History: Primary Sources: Books, Documents, Essays

15th to early 20th century primary sources on gender such as Conduct and Politeness, Domesticity and Family, the Body, etc.

Essays and original documents relating to Empire Studies, race, class, imperialism, and colonialism, sourced from libraries and archives around the world.

1,800 works from some of the greatest legal minds in history.

The Making of the Modern World (1450-1890) covers the history of Western trade, encompassing the coal, iron, and steel industries, the railway industry, the cotton industry, banking and finance, and the emergence of the modern corporation. It is also strong in the rise of the modern labor movement, the evolving status of slavery, the condition and making of the working class, colonization, Latin American/Caribbean studies, social history, gender, and the economic theories that championed and challenged capitalism in the nineteenth century. In addition, the archive offers resources on the role of finance and taxation and the growth of the early modern monarchy. It features essential texts covering the function of financial institutions, the crisis of the French monarchy and the French Revolution at the end of the eighteenth century, and the connection between the democratic goals of revolutionaries and their legal aspirations.

Medieval manuscripts of travelers' accounts between the 13th and 16th centuries.

Find manuscripts that were written or compiled by women in the British Isles during the 16th and 17th centuries.