Covers 500 years of the rise and fall of empires, this features a wide variety of material, including exploration journals & logs; correspondence; periodicals; diaries; government papers; missionary papers; travel writing; slave papers; memoirs; fiction; children's adventure stories; folk tales; exhibition catalogs; maps; marketing posters; photographs; and illustrations, with many in color.
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Designed as an important portal for slavery and abolition studies, brings together documents and collections covering an extensive time period 1490-2007, from libraries and archives across the Atlantic world. Close attention is being given to the varieties of slavery, the legacy of slavery, the social justice perspective and the continued existence of slavery today.
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Socialism on Film is a collection of documentaries, newsreels and features from Soviet, Chinese, Vietnamese, East European, British and Latin American filmmakers, sourced from the British Film Institute, and covering the period from the Russian Revolution to the 1980s. The collection consists of films produced almost exclusively in the communist world and later versioned into English for distribution in the West.
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