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Here are entered works on settlement of the land by organized groups of colonists. General works on occupation of the land are entered under the heading Land settlement.

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• Agricultural colonies -- Morocco
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• Agricultural colonies -- Palestine
• Agricultural colonies -- Paraguay
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• Agricultural colonies -- Russia
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• Agricultural colonies -- Saskatchewan
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• Agricultural colonies -- South America
• Agricultural colonies -- South Australia
• Agricultural colonies -- Southeast Asia
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• Agricultural colonies -- Soviet Union
• Agricultural colonies -- Spain
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• Agricultural colonies -- Syria
• Agricultural colonies -- Transcaucasia
• Agricultural colonies -- Tropics
• Agricultural colonies -- Tunisia
• Agricultural colonies -- United States
• Agricultural colonies -- Uruguay
• Agricultural colonies -- Venezuela
• Agricultural colonies -- West (U.S.)
• Agricultural colonies -- Wisconsin
• Jews -- Colonization
• Mennonites -- Colonization

• Labor colonies

• The elimination of the tramp by the introduction into America of the labour colony system already proved effective in Holland, Belgium, and Switzerland, with the modifications thereof necessary to adapt this system to American conditions (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1908), by Edmond Kelly (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Relocation communities for wartime evacuees. (War Relocation Authority, 1942), by United States War Relocation Authority (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'exode rural et le retour aux champs (F. Alcan, 1910), by Emile Vandervelde (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The unemployables (P.S. King & son, 1907), by Edmond Kelly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Industrial investment and emigration, being a treatise on benefit building societies, and on the general principles of associations for land investment and colonization (J. W. Parker, 1851), by Arthur Scratchley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Économie politique chrétienne (Meline, Cans et compagnie, 1837), by Jean-Paul-Alban Villeneuve-Bargemon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The vagrant and the unemployable; a proposal whereby vagrants may be detained under suitable conditions and compelled to work (The Salvation army [etc.], 1909), by William Booth, Bramwell Booth, and Great Britain. Local government board. Vagrancy committee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Colonizacion rural en Mexico (Impr. de la Direccion de estudios geograficos y climatologicos, 1924), by Luis Hijar y Haro and Mexico. Secretaría de Agricultura y Ganadería (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Social aspects of the Jewish colonies of South Jersey (The League Printing Co., Inc., 1921), by Philip Reuben Goldstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• The place of agriculture in reconstruction; a study of national programs of land settlement (E. P. Dutton & company, 1919), by James Bale Morman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Landflucht, ihr Wesen und ihre Bekämpfung im Rahmen einer Agrarreform (G. Fischer, 1925), by Michael Hainisch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Co-operative labour upon the land (and other papers); the report of a conference upon 'land, co-operation, and the unemployed,' held at Holborn Town Hall in October, 1894. (S. Sonnenschein;, 1895), by J. A. Hobson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colonies agricoles (Impr. de T. Lesigne, 1851), by Edouard Ducpétiaux and Belgium Ministère de la justice (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poor and the land; being a report on the Salvation army colonies in the United States and at Hadleigh, England, with scheme of national land settlement and an introduction (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1905), by H. Rider Haggard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Helping men own farms : a practical discussion of government aid in land settlement (Macmillan, 1920), by Elwood Mead (page images at HathiTrust)
• ha-Hityashvut ha-ḥaklaʼit shel ha-Histadrut ha-tsiyonit be-Erets Yisraʼel (668-684). (Hotsaʼat "Devir", 1925), by Arthur Ruppin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kolonizacija u južnoj Srbiji (Štamparija "Bosanska pošta", 1928), by Đorđo Krstić (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The land and the soldier (C. Scribner's Sons, 1919), by Frederic C. Howe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Summary of soldier settlements in English-speaking countries, Elwood Mead, consulting engineer, U. S. Reclamation service. (Govt. print. off., 1918), by Elwood Mead, United States Reclamation Service, and United States Bureau of Reclamation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Experiments in Colorado colonization, 1869-1872 : selected contemporary records relating to the German Colonization Company and the Chicago-Colorado, St. Louis-Western and Southwestern Colonies (University of Colorado, 1926), by Colin Brummitt Goodykoontz and James F. Willard (page images at HathiTrust)
