Global India

I have a separate page set up for resources related to India and Globalization

Western Literature II: The Colonial Imagination

Complete E-Text for The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
The Treaty of Tordesillas, courtesy of the Humanities Computing Department at University of Groningen, The Netherlands
16th century image of New World cannibalism, from de Bry's The Grand Voyages, based on accounts of Hans Staden
Website dedicated to Captain Thomas Tew, of Libertatia, the fabled pirate utopia
The Carribean Amerindian Centre's resource page on El Dorado
Books I and II of Swift's Gulliver's Travels, with illustrations
Rousseau's The Social Contract
Barrow's Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty, and some 20th century film versions: 1935, 1962 & 1984
Complete E-Text for Byron's The Island
More links to come....

American Literature I: Emerging Identities

The Library of Congress Exhibit 1492: An Ongoing Voyage
European Voyages of Exploration, courtesy of the University of Calgary's Applied History Research Group
Complete E-text of The Journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza De Vaca (no relation!)
Multimedia presentation (in Spanish) of the Apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe, from The Basilica of Guadalupe
Virtual Jamestown: the name says it all!
Chief Roy Crazy Horse of the Powhatan Tribe discusses the Pocahontas myth perpetuated by Disney and others
So you were wondering why Squanto spoke English? Here's why
Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project
A longer extract from Book One of Thomas Morton's New English Canaan
An article on the Antinomian Controversy by Jeffrey Kahl
Roger Williams and liberty of conscience, from the Library of Congress American Memory site
An image of the original cover to the 1650 London edition of Bradstreet's The Tenth Muse...
An article by Christine Leigh Heyrman from the National Humanities Center entitled, "Religion, Women, and the Family in Early America"
Here's a good bibliographic essay on captivity narratives, written by an English graduate student at U Louisville
Jefferson's Summary View of the Rights of British America, from Yale's Avalon Project
More links to come...