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An Inquiry into the Effects of Ardent Spirits upon the Human Body and Mind, with an Account of the Means of Preventing, and of the Remedies for Curing Them - Dr. Benjamin Rush
An Inquiry into the Effects of Ardent Spirits upon the Human Body and Mind, with an Account of the Means of Preventing, and of the Remedies for Curing Them - Dr. Benjamin Rush
- Author: Dr. Benjamin Rush
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Medical / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Written when the United States extended only to the Mississippi River, by one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, this short work explores the physical, social, and mental effects of distilled liquors; the classes of people prone to...
Rights Of Man - Thomas PAINE
Rights Of Man - Thomas PAINE
- Author: Thomas PAINE
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
A book in 2 Parts, published in 1791 and 1792. Part First denounces Edmund Burkeβs defense of monarchy and his attacks against the French Revolution, and in plain laymanβs language traces the birth and fallacy of monarchy, and the source of man's...
Essays on Work and Culture - Hamilton Wright Mabie
Essays on Work and Culture - Hamilton Wright Mabie
- Author: Hamilton Wright Mabie
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
The author investigates the world of work against a backdrop of culture. Each of the 25 essays focuses on one aspect of the topic. For example, the first essay, "Tool or Man?" looks at two views of man. One is that of strength as the provider of...
The Medicine-Men Of The Apache - John Gregory Bourke
The Medicine-Men Of The Apache - John Gregory Bourke
- Author: John Gregory Bourke
- Genre: Medical / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
βHerewith I have the honor to submit a paper upon the paraphernalia of the medicine-men of the Apache and other tribes. Analogues have been pointed out, wherever possible, especially in the case of the hoddentin and the izze-kloth, which have never...
A Japanese Boy - Shigemi Shiukichi
A Japanese Boy - Shigemi Shiukichi
- Author: Shigemi Shiukichi
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
The life of a Japanese boy in the late 1800's and early 1900's, told simply and beautifully. This isn't about civilizations and governments, but about what it was like to be a child in a small seaport town called Imabari, which is situated on the...
Thoughts on South Africa - Olive Schreiner
Thoughts on South Africa - Olive Schreiner
- Author: Olive Schreiner
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Modern (20th C)
'Thoughts on South Africa' is a collection of Schreiner's observations of colonial South Africa in the early 19th century, mostly regarding Boer-English relations. The book was published posthumously in 1923. Prospective listeners should be aware...
Psychology of the Unconscious - Carl Gustav Jung
Psychology of the Unconscious - Carl Gustav Jung
- Author: Carl Gustav Jung
- Genre: Psychology / Religion / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Jung says in his subtitle that this work is a study of the transformations and symbolisms of the libido and a contribution to the history of the evolution of thought....
The Red Reign: The True Story of an Adventurous Year in Russia - Kellogg Durland
The Red Reign: The True Story of an Adventurous Year in Russia - Kellogg Durland
- Author: Kellogg Durland
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Travel & Geography / Modern (20th C)
Kellogg Durland spent a year in Russia as a journalist in 1906, during a seminal period in Russian history. This is a highly interesting read, knowing as we do what fell out for Russia in the next decade. The Russian Revolution did not appear from...
The Romance of the Romanoffs - Joseph Martin McCabe
The Romance of the Romanoffs - Joseph Martin McCabe
- Author: Joseph Martin McCabe
- Genre: War & Military / History / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
The eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were periods of stark contrast between the opulent lifestyle of the rich and the extreme poverty of the peasants throughout the world. In addition, Russia straddled eastern and western...
Neighbourhood β A Yearβs Life in and About an English Village - Tickner Edwardes
Neighbourhood β A Yearβs Life in and About an English Village - Tickner Edwardes
- Author: Tickner Edwardes
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
If you love the quiet of the country - the real quiet which is not silence at all, but the blending of a myriad scarce-perceptible sounds you will get it in Windlecombe, year in and year out. For how many ages a human settlement has existed in this...
The Cruise of the Falcon - A Voyage to South America in a 30-Ton Yacht - Edward Frederick Knight
The Cruise of the Falcon - A Voyage to South America in a 30-Ton Yacht - Edward Frederick Knight
- Author: Edward Frederick Knight
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Travel & Geography
In this fine sailing and exploring yarn, Edward Frederick Knight (1852-1925), sometime English barrister, journalist, sportsman, and amateur seaman, conspires over a fish dinner in Harwich to buy and refit the tiny yacht Falcon, recruit a crew of...
Vindication Of The Rights Of Men, In A Letter To The Right Honourable Edmund Burke; Occasioned By His Reflections On The Revolution In France - Mary Wollstonecraft
Vindication Of The Rights Of Men, In A Letter To The Right Honourable Edmund Burke; Occasioned By His Reflections On The Revolution In France - Mary Wollstonecraft
- Author: Mary Wollstonecraft
- Genre: Political Science / Psychology / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) attacks aristocracy and advocates republicanism. It was published in response to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), which was a defence of constitutional...
