Social institutions
Here are entered works on interrelated systems of social roles, norms, or processes organized for the satisfaction of an important social need or function, e.g., family, economy, education.
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Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, by Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
- Families: Beyond the Nuclear Ideal (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2012), ed. by Daniela Cutas and Sarah Chan (HTML with commentary at Bloomsbury)
- The Family, as Process and Institution (New York: Ronald Press Co., c1955), by Clifford Kirkpatrick (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Modern Family (New York: F. S. Crofts and Co., 1932), by Ruth Reed (page images at HathiTrust)
- Marriage and the American Ideal (1960), by Floyd Mansfield Martinson (HTML and PDF at ipce.info)
- Bernardus De Cura Rei Famuliaris; With Some Early Scottish Prophecies, &c. (EETS original series #42; London: Printed for the Early English Text Society by Trübner and Co., 1870), by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, ed. by J. Rawson Lumby (page images at HathiTrust)
- Critical Theory of the Family, by Mark Poster (frame-dependent HTML at Wayback Machine)
- A History of Matrimonial Institutions (3 volumes; Chicago: University of Chicago Press; London: T. F. Unwin, 1904), by George Elliott Howard
- La Famiglia: Per le Nozze della Signorina Elena Palumbo col Signor Donato Sarri (in Italian; Trani: V. Vecchi, 1897), by Orazio Palumbo
- Life at Home, by William Aikman (page images at MOA)
- Three Things (New York: Hearst's International Library Co., c1915), by Elinor Glyn (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- In Laws, Pro and Con: An Original Study of Inter-Personal Relations (New York: Association Press, c1954), by Evelyn Millis Duvall (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Family Relationships: Ten Topics Toward Happier Homes (study guide; Elizabethtown, PA: Continental Press, c1948), by Elizabeth S. Force and Edgar M. Finck (page images at HathiTrust)
- Family Relationships: Ten Topics Toward Happier Homes: A Handbook for Administrators and Teachers Who Use the Accompanying Study Guide (teacher's guide; Elizabethtown, PA: Continental Press, c1948), by Elizabeth S. Force and Edgar M. Finck (page images at HathiTrust)
- Our Mother-Tempers (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Marion J. Levy (HTML at UC Press)
- What is Right With Marriage: An Outline of Domestic Theory (New York: D. Appleton, 1929), by Robert C. Binkley and Frances Williams Binkley (multiple formats with commentary at wallandbinkley.com)
- The New Life and Future Mating (Omaha: Olerich Pub. Co., 1927), by Henry Olerich (page images at HathiTrust)
- Courtship and Marriage, and the Gentle Art of Home-Making (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1894), by Annie S. Swan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Observations on Northern Blackfoot Kinship (Monographs of the American Ethnological Society #9; New York: J. J. Augustin, ca. 1945), by Lucien M. Hanks and Jane Richardson Hanks
- Marriage and the Child (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1940), by James H. S. Bossard (page images at HathiTrust)
- Who Owns the Family? God or the State? (Fort Worth, TX: Dominion Press; Nashville et al.: T. Nelson, c1986), by Ray R. Sutton (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)
- Christian Oeconomie: or, A Short Survey of the Right Manner of Erecting and Ordering a Familie According to the Scriptures (London: Imprinted by F. Kyngston for E. Weaver, 1609), by William Perkins, trans. by Thomas Pickering
- Mourning Becomes Electra: A Trilogy (1931), by Eugene O'Neill (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
- Zaragueta: Comedia in Dos Actos Original (revised edition, in Spanish, with English notes and vocabulary; New York et al.: Silver Burdett and Co., c1915), by Miguel Ramos Carrión and Vital Aza, ed. by George Carter Howland (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Zaragueta, or, Money Talks: A Comedy in Two Acts (Chicago: T.S. Denison and Co., c1920), by Miguel Ramos Carrión and Vital Aza, trans. by Clarence Stratton
- Unequal Family Lives: Causes and Consequences in Europe and the Americas (Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018), ed. by Naomi R. Cahn, June Carbone, Laurie Fields DeRose, and William Bradford Wilcox (PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)
- Unequal Family Lives: Causes and Consequences in Europe and the Americas (Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018), ed. by Naomi R. Cahn, June Carbone, Laurie Fields DeRose, and William Bradford Wilcox (PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)
- Three-Sheet (New York: Liveright, 1932), by Tiffany Thayer, illust. by Edward Staloff (page images at HathiTrust)
- An American Family: A Novel of To-Day (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1918), by Henry Kitchell Webster (multiple formats at archive.org)
