Social Science

The Golden Bough. Part VI. The Scapegoat

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James Frazer


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 …

Berlins Drittes Geschlecht

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Magnus Hirschfeld


"Berlins Drittes Geschlecht" ist eine populärwissenschaftliche Beschreibung der LGBTQ+ Kultur im Berlin der Jahrhundertwende.…

The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races, Vol. I, No. 3

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W. E. B. Du Bois


The Crisis is the official publication of the NAACP first published in 1910 with W. E. B. Du Bois, one of the founders, as editor. He exerci…

Charles Sumner, The Scholar in Politics

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Archibald Grimké


In the two volumes assigned to him in the American Reformer Series, viz., the "Life of William Lloyd Garrison, the Abolitionist," …

The Wedding Day in All Ages and Countries

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Edward J. Wood


The Wedding-day in all Ages and Countries is the title of a new work from the press of Harper & Brothers. In this book we find an exhaus…

History of a Literary Radical, and Other Essays

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Randolph Silliman Bourne


A posthumous collection of Bourne's writing from publications such as The Atlantic Monthly and early issues of The New Republic, with a long…

In Indian Mexico

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Frederick Starr


In this work, Starr delves into the anthropological side of Mexico's Natives ("Indians") at the end of the XIX century. Researche…

Why We Love Music

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Carl Emil Seashore


Psychologists have not explained why we love music. A technical psychologist indulges in generalizations and predictions in a practical and …

The Story of Santa Klaus

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William S. Walsh


Who was Santa Klaus? Did he exist? In this study of custom and folklore, the author looks at the real and the legendary man, according to va…

Criminal man: according to the classification of Cesare Lombroso

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Gina Lombroso


This book is an English summary and paraphrase of the multi-volume Italian work of the same name compiled by Cesare Lombroso, the father of …

Researches into the Physical History of Man

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James Cowles Prichard


Prichard’s Researches into the Physical History of Man has been called the most important pre-Darwinian anthropological work in English of t…

Life and Writings of Amelia Bloomer

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Dexter C. Bloomer


As Mrs. Bloomer was one of the pioneers in what is sometimes called the “Woman’s Movement,” it seems right that a record of her work should …

Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, December 1827

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Commissioner of Indian Affairs and Commissioner Of Indian Affairs


Because the US Constitution gives the power of relating to (and control over) Indian tribes to the federal government, Congress requires upd…

Catastrophe and Social Change, Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax D…

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Samuel Henry Prince


The Halifax Disaster in 1917 was the greatest man-made explosion prior to the atomic bomb."The following pages [are] the result of an o…

The Great Beach

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John Hay


Written by John Hay, a naturalist and co-founder of the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History, The Great Beach is an exploration into the natur…

Galateo

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Giovanni della Casa and Giovanni Della Casa


A book on the practice of mannerly behaviour at Court, originally written in Italian but translated into English for the Elizabethan court. …

Special Report on Negro Domestic Service in the Seventh Ward Philadelphia

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Isabel Eaton


This paper is an attempt to give the most accurate facts obtainable bearing upon the question of colored domestic service in Philadelphia. (…

Droll Stories of Isthmian Life

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Evelyn Saxton


Enjoy these stories compiled from the travels and customs of life from the Isthmus! Our author takes us along a journey and tells the tales …

The Golden Bough. Part VII. Balder The Beautiful. Volume I

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James Frazer


The tenth volume in The Golden Bough series. Frazer discusses the problem which gives its title to the whole work. If right, the Golden Boug…

Holidays and Happy Days

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Hamish Hendry


A playful description of the most notable days of the year in British culture. - Summary by Rapunzelina

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