The Aftermath of Slavery - William A. Sinclair
The Aftermath of Slavery - William A. Sinclair
- Author: William A. Sinclair
- Genre: History / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
This work describes conditions and forces the black population of the South faced after freedom was brought by the Civil War. As Sinclair puts it at the outset of his book, ". . . the chief efforts of Southern leadership have been to curtail the...
The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits - William Hazlitt
The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits - William Hazlitt
- Author: William Hazlitt
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Literary Criticism / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
William Hazlitt was a keen observer of his time and the people populating the literary landscape. He presents short monographs on such illustrious persons as Jeremy Bentham, known for his philosophy of utility, William Godwin, who raised the...
The Domestic Slave Trade Of The Southern States - Winfield Hazlitt Collins
The Domestic Slave Trade Of The Southern States - Winfield Hazlitt Collins
- Author: Winfield Hazlitt Collins
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Early Modern / Modern (19th C)
This 1904 history of slavery in the southeastern United States reflects the state of knowledge at that time, of course. The text contains so many extensive quotations (well footnoted along with an extensive bibliography) that it was unfeasible to...
Early Greek Philosophy and Other Essays - Friedrich Nietzsche
Early Greek Philosophy and Other Essays - Friedrich Nietzsche
- Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Genre: Philosophy / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
The essays contained in this volume treat of various subjects. With the exception of perhaps one we must consider all these papers as fragments. Written during the early Seventies, and intended mostly as prefaces, they are extremely interesting,...
The Negro Laborer: A Word to Him - William H. Councill
The Negro Laborer: A Word to Him - William H. Councill
- Author: William H. Councill
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
William H. Councill, former slave and contemporary of Booker T. Washington was founder of Huntsville Normal School, now Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University in Normal, Alabama. This short volume consists of short pieces of advice to the...
The City of Din - Dan McKenzie
The City of Din - Dan McKenzie
- Author: Dan McKenzie
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
A treatise on the increasing loudness of modern life, including philosophical and scientific discussion of what noise is, how effects us physically, mentally, and socially in cities, on railways, at home, in workplaces, and on battlefields of war....
The Golden Bough: The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, Volume 1 - James FRAZER
The Golden Bough: The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, Volume 1 - James FRAZER
- Author: James FRAZER
- Genre: Reference / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Other religions
The first volume in Frazer's seminal 12 volume set on anthropology and traditional systems of belief. Topics covered include extensive discussion on the belief in sympathetic and contagious magic, magical influence on the environment, magicians and...
The Alps, the Danube and the Near East - Frank G. Carpenter
The Alps, the Danube and the Near East - Frank G. Carpenter
- Author: Frank G. Carpenter
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Travel & Geography
Journeying through many countries including Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Switzerland and Greece, the author gives an in-depth account of many aspects of the culture of the times and the people of the regions. (Summary by Betty B)...
The Social Settlement Movement in Chicago - Josephine Hunt Raymond
The Social Settlement Movement in Chicago - Josephine Hunt Raymond
- Author: Josephine Hunt Raymond
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
This is Ms. Raymond's thesis submitted for the awarding of her master's degree from the University of Wisconsin (Madison.) Raymond clearly knows her subject well and describes the aims and practices of the various social settlements established in...
The Life of Clara Barton - Volume 1 - William E. Barton
The Life of Clara Barton - Volume 1 - William E. Barton
- Author: William E. Barton
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Modern (19th C)
Clarissa Harlowe Barton (December 25, 1821 β April 12, 1912) was a pioneering American nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She was a hospital nurse in the American Civil War, a teacher, and a patent clerk. Since nursing education was not then...
Life of Dorothea Lynde Dix - Francis Tiffany
Life of Dorothea Lynde Dix - Francis Tiffany
- Author: Francis Tiffany
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Psychology / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
A biography of a woman who advocated for the humane treatment of people with mental illness. As a young woman travelling overseas, Dorothea Dix met with people who were interested in reforming how the mentally ill were treated. Returning to America,...
Man and His Ancestor: A Study in Evolution - Charles McLean Andrews
Man and His Ancestor: A Study in Evolution - Charles McLean Andrews
- Author: Charles McLean Andrews
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Life Sciences
An examination of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and subsequent texts, written for the general public at the turn of the twentieth century, "[...] to dwell on the various significant facts that have been discovered since Darwin's time, and to...
Two American Slavery Documents - James Mars
Two American Slavery Documents - James Mars
- Author: James Mars
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Modern (19th C)
This recording contains two original documents. 1) Life of James Mars, a Slave Born and Sold in Connecticut, by James Mars (1869). James Mars was born in Connecticut in 1790 and spent the better part of his youth a slave working for various...
The Golden Bough: The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, Volume 2 - James FRAZER
The Golden Bough: The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, Volume 2 - James FRAZER
- Author: James FRAZER
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Other religions
The second volume in Frazer's seminal 12 volume set on anthropology and traditional systems of belief. The superstition and magical purpose of kings is further discussed alongside the worship of trees, vegetation, fire, and the sacred marriages, and...
London Labour and the London Poor Volume I - Henry MAYHEW
London Labour and the London Poor Volume I - Henry MAYHEW
- Author: Henry MAYHEW
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Modern (19th C)
Subtitled, "A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work." "The history of a people from the lips of the people themselves .. their labour, earnings, trials and sufferings,...
