Making of the Modern World

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Full text primary sources from 1450-1850 in economics, business, political science, history.

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Coverage: 

Full text: 1450-1850

Access: 
Access is restricted to UMKC students, faculty and staff. Off-campus access is available.
Description: 

This full text collection of primary sources focuses on worldwide economic literature from 1450 to 1850.  The online version of The Goldsmith's-Kress Library of Economic Literature, it includes the full text of books (61,000+), periodicals (450+), political pamphlets and broadsides, government publications, proclomations, and ephemera.  It includes materials in foreign languages including French and German.

It covers the following subjects:

  • Economics
  • History
  • Political science
  • Sociology and Social Conditions
  • Business and Finance
  • Manufacturing
  • Commerce and Trade
  • Transportation
  • Agriculture
  • Colonies
  • Slavery
  • Philosophy

 

Features: 

Search fulltext of books, print up to 50 pages of a work at once, Fuzzy Search allows you to easily find variant or approximate spellings such as “harbor” and “harbour”, truncation *
 

Maximum users: 
Unlimited
Vendor: 
Gale
Provided by: 
UMKC
Description updated: 
April 10, 2009 -- RP