“One of the great miracles of the internet is that scholars can do full text searches of thousands, actually in this case, of a million pages of key sources. With this latest installment of the University of London’s Goldsmith-Kress collection on economic history, scholars will have easy access to important works from the Gilded Age, when the British empire was so dominant. While the focus of the books in this collection is on economics and trade, these sources are critical for social and intellectual history. Now that Gale has made so much available, from the Making of Modern Law, to the Sabin Americana, and the Nineteenth Century US Newspapers, to the grand and enormous Making of the Modern World, scholars can focus their energies on the critical task of interpreting rather than gather information. Gale’s databases are absolutely foundational to the expansion of knowledge about history, law, and economics from the birth of printing to the twentieth century.”

“Similar to the earlier two collections in terms of content and quality, this resource contains primary sources of never-before-digitized materials that are easy to read and retrieve, with an interface, search capabilities, and features that will be familiar to Gale database users. The historic value, comprehensive content, intuitive search options, and high levels of functionality make Part III a worthy addition to the series and particularly valuable to those interested in early 20th-century history, political science, philosophy, business law, economic law, and women’s studies.”