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• Social conditions -- 18th century
• Social conditions -- 19th century
• Social conditions -- 20th century
• Social conditions -- 21st century
• Social conditions -- Humor
• Colonies -- Social conditions
• Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions
• Adjuntas (P.R.) -- Social conditions
• Afghanistan -- Social conditions
• Africa -- Social conditions
• Africa, Southern -- Social conditions
• Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Social conditions
• Africa, West -- Social conditions
• African American boys -- Social conditions
• African American consumers -- Social conditions
• African American girls -- Social conditions
• African American women -- Social conditions
• African American young men -- Social conditions
• African Americans -- Social conditions
• Aix-en-Provence (France) -- Social conditions
• Albanians -- Kosovo (Republic) -- Social conditions
• Algeria -- Social conditions
• America -- Social conditions
• Andes Region -- Social conditions
• Angola -- Social conditions
• Appalachian Region -- Social conditions
• Appalachian Region, Southern -- Social conditions
• Arab countries -- Social conditions
• Arctic regions -- Social conditions
• Armenia (Republic) -- Social conditions
• Asian American youth -- Social conditions
• Asian Americans -- Social conditions
• Australia -- Social conditions
• Austria -- Social conditions
• Aztecs -- Social conditions
• Bakhtiari (Iranian people) -- Social conditions
• Bang Chan (Thailand) -- Social conditions
• Barcelona (Spain) -- Social conditions
• Beirut (Lebanon) -- Social conditions
• Bihar (India) -- Social conditions
• Black Sea Coast (Turkey) -- Social conditions
• Black people -- Social conditions
• Boston (Mass.) -- Social conditions
• Botswana -- Social conditions
• Bougainville Island (Papua New Guinea) -- Social conditions
• Brazil -- Social conditions
• Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions
• Budapest (Hungary) -- Social conditions
• Burma -- Social conditions
• Cáceres Region (Spain) -- Social conditions
• Cairo (Egypt) -- Social conditions
• Calgary (Alta.) -- Social conditions
• California -- Social conditions
• Camden (Ohio) -- Social conditions
• Canada -- Social conditions
• Canada, Western -- Social conditions
• Castile (Spain) -- Social conditions
• Central America -- Social conditions
• Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions
• Children -- Social conditions
• China -- Social conditions
• Chinese American women -- Social conditions
• Chinese Americans -- Social conditions
• Chowan County (N.C.) -- Social conditions
• Christian women -- Social conditions
• Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions
• College students -- Social conditions
• College teachers, Foreign -- Europe, Western -- Social conditions
• Colombia -- Social conditions
• Colorado -- Social conditions
• Community and college -- New York (State) -- Social conditions
• Confederate States of America -- Social conditions
• Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Social conditions
• Conservationists -- Social conditions
• Cuba -- Social conditions
• Cuban Americans -- Florida -- Miami -- Social conditions
• Cumberland Mountains -- Social conditions
• Curacao -- Social conditions
• Czech Republic -- Social conditions
• Dallas (Tex.) -- Social conditions
• Denmark -- Social conditions
• Detroit (Mich.) -- Social conditions
• Developing countries -- Social conditions
• Dominican Americans -- Social conditions
• Durham Region (N.C.) -- Social conditions
• East Asia -- Social conditions
• Ecuador -- Social conditions
• Edinburgh (Scotland) -- Social conditions
• Edmonton (England) -- Social conditions
• Egypt -- Social conditions
• El Salvador -- Social conditions
• Elbeuf (France) -- Social conditions
• England -- Social conditions
• Enslaved persons -- Social conditions
• Eskimos -- Alaska -- Social conditions
• Eswatini -- Social conditions
• Europe -- Social conditions
• Europe, Central -- Social conditions
• Exiles -- Florida -- Miami -- Social conditions
• Fiji -- Social conditions
• Filipinos -- Hawaii -- Social conditions
• France -- Social conditions
• Fraser River Valley (B.C.) -- Social conditions
• Free African Americans -- Social conditions
• Freed persons -- Missouri -- Social conditions
• Gaza Strip -- Social conditions
• Germany -- Social conditions
• Ghana -- Social conditions
• Girls -- Social conditions
• Goroka District (Papua New Guinea) -- Social conditions
• Great Britain -- Social conditions
• Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions
• Guinea (Region) -- Social conditions
• Gujarat (India) -- Social conditions
• Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions
• Haverhill (Mass.) -- Social conditions
• Himalaya Mountains Region -- Social conditions
• Hispanic Americans -- Social conditions
• Hohokam culture -- Social conditions
• Honolulu (Hawaii) -- Social conditions
• Hungary -- Social conditions
• Idaho -- Social conditions
• Igbo (African people) -- Nigeria, Eastern -- Social conditions
• Ilocos Norte (Philippines) -- Social conditions
• Immigrants -- Social conditions
• Incas -- Social conditions
• India -- Social conditions
• Indian women -- Social conditions
• Indians of Mexico -- Social conditions
• Indians of North America -- Social conditions
• Indians of South America -- Social conditions
• Indigenous peoples -- Social conditions
• Indonesia -- Social conditions
• Internment camp inmates -- Social conditions
• Inupiat women -- Alaska -- Teller -- Social conditions
• Ireland -- Social conditions
• Irish Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions
• Irish Americans -- New York (State) -- Yonkers -- Social conditions
• Iroquois Indians -- Social conditions
• Islands of the Pacific -- Social conditions
• Israel -- Social conditions
• Italy -- Social conditions
