Contains full text of more than 10,000 accounts of Anglo-American civil and criminal trials published between 1600 and 1926, including briefs, trial transcripts, transcripts of oral arguments, records of legislative proceedings, records of administrative proceedings, arbitration records, and popular accounts of trials. Includes such famous proceedings as the trials involving Dred Scott, John Peter Zenger, Susan B. Anthony, Oscar Wilde, the Boston Massacre, Lizzie Borden, Sacco and Vanzetti, Leopold and Loeb, the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, the Bounty mutineers, Salem witchcraft, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Aaron Burr, John Brown and Alfred Dreyfus.
The most comprehensive full-text collection of Anglo-American legal treatises available today. Sourced from the world's foremost law libraries, this archive covers nearly every aspect of American and British law and encompasses a range of analytical, theoretical, and practical literature for research in US and British legal history. It features casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches, and other works from the most influential writers and key legal thinkers of the time.
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Treatises cover all aspects of American and British law.
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Individual treatises can also be located using library’s catalog.
This collection follows the development of the modern western world through the lens of trade and wealth -- the driving force behind many of the major historical events during the period (1450-1850). With full-text search capabilities on an abundance of rare books and primary source materials, this resource provides unparalleled access to more than 61,000 books and 466 serials, plus essays, government publications, pamphlets and broadsides, proclamations, and ephemera, many of which are the only known copy of the work in the world. Languages include French, German, Spanish, and more. Features unique search capability for illustrated works.
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Database includes over 59,500 titles (67,000 volumes), including books, serials, pamphlets, and essays.
Subjects covered include trade, labor, banking, finance, manufacturing, transportation, development, economic policy, political science, law, religion, colonization, race and ethnic relations, slavery, gender relations, and the history of North America, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
Materials come from major libraries worldwide, including the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature at the University of London, the Kress Library of Business and Economics at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration, the Seligman Collection in the Butler Library at Columbia University, and the Yale University Libraries.
Titles are in English as well as many other languages.
Documents can be viewed online or downloaded in .pdf format.
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Basic search allows researcher to search database using keyword, subject, author, and title.
Search results can be limited by year.
Advanced search allows researcher to use Boolean field searching. Fields include keyword, subject, title, person as a subject, geographic subject, front matter, indexes, publisher, place of publication, and source library.
Advanced search allows researcher to limit search result by years of publication, language, number of pages in document, presence of various types of illustrations in document, and serials title.
Advanced search allows researcher to search only for serials.
Database can be browsed by author or treatise title.
Database enables researchers to search within documents.