- As the Hart Panteth (New York: G. W. Dillingham Co., c1898), by Hallie Erminie Rives (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Avery (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1902), by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Believing Years (New York: Macmillan, 1911), by Edmund Lester Pearson
- Buddenbrooks: Verfall einer Familie (in German; Berlin: Deutsche Buch-Gemeinschaft, c1909), by Thomas Mann (Gutenberg text)
- Cloudy Jewel (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1920), by Grace Livingston Hill, illust. by Henry Weston Taylor
- Cloudy Jewel (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1920), by Grace Livingston Hill (Gutenberg text)
- Diana Tempest (3 volumes; London: R. Bentley and Son, 1893), by Mary Cholmondeley
- Fidelity: A Novel (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., c1915), by Susan Glaspell
- Gertrude Haviland's Divorce (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1925), by Inez Haynes Gillmore (page images at HathiTrust)
- His Family (New York: Macmillan, 1917), by Ernest Poole (Gutenberg text)
- Ivar: or, The Skjuts-Boy (London: Office of the Illustrated London Library, 1852), by Emilie Flygare-Carlén, trans. by A. L. Krause, illust. by Edmund Evans (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
- Narcissus (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1922), by Evelyn Scott (Gutenberg text)
- Norston's Rest (Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Bros., c1877), by Ann S. Stephens (Gutenberg text)
- Poor Relations (London: M. Secker, 1919), by Compton Mackenzie
- Poor Relations (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1920), by Compton Mackenzie (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Quest for the Rose of Sharon (Boston and Co.: L. C. Page, 1909), by Burton Egbert Stevenson, illust. by Thomas Fogarty
- The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary (new edition, with pictures from the play; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1910), by Anne Warner (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Rough-Hewn (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1922), by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Seraph: A Tale of Hungary (New York: G. M. Allen, c1893), by Leopold Sacher-Masoch, trans. by Emma M. Phelps
- Told by an Idiot (New York: Boni and Liveright, c1923), by Rose Macaulay
- The Von Toodleburgs: or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family (Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger, 1868), by F. Colburn Adams, illust. by Alfred R. Waud (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Whole Family: A Novel by Twelve Authors, by William Dean Howells, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Mary Heaton Vorse, Mary Stewart Cutting, Elizabeth Garver Jordan, John Kendrick Bangs, Henry James, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Edith Wyatt, Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, Alice Brown, and Henry Van Dyke (Gutenberg text)
- Young Archimedes, and Other Stories (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1924), by Aldous Huxley (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Dark Other (Los Angeles: Fantasy Publishing Co., 1950), by Stanley G. Weinbaum, illust. by Jon Arfstrom (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Angéline de Montbrun (in French), by Laure Conan
- The Author of Beltraffio, by Henry James (Gutenberg text and page images)
- The Author of Beltraffio; The Middle Years; Greville Fane; and Other Tales (Macmillan and Co., 1922), by Henry James (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Donald and Dorothy (New York: The Century Co., 1906), by Mary Mapes Dodge (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Idiot at Home (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1900), by John Kendrick Bangs, illust. by F. T. Richards (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- In Macao, by Charles A. Gunnison (Gutenberg text)
- Joseph Vance: An Ill-Written Autobiography (New York: H. Holt and Co., c1906), by William De Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)
- Lizzie Leigh, by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (Gutenberg text)
- The Man Who Wins, by Robert Herrick (Gutenberg text)
- Rainbow Valley (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1919), by L. M. Montgomery
- A Manifest Destiny (New York: Brentano's, 1926), by Arthur D. Howden Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Amazing Years (London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, 1917), by W. Pett Ridge
- Mary Marie (1920), by Eleanor H. Porter (Gutenberg text)
- Mary Marie (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1920), by Eleanor H. Porter, illust. by Helen Mason Grose (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka, trans. by David Wyllie (Gutenberg text)
- The Enemy (New York: Hearst's International Library Co., c1915), by George Randolph Chester and Lillian Chester, illust. by A. B. Wenzell
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