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• Fighting for a Living: A Comparative History of Military Labour, 1500-2000 (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2013), ed. by Erik Jan Zürcher
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Democracy and Compulsory Service (New York: National Security League, 1917), by G. G. Coulton (page images here at Penn)

• The Conscription Controversy in Great Britain, 1900-18 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1987), by R. J. Q. Adams and Philip P. Poirier (PDF at Ohio State)

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

• The Conscientious Objector in America (New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1923), by Norman Thomas, contrib. by Robert M. La Follette (page images at HathiTrust)
• Enlistment or Conscription? (London: G. Routledge and Sons; New York, E.P. Dutton and Co., 1915), by Annette M. B. Meakin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Record of a Quaker Conscience: Cyrus Pringle's Diary, by Cyrus G. Pringle, ed. by Rufus M. Jones
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at vermontcivilwar.org

• Cases of Habeas Corpus, Decided by the Supreme Court of North Carolina, at the June Term, 1863, by North Carolina Supreme Court (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Speech of Hon. George A. Gordon, of Chatham, on the Constitutionality of the Conscription Laws, Passed by the Congress of the Confederate States, by George Anderson Gordon (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Militarist Christendom and the Gospel of the Prince of Peace (revised version of The Conflict of Ages; 2007), by Daniel H. Shubin (PDF at peacehost.net)

• Labor's Answer to Conscription (New York: Pioneer Publishers, ca. 1940), by Felix Morrow (HTML at marxists.org)
• Military Training in the Making of Men (Washington: American Union Against Militarism, ca. 1918), by Frederick J. Libby (page images here at Penn)
• Universal Military Training and Democracy (Washington: American Union Against Militarism, ca. 1917), by George William Nasmyth (page images here at Penn)
• Universal Obligatory Military Training and Service: A Catechism in Twelve Lessons (New York: National Security League, ca. 1917), by George R. Conroy (page images here at Penn)
• Democracy and Compulsory Service (New York: National Security League, 1917), by G. G. Coulton (page images here at Penn)
• Universal Military Training: Henry L. West of the National Security League vs. Charles T. Hallinan of the American Union Against Militarism (Washington: Reprinted by the American Union Against Militarism, 1919), by Henry Litchfield West and Charles T. Hallinan (page images here at Penn)
• The U. S. Marines in Rhyme, Prose, and Cartoon (third edition, special; New York: U.S. Marine Corps Recruiting Publicity Bureau, ca. 1915), by United States Marine Corps (page images here at Penn)
• The New York State Military Census and Inventory: A Report to Hon. Charles S. Whitman, Governor of the State of New York, 1917 (Albany, NY: J. B. Lyon Co., 1918), by New York State Military Census Bureau
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• 1001 Ways To Beat The Draft (New York: Oliver Layton Press, c1966), by Tuli Kupferberg and Robert Bashlow (page images at HathiTrust)

• A European Anabasis: Western European Volunteers in the German Army and SS, 1940-1945 (c2003), by Kenneth W. Estes (illustrated HTML and PDF files at gutenberg-e.org)

• The AmeriCorps Experiment and the Future of National Service (Washington, DC: Progressive Policy Institute, c2005), ed. by Will Marshall and Marc Magee (PDF with commentary at dlc.org)

• A "Freedom Budget" for All Americans: Budgeting Our Resources, 1966-1975, to Achieve "Freedom From Want" (1966), by A. Philip Randolph Institute (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (current electronic edition), by United States General Services Administration (searchable HTML at cfda.gov)
• Colonias, A Third World Within Our Borders: Hearing Before the Select Committee on Hunger, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, First Session, Hearing Held in Eagle Pass, TX, May 15, 1989 (Washington: GPO, 1990), by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Hunger (page images at HathiTrust)

• People Power: What Communities Are Doing to Counter Inflation (ca. 1980), by U.S. Office of Consumer Affairs, Consumer Information Division (page images at HathiTrust)

