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• Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2017), by John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro, and Filip Miscevic (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• From Joseph Bensman: Essays on Modern Society (Knoxville: Newfound Press, c2014), by Joseph Bensman, ed. by Robert Jackall and Duffy Graham (PDF at Tennessee)
• Social Change and Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), ed. by Hans Haferkamp and Neil J. Smelser (HTML at UC Press)
• Rosenberg's Nazi Myth (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1945), by Albert Richard Chandler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Protestantism and Progress: A Historical Study of the Relation of Protestantism to the Modern World (London: Williams and Norgate; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1912), by Ernst Troeltsch, trans. by W. Montgomery (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century: An Inquiry into the Material Condition of the People, Based upon Original and Contemporaneous Records (2 volumes; New York and London: Macmillan, 1896), by Philip Alexander Bruce
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• A Letter to a Friend, Upon Occasion of the Death of his Intimate Friend, by Thomas Browne (HTML at Renascence Editions)

• Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the Seventeenth Century: Donne to Butler, ed. by Herbert J. C. Grierson (HTML at Bartleby)

• The French Revolution and the Birth of Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), ed. by Ferenc Feher (HTML at UC Press)

• Mr. White Man, What Now? (Johannesburg: Afrikaanse Pers-Boekhandel, 1965), by G. M. Mes (PDF at rhodesia.nl)
• Late for the Sky: The Mentality of the Space Age (c1992), by David Lavery (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture, by George Steiner (HTML at anti-rev.org)
• The Revolution of Everyday Life, by Raoul Vaneigem, trans. by John Fullerton and Paul Sieveking (HTML at nothingness.org)
• Grunch of Giants, by R. Buckminster Fuller (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Beyond Modernization: Chinese Roots for Global Awareness (Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1997), ed. by Wang Miaoyang, Yu Xuanmeng, and George F. McLean (multiple formats at Google)
• Lies! (New York: G. H. Doran Co., ca. 1921), by Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Salvaging of Civilization (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1921), by H. G. Wells (Gutenberg text)
• The New Dark Ages Conspiracy: Britain's Plot to Destroy Civilization, by Carol Schitzner White (PDF with rotated pages at wlym.com)

• The XXth Century (1941-1945), ed. by Klaus Mehnert (full serial archives)

• The Origin and Its Meaning, by Roger Ellman (PDF files at the-origin.org)

• The Network Turn: Changing Perspectives in the Humanities (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020), by Ruth Ahnert, Sebastian E. Ahnert, Catherine Nicole Coleman, and Scott Weingart (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at Cambridge University Press)
• Our Brave New World: Essays on the Impact of September 11, ed. by Wladyslaw Pleszczynski, contrib. by Anne Applebaum, Byron York, Daniel Pipes, Roger Kimball, James Bowman, John Podhoretz, and John Corry (PDF files at Hoover Institution)

• A Time for the Humanities: Futurity and the Limits of Autonomy (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008), ed. by James J. Bono, Tim Dean, and Ewa Płonowska Ziarek (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• The Peculiarities of Liberal Modernity in Imperial Britain (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2011), ed. by Simon Gunn and James Vernon (HTML and PDF with commentary at UC Press)

• The Public Philosophy Journal (2018-) (full serial archives)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Renaissance and the Reformation (electronic edition, 1998), by William Gilbert and Edwyna Condon Gilbert, ed. by Judith C. Galas (HTML in Italy)
• Mysteriously Meant: The Rediscovery of Pagan Symbolism and Allegorical Interpretation in the Renaissance (originally published 1970; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Don Cameron Allen (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Looking at the Renaissance: Essays Toward a Contextual Appreciation (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), by Charles R. Mack (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Renaissance Image of Man and the World (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1966), ed. by Bernard O'Kelly (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Arensberg Lectures (partial serial archives)
• History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Nancy G. Siraisi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lucian and the Latins: Humor and Humanism in the Early Renaissance (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), by David Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Not of Woman Born: Representations of Caesarean Birth in Medieval and Renaissance Culture (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1990), by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages, and During the Renaissance Period, by P. L. Jacob, illust. by Franz Kellerhoven (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A New Light on the Renaissance, Displayed in Contemporary Emblems (London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1909), by Harold Bayley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The House of Death: Messages from the English Renaissance (originally published 1986; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Arnold Stein (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Lyric Provinces in the English Renaissance (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1985), by Harold E. Toliver (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Expense of Spirit: Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1988), by Mary Beth Rose (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• The Summons of Death on the Medieval and Renaissance English Stage (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1987), by Phoebe S. Spinrad (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• The Enchanted Glass: The Elizabethan Mind in Literature (New York: Oxford University Press, 1936), by Hardin Craig (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance: A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism (1922), by Donald Lemen Clark (Gutenberg text)

• Poets, Patrons, and Printers: Crisis of Authority in Late Medieval France (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1995), by Cynthia J. Brown (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Avril: Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance, by Hilaire Belloc (Gutenberg text)
• Critical Prefaces of the French Renaissance (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1950), by Bernard Weinberg (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)

• The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, by Jacob Burckhardt, trans. by S. G. C. Middlemore (Gutenberg text)
• Die Renaissance in Briefen von Dichtern, Künstlern, Staatsmännern, Gelehrten und Frauen (2 volumes, in German; Leipzig: Klinkhardt and Biermann, 1909), ed. by Lothar Schmidt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Euphorion: Being Studies of the Antique and the Medieval in the Renaissance (2 volumes), by Vernon Lee
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text
• The Renaissance: Savonarola; Cesare Borgia; Julius II; Leo X; Michael Angelo (English edition; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1913), by Arthur Gobineau, ed. by Oscar Levy, trans. by Paul V. Cohn
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Life of Cesare Borgia of France, by Rafael Sabatini (Gutenberg text)

• The Mendoza Family in the Spanish Renaissance, 1350-1550 (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1979), by Helen Nader (PDF files at LIBRO)
• Apparitions in Late Medieval and Renaissance Spain (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1981), by William A. Christian (PDF files at Libro)

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