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• Le Noir du Soudan, Pays Mossi et Gourounsi: Documents et Analyses (in French; Paris: E. Larose, 1912), by Louis Tauxier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Western Africa: Its History, Condition, and Prospects (New York: Harper and Bros., 1856), by J. Leighton Wilson
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• A narrative of the expedition sent by Her Majesty's government to the river Niger, in 1841. Under the command of Captain H. D. Trotter, R.N. (R. Bentley, 1848), by William Allen and Thomas Richard Heywood Thomson (page images at HathiTrust)
• La politique indigène de l'Angleterre en Afrique occidentale. (Hachette, 1912), by Emile Baillaud (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Affairs of West Africa (W. Heinemann, 1902), by E. D. Morel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• West African land question (Negro Universities Press, 1969), by J. E. Casely Hayford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The truth about the West African land question (C. M. Phillips, 1913), by J. E. Casely Hayford (page images at HathiTrust)
• West African countries and peoples, British and native : With the requirements necessary for establishing that self government recommended by the committee of the House of Commons, 1865; and a vindication of the African race (W. J. Johnson, 1868), by James Africanus Beale Horton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bosambo of the River (London and Melbourne: Ward, Lock and Co., 1914), by Edgar Wallace (Gutenberg text)
• The Keepers of the King's Peace (first published 1917), by Edgar Wallace
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  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The People of the River (London and Melbourne: Ward, Lock and Co., ca. 1912), by Edgar Wallace (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The People of the River (with frontispiece; London et al.: Ward, Lock and Co., ca. 1912), by Edgar Wallace (PDF at Oxford)
• Joen kansa (in Finnish), by Edgar Wallace, trans. by Erkki Valkeala (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Northern Tribes of Nigeria: An Ethnographical Account of the Northern Provinces of Nigeria, Together With a Report on the 1921 Decennial Census (2 volumes; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1925), by C. K. Meek, contrib. by Hugh Charles Clifford
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  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The northern tribes of Nigeria; an ethnographical account of the northern provinces of Nigeria together with a report on the 1921 decennial census (Oxford university press, H. Milford, 1925), by C. K. Meek (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The peoples of Southern Nigeria; a sketch of their history, ethnology and languages, with an abstract of the 1921 census (Oxford university press, H. Milford, 1926), by Percy Amaury Talbot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Native races and their rulers : sketches and studies of official life and administrative problems in Nigeria (Argus printing & publishing company, ltd.; London agents, Way & co., ltd., 1918), by C. L. Temple (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The white man in Nigeria (E. Arnold, 1904), by George Douglas Hazzledine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal of an expedition up the Niger and Tshadda rivers undertaken by Macgregor Laird in connection with the British Government in 1854. (Church Missionary House, 1855), by Samuel Crowther (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes on the tribes, provinces, emirates and states of the northern provinces of Nigeria (C.M.S. bookshop;, 1922), by Olive Susan Miranda Mcleod Temple and Charles Lindsay Temple (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• With the tin gods (J. Lane, 1915), by Horace Tremlett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Everyday Life Among the Head-Hunters, and Other Experiences from East To West (London et al: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1905), by Dorothy Cator (multiple formats at archive.org)

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• Psychologie en Ethnologie in de Koloniale Politiek (in Dutch; Amsterdam: J.H. de Bussy, 1916), by Herman F. C. ten Kate (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Romance of Savage Life: Describing The Life of Primitive Man, His Customs, Occupations, Language, Beliefs, Arts, Crafts, Adventures, Games, Sports, &c. &c. (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co.; London: Seeley and Co., 1908), by G. F. Scott Elliot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Treatment of Natives in the German Colonies (London: H.M.S.O., 1920), by Great Britain Foreign Office Historical Section (page images at HathiTrust)