In the Land of Cave and Cliff Dwellers - Frederick Schwatka
In the Land of Cave and Cliff Dwellers - Frederick Schwatka
- Author: Frederick Schwatka
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Travel & Geography
An adventurer and explorer of no mean repute, Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka leads an expedition by mule train into the forbidding Sierra Madre mountains of Mexico to one of the richest silver mining regions in the world. He offers lively (and...
Woman and the Republic - Helen Johnson
Woman and the Republic - Helen Johnson
- Author: Helen Johnson
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Modern (19th C)
First published in 1897, the book is considered to be the best summary of the arguments against woman suffrage. It allows readers to understand better why opposing views towards women's suffrage were prevalent even among women themselves then....
The Science - History of the Universe Vol. 7: Anthropology & Medicine - Francis ROLT-WHEELER
The Science - History of the Universe Vol. 7: Anthropology & Medicine - Francis ROLT-WHEELER
- Author: Francis ROLT-WHEELER
- Genre: Medical / Science / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The seventh volume is on Anthropology written by the editor himself and on Medicine written by Theodore H. Allen. An introduction to the Anthropology section was written by Frederick...
Oracles of Nostradamus - Charles A. Ward
Oracles of Nostradamus - Charles A. Ward
- Author: Charles A. Ward
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Charles A. Ward was considered one of the most knowledgeable in his studies of the prophecies of Nostradamus. Ward viewed the prophecies of Nostradamus as predictions that only make sense in hindsight, rather than a tool for predicting future...
Your Negro Neighbor - Benjamin Griffith BRAWLEY
Your Negro Neighbor - Benjamin Griffith BRAWLEY
- Author: Benjamin Griffith BRAWLEY
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
An historical and sociological view of race relations in America as it pertains to the African-American. - Summary by KevinS...
Manners and Rules of Good Society; Or, Solecisms to be Avoided by a Member of the Aristocracy - Anonymous
Manners and Rules of Good Society; Or, Solecisms to be Avoided by a Member of the Aristocracy - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Education / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
The title of this work sufficiently indicates the nature of its contents. The Usages of Good Society relate not only to good manners and to good breeding, but also to the proper etiquette to be observed on every occasion. (From "Introductory...
The Suffragette: The History of the Women's Militant Suffrage Movement - E. Sylvia Pankhurst
The Suffragette: The History of the Women's Militant Suffrage Movement - E. Sylvia Pankhurst
- Author: E. Sylvia Pankhurst
- Genre: History / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
This history of the Women's Suffrage agitation is written at a time when the question is in the very forefront of British politics. What the immediate future holds for those women who are most actively engaged in fighting for their political freedom...
Women's Wild Oats: Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards - Catherine Gasquoine Hartley
Women's Wild Oats: Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards - Catherine Gasquoine Hartley
- Author: Catherine Gasquoine Hartley
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
A resounding and, for the times, outrageous look at restructuring British society using the first world war as trigger for changing the place of women in the workplace and their homes, right down to their relations with their children. These essays...
The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion. Part 2. Taboo and the Perils of the Soul - James FRAZER
The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion. Part 2. Taboo and the Perils of the Soul - James FRAZER
- Author: James FRAZER
- Genre: Religion / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
The third volume of The Golden Bough. The term Taboo is one of the very few words which the English language has borrowed from the speech of savages. This volume examines the underlying moral code of many societies, both primitive and medieval, and...
The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry into Its Origin and Growth - John Bagnell BURY
The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry into Its Origin and Growth - John Bagnell BURY
- Author: John Bagnell BURY
- Genre: History / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Early Modern
John Bagnell Bury was Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University in the early twentieth century. In The Idea of Progress, he assesses the concepts of history found in the classical period and then traces the historical development of...
A Gringo In MaΓ±ana-Land - Harry La Tourette Foster
A Gringo In MaΓ±ana-Land - Harry La Tourette Foster
- Author: Harry La Tourette Foster
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Exploration
Foster was a World War I veteran, world wanderer, journalist, embassy attachΓ©, stoker on ships, miner, stowaway, banditβs prisoner in Mexico, who wrote of Latin America and the Orient. He died an early death of pneumonia at his motherβs house in New...
The Jim Crow Car; Or, Denouncement of Injustice Meted Out to the Black Race - John Clay Coleman
The Jim Crow Car; Or, Denouncement of Injustice Meted Out to the Black Race - John Clay Coleman
- Author: John Clay Coleman
- Genre: Law / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Modern (19th C)
"My opposition to injustice, imposition, discrimination and prejudice, which have for many years existed against the colored people of the South, has led to this little book. In many parts of America the press has been furnished with βmatterβ for...
The Religious Experience of the Roman People - W. Warde Fowler
The Religious Experience of the Roman People - W. Warde Fowler
- Author: W. Warde Fowler
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Other religions
A series of lectures delivered by Professor Fowler at Edinburgh University for a public audience, concerning the development and decay of the religion of the Roman City-state. - Summary by Lynne Thompson...
