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Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926



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The Making of Modern Law: Treatises is a full-text collection of legal monographs published in Great Britain and the United States from 1800 to 1926. It comprises 21,800 titles covering every area of the law, including commerce, labor, slavery, taxation, real property, intellectual property, criminal law and constitutional law. The authors include seminal thinkers such as William Blackstone, Oliver Wendall Holmes and Clarence Darrow, who guided the development of legal theory and practice in America and England. The database is an important resource not only for the history of the law, but also for a wide variety of other topics, including education, the family, public finance, business and economics, and politics and government. It is searchable by keyword in full text as well as by subject and other fields.

Complements Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources, 1620-1970.

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Dates covered

1800-1926.

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Database is complete.

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Monographs.

Type of coverage

Full text in image format.

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Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources, 1620-1970.

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Harvard University, Yale University, York University, Columbia University, and 21 other institutions in the United States and Britain.

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Gale Cengage Learning