• In darkest England and the way out. (International headquarters of the Salvation Army, 1890), by William Booth (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'agriculture dans les colonies portugaises. Programme de réformes à appliquer aux colonies d'origine latine. Mémoire présenté à la première "Réunion internationale d'agronomie coloniale" de Paris. (A. Challamel, 1905), by A. d' Almada Negreiros (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hokkaidō tondenhei seido (Hokkaidōchō :, 1914), by Tetsusaburō Uehara (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• In darkest England and the way out. (International headquarters of the Salvation Army, 1890), by William Booth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes, thoughts, and inquiries. (J. Churchill, 1852), by Charles Chalmers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Land settlement for ex-service men in the oversea dominions; report to the Royal Colonial Institute (The Saint Catherine Press, 1920), by Christopher Hatton Turnor and Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Economie politique chrétienne, ou, Recherches sur la nature et les causes du paupérisme, en France et en Europe, et sur les moyens de le soulager et de le prévenir (Paulin, 1834), by Alban Villeneuve-Bargemon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Siedlungsgenossenschaft : Versuch einer positiven Überwindung des Kommunismus durch Lösung des Genossenschaftsproblems und der Agrarfrage (G. Fischer, 1913), by Franz Oppenheimer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Moorbesiedlung in Vergangenheit und Zukunft : ein Ratgeber für Siedler, Besiedlungsbehörden und andere Besiedlungsunternehmer. (P. Parey, 1920) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Land settlement as a relief measure (The University of Minnesota press, 1933), by R. W. Murchie (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'exode rural et le retour aux champs. (F. Alcan, 1903), by Emile Vandervelde (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Back to the land (Methuen, 1893), by Harold E. Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Siedlungsgenossenschaft : Versuch einer positiven Überwindung des Kommunismus durch Lösung des Genossenschaftsproblems und der Agrarfrage (Duncker & Humblot, 1896), by Franz Oppenheimer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hospitalité et travail : ou, Des moyens préventifs de combattre la mendicité et le vagabondage (Monnerat, 1887), by Élie Robin (page images at HathiTrust)
• In darkest England, and the way out. (Funk & Wagnalls, 1890), by William Booth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Economia politica cristiana, ó, Investigaciones sobre la naturaleza y las causas del pauperismo en Francia y en Europa, y sobre los medios de socorrerlo y de prevenirlo (Imprenta de La Esperanza, 1852), by Jean-Paul-Alban Villeneuve-Bargemon and José de Soto y Barona (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poor and the land, being a Report on the Salvation Army colonies in the United States and at Hadleigh, England, with Scheme of national land settlement (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1905), by H. Rider Haggard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• In darkest England, and the way out (Sergel, 1890), by William Booth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die innere kolonisation im herzogtum Oldenburg. (Gerhard Stalling, 1914), by Franz Böcker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The modern settlement movement in Germany .... (Washington, D.C., 1935), by Charles P. Loomis and United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Division of Farm Population and Rural Welfare (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Rückkehr zur Scholle und die industrielle Überproduktion. (P. Parey, 1906), by Jules Méline (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Communist and co-operative colonies ... (Thomas Y. Crowell company, 1928), by Charles Gide and Ernest F. Row (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les colonies communistes et coopératives (Association pour l'enseignement de la coopération, 1928), by Charles Gide (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report of the soldier settlement of Canada. (J. O. Patenaude, printer to the King [etc.], 1921), by Canada. Soldier Settlement Department and Canada. Soldier Settlement Board (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• On the cultivation of the waste lands in the United Kingdom, for the purpose of finding employment for the able poor, now receiving parochial aid, and therby diminishing the heavy burdens of the poor-rates; and on the expediency of making some provision for the aged and disabled paupers of Ireland ... (Published by J. Ridgway, 1829), by L. Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Die Innenkolonisation im Kanton Zürich, Die Innenkolonisation im Kanton Zürich (Rascher, 1919), by Hans Ulrich Bernhard and Schweizerische Vereinigung für Innenkolonisation und industrielle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Agricultural statutes of the state of California...part eight, Land settlement. (State Printing Office., between 1000 and 1999), by California and California. Department of Agriculture (page images at HathiTrust)
• Statisierung des kapitalismus und die bestrebungen der siedlung und inneren kolonisation ... (1928), by Helmut Rücklin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Landgesellschaften in den deutschen Schutzgebieten : Denkschrift zur Kolonialen Landfrage (Gustav Fischer, 1909), by Herbert Jäckel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• State aid in land settlement (California state printing off., 1915), by Elwood Mead (page images at HathiTrust)
• Treatise on associations for provident investment (Friendly Societies' Institute, 1857), by Arthur Scratchley (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Colonia Senador Vergueiro (Typographia imparcial de F.M.R. d'Almeida, 1851), by Carlos Perret Géntil (page images at HathiTrust)
• Land settlement and rural credits; statement of the need for an investigation ([Berkeley, Calif., 1916), by Elwood Mead (page images at HathiTrust)
• La colonisation en Algérie, 1830-1921. (Imprimerie administrative É. Pfister, 1922), by Algeria Direction de l'Agriculture, du Commerce et de la Colonisation (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• In darkest England, and the way out. (Funk & Wagnalls, 1890), by William Booth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Criticisms on "General" Booth's social scheme : from three different points of view (Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1891), by Charles Stewart Loch, Philip Dwyer, and Bernard Bosanquet (page images at HathiTrust)
