Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires Since 1820

Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires seeks to enlarge the scope and enhance the significance of the study of empire by creating a 75,000-page database and archive of documents that views the history of modern empires through women’s eyes.  The project is a peer-reviewed collaborative effort by 56 scholars, distinguished and emerging, who have gathered 41 clusters of documents in their fields of expertise.  Categories include:

• Asian Empires, 1842-2001
• European Empires, 1820-2005
• Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Empires in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1860-2015
• Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Empires in the Balkans, 1820-1990
• Native Women in North America, 1915-2010
• Settler Society in North America, 1805-1940
• South Africa, 1899-1987
• United States Empire, 1820-2004
• Women’s Global Networks in Colonial and Post-Colonial Worlds, 1883-2007
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• An Alexander Street, a ProQuest Company (formerly Alexander Street Press) database.