• Protection of native races against intoxicants & opium, based on testimony of one hundred missionaries and travelers (F. H. Revell company, 1900), by Wilbur F. Crafts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tracts relative to the Aborigines. (E. Marsh, 1843), by London Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends). Meeting for Sufferings (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slavery or "sacred trust"? (Negro Universities Press, 1969), by John Hobbis Harris and League of Nations Council (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The backward peoples and our relations with them (H. Milford Oxford University Press, 1920), by Harry Hamilton Johnston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colonization and Christianity; a popular history of the treatment of the natives by Europeans in all their colonies. (Negro Universities Press, 1969), by William Howitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The question of aborigines in the law and practice of nations : including a collection of authorities and documents. (Govt. print. off., 1919), by Alpheus Henry Snow and United States Department of State (page images at HathiTrust)
• The relations of the advanced and the backward races of mankind (Clarendon press, 1902), by James Bryce (page images at HathiTrust)
• The acquisition and government of backward territory in international law (Longmans, Green and co. ltd., 1926), by Mark Frank Lindley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Colonization and Christianity: a popular history of the treatment of the natives by the Europeans in all their colonies. (Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1838), by William Howitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• South Africa. Report of the South African Native Affairs Commission, 1903-1905. (Printed for H.M. Stationery Off., by Darling & Son, 1905), by South African Native Affairs Commission and Godfrey Yeatman Lagden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trade politics and Christianity in Africa and the East (Negro Universities Press, 1969), by Allan John Macdonald Macdonald (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Peep at Polynesian life (New York : Wiley and Putnam ; London : John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1846., 1846), by Herman Melville, Thomas B. Smith, R. Craighead's Power Press, John Murray (Firm), and Wiley & Putnam (page images at HathiTrust)
• A very naked people (New York : Horace Liveright, [1929], 1929), by Albert Londres and Sylvia Stuart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The hearing of primitive peoples; an experimental study of the auditory acuity and the upper limit of hearing of whites, Indians, Filipinos, Ainu and African pigmies. (Science Press, 1908), by Frank Gilbert Bruner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Race contact (Century Co., 1927), by Earl Edward Muntz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The question of aborigines in the law and practice of nations, including a collection of authorities and documents written at the request of the Department of State. (Putnam, 1921), by Alpheus Henry Snow and United States Department of State (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les droits politiques des indigènes des colonies (É. Larose, 1927), by Jean Runner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Zwei rektoratsreden (Druck der Universitäts-druckerei H. Stürtz a.g., 1929), by Karl Sapper (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• British colonial policy in the XXth century (Methuen, 1922), by Hugh Edward Egerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Native races and their rulers : sketches and studies of official life and administrative problems in Nigeria (Argus printing & publishing company, ltd.; London agents, Way & co., ltd., 1918), by C. L. Temple (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The relations of the advanced and the backward races of mankind (Clarendon press, 1903), by James Bryce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prehistoric times : as illustrated by ancient remains and the manners and customs of savages (H. Holt and Company;, 1913), by John Lubbock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Trade politics and Christianity in Africa and the East (Longmans, Green and co., 1916), by A. J. Macdonald and Harry Hamilton Johnston (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Odd people. Being a popular description of singular races of man. (Ticknor and Fields, 1860), by Mayne Reid (page images at HathiTrust)
• Intoxicants & opium in all lands and times, a twentieth century survey of intemperance, based on a symposium of testimony from one hundred missionaries and travelers (The International Reform Bureau, 1904), by Wilbur F. Crafts, Margaret W. Leitch, Wilbur F. Crafts, Mary Leitch, and inc International reform federation (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nos grands problèmes coloniaux (A. Colin, 1929), by Georges Hardy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Para el oficial de policía indígena (s.n.], 1920), by Henri Berriau and Anatolio de Fuentes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Minimum standards of social policy in dependent territories (Supplementary provisions) (International Labour Office, 1944), by International Labour Office and International Labor Conference (27th : 1945 : Paris) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The white man's work in Asia and Africa, a discussion of the main difficulties of