Social Science
Porto Rico
Puerto Rico was acquired by the United States in 1898 following the Spanish-American War. This volume was written in 1903 as Book XII in the…
The Revolutions of Civilization
British archaeologist & Egyptologist, Flinders Petrie, discusses the history of civilization in Egypt, Greece, Rome & medieval Europ…
The Workers
A young scholar, recently graduated from Princeton College, travels across the United States as a member of the working class, taking any jo…
Mother Earth
"Mother Earth was an American anarchist journal that described itself as "A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literat…
The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion.
The eighth volume in The Golden Bough collection, and second volume of The Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild. The investigations into the …
Lancashire Characters and Places
An eclectic collection of essays on late 19th-century Lancashire culture and life, including essays on the poets John Critchley Prince and E…
More Australian Legendary Tales
The present series of legends have all been collected by myself from the Blacks, as were the previous ones. But in this instance, I had much…
Human Nature and Conduct
John Dewey, an early 20th Century American philosopher, psychologist, educational theorist, saw Social Psychology as much a physical science…
Short Nonfiction Collection
Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. "Our constitution is color-blind... the law regards man as man and takes no accoun…
A Social History of the American Negro
A comprehensive history of what experiences and influences created the Negro American citizen as we find him at the beginning of the twentie…
The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi
“By a brief survey of present day Hopi culture and an examination into the myths and traditions constituting the unwritten literature of thi…
The Golden Bough
The ninth book in The Golden Bough Series. With The Scapegoat the general discussion of the theory and practice of the Dying God is brought …
Twentieth Century Negro Literature
The object of this book is... (1) To enlighten the uninformed white people on the intellectual ability of the Negro. (2) To give to those, w…
History of a Literary Radical
A posthumous collection of Bourne's writing from publications such as The Atlantic Monthly and early issues of The New Republic, with a long…
Women's Wild Oats
A resounding and, for the times, outrageous look at restructuring British society using the first world war as trigger for changing the plac…
Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development
Francis Galton, credited with the discovery of identification by fingerprinting, also took a long term interest in the study of biometrics. …
Save the Girls
Save the Girls is an 1880 American anti-white-slavery book by reformed gambler Mason Long. In it, the author crusades against the social evi…
The Philadelphia Negro
In November, 1897, I submitted to the American Academy of Political and Social Science a plan for the study of Negro problems. This work is …
Life of Dorothea Lynde Dix
A biography of a woman who advocated for the humane treatment of people with mental illness. As a young woman travelling overseas, Dorothea …
The Gray Mills of Farley
The Gray Mills of Farley by Sarah Orne Jewett offers a keen exploration of labor relations in a small New England town during the late 19th …