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Law and Capitalism: Books

Sources to support the Brooklyn Law School course: Law and Capitalism. Under development.

Tips

This guide primarily highlights sources available through BLS Library and publicly accessible sources.

  • Click here to view a list of BLS Library's books (listed "newest to oldest") classified in SARA catalog by subject: Capitalism - United States - History. 

BLS Library tries to provide multiple-user access to ebooks.  For example, BLS patrons have "unlimited" digital user access to the essay collection: American Capitalism: New Histories (2018) and to Ned Blackhawk, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History (2023).  But sometimes vendors do not offer this purchase option or the option is expensive. 

  • Tip: BLS students who plan to work off campus and do not live in a BLS residence: implement the BLS proxy server instructions for 1 web browser, then close/reopen that browser.  BLS librarians recommend implementing the proxy instructions for Firefox browser. This will allow you to access BLS ebooks off campus.  (If you successfully implement the BLS proxy instructions, a prompt will appear requesting your BLS username/password.) 

  • The BLS Library team purchases some ebooks from ProQuest Ebook Central (EBC). 
    • Tip re. EBC ebooks in BLS Library's SARA catalog: First-time use of the EBC ebook platform requires BLS students to click: Create Account.  BLS students who are off campus: use a web browser that communicates with the BLS proxy server to create an EBC account. 
      • Subsequent use of an EBC ebook: enter BLS username (format: firstname.lastname@brooklaw.edu) & password.

Tip: Google Books states it now provides "more than 10 million free books."  These include public-domain works, works available free at the request of the copyright owner, and U.S. government documents. 

  • Click here to search Google's free books.

Tip: HathiTrust Digital Library states it provides digital material (over 18 million sources) from the collections of 60+ academic and research libraries.  All users can read public domain/open access texts and search the complete Hathi Trust Digital Library.  Among the "featured collections" is:

Tip: New York state residents can apply online for a New York Public Library (NYPL) card to access ebooks, audiobooks, and many databases.  For example, NYPL provides many circulating digital copies of Sven Beckert, Empire of Cotton: A Global History (2014) and 2 digital circulating copies* of Daina Ramey Berry, The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation (2017).   NYPL provides remote access to some of its databases, such as Gale database: Indigenous Peoples: North America (contains digitized archival sources).  Those who live, work or attend school in New York state can apply online for a Brooklyn Public Library card. 

Tip: To place interlibrary loan requests for books, book chapters, articles, reports and other material: Click tab: ILL in SARA catalog > enter your BLS user name (in format: firstname.lastname) & password > click: New Request.  Click: Other to  request a book chapter/section.  Please monitor both your BLS "In" box and "Clutter" folder for messages about your ILL requests.   

  • Want to check the status of an ILL request?  Contact: askthelibrary@brooklaw.edu
  • Copies of articles and book chapters often arrive within 1-3 business days of placing a request.  (Material arrives more quickly if a lender can fill an interlibrary loan request electronically.)  Books can take longer to receive from a lender. 

*NYPL's Libby app shows 2 digital circulating copies + 1 audiobook.

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