• Italy, Northern -- Social conditions
• Jamaica -- Social conditions
• Japan -- Social conditions
• Japanese Americans -- Social conditions
• Jewish women -- Social conditions
• Jews -- Social conditions
• Kamloops (B.C.) -- Social conditions
• Kaonde (African people) -- Social conditions
• Kenya -- Social conditions
• Kiowa Indians -- Social conditions
• Kolkata (India) -- Social conditions
• Korea -- Social conditions
• Kuria (African people) -- Social conditions
• Lamu (Kenya) -- Social conditions
• Latin America -- Social conditions
• Latter Day Saints -- Social conditions
• Lebanon -- Social conditions
• Liberia -- Social conditions
• Livorno (Italy) -- Social conditions
• London (England) -- Social conditions
• Louisiana -- Social conditions
• Lourmarin (France) -- Social conditions
• Lowell (Mass.) -- Social conditions
• Malaysia -- Social conditions
• Mandingo (African people) -- Social conditions
• Manus (Papua New Guinean people) -- Social conditions
• Maragoli (Kenya) -- Social conditions
• Maring (Papua New Guinean people) -- Social conditions
• Mexican Americans -- Social conditions
• Mexico -- Social conditions
• Micronesia (Federated States) -- Social conditions
• Middle East -- Social conditions
• Milan (Italy) -- Social conditions
• Milwaukee (Wis.) -- Social conditions
• Minorities -- Social conditions
• Mississippi -- Social conditions
• Moscow (Russia) -- Social conditions
• Mozambique -- Social conditions
• Mumbai (India) -- Social conditions
• Muslim women -- Social conditions
• Nailsworth (England) -- Social conditions
• Nepal -- Social conditions
• Netherlands -- Social conditions
• New Caledonia -- Social conditions
• New Orleans (La.) -- Social conditions
• New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions
• New Zealand -- Social conditions
• Newcastle upon Tyne (England) -- Social conditions
• Nigeria -- Social conditions
• North Carolina -- Social conditions
• Northern Ireland -- Social conditions
• Norway -- Social conditions
• Oahu (Hawaii) -- Social conditions
• Oceania -- Social conditions
• Older people -- Social conditions
• Oman -- Social conditions
• Ontario -- Social conditions
• Paiute Indians -- Social conditions
• Palestine -- Social conditions
• Palestinian Americans -- Social conditions
• Palestinian Arabs -- Social conditions
• Papua New Guinea -- Social conditions
• Paris (France) -- Social conditions
• People with disabilities -- Social conditions
• Peru -- Social conditions
• Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social conditions
• Philippines -- Social conditions
• Pitt County (N.C.) -- Social conditions
• Pittsburgh (Pa.) -- Social conditions
• Poland -- Social conditions
• Polish Americans -- Social conditions
• Political refugees -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Social conditions
• Poor children -- Social conditions
• Portugal -- Social conditions
• Prisoners -- Michigan -- Jackson -- Social conditions
• Puerto Rico -- Social conditions
• Queens (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions
• Rajasthan (India) -- Social conditions
• Refugees -- Social conditions
• Refugees, Palestinian Arab -- Social conditions
• Rembau (Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia) -- Social conditions
• Rochdale (England) -- Social conditions
• Romania -- Social conditions
• Rome -- Social conditions
• Ruanda-Urundi -- Social conditions
• Rural women -- Social conditions
• Russia (Federation) -- Social conditions
• Russia -- Social conditions
• Russia, Northern -- Social conditions
• Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- Social conditions
• Sakalava (Malagasy people) -- Social conditions
• Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) -- Social conditions
• Scotland -- Social conditions
• Seattle (Wash.) -- Social conditions
• Seville (Spain) -- Social conditions
• Shanghai (China) -- Social conditions
• Shoshoni Indians -- Utah -- Washakie Indian Reservation -- Social conditions
• Siberia (Russia) -- Social conditions
• Sichuan Sheng (China) -- Social conditions
• Sierra Leone -- Social conditions
• Slovak Americans -- Social conditions
• Slovakia -- Social conditions
• South Africa -- Social conditions
• South America -- Social conditions
• South Australia -- Social conditions
• South Carolina -- Social conditions
• Southeast Asia -- Social conditions
• Southern States -- Social conditions
• Southwest, New -- Social conditions
• Soviet Union -- Social conditions
• Soweto (South Africa) -- Social conditions
• Spain -- Social conditions
• Students -- Social conditions
• Surat (India) -- Social conditions
• Taiwan -- Social conditions
• Taiwanese Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions
• Tajikistan -- Social conditions
• Tanzania -- Social conditions
• Terrorists -- Social conditions
• Texas -- Social conditions
• Thailand -- Social conditions
• Tropics -- Social conditions
• Trujillo Region (Cáceres, Spain) -- Social conditions
• Turkana (African people) -- Social conditions
• Turkey -- Social conditions
• United States -- Social conditions
• United States Virgin Islands -- Social conditions
• Valencia (Spain : Region) -- Social conditions
• Vandergrift (Pa.) -- Social conditions
• Vietnam -- Social conditions
• West Bank -- Social conditions
• West Indies, British -- Social conditions
• Westchester County (N.Y.) -- Social conditions
• Women -- Social conditions
• Women authors -- Social conditions
• Women immigrants -- Social conditions
• Women pioneers -- Prairie Provinces -- Social conditions
• Women, Black -- Social conditions
• Women, Iatmul -- Social conditions
• Women, Igbo -- Nigeria, Eastern -- Social conditions
• Women, Rajput -- Social conditions
• Yankton Indians -- Social conditions
• Youth -- Social conditions
• Yucatán (Mexico : State) -- Social conditions
• Yupik Eskimos -- Social conditions
• Zambia -- Social conditions
• Zimbabwe -- social conditions

