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"The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926" is a fully searchable database, containing 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926. A number of these are reprints of earlier works, dating from the 15th and 16th centuries. The collection details the pivotal time in American and British law brought about by the sweeping changes of the Industrial Revolution.

Full-text searching on more than 10 million pages provides researchers access to critical legal history in ways not previously possible. This integrated collection provides researchers with a logical, interdisciplinary approach to the study of legal history and allows a vast segment of the literature of law to be searched by keywords or phrases, full text, author, title, date, subject, source library and more.

The collection covers nearly every aspect of American and British law, including domestic and international law, legal history, business and economics, politics and government, national defense, criminology, religion, education, labor and social welfare, and military justice. The sources include casebooks, local practice manuals, books on legal form, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters and speeches.

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