Social historyHere are entered works on the history of social structures, institutions, interaction, stability, problems, change, etc., treated collectively. Works on the theory of social change as well as social change in particular places are entered under Social change. See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.
Broader terms:Narrower terms:Used for:- Social history -- Modern, 1500-
- Descriptive sociology
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Filed under: Social history Social Change and Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), ed. by Hans Haferkamp and Neil J. Smelser (HTML at UC Press) The Evolution of Revolution (London: Hyndman Literary Trust, ca. 1921), by H. M. Hyndman (multiple formats at archive.org) Modern Society (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1881), by Julia Ward Howe (multiple formats at archive.org) The Society of To-Morrow: A Forecast of Its Political and Economic Organisation, by G. de Molinari, trans. by Philip Henry Lee-Warner (HTML at econlib.org) The Civilization of Illiteracy (1997), by Mihai Nadin (Gutenberg text) Essays on the History of Mankind in Rude and Cultivated Ages, by James Dunbar (text files at McMaster) Heaven Upon Earth, By a Polish Exile (Edinburgh: Printed for the author by A. Murray, 1848), by L. D. H. Zabranhi (multiple formats at archive.org) Honored Citizens of Barcelona: Patrician Culture and Class Relations, 1490-1714, by James S. Amelang (frame-dependent HTML at LIBRO) The Wages Question: A Treatise on Wages and the Wages Class (London: Macmillan and Co., 1888), by Francis Amasa Walker (HTML at econlib.org) The Servile State (London and Edinburgh : T.N. Foulis, 1912), by Hilaire Belloc (multiple formats at archive.org) Some Ethical Gains Through Legislation (New York and London: Macmillan, 1905), by Florence Kelley (multiple formats at archive.org)
Filed under: Social history -- 1945- The Second Twentieth Century: How the Information Revolution Shapes Business, States, and Nations (c2006), by Jean Jacques Rosa (PDF files with commentary at Hoover Institution) Foucault, Marxism, and History: Mode of Production Versus Mode of Information, by Mark Poster (frame-dependent HTML at UC Irvine) From Abundance to Scarcity: Implications for the American Tradition (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1978), by Kenneth E. Boulding, Michael G. Kammen, and Seymour Martin Lipset (PDF at Ohio State) Moscow and the New Left (Berkeley et al: University of California Press, c1975), by Klaus Mehnert (multiple formats at Google)
Filed under: Social history -- 1970-
Filed under: Social history -- 20th century
Filed under: Social history -- Medieval, 500-1500
Filed under: Social history -- Periodicals
Filed under: Buddhism and social problems
Filed under: Quality of life
Filed under: Social change Doing Good Things Better (c2011), by Brian Martin (PDF in Australia) Social Change and Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), ed. by Hans Haferkamp and Neil J. Smelser (HTML at UC Press) We Can Change The World: The Real Meaning of Everyday Life (Boston: New Democracy Books, c1991), by David G. Stratman (PDF at newdemocracyworld.org) Radical Theory/Critical Praxis: Making a Difference Beyond the Academy? (2004), ed. by Duncan Fuller and Rob Kitchin (PDF files at praxis-epress.org) Cultural Selection (c1999), by Agner Fog (HTML with commentary at agner.org) Sociocultural Systems: Principles of Structure and Change (c2013), by Frank W. Elwell (PDF with commentary at AU Press) Self-Liberation: A Guide to Strategic Planning for Action to End a Dictatorship or Other Oppression (East Boston, MA: Albert Einstein Institution, c2009), by Gene Sharp, contrib. by Jamila Raqib (PDF at aeinstein.org) Nonviolence Versus Capitalism (London: War Resisters' International, 2001), by Brian Martin (HTML and PDF in Australia) A Good Life: Human Rights and Encounters With Modernity (2013), by Mary Edmunds (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press) Swarmwise: The Tactical Manual to Changing the World (version 1.1, 2013), by Rick Falkvinge (HTML and PDF at falkvinge.net) Women and the Gift Economy: A Redically Different Worldview is Possible (2007), ed. by Genevieve Vaughan (PDF files with commentary at gift-economy.com) The Book of Visions: An Encyclopaedia of Social Innovations, ed. by Nicholas Albery (HTML at globalideasbank.org) Social Change with Respect to Culture and Original Nature (New York: B. W. Huebsch, c1922), by William F. Ogburn Falling in Love and Loving, by Francesco Alberoni (PDF at alberoni.it) Reworking Success (electronic edition), by Robert Theobald (HTML at Wayback Machine)
Filed under: Social history in literature
Filed under: Social movements
Filed under: Social policyFiled under: Social problems Smoke Signals: Selected Writing (Sydney: Sydney University Press, c2016), by Simon Chapman (PDF with commentary in Australia) Disciplining Interdisciplinarity: Integration and Implementation Sciences for Researching Complex Real-World Problems (c2013), by Gabriele Bammer (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press) Social Adjustment (New York and London: A. A. Knopf, 1930), by Robert Cloutman Dexter (page images at HathiTrust) The Return of the Middle Class (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922), by John Corbin (searchable page images at Google; US access only) The False Assumptions of "Democracy" (London: Heath, Cranton, 1921), by Anthony M. Ludovici (HTML at anthonymludovici.com) As We Are and As We May Be (London: Chatto and Windus, 1903), by Walter Besant (Gutenberg text) Colloquies on Society, by Robert Southey, ed. by Henry Morley (Gutenberg text) Consideratons on Some Recent Social