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Intellectual life

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• Cultural life

• Hanging on to the Edges: Essays on Science, Society and the Academic Life (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2018), by Daniel Nettle (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Disquisitions on Several Subjects (London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1782), by Soame Jenyns
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• World of Patterns: A Global History of Knowledge (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2022), by Rens Bod, trans. by Leston Buell (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Ways of Making and Knowing: The Material Culture of Empirical Knowledge (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2014), ed. by Pamela H. Smith, Amy R. W. Meyers, and Harold John Cook (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Story of Stupidity, by James F. Welles (HTML at mensch.net)

• Süddeutsche Monatshefte (in German) (partial serial archives)

• Ways of Making and Knowing: The Material Culture of Empirical Knowledge (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2014), ed. by Pamela H. Smith, Amy R. W. Meyers, and Harold John Cook (page images at HathiTrust)

• Library Life: Werkstätten Kulturwissenschaftlichen Forschens (in German; Luneberg: Meson Press, 2015), by Friedolin Krentel, Katja Barthel, Sebastian Brand, Alexander Friedrich, Anna Rebecca Hoffmann, Laura Meneghello, Jennifer Ch. Müller, and Christian Wilke (PDF with commentary at meson.press)
• The Para-Academic Handbook: A Toolkit for Making-Learning-Creating-Acting (Bristol, UK: HammerOn Press, c2014), ed. by Alex Wardrop and D-M Withers (PDF with commentary at hammeronpress.net)
• The Academic Community: A Manual for Change (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Donald E. Hall (PDF at Ohio State)
• An Address Delivered Before the Two Literary Societies, of the University of North Carolina, In Gerard Hall, On the Day Preceding the Annual Commencement, in June 1839 (Raleigh, NC: Dialectic Society, 1839), by Bedford Brown
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The American Scholar, by Ralph Waldo Emerson (HTML at emersoncentral.com)
• The Old and the New (address at 7th annual Stanford commencement; Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1898), by Walter Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pseudodoxia Epidemica (third edition; London: Printed by R. W. for Nath. Ekins, 1658), by Thomas Browne (page images at Google)
• Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science: Essays and Addresses, by Simon Newcomb (Gutenberg text)

• Unpopular Culture (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2016), ed. by Martin Lüthe and Sascha Pöhlmann
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • PDF files with commentary at JSTOR
• The Cultural Gutter (book collection of articles from the website; Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2010), by Carol Borden, Ian Driscoll, Jim Munroe, James Schellenberg, and Chris Szego (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• Knowledge Goes Pop: From Conspiracy Theory to Gossip (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2006), by Clare Birchall (PDF with commentary at a oapen.org)
• Fanfiction and the Author: How Fanfic Changes Popular Cultural Texts (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2017), by Judith Fathallah (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• Nerd Ecology: Defending the Earth with Unpopular Culture (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2016), by Anthony Lioi (HTML with commentary at Bloomsbury)
• Fame Attack: The Inflation of Celebrity and Its Consequences (London: Bloomsbury Academic, c2012), by Chris Rojek (HTML with commentary at bloomsburycollections.com)
• Missions for Thoughtful Gamers (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2011), by Andrew Cutting (multiple formats with commentary at CMU)
• Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), ed. by Harry Justin Elam and Kennell A. Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plenitude (electronic edition 2.0), by Grant David McCracken (HTML at cultureby.com)

• The Women of the French Salons, by Amelia Gere Mason (Gutenberg text)

• Mutha' is Half a Word: Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by LaMonda Horton-Stallings (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Work of the Afro-American Woman (second edition; Philadelphia: G. S. Ferguson Co., 1908), by Mrs. N. F. Mossell (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), ed. by Harry Justin Elam and Kennell A. Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Black American Literature: Notes on the Problem of Definition (Ball State Monograph #22; Muncie, IN: Ball State University, 1971), by Joseph F. Trimmer (PDF at bsu.edu)
• The Negro in American Fiction (originally published 1937; reprinted Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1968), by Sterling A. Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Publishing Blackness: Textual Constructions of Race Since 1850 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2013), ed. by George Hutchinson and John K. Young (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• Folklore in New World Black Fiction: Writing and the Oral Traditional Aesthetics (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Chiji Akoma (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States (New York: Duffield and Co., 1918), by Benjamin Brawley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States (revised edition; New York: Duffield and Co., 1921), by Benjamin Brawley
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• A Decade of Negro Self-Expression (Trustees of the John Slater Fund occasional paper #26; 1928), by Alain Locke, contrib. by Howard Washington Odum (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The New Negro: An Interpretation (New York: A. and C. Boni, 1925), ed. by Alain Locke, illust. by Winold Reiss (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dioscorus of Aphrodito: His Work and His World (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), by Leslie S. B. MacCoull (HTML at UC Press)

• Eating Identities: Reading Food in Asian American Literature (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c2008), by Wenying Xu (PDF with commentary at Hawaii)
• Representations: Doing Asian American Rhetoric (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2008), by LuMing Mao (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Tragedy and Enlightenment: Athenian Political Thought and the Dilemmas of Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), by Christopher Rocco (HTML at UC Press)

• Das Österreichische Antlitz: Essays (in German; Berlin: S. Fischer, 1910), by Felix Salten (Gutenberg text)

• The Correspondence of Johann Amerbach: Early Printing in its Social Context (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by Johannes Amerbach, ed. by Barbara C. Halporn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ciaran Carson: Space, Place, Writing (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, c2010), by Neal Alexander (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)

• Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), ed. by Harry Justin Elam and Kennell A. Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Literary Boston of To-Day (Boston: L.C. Page and Co., 1903), by Helen M. Winslow
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Intellectual Development of the Canadian People: An Historical Review (Toronto: Hunter, Rose, 1881), by John George Bourinot
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text

• Classicism, Politics, and Kinship: The Ch'ang-chou School of New Text Confucianism in Late Imperial China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Benjamin A. Elman (HTML at UC Press)

• Intellectual Life in Antebellum Charleston (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1986), ed. by Michael O'Brien and David Moltke-Hansen (PDF at Tennesee)

• Chinese Sympathies: Media, Missionaries, and World Literature from Marco Polo to Goethe (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, c2011), by Daniel L. Purdy (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The Academic Community: A Manual for Change (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Donald E. Hall (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Wayside: Home of Authors (New York: American Book Company, 1940), by Margaret Mulford Lothrop, illust. by D. Putnam Brinley (HTML at ibiblio.org)

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