Goldsmiths' Library Subject Coverage
Introduction
One of the distinguishing features of the Goldsmiths' Library is its great breadth of coverage of economic literature. It includes more than 66,000 manuscripts, books, serials, pamphlets, broadsides and proclamations, from the fifteenth century right up to the present day.
It is strongest in works illustrating the development of economic thought in the British Isles and France, particularly in the period 1700-1850. The Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Spain and North America are also represented.
The subject divisions cover financial and monetary policy, agriculture, early English and French socialism, slavery, trade, guilds, transport (particularly railway history), the temperance movement and the condition of the people generally.
Amassed by H. S. Foxwell in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the first 30,000 books focused on economics, in its widest sense, in the period 1750-1850. Since coming under the care of the University of London the collection has doubled in size, especially following the incorporation of a number of smaller collections, which brought with them more in-depth coverage of specific subjects. These supplementary collections include:
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