European History: Modern Era (17th century onward)

The Making of the Modern World consists of:
● Part 1: The Goldsmiths'-Kress Collection, 1450-1850, "this collection provides full-text searching of many rare primary source materials: monographs, serials, political pamphlets and broadsides, proclamations, and more;"
● Part II: 1851-1914, this collection is "comprised mainly of monographs, reports, correspondence, speeches, and surveys, this collection broadens Gale's international coverage of social, economic, and business history as well as political science, technology, industrialization, and the birth of the modern corporation;"
● Part III: 1890-1945, "this collection is comprised largely of monographs and periodicals, offering transnational coverage in an area of vital interest to historians: political economy. The archive supports research on critical topics, such as world trade, finance and capital formation, transportation and the growth of cities, industrialization, imperialism and colonialism, socialism, labor and poverty, and other areas of study;" and
● Part IV: 1800-1890, "offers definitive coverage of the 'Age of Capital,' the industrial revolution, and the High Victorian Era, when the foundations of modern-day capitalism and global trade were established (Gale)."

Included sources:
- Nineteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue
- The Nineteenth Century
- American Periodicals
- British Periodicals
- Cotgreave's Index
- An Index to Legal Periodical Literature
- Cumulative Index to Niles' Register 1811-1849
- Periodicals Index Online
- Poole's Index to Periodical Literature
- Stead's Index to Periodical Literature
- The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900
- House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
- Proceedings of the Old Bailey
- The U.S. Serial Set
- Archive Finder
- Palmer's Index to The Times
- The "Bookman" Directory of Booksellers, Publishers and Authors
- Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism

This database includes the following modules

• Refugee Records from the General Correspondence Files of the Political Departments of the Foreign Office, Record Group 371, 1938-1950
• Refugee Files from the Records of the Foreign Office, 1938-1950
• Refugee Records from the War Cabinet, the Colonial Office, the Home Office and the War Office, 1935-1939
The Early Cold War and Decolonization

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Rice University owns access to the following modules:
- Part I: 1800-1900 (national and regional papers)
- Part II:1800-1900 (local newspapers)
- Part III: 1741-1950 (national and regional papers)
- Part IV: 1732-1950 (local newspapers)
- Part V: 1746-1950 (northern regional newspapers)
- Part VI: 1783-1950 (Ireland).