Gale’s “The Making of the Modern World” now available! : History @ CUL

Gale’s “The Making of the Modern World” now available!

Produced by Gale, The making of the modern world (also known as MoMW) provides full-text and full-page-image access to books from 1450-1914, and pre-1906 serials. It’s scope is international; it’s strength is economics.

It focuses on economics of the past interpreted in the widest sense, including political science, history, sociology, and special collections on banking, finance, transportation and manufacturing. It’s based on Gale’s microfilm collection: Goldsmiths’-Kress Library of Economic Literature which combines the strengths of two pre-eminent collections–the Goldsmiths’ Library of Economic Literature at the University of London Library and the Kress Library of Business and Economics at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration–along with supplementary materials from the Seligman Collection in the Butler Library at Columbia University and from the libraries of Yale University.

The collection is two parts. Cornell has access to both “the Making of the modern world. Part I, The Goldsmiths’-Kress Collection, 1450-1850” and “The Making of the modern world, part II: 1851-1914.”

Topical strengths of these collections:

Agriculture, Banking, Capitalism, China, Colonies, Commerce, Depression and Recoveries, Empire, Finance, Mughal, Empire, Ottoman, Free Trade, Theory and Practice, Imperialism, India, Industrialization, International Labour Organization, International Trade Agreements, Japan, Mercantilism, Mining, Money and Monetary Policy, Navigation acts/acts of trade, Politics, Population, Emigration and Immigration, Slavery and the African Slavery Trade, Staples and the Staple Theory, United Kingom, United States, Wars, Wheat and other Grains, Social conditions, Socialism, Trades and manufactures, Transport, etc.

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