Published by Primary Source Microfilm

Drawn from the Seligman Collection at Columbia University and other major economic history collections, Economic Literature, 1851-1900 continues in the tradition of The Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature, adding titles from the latter half of the 19th century in various economic fields. Sourced from multiple institutions, including the Seligman Collection of Economic Literature at Columbia University and Hiroshima Kezai University, as well as the Economic Literature Collection of the University of Kansas. A highly regarded source for valuable primary documents, Economic Literature, 1851-1900 contains approximately 4,000 titles on agriculture, finance, industry and political economy from England, the United States, France, Germany and other Western nations.

Scholars and students of the history of economics, politics, agriculture, technology and communications will find reports, speeches, collections of correspondence, surveys and other analytical and statistical documentation, making Economic Literature, 1851-1900 the ideal archival repository for researching the history of Western economics.

Sample titles from 1851-1865 include:

• Samuel Wilkeson -- How our national debt may be a national blessing. The debt is public wealth, political union, protection of industry, secure basis for national currency, the orphans' and widows' savings fund
• Edwin T. Freedley -- Money: how to get, save, spend, give, lend, and bequeath it: being a practical treatise on business
• Robert Owen -- Calculations showing the facility with which the paupers and unemployed, or any other portion of the population may be enabled to support themselves within most desirable circumstances, by co-operation
• William M. Gouge -- The fiscal history of Texas. Embracing an account of its revenues, debts, and currency, from the commencement of the revolution in 1834 to 1851-52
• Robert Dick -- On the evils, impolicy, and anomaly of individuals being landlords, and nations tenants: together with twelve propositions on labor, wages, &c.
• David Christy -- Cotton is king; or, The culture of cotton, and its relation to agriculture, manufactures and commerce; to the free colored people; and to those who hold that slavery is in itself sinful; by an American
• Samuel Gouling -- Our laboring classes, their intellectual, moral, and social condition considered, with suggestion for their improvement
• Auguste Rabutaux -- De la prostitution en Europe, depuis l'antiq-uité jusqu'à la fin du xvie siécle
• Brewin Grant -- Popular elevation, the work of the people: being an examination of the existing elements for the intellectual, spiritual, moral, and political improvement of modern society
• E.D. Joyce -- How half a million of the surplus revenue should be invested for the benefit of England and her colonies
• John Fletcher -- Studies on slavery, in easy lessons. Comp. Into eight studies, and subdivided into short lessons for the convenience of readers
• Horace Greeley -- What the sister arts teach as to farming: an address before the Indiana State Agricultural Society, at its annual fair, Lafayette, Oct. 13, 1853
• Postal reform: proceedings of a public meeting held in the City of New York, March 24th, 1856, with the address of the Postal Reform Committee, speeches, letters, &c., &c., &c.
• Major-General R. Alexander -- The rise and progress of British opium smuggling, and its effects upon India, China, and the commerce of Great Britain
• William M'Combie -- Use and abuse; or, right and wrong, in the relations to labor, of capital, machinery, and land
• Samuel F. B. Morse -- Immigrant dangers to the free institutions of the United States through foreign immigration, and the present state of the naturalization laws
• Henry Felt Baker -- Banks and banking in the United States

Complete Collection: 466 reels