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The Making of the Modern World contains books, pamphlets, serials, and essays that track the development of the modern, western world through the lens of trade and wealth.

The Toronto Public Library provides free and equitable access to services which meet the changing needs of Torontonians. The Library preserves and promotes universal access to a broad range of human knowledge, experience, information and ideas. Used as a source if a physical copy is consulted.

City-wide library services are provided through Toronto Public Library’s network of 100 branches. It has over 12 million items in its collection. Used as a source if the item is part of their digital collection.

The Library at the Ulster University holds a significant number of Special Collections which will be of interest to researchers locally, nationally and internationally, including The Henry Davis Collection, The Derry and Raphoe Diocesan Library Collection, and The Magee Rare Books.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library (UNC) provides collections, expertise, services, and facilities that are essential to achieving the University’s mission of research, teaching, learning, and public service for the campus community, state, nation, and world.

Rare Books and Special Collections (RBSC), at the University of British Columbia Library, houses significant collections of rare books, archival materials, historic maps, photographs, broadsides and pamphlets. The principal focus of the collections is British Columbia: history, exploration, settlement, business, politics, ethnicity, and labour. 

The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library is Harvard University's flagship library. The library's holdings, which include works in more than one hundred languages, comprise comprehen­sive research collec­tions in the humanities and social sciences.

The Wordsworth Trust's collection comprises over 65,000 items, and includes internationally significant manuscripts, printed books and fine art from 1750 to the present day. 

WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services. WorldCat libraries are dedicated to providing access to their resources on the Web, where most people start their search for information.

The Yale Center for British Art is a public art museum and research institute that houses the largest collection of British art outside the United Kingdom. Presented to the university by Paul Mellon, the collection reflects the development of British art and culture from the Elizabethan period onward.