The Making of the Modern World, Part I: The Goldsmiths'-Kress Collection, 1450–1850
Explore livros excepcionais e documentos únicos que revelam como o comércio e a riqueza impulsionaram a expansão mundial, a Revolução Industrial e o surgimento do capitalismo moderno.
The Making of the Modern World, Part I: The Goldsmiths’-Kress Library of Economic Literature, 1450–1850 oferece uma visão única da história econômica do mundo ocidental através de mais de três séculos de comércio, finanças e pensamento social.
“Taken together, MOMW I and MOMW II represent very significant and extensive collections combining standard works in multiple editions and unique primary source materials. The interface is straightforward and easy to use, although it could benefit from having a greater variety of browse functions . . . Another benefit to the MOMW collections will be cross-collection searchability with other Gale collections, including ECCO and especially NCCO.”
― eDesiderata, Center for Research Libraries
“. . . [The two rare book libraries] are comprehensive in their coverage; they contain, in some cases, the only known extant copies of certain works, and they include numerous books of fascinating provenance — books from the personal libraries of such personages as Adam Smith, Lord Sheffield, David Ricardo, John Locke, Jeremy Bentham, William Wilberforce, Robert Owen, Sir Robert Peel, William Wordsworth and Karl Marx.”