• Annual Report on the Area Redevelopment Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce, by United States Area Redevelopment Administration (full serial archives)

• Keystone Sector Identification: A Graph Theory-Social Network Analysis Approach (c2000), by Maureen Kilkenny and Laura Nalbarte (PDF with commentary at wvu.edu)
• Cooperating with Nature: Confronting Natural Hazards with Land-Use Planning for Sustainable Communities (1998), ed. by Raymond J. Burby (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Changing Places: How Communities Will Improve the Health of Boys of Color (Berkeley and Los Angeles: BerkeleyLaw, c2010), ed. by Christopher F. Edley and Jorge Ruiz-de-Velasco (PDF with commentary at escholarship.org)
• Living Homes for Cultural Expression: North American Native Perspectives on Creating Community Museums (c2006), ed. by Karen Coody Cooper and Nicolasa I. Sandoval (PDF with commentary at Smithsonian)
• People Power: What Communities Are Doing to Counter Inflation (ca. 1980), by U.S. Office of Consumer Affairs, Consumer Information Division (page images at HathiTrust)

• Community Development Block Grant Program: Guide to National Objectives and Eligible Activities for Entitlement Communities (updated edition, 1998), by United States Office of Community Planning and Development (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Poetics of Cities: Designing Neighborhoods That Work (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1995), by Mike Greenberg (PDF at Ohio State)
• Fragments of Cities: The New American Downtowns and Neighborhoods (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1990), by Larry Bennett (PDF at Ohio State)

• Community and Quality of Life: Data Needs for Informed Decision Making (2002), by National Research Council Board on Earth Sciences and Resources (page images with commentary at NAP)

• A Cultural District for Downtown Atlanta (Atlanta: Rearch Atlanta, c2000), by Arthur C. Brooks and Roland Kushner (page images at GSU)

• The Feasibility and Value of Broadband Communications in Rural Areas: A Preliminary Evaluation (1976), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment, contrib. by William Mills, Gretchen Kolsrud, and Lucia Turnbull (PDF files at Princeton)

• The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012), by Andrew Herscher (illustrated HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)

• An Introduction to Community Development: A Guidebook for Local Leaders (Helena: Development Bureau of the Montana Department of Commerce, 1982), by Lawrence Gallagher and Montana Department of Commerce (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Aging: A Guide to Public Policy (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1984), by Bennett Milton Rich and Martha Baum (page images at Pitt)

• White Hats: People Who are Trying to Make a Difference, ed. by Margaret Bohannon-Kaplan (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Productive Roles in an Older Society, by Committee on an Aging Society (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Junior League: 100 Years of Volunteer Service, by Nancy Beth Jackson (PDF at ajli.org)

• The Junior League: 100 Years of Volunteer Service, by Nancy Beth Jackson (PDF at ajli.org)

• Junior League (partial serial archives)

• Global Communications: Opportunities for Trade and Aid (1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Digital Community Engagement: Partnering Communities with the Academy (Cincinnati: University of Cincinnati Press, c2020), ed. by Rebecca S. Wingo, Jason A. Heppler, and Paul Schadewald (HTML with commentary at University of Cincinnati Press)
• Community Development: An Introduction to CD for Village Workers (reprinted from Agency for International Development training materials; Columbia, MO: Center for Community Development, University of Missouri, 1963), by Donald L. Beran, ed. by Jean Ogden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Making Futures: Marginal Notes on Innovation, Design, and Democracy (Cambridge, MA, and London: MIT Press, c2014), ed. by Pelle Ehn, Elisabet M Nilsson, and Richard Topgaard (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• An Introduction to Community Development: A Guidebook for Local Leaders (Helena: Development Bureau of the Montana Department of Commerce, 1982), by Lawrence Gallagher and Montana Department of Commerce (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Grassroots Development: The African Development Foundation (1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• A Common Good Approach to Development: Collective Dynamics of Development Processes (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), ed. by Mathias Nebel, Oscar Garza-Vázquez, and Clemens Sedmak (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

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