Theories (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1853), by Charles Eliot Norton (multiple formats at archive.org) Crowds: A Moving-Picture of Democracy (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., c1913), by Gerald Stanley Lee The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest (Philadelphia: J. C. Winston Co., 1915), ed. by Upton Sinclair (HTML at Bartleby) Die Begründung des Prinzips der Sozialreform: Eine Literarhistorische Untersuchung über Manchestertum und Katherdersozialismus (in German; Jena: G. Fischer, 1914), by Hans Gehrig (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) Efficient Democracy (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1912), by William H. Allen (multiple formats at archive.org) An Englishman Looks at the World: Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks Upon Contemporary Matters (1914), by H. G. Wells (Gutenberg text) Latter-Day Pamphlets, ed. by Thomas Carlyle (Gutenberg text) Les Cabales et Conspirations de la Politique et des Politiciens Laïques et Religieux, Organisées Contre les Patrons et Ouvriers du Travail National (second edition, in French; Paris: The author, 1882), by J.-P. Mazaroz Mankind in the Making, by H. G. Wells (Gutenberg text) Man's Birthright (New York: Desmond FitzGerald, c1911), by Ritter Brown (multiple formats at archive.org) Past and Present (New York: W. H. Colyer, 1843), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust) Past and Present (with an appreciation by Emerson published in 1843), by Thomas Carlyle, contrib. by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Gutenberg text) A Paying Investment (Boston: J. R. Osgood and Co., 1876), by Anna E. Dickinson (page images at HathiTrust) The Problem of Civilization Solved (Chicago: Laird and Lee, 1895), by Mary Elizabeth Lease (illustrated HTML at NIU) Sanitary and Social Lectures and Essays, by Charles Kingsley (Gutenberg text) The Social Science of the Constitution of Society: or, The Cause and Cure of Its Present Evils (London: Effingham Wilson, et al., 1862) (multiple formats at archive.org) The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice (c1920), by Stephen Leacock War of the Classes, by Jack London What to Do?, by Leo Tolstoy, trans. by Isabel Florence Hapgood (Gutenberg text) What's Wrong With the World, by G. K. Chesterton (Gutenberg text) Why Men Fight: A Method of Abolishing the International Duel (New York: The Century Co., 1917), by Bertrand Russell (multiple formats at Google; US access only) "World Corporation" (Boston: New England News Co., c1910), by King C. Gillette (multiple formats at archive.org) The New World Order: Whether It is Attainable, How It Can Be Attained, and What Sort of World a World at Peace Will Have to Be (1940), by H. G. Wells (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS) American Choices: Social Dilemmas and Public Policy Since 1960 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1986), ed. by Robert H. Bremner, Gary W. Reichard, and Richard J. Hopkins (PDF at Ohio State) Philosophy and the Social Problem (second edition; New York: Simon and Schuster, 1928), by Will Durant (page images at HathiTrust) Towards the Great Peace (1922), by Ralph Adams Cram (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML) The British Revolution and the American Democracy: An Interpretation of British Labour Programmes (New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1919), by Norman Angell (multiple formats at archive.org) The English Revolution of the Twentieth Century: A Prospective History (second edition; London: F. L. Balin, 1897), by Henry Lazarus (multiple formats at archive.org) Hampden in the Nineteenth Century: or, Colloquies on the Errors and Improvement of Society (2 volumes; London: E. Moxon, 1831), by John Minter Morgan Hints Toward Reforms, in Lectures, Addresses, and Other Writings, by Horace Greeley (page images at MOA) The Man from Mars: His Morals, Politics and Religion (third edition; San Francisco: Press of E. D. Beattie, c1900), by William Simpson Philosophy and the Social Problem (New York: Macmillan, 1917), by Will Durant The Religion of Revolution, by Herbert S. Bigelow (multiple formats at archive.org) The Revolt of Democracy (main text only; introductory bio omitted), by Alfred Russel Wallace (HTML at wku.edu) Sin and Society: An Analysis of Latter-Day Iniquity (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1907), by Edward Alsworth Ross, contrib. by Theodore Roosevelt (multiple formats at archive.org) The Slavery of Our Times, by Leo Tolstoy, trans. by Aylmer Maude (HTML at cyberspacei.com) Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: The Unbridgeable Chasm, by Murray Bookchin (HTML at spunk.org) Sociology and Modern Social Problems, by Charles A. Ellwood (Gutenberg text) What Are We to Do With Our Lives? (1931), by H. G. Wells (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS) The Mind in the Making: The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1921), by James Harvey Robinson (multiple formats at archive.org) The Acquisitive Society (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1920), by R. H. Tawney (page images at Michigan) The Mind in the Making: The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform, by James Harvey Robinson (Gutenberg text) Social Forces in England and America (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1914), by H. G. Wells (multiple formats at archive.org) Work and Wealth: A Human Valuation, by J. A. Hobson (HTML at McMaster) Modern Industry in Relation to the Family, Health, Education, Morality (New York et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1914), by Florence Kelley (multiple formats at archive.