Online Primary Source Collections for History

The Making of the Modern World offers full text searching of works on economics and business published from 1450-1914 from the Kress Collection of Business and Economics at the Baker Library, Harvard Business School and the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature at the University of London Library. Includes material on commerce, finance, social conditions, politics, public health, trade and transport.

Sound Toll Registers (1497-1857) record the toll levied on ships through the strait between Denmark and Sweden.  Includes for each passage, the name of the shipmaster, his town of residence, his port of departure and--from the mid-1660s--his port of destination, the composition of the cargo and the toll per commodity.

Global commodities : trade, exploration & cultural exchange brings together manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of global commodities in world history