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• Two Pages From Roman History, by Daniel De Leon
  • PDF at slp.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• People, Personal Expression, and Social Relations in Late Antiquity (2 volumes; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2003), by Ralph W. Mathisen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gesture and Rank in Roman Art; The Use of Gestures to Denote Status in Roman Sculpture and Coinage (New Haven: Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1963), by Richard Brilliant (page images at HathiTrust)

• Man to Man: Desire, Homosociality, and Authority in Late-Roman Manhood (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Mark Masterson (PDF with commentary at Ohio State)

• The Ancient Lowly: A History of the Ancient Working People From the Earliest Known Period to the Adoption of Christianity by Constantine (2 volumes; Chicago: C. H. Kerr and Co., 1888-1900), by C. Osborne Ward
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• Honored Citizens of Barcelona: Patrician Culture and Class Relations, 1490-1714, by James S. Amelang (PDF files at LIBRO)

• Honored Citizens of Barcelona: Patrician Culture and Class Relations, 1490-1714, by James S. Amelang (PDF files at LIBRO)

• Workers Against Work: Labor in Paris and Barcelona During the Popular Fronts (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Michael Seidman (HTML at UC Press)

• Workers Against Work: Labor in Paris and Barcelona During the Popular Fronts (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Michael Seidman (HTML at UC Press)

• Aristocrats and Traders: Sevillian Society in the Sixteenth Century (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1972), by Ruth Pike (PDF files at Libro)

• Die Geistesgeschichtliche Lage des Heutigen Parlamentarismus (second edition, in German; Munich and Leipzig: Duncker und Humblot, 1926), by Carl Schmitt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Of the Antiquity, Power and Decay of Parliaments: Being a General View of Government, and Civil Policy, in Europe, With Other Historical and Political Observations Relating Thereunto (London: J. Roberts, 1714), by Thomas Rymer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Coalition Government, Subnational Style: Multiparty Politics in Europe's Regional Parliaments (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by William M. Downs (PDF at Ohio State)

• Creating Parliamentary Government: the Transition to Democracy in Bulgaria (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by Albert P. Melone (PDF from Ohio State University Press)

• Are Legislatures Parliaments? A Study and Review (Montreal: J. Lovell; et al., 1879), by Fennings Taylor (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• Prayers Offered by the Chaplain, the Rev. Peter Marshall, D.D. at the Opening of The Daily Sessions of the Senate of the United States During the Eightieth and Eighty-First Congress, 1947-1949 (Washington: GPO, 1949), by Peter Marshall, contrib. by United States Senate (page images at HathiTrust)

• House Rules (2008), by Hong Kong (China) Legislative Council (HTML and PDF in Hong Kong)
• Rules of Procedure of the Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (2008), by Hong Kong (China) Legislative Council (HTML and PDF in Hong Kong)

• The History of Legislative Methods in the Period Before 1825 (New Haven: Yale University Press; et al., 1917), by Ralph Volney Harlow (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Handbook for Chairmen of Subcommittees on Subsidiary Legislation/Other Instruments, by Hong Kong (China) Legislative Council (HTML at legco.gov.hk)

• Shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School: Report of the Office of the Child Advocate (Hartford, CT: State of Connecticut, 2014), by Connecticut Office of the Child Advocate (PDF at ct.gov)

• Providing Special Investigative Authorities for the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight: Report Together with Minority and Dissenting Views (to Accompany H. Res. 167) (Washington: GPO, 1997), by United States House Committee on Rules (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Election (2 redacted volumes in 1; 2019), by Robert S. Mueller, ed. by William Pelham Barr (PDF at govinfo.gov)
• The Tillman Fratricide: What the Leadership of the Defense Department Knew (hearing before the committee, August 1, 2007; Washington: GPO, 2008), by United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alyeska Pipeline Service Company Covert Operation: Report of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, Second Session (4 volumes, first labeled "draft report", others labeled exhibit appendixes; Washington: GPO, 1992), by United States House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Referral from Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr in Conformity with the Requirements of Title 28, United States Code, Section 595(c): Communication From Kenneth W. Starr, Independent Counsel, Transmitting a Referral to the United States House of Representatives Filed in Conformity with the Requirements of Title 28, United States Code, section 595(c) (the Starr Report on Clinton and Lewinsky, with appendices), by Kenneth Starr (page images at HathiTrust)