• The present circumstances of the poor displayed, and the means suggested for their improvement : in accordance with the plans of the Church of England Self-Supporting Village Society (J.W. Parker, 1850), by William Stafford Finch and Church of England Self-supporting Village Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• La colonisation des terres incultes : et le problème de la main d'oeuvre en Indochine (Ardin & fils, 1918), by Pierre Marie Antoine Pasquier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Christian commonwealth (Chapman and Hall, 1845), by John Minter Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Labor colonies (Old Corner Book Store, 1899), by Anna Forbes Goodyear (page images at HathiTrust)
• General Booth's scheme. (Swan Sonnenschein, 1891), by Charles Stewart Loch, Philip Dwyer, and Bernard Bosanquet (page images at HathiTrust)
• La réforme des prisons et les colonies agricoles (Imprimerie Ramboz et Schuchardt, 1872), by Henri Subit (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le attitudini della colonia eritrea all'agricoltura; memoria letta alla R. Accademia dei Georgofili nell'Adunanza straordinaria del di 18 maggio 1902. (M. Ricci, 1902), by Gino Bartolommei Gioli and Italy) Accademia economico-agraria dei georgofili (Florence (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Britain's next campaign. (Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1904), by Julie Sutter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ansiedlungen von Landarbeitern in Norddeutschland : Erhebungen der Deutschen Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft (Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft, 1909), by Otto Gerlach, Alfred Blume, and Franz Otto Mendelson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Économie politique chrétienne (Paulin; [etc., etc.], 1834), by Alban Villeneuve-Bargemon (page images at HathiTrust)
• General Booth and his critics. Being an analysis of the scheme and an enquiry into the value of the criticisms of Professor Huxley, Mr. C.S. Loch, "The Times" newspaper, and other critics. With an outline of the intended trust deed. (Howe, 1891), by Harry Greenwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• An examination of "General" Booth's social scheme; [a series of papers] adopted by the Council of the London Charity Organization Society. (S. Sonnenschein, 1890), by Charles Stewart Lock, William Booth, and London Charity Organization Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Information regarding progress under the land settlement act ... of the state of California and about the plans for soldier settlement in the future. (California state print. off., 1920), by California. State land settlement board (page images at HathiTrust)
• Land settlement in the Mother country. ([London, 1919), by Great Britain. Board of Agriculture and Fisheries (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report on the Salvation Army colonies. (Longmans, Green, and co., 1905), by H. Rider Haggard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Settlement and employment on the land of discharged sailors and soldiers in England and Wales. (Printing office of the Institute, 1921), by International Institute of Agriculture. Bureau of Economic and Social Intelligence (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• National colonization bill. Hearings before the Committee on labor, House of representatives, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session, on H.R.11329, a bill to authorize the secretary of labor to cooperate with other departments of the government in fostering, promoting, and developing the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, by creating new opportunities for permanent and profitable employment, and for other purposes. May 18, 22, 25, June 5 and 15, 1916. (Govt. print. off., 1916), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Labor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Jewish colonies of South Jersey : historical sketch of their establishment and growth (Bureau of Statistics, 1901), by William Stainsby and New Jersey. Bureau of Statistics and Records (page images at HathiTrust)
• The development potential of new lands settlement in the tropics and subtropics : a global state-of-the-art evaluation with specific emphasis on policy implications : executive summary (U.S. Agency for International Development, 1984), by Thayer Scudder (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report of the Commission on Land Colonization and Rural Credits of the state of California. November 29, 1916. (California State Print. Off., 1916), by California. Commission on Land Colonization and Rural Credits and Elwood Mead (page images at HathiTrust)
• The unemployable and the unemployed (J. Clarke & Co., 1904), by J. B. Paton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maʼamar Mordekhai (880-04 Yerushalayim : Y. D. Frumḳin, 672 [1911 or 1912], 1912), by Mordekhai Disḳin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Informe de la Dirección General de Inmigración y Colonización presentado al Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, con anexos sobre varios proyectos relativos á la colonización y propaganda. (Tall. Nacionales de H. Kraus, 1906), by Paraguay. Dirección General de Inmigración y Colonización (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le métayage et la colonisation agricole au Tonkin ... (V.Giard & E.Brière, 1906), by Jean Borie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report on labour colonies (Association for Improving the Condition of the People, 1892), by James Mavor, Jas. R. Motion, John Speir, R. Patrick Wright, John Burns, and Association for Improving the Condition of the People. Committee on Labour Centres (page images at HathiTrust)
• Landward ho! A review of the land and unemployed questions: and a solution. (The Caxton press, ltd., 1906), by W. Hazlitt Roberts (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• España en Marruecos (Impr. Helénica, 1923), by Angel de Torrejón y Boneta, Angel Arrué Astiazaran, Paulino Arias y Juárez, and Spain. Junta Central de Colonización y Repoblación Interior (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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