Making of the Modern World
Provides digital images of more than 60,000 books from the period 1450 to 1850, focusing on economics in the widest sense, including political science, history, sociology, and special collections on banking, finance, transportation, and manufacturing. Also includes over 450 magazines and journals; political pamphlets and broadsides; proclamations; government publications; and ephemera.
Provides digital images of more than 60,000 books from the period 1450 to 1850, focusing on economics in the widest sense, including political science, history, sociology, and special collections on banking, finance, transportation, and manufacturing. Also includes over 450 magazines and journals; political pamphlets and broadsides; proclamations; government publications; and ephemera. All documents are full text searchable by author, title, subject, keyword, and more. The database combines the strengths of two pre-eminent collections - the Goldsmiths’ Library of Economic Literature at the University of London and the Kress Collection of Business and Economics at the Harvard Business School - along with supplementary materials from the Seligman Collection in the Butler Library at Columbia University and from Sterling Library at Yale.
