Liberalism in the Americas Digital Archive project

The Liberalism in the Americas digital library was developed in 2013 by the Institute for the Study of the Americas (now the Institute of Latin American Studies), School of Advanced Study, University of London. The project was managed by Dr Deborah Toner with research assistance from Dr Sarah Backhouse and consultancy advice from Dr Matthew Alan Hill and the University of London Computer Centre, which specialises in digital preservation. The resources that appeared in the digital library were made available by, and digitised in collaboration with, the British Library, using materials from its extensive archives. The system was decommissioned in 2018 and the metadata and digitised access copies have been migrated here to SAS-Space. The high resolution digitised objects have been stored in the SAS Digital archive. A webarchive of the site as it appeared in 2018 was created and is attached to this item below. The digital library traces the development of liberal ideology and practice through key themes: church and state, economic development, political culture, women and gender, and race and ethnicity. The resources primarily focus on the cases of Argentina, Mexico, and Peru, c. 1780-1930. We would like to thank our partners at the British Library, and Beth Cooper in particular, for their invaluable assistance in the identification, digitisation and processing of the images found in this repository.