the colour question (Longmans, Green, and co., 1907), by Leonard Alston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Altersklassen und männerbünde. Eine darstellung der grundformen der gesellschaft (G. Reimer, 1902), by Heinrich Schurtz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The question of aborigines in the law and practice of nations. Including a collection of authorities and documents (Govt. print. off., 1919), by Alpheus Henry Snow and United States Department of State (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pasynki t͡sivilizat͡sïi i ikh prosvi͡etiteli : budushchnostʹ nekulʹturnykh narodov i kulʹturtregerstvo evropeĭt͡sev (Izd-vo G.O. Lʹvovicha, 1905), by P. A. Berlin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Enquête sur l'extension intensive et rationnelle des cultures indigènes dans les colonies tropicales. (Établissements Généraux d'Imprimerie, 1929), by E. de Wildeman and International Institute of Differing Civilizations (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Conquest of territory and subject races in history and international law (Calcutta, 1925), by Bama Prasanna Sengupta (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rapports préliminaires (Etablissement général d'imprimerie, 1923), by International Colonial Institute (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The origin of civilisation and the primitive condition of man. Mental and social conditions of savages. (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1870), by John Lubbock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Native social life : a short sketch of the home life, religion, arts and crafts, manners, customs, superstitions, and folk lore of some of the native tribes of South Africa (J. Jones, 1917), by S. G. Gilkes Aitchison (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report of the chief native commissioner. (Government Printer, 1913), by Southern Rhodesia Department of Native Affairs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The relations of the advanced and the backward races of mankind : delivered in the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, June 7, 1902 (Clarendon Press, 1902), by James Bryce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Short papers chiefly on South African subjects (Lovedale Institution Press, 1893), by Andrew Smith and Lovedale Missionary Institution (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trade politics and Christianity in Africa and the East (Longmanns, Green, 1916), by Allan John Macdonald Macdonald and Maitland prize essay (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• L'évolution de l'esprit indigène aux Indes Orientales Néerlandaises. (Libr. Falck Fils, 1921), by Octave-J.-A. Collet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The liquor traffic with native races letter from the archbishops (s.n., 1887), by Church of England. Archdiocese of Canterbury. Archbishop (1882- 1896 : Benson) and Edward White Benson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Further information respecting the aborigines containing reports of the committee on Indian affairs at Philadelphia, extracts from the proceedings of the yearly meetings of Philadelphia, New York, New England, Maryland, Virginia, and Ohio, together with some particulars relative to the natives of New Zealand, New Holland, and Van Dieman's land. (Published by direction of the Meeting for Sufferings, 1842), by Society of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings. Aborigines' Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• The report of the Aborigines' Search Committee of the Meeting for Sufferings, read at the yearly meeting 1840 with the address to Lord John Russell on his becoming secretary for the colonies; that to Friends settling in new colonies, and some particulars calculated to give information and promote interest respecting the present state of aboriginal tribes. (Meeting for Sufferings, 1840), by Society of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings. Aborigines' Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Further information respecting the aborigines containing extracts from the proceedings of the Meeting for Sufferings in London, and of the Committees on Indian Affairs of the yearly meetings of Philadelphia and Baltimore; together with some particulars relative to the Seminole War. (Harvey and Darton, 1842), by Society of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings. Aborigines' Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Further information respecting the aborigines containing extracts from the proceedings of the Meeting for Sufferings in London, and of the Committees on Indian Affairs, of the yearly meetings of Philadelphia and Baltimore; together with some particulars relative to the Seminole War. (E. Marsh, 1843), by Society of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings. Aborigines' Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marriage, totemism and religion; an answer to critics (Longmans, Green and Co., 1911), by John Lubbock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Views and reviews from the outlook of an anthropologist (Williams & Norgate, 1912), by Harry Johnston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Sexualleben der Australier und Ozeanier. (Leipziger Verlag, 1908), by B. Schidlof (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le razze umane e il diritto nella questione coloniale ... (Istituto italiano d'arti grafiche, 1896), by Arcangelo Ghisleri and Giovanni Bovio (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Behandlung der Eingeborenen in den deutschen Kolonieen : ein Sammelwerk (S. Fischer Verlag, 1898), by Franz Giesebrecht (page images at HathiTrust)
