When the nineteenth century dawned, corporations were virtually nonexistent, and all business enterprises were relatively small. By the end of the century large corporations dominated many industries in the United States. Two factors in particular contributed to this development.
"The provision of information by diplomats was but part of the process by which the British government acquired knowledge about the capability…"
The life story of James III and VIII is mainly contained within the Stuart Papers in the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle. They contain thousands of documents in hundreds of volumes giving details of his political and personal correspondence, of his finances, and of the management of his court.
An essay from Ebling Library's History of Health Sciences Librarian on the process an benefits of using Public Health in Modern America, part of Gale Primary Sources
"In the long and lively history of publishing, there has never been anything quite like Punch. With its eclectic mix of jokes, puns, parodies, cartoons…"
"The radical right has been small, fractious yet persistent in nearly a century of activism at the furthest reaches of the right-wing spectrum…"
Primary sources research on Frederick the Great's life, career and achievements, from records at the time of his achievements and impact on Europe.
Explore our collection of contextual essays on various aspects of cutlure, using various archives from Gale Primary Sources product.
"One defence of anonymity was that it didn't seem to harm sales. The first year of Alan Pryce-Jones's editorship brought the TLS to its highest circulation ever…"
Between 1770 and 1830, crucial changes in penal law, including the increasing professionalization of law enforcement, and the decline in popularity of some of the traditional genres in the popular literature of crime, meant that crime content in newspapers was expanded and re-organised.
"In 1920, Charles-Edward A. Winslow (1877-1957), a faculty member at the Yale School of Medicine, penned his “classic definition” of public health as…"
"In 1648, when his father was imprisoned by Parliament, James fled to Holland disguised as a girl, later joining his mother in France and ending up fighting with…"
"The nineteenth century was a key period in the development of scientific knowledge about electricity. Electricity was transformed from a…"
"The first number of The Illustrated London News on 14 May 1842 reflects the newspaper’s initial, and longstanding, dedication to the illustrated coverage of…"
"Queen Anne's death in August 1714 was significant in a variety of ways. In foreign policy terms, her reign had been dominated by conflict with Louis XIV…"
"The death of Queen Anne on 1 August 1714 (os) had the potential to leave a serious power vacuum. Under the Act of Settlement of 1701, her heir was the…"
The campaign to abolish the British slave trade was one of the most important public debates of the late eighteenth century. References to slavery are thus frequently found in newspapers of the period, and are particularly prominent in newspapers published at the height of the campaign in 1787-92.
"Fryer’s inspiring saga against censorship is detailed in a short 160-page book published in London in 1966 by Secker & Warburg, Private Case – Public Scandal…"
"It was the merging of two small City newspapers in 1945 that saw the creation of the Financial Times as we know it today. The two papers that came together…"
An essay on the the Daily Mirror, the only major national daily newspaper in Britain to be designed for women, even if only lasted for a short while.