• Party Discipline and Parliamentary Government (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1999), ed. by Shaun Bowler, David M. Farrell, and Richard S. Katz (PDF at Ohio State)

• Standing Orders and Rules of the National Assembly, by Mauritius National Assembly (JavaScript-dependent HTML in Mauritius)

• The New York State Legislative Process: An Evaluation and Blueprint for Reform (New York: Brennan Center for Justice, c2004), by Jeremy M. Creelan and Laura M. Moulton (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.org)

• Standing Orders of the National Assembly of Tanzania (in Swahili; 2007, 2013, and 2016 editions), by Tanzania National Assembly (partial serial archives)

• The Rise and Development of the Bicameral System in America (Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, series 13, #5; 1895), by Thomas Francis Moran
  • multiple formats at Indiana
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Die Parlamentarische Obstruktion, ihre Geschichte und ihre Bedeutung (in German; Dresden: v. Zahn und Jaensch, 1904), by Erich Brandenburg
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Parliamentary Practice: An Introduction to Parliamentary Law (New York and London: D. Appleton-Century Co., c1921), by Henry M. Robert (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Pocket Manual of Rules of Order For Deliberative Assemblies (Chicago: S. C. Griggs and Company, 1876), by Henry M. Robert (Gutenberg text)
• Reed's Parliamentary Rules: A Manual of General Parliamentary Law, With Suggestions for Special Rules, by Thomas B. Reed (HTML at wa.gov)
• Robert's Rules of Order Revised (1915 edition), by Henry M. Robert (searchable HTML at Bartleby)
• Your Farm Bureau (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1958), by Alice Sturgis, contrib. by Richard Armour, illust. by Leo Hershfield and Alan Atkins (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Future of Class in History: What's Left of the Social? (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Geoff Eley and Keith Nield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Class Counts (student edition, 2000), by Erik Olin Wright (PDF files at Wisconsin)
• Interrogating Inequality: Essays on Class Analysis, Socialism, and Marxism (1994), by Erik Olin Wright (PDF files at Wisconsin)
• The Debate on Classes (1989), ed. by Erik Olin Wright (PDF files at Wisconsin)
• Classes (1985), by Erik Olin Wright (PDF files at Wisconsin)
• Class, Crisis, and the State (1978), by Erik Olin Wright (PDF files at Wisconsin)
• Social Class in America: A Manual of Procedure for the Measurement of Social Status (originally published 1949; this edition Gloucester, MA: P. Smith, 1957), by W. Lloyd Warner, Marchia Meeker, and Kenneth Eells (page images at HathiTrust)
• Class Structure and Income Determination (1979), by Erik Olin Wright (PDF at Wisconsin)
• Vox Populi: Essays in the History of an Idea (originally published 1969; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by George Boas (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• What Social Classes Owe to Each Other (originally published 1883; added introduction dated 1951), by William Graham Sumner, contrib. by William Clinton Mullendore (Gutenberg text)
• Men and Violence: Gender, Honor, and Rituals in Modern Europe and America (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), ed. by Petrus Cornelis Spierenburg
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
  • PDF at Ohio State
• The Question of Caste (Boston: Wright and Potter, 1869), by Charles Sumner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Society of the Spectacle, by Guy Debord, trans. by Fredy Perlman (HTML at nothingness.org)
• The Society of the Spectacle, by Guy Debord, trans. by Ken Knabb (HTML at bopsecrets.org)

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