• Socioeconomic status

• Yes Africa Can: Success Stories from a Dynamic Continent (c2011), ed. by Punam Chuhan-Pole and Manka Angwafo (PDF with commentary at World Bank)

• The State of the African American Male (East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, c2010), ed. by Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher and Vernon C. Polite (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Commerce in Color: Race, Consumer Culture, and American Literature, 1893-1933 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by James C. Davis (page images at HathiTrust)

• Girlhood Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls' Childhood (Washington: Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality, 2017), by Rebecca Epstein, Jamilia J. Blake, and Thalia González (PDF at law.georgetown.edu)

• African American Females: Addressing Challenges and Nurturing the Future (East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, c2013), ed. by Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher and Vernon C. Polite (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• Poor Black Women: Including, Birth Control Pills and Black Children, A Statement By the Black Unity Party (Peekskill, NY); A Response, by Black Sisters; Poor Black Women, by Patricia Robinson (1968), contrib. by Patricia Robinson (page images at Duke)
• Skin Deep, Spirit Strong: The Black Female Body in American Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), ed. by Kimberly Wallace-Sanders (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traps: African American Men on Gender and Sexuality (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c2001), ed. by Rudolph P. Byrd and Beverly Guy-Sheftall (multiple formats at fulcrum.org)

• The State of the African American Male (East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, c2010), ed. by Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher and Vernon C. Polite (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Deflective Whiteness: Co-Opting Black and Latinx Identity Politics (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c2022), by Hannah Noel (PDF at OAPEN)
• As Victim to Victims: An American Negro Laments With Jews (New York: Fortuny's, c1941), by James Samuel Stemons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voice in the Wilderness (San Francisco: Africano Publications, c1959), by Eugene Henry Huffman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address by Hon. Frederick Douglass, Delivered in the Congregational Church, Washington, D.C., April 16, 1883, on the Twenty-First Anniversary of Emancipation in the District of Columbia (1883), by Frederick Douglass (page images at loc.gov)
• Black Rage Confronts the Law (New York: New York University Press, c1997), by Paul Harris (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• Why Negroes Should Oppose the War (published under "J. R. Johnson" pseudonym; New York: Pioneer Publishers, ca. 1940), by C. L. R. James
  • page images at Pitt
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Negro Slavery, Then and Now (Chicago: Revolutionary Workers League, 1939), by Revolutionary Workers League of the U.S. (page images at HathiTrust)
• All White America: A Candid Discussion of Race Mixture and Race Prejudice in the United States (Boston: Meador Pub. Co., 1937), by Thomas Theodore McKinney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eagle Clippings (Brooklyn, NY: D.B. Fulton, ca. 1907), by Jack Thorne
  • illustrated HTML at UNC
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (1965; online version omits tables and graphs), by United States Department of Labor, contrib. by Daniel P. Moynihan (HTML at dol.gov)
• A Social History of the American Negro: Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States, Including a History and Study of the Republic of Liberia (1921), by Benjamin Brawley (Gutenberg text)
• The Struggle for Negro Equality (second enlarged edition; New York: Printed for the Socialist Workers Party by Pioneer Press, 1943), by John Saunders and Albert Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Legal Status of the Negro (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1940), by Charles S. Mangum (page images at HathiTrust)

