Publication
[Farmington Hills, Michigan] : [Gale, Cengage Learning], [between 2004 and 2018?]
Notes
Title and variant titles devised by cataloger.
Many documents are in English, but the resource also includes materials in Dutch, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and other languages.
Summary
Dataset of materials for text data mining (TDM) focusing on economics and business published from the last half of the 15th century to the mid-19th century. The collection contains materials on international commerce, finance, social conditions, politics, trade and transport; documents the dynamics of Western trade and wealth; focuses on economics interpreted in the widest sense, including political science, history, sociology; special collections on banking, finance, transportation and manufacturing. Includes rare books and primary source materials such as political pamphlets and broadsides, government publications, proclamations, and a wide range of ephemera. The set contains data in TIFF format (segmented into documents and pages) and XML format (segmented into documents).
Variant and related titles
Goldsmiths'-Kress Collection dataset
Making of the modern world dataset. Part I, Goldsmiths'-Kress Collection
MOMW dataset. Part I, 1450-1850