Sociology

The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks

Vatsyayana

The work presented is a nineteenth‑century English translation of Vatsyayana’s Sanskrit treatise on love,…

The Souls of Black Folk

W. E. B. Du Bois

The work is a nonfiction meditation on the condition of African Americans at the turn of the twentieth…

The origin and development of the moral ideas

Edward Westermarck

Edward Westermarck’s *The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas* is a scholarly survey of ethical theory…

Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage

Jefferis, B. G. (Benjamin Grant); Nichols, J. L.

The work is a Victorian‑era handbook that blends moral instruction with practical advice on health,…

Anarchism and Other Essays

Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman’s *Anarchism and Other Essays* is a polemical collection that opens with a vivid courtroom…

Civics and Health

William H. Allen

Allen’s Civics and Health is a practical treatise on public‑health hygiene aimed at educators, physicians,…

Democracy in America — Volume 1

Alexis de Tocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville’s *Democracy in America* is a sweeping study of the political and social fabric of the…

Étude Médico-Légale: Psychopathia Sexualis avec recherches spéciales sur l'inversion sexuelle

R. von Krafft-Ebing

Ce traité, signé par le médecin‑légiste Richard von Krafft‑Ebing, se présente comme une étude médico‑légale…

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919

Various

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4 (1919) gathers a series of contemporary reports, speeches, and Senate…

Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana

Solomon Northup

Solomon Northup’s *Twelve Years a Slave* is a first‑person memoir that records the author’s harrowing…

India, Its Life and Thought

John P. Jones

John P. Jones’s India, Its Life and Thought is a scholarly survey of Indian society as seen through the eyes…

Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals

William Graham Sumner

William Graham Sumner’s Folkways offers a sweeping sociological survey of how customs, manners, and morals…

Woman Her Sex and Love Life

William J. Robinson

The book is a medical‑style handbook written by William J.

The Evolution of Marriage and of the Family

Ch. Letourneau

Charles Letourneau’s work is a scholarly treatise that seeks to trace the development of marriage and family…

The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States

Harry Best

Harry Best’s work is a scholarly survey of the social standing and educational prospects of deaf Americans at…

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.

Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle’s *Past and Present* is a sweeping historical essay that opens with a vivid, almost theatrical…

How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York

Jacob A. Riis

Jacob A. Riis’s How the Other Half Lives is a nonfiction study of New York’s tenement districts, written by a…

Criminality and economic conditions

Willem Adriaan Bonger

The work is a scholarly survey that sets out to link crime with its economic environment.

The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

Émile Durkheim

Change in the Village

George Sturt

George Sturt’s *Change in the Village* is a social history that opens with a precise, almost geographical…

Select Temperance Tracts

American Tract Society

Select Temperance Tracts is a series of pamphlets issued by the American Tract Society that confronts the…

Society: Its Origin and Development

Henry K. Rowe

The work is a systematic introduction to sociology that treats the subject as a natural science, beginning…

Working With the Working Woman

Cornelia Stratton Parker

Cornelia Stratton Parker’s Working With the Working Woman is a sociological survey that blends personal…

Democracy in America — Volume 2

Alexis de Tocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville’s second volume of *Democracy in America* is a systematic study of how the principle of…