New Database: The Making of the Modern World
Thomson Gale’s The Making of the Modern World contains the Goldsmiths’-Kress Library of Economic Literature 1450-1850. This collection makes rare primary documents accessible for research in economics, commerce, finance, manufacturing, banking, and political science.
Making of the Modern World consists of 61,000 monographs from the period of 1450-1850 and 466 pre-1906 serials. That’s 11 million pages of primary sources for your historical research.
Whether you’re interested in Adam Smith or Thomas Malthus, the British South Sea Company (the Enron of the 18th century) or debates over the national debt in post-Revolution America, Making of the Modern World can supply the original documents.
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