• Poverty and Charity in Aix-en-Provence, 1640-1789 (originally published 1976; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Cissie C. Fairchilds (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Policy or Panic? The Flight of Ethnic Albanians from Kosovo, March-May 1999 (Washington: American Association for the Advancement of Science, c2000), by Patrick Ball (HTML at hrdag.org)

• Affective Intellectuals and the Space of Catastrophe in the Americas (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2018), by Judith Sierra-Rivera (PDF at Ohio State)

• Crude Existence: The Politics of Oil in Northern Angola (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2009), by Kristin Reed (Javascript-dependent page images at UC Press)

• Colonialism in Modern America: The Appalachian Case (Boone, NC: Appalachian Consortium Press, c1978), ed. by Helen Matthews Lewis, Linda Johnson, and Donald Askins (PDF at appstate.edu)

• Too Few Tomorrows: Urban Appalachians in the 1980's (Boone, NC: Appalachian Consortium Press, c1987), ed. by Phillip J. Obermiller and William W. Philliber (multiple formats at appstate.edu)

• The Arab Human Development Report 2002: Creating Opportunities for Future Generations, by United Nations Development Programme (PDF files at undp.org)

• Arctic Politics: Conflict and Cooperation in the Circumpolar North (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College; University Press of New England, c1992), by Oran R. Young (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)

• The Red Flag at Ararat (New York: The Womans Press, c1932), by A. Y. Yeghenian (page images at HathiTrust)

• Asian American X: An Intersection of 21st Century Asian American Voices (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), ed. by Arar Han and John Y. Hsu (page images at HathiTrust)

• Asian American X: An Intersection of 21st Century Asian American Voices (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), ed. by Arar Han and John Y. Hsu (page images at HathiTrust)

• Australian Politics and Policy (multiple editions, including junior and senior editions for 2019 and 2021), ed. by Open Textbook Editorial Group (multiple formats with commentary at Sydney University Press)
• The Australian Achievement: From Bondage to Freedom (1996), by L. J. M. Cooray (HTML at ourcivilisation.com)
• The Market in Babies: Stories of Australian Adoption (Clayton, Victoria: Monash University Publishing, c2013), by Marian Quartly, Shurlee Swain, and Denise Cuthbert (PDF and Epub with commentary at monash.edu)
• Natives of Australia (London: A. Constable, 1906), by Northcote Whitridge Thomas
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Is Austria Doomed? (London et al: Hodder and Stoughton, 1916), by Caroline Zanardi Landi
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Twelve Days: An Account of a Journey Across the Bakhtiari Mountains in South-Western Persia (London: L. and V. Woolf, 1928), by V. Sackville-West (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• Bang Chan: Social History of a Rural Community in Thailand (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1978), by Lauriston Sharp and Lucien M. Hanks
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
  • PDF and Epub at Cornell Open

• Jews, Christian Society, and Royal Power in Medieval Barcelona (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2006), by Elka Klein (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Insecure City: Space, Power, and Mobility in Beirut (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2016), by Kristin V. Monroe
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Bazaar India: Markets, Society, and the Colonial State in Bihar (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), by Anand A. Yang (HTML at UC Press)

• A Nation of Empire: The Ottoman Legacy of Turkish Modernity, by Michael E. Meeker (HTML at UC Press)

• The Communists and the Struggle for Negro Liberation: Their Position on Problems of Africa, of the West Indies, of War, of Ethiopian Independence, of the Struggle for Peace (New York: Harlem Division of the Communist Party, ca. 1936), by James W. Ford
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Why Negroes Should Oppose the War (published under "J. R. Johnson" pseudonym; New York: Pioneer Publishers, ca. 1940), by C. L. R. James
  • page images at Pitt
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Negro Around the World (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1925), by Willard Price, illust. by George Annand
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Americans in Process: A Settlement Study, by Residents and Associates of the South End House, ed. by Robert Archey Woods
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The City Wilderness: A Settlement Study, by Residents and Associates of the South End House (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1898), ed. by Robert Archey Woods (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reinventing African Chieftaincy in the Age of AIDS, Gender, Governance, and Development (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2011), ed. by Donald Iain Ray, Tim Quinlan, Keshav Sharma, and Tacita Clarke (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• Bougainville: A Challenge for the Churches (ACSJC occasional paper #26; North Sydney, NSW: Australian Catholic Social Justice Council, c1995), by James Griffin (PDF in Australia)

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