Archaeology & Anthropology

Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2 Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in The Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners Of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits To the Islands in the Arafura Sea

John Lort Stokes

John Lort Stokes’s Discoveries in Australia is a first‑hand account of the Royal Navy’s surveying voyages…

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day

Alexander Francis Chamberlain

The work is a scholarly expansion of a series of 1894 lectures delivered at Clark University, in which…

Man, Past and Present

A. H. Keane

The work is a scholarly survey of human diversity that attempts to trace the development of mankind from its…

The Myths of the North American Indians

Lewis Spence

The work is a scholarly survey of North‑American Indian folklore, presented as a single volume that seeks to…

Angola and the River Congo, vol. 2

Joachim John Monteiro

Monteiro’s second volume is a first‑hand travelogue that blends geographic description with ethnographic…

Taboo and genetics: A study of the biological, sociological and psychological foundation of the family

Knight, Melvin M. (Melvin Moses); Blanchard, Phyllis; Peters, Iva Lowther

Taboo and Genetics is a scholarly survey that attempts to unite three distinct strands of inquiry, biology,…

Early European History

Hutton Webster

The work is a comprehensive textbook of European history, intended for secondary‑school curricula that…

Cuba Past and Present

Richard Davey

Richard Davey’s “Cuba Past and Present” is a travel‑history hybrid that blends personal observation with a…

The stone age in North America, vol. 2 of 2

Warren K. Moorehead

The work is a scholarly survey of prehistoric stone artifacts found among the native peoples of North…

Old Rome: A Handbook to the Ruins of the City and the Campagna

Robert Burn

Robert Burn’s “Old Rome: A Handbook to the Ruins of the City and the Campagna” is a compact topographical…

Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I.

John L. Stephens

This work is a nineteenth‑century travelogue that records John L.

The Pagan Tribes of Borneo A Description of Their Physical Moral and Intellectual Condition, with Some Discussion of Their Ethnic Relations

Hose, Charles; McDougall, William

The work is a comprehensive ethnographic survey of the “pagan tribes of Borneo” as they stood at the close of…

Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before

George Turner

The work is a nineteenth‑century ethnographic study of the Samoan Islands, opening with a detailed geographic…

Opuscula: Essays chiefly Philological and Ethnographical

R. G. Latham

The volume Opuscula gathers a series of essays by Robert Gordon Latham, a nineteenth‑century scholar whose…

The American Nations, Vol. I. Or, Outlines of a National History of the Ancient and Modern Nations of North and South America

C. S. Rafinesque

The work is an ambitious scholarly outline that seeks to chart the entire history of the peoples of North and…

The three additions to Daniel, a study

William Heaford Daubney

The work is a scholarly examination of the three apocryphal sections that accompany the Book of Daniel, the…

Buried Cities and Bible Countries

George St. Clair

The Archaeology of the Yakima Valley

Harlan Ingersoll Smith

The work is a field report by Harlan Ingersoll Smith, documenting a series of archaeological surveys he…

Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891

The volume is the Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, submitted in 1887 to the Secretary of the…

Toledo, the Story of an Old Spanish Capital

Hannah Lynch

Hannah Lynch’s Toledo, the Story of an Old Spanish Capital is a richly illustrated historical guide that…

Comparative Studies in Nursery Rhymes

Lina Eckenstein

Lina Eckenstein’s Comparative Studies in Nursery Rhymes is a scholarly survey that traces the printed history…

An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies Together with an Account of the Detaining in Captivity the Author and Divers other Englishmen Now Living There, and of the Author's Miraculous Escape

Robert Knox

Robert Knox’s work is a first‑hand chronicle of Ceylon (modern Sri Lanka) written after a twenty‑year sojourn…

A History of Sumer and Akkad An account of the early races of Babylonia from prehistoric times to the foundation of the Babylonian monarchy

L. W. King

Leonard William King’s A History of Sumer and Akkad is a scholarly survey of the earliest phases of…

Seven Mohave Myths

A. L. Kroeber

This volume is a scholarly compilation by anthropologist A. L.