• Étude historique sur le sort des indigènes dans les colonies d'exploitation. (Paris, 1901), by Benito Sylvain (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report of the ... General Missionary Conference of South Africa (General Missionary Conference of South Africa, 1904), by General Missionary Conference for South Africa (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The native races of South Africa; a history of the intrusion of the Hottentots and Bantu into the hunting grounds of the Bushmen, the aborigines of the country ... (S. Sonnenschein & Co., limited;, 1905), by G. W. Stow and George McCall Theal (page images at HathiTrust)
• The third annual report of the Aborigines' Protection Society : presented at the meeting in Exeter Hall, June 23rd, 1840 : with lists of officers, subscribers, benefactors and honorary members. (Printed for the Society by P. White & Son :, 1840), by Aborigines Protection Society (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The second annual report of the Aborigines Protection Society : presented at the meeting in Exeter Hall, May 21st, 1839. With list of officers, subscribers, benefactors, and honorary members. Printed by order of the general meeting. (printed for the Society, by P. White & Son; sold by W. Ball; and at the Society's office, 1839), by Aborigines Protection Society (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Von der weiten, schönen Welt : Schilderungen einiger der interessantesten Länder und Völker (Im Verlage der St. Josef-Bücherbruderschaft, 1911), by Austria) St. Josef-Bücherbruderschaft (Klagenfurt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Civil liberties in American colonies; a survey of interference with civil rights of natives; and of the forms of American control; with proposed remedies. (American civil liberties union, 1933), by American Civil Liberties Union (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The impact of the international mining industry on native peoples (Transnational Corporation Research Project, University of Sydney, 1988), by Michael C. Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Protection of native races against intoxicants & opium (F. H. Revell Company, 1900), by Wilbur F. Crafts, Margaret W. Leitch, Mary Leitch, and Wilbur F. Crafts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forced labour; report and draft questionnaire. Item III on the agenda. (International Labour Office, 1929), by International Labour Office and Switzerland) International Labour Conference (12th : 1929 : Geneva (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• How natives think (Les fonctions mentales dans les sociétés inférieures) (G. Allen & Unwin ltd., 1926), by Lucien Lévy-Bruhl and Lilian A. Clare (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Conventions and recommendations adopted at Geneva by the International Labor Conference; letter from the Assistant Secretary of State requesting enactment of legislation pertaining to the texts of each convention and recommendation adopted by the International Labor Organization at its 40th session, at Geneva, June 26, 1957, pursuant to article 19 of the Constitution of the International Labor Organization. ([Washington, 1958), by Switzerland) International Labour Conference (40th : 1957 : Geneva (page images at HathiTrust)
• Du sort des indigènes dans les colonies d'exploitation (L. Boyer, 1901), by Benito Sylvain (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Peep at Polynesian life (New York : Harper & Brothers, Publishers ; London : John Murray, 1849., 1849), by Herman Melville, John Murray (Firm), and Harper & Brothers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forced labour. : Item I on the agenda. (Geneva : International labour office, 1929., 1929), by International Labour Organization and Switzerland) International Labour Conference (14th : 1930 : Geneva (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Typee, a narrative of the Marquesas Islands (J.M. Dent & Sons;, 1921), by Herman Melville (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Light in the dark forest : people of the African equator (Coward-McCann, 1958), by Charles R. Joy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 3 Indian sketches (C. Fischer, 1919), by Charles Sanford Skilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Taiwan genjūmizoku no kōka. (Taiwan Sōtokufu Keimukyoku Ribanka, 1928), by Taiwan. Ribanka (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Colonization and Christianity: A popular history of the treatment of the natives by the: Europeans in all their colonies, by William Howitt (Gutenberg ebook)

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