitization andpublication program ever undertaken, providing full-text, fully searchable content from a wide
range of primary sources. These materials support a wide range of academic disciplines and areasof study, providing never-before-possible research opportunities for one of the most studied
historical periods.

Archive Overview
Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest provides an in-depth look
into the motivations, activities, and results of the European conquest of Africa during thenineteenth-century, covering two themes:■ Exploration, military, and missionary activities■ Economic and political imperialism in Africa
Through the inclusion of a variety of essential monographs, manuscripts, and newspaper accounts,
researchers can trace the development of British strategic imperatives, France and Belgum’s desire
for the expansion of trade and raw materials, and Germany and Italy’s late entrance onto theimperial stage.
Collections include:■ Selected Africa Collections from the India Office Library Records, 1839-1920 – documents
military action, trade relations, emigration to Africa, and other key topics■ Selected Titles from the Kolonialbibliothek (Africa Colonial Society Library) Collection, 18781910 – details German missionary activities and exploration, cultural indoctrination, andcolonization (Universitatsbibliothek Johann Christian Senkenberg Frankfurt/Main)■ Selected Foreign Office Files on Africa, 1825-1905 – essential documents on relations ofBelgium-Congo, Germany and German East-West Africa and Italy-East Africa■ Joseph Chamberlain Papers Relating to Africa, 1893-1903 – includes the Colonial Secretary’s
correspondence with colonial governors, royalty, and others■ Despatches from U.S. Consulates in Africa, 1800-1906 – In addition to correspondence,
includes photos, newsclippings, and government publications■ Selected Narratives and Reminiscences on Colonial Africa (British Library)■ Colonial Africa Newspapers (British Library)■ Methodist Episcopal Church Missionary Correspondence on Africa, 1846-1912

Europe and Africa: Commerce,Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest
Other Program Archives• Asia and the West: Diplomacy andCultural Exchange• British Politics and Society• British Theatre, Music, and Literature:
High and Popular Culture• European Literature, 1790-1840:
The Corvey Collection• Photography: The World Through the Lens
• Women: Transnational Networks• Science, Technology and Medicine, 1780-1925

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Tools and features include:■ Textual Analysis Tools — Identify and visualize patterns, trends and relationships toexplore content in new ways. Underlying data and text is exportable for further analysis■ Subject Indexing — Making content accessible and exposing key data elements■ Zotero Compatible — Optimized for Zotero for collecting, citing and organizing sources■ User-Generated Tags and Annotations — Allows users to create/add their own metadata■ User Accounts — Users can save documents and edit their tags and annotations■ Image Viewer — Zoom, highlight, rotate, reverse (negative image), change the brightness
or contrast, and view pages in full-screen mode
■ Download — The OCR text of printed works

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Advisory Board
Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest was created with theexpert guidance of specialized archive advisors — Richard N. Price, Professor of History andChair of the History Department, University of Maryland, College Park; and Charles V. Reed,Assistant Professor, History & Political Science, Elizabeth City State University as well as a
global advisory board, which ensures the program fulfills the needs of students, professors
and researchers and helps shape the program’s collecting and digitizing policies. For a list ofmembers, visit http://gdc.gale.com/nineteenth-century-collections-online/advisory-board/.

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From the Europe in Africa Collection:
Methodist Episcopal Church Missionary
Correspondence, 1846-1912: Africa.
— Sourced from General Commission
on Archives and History,
United Methodist Church© 2013. Gale, Cengage Learning