Sociology

Woman under socialism

August Bebel

The work is a polemical treatise by August Bebel, originally published in German as Die Frau und der…

Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 2 of 7

Edgar Thurston

The work is a scholarly survey of the many castes and tribal groups that populate southern India, compiled by…

Village Life in China: A Study in Sociology

Arthur H. Smith

Arthur H. Smith’s Village Life in China offers a systematic sociological survey of Chinese rural communities…

Woman and Socialism

August Bebel

August Bebel’s Woman and Socialism is a polemical treatise that frames the “woman question” as inseparable…

Japanese Girls and Women Revised and Enlarged Edition

Alice Mabel Bacon

Alice M. Bacon’s Japanese Girls and Women is a revised and enlarged study of women’s roles in Meiji‑era…

The city

Park, Robert Ezra; Burgess, E. W. (Ernest Watson); McKenzie, Roderick Duncan

The volume is a collaborative sociological study of urban life, assembled from a series of papers first…

Area Handbook for Bulgaria

Keefe, Eugene K.; Baluyut, Violeta D.; Giloane, William; Long, Anne K.; Moore, James M.; Walpole, Neda A.

The Area Handbook for Bulgaria is a government‑style reference work produced by the Foreign Area Studies…

London Labour and the London Poor, Vol. 3

Henry Mayhew

The third volume of Henry Mayhew’s exhaustive survey of London’s underclass opens with a vivid, almost…

The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 03, March, 1888

Various

The American Missionary, Volume 42, No. 03, March 1888, is a periodical issued by the American Missionary…

Proposed Roads to Freedom

Bertrand Russell

The work is an extended essay that sets out to trace the intellectual and organisational roots of modern…

The White Slaves of England

John C. Cobden

The work is a polemical investigation into what John C. Cobden terms “white slavery” in nineteenth‑century…

The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States

Martin Robison Delany

Martin Robison Delany’s work is a polemical treatise that seeks to lay out “great truths” about the status of…

How to Observe: Morals and Manners

Harriet Martineau

Harriet Martineau’s How to Observe: Morals and Manners is a systematic guide that treats the study of human…

The School and Society Being three lectures

John Dewey

The work is a modest collection of three public lectures that John Dewey gave in April 1899 to parents and…

French & English: A comparison

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Philip Gilbert Hamerton’s work is a comparative essay that sets out to examine the national characteristics…

After the Rain : how the West lost the East

Samuel Vaknin

Aliens or Americans?

Howard B. Grose

Howard B. Grose’s Aliens or Americans? is a polemical study of early‑twentieth‑century immigration, framed as…

Social Origins and Primal Law

Lang, Andrew; Atkinson, J. J.

The work is a scholarly treatise on the origins of marriage, totemism and early social law, assembled by…

London Labour and the London Poor, Vol. 2

Henry Mayhew

The work is a meticulously researched social survey of the street‑trading world that underpinned Victorian…

Commercialized Prostitution in New York City

George J. Kneeland

A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3

George Elliott Howard

The People of the Abyss

Jack London

Negro Migration during the War

Emmett J. Scott

Races and Immigrants in America

John R. Commons