Description: The Making of the Modern World provides digital facsimile images of unique primary sources that track the development of the modern, western world through the lens of trade and wealth. Full-text searching across millions of pages of works from the period 1851-1914 provides researchers unparalleled access to this vast collection of material for research in the areas of history, political science, social conditions, technology and industry, economics, area studies and more. Part I from the period 1450-1850 is also available at this site.
Coverage: 1851-1914
Организация: Gale Cengage
Biography in Context
Description: Biography in Context delivers research support with nearly a million biographical entries spanning history and geography. It's a curriculum-aligned resource that offers media-rich content in context that's updated daily to meet the needs of today's user. In it you'll find:
- 600,000+ biographies covering more than 525,000 individuals
- 170 award-winning Gale reference titles
- 50,000 new or updated bios added annually in addition to daily updates to account for awards and events
- Integrated reference material, periodical information and multimedia content
- Hundreds of hand-crafted topic pages covering the highest-interest features
It includes the Lives & Perspectives Collection to 160,000 in-depth biographies drawn from reference sources such as American Men & Women of Science, Encyclopaedia Judaica, Governments of the World , Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History and nearly 40 other respected titles from Macmillan Reference USA, Charles Scribner's Sons and Gale. The full-length biographies offer records of the lives of some of the most notable and influential figures in history, world culture, science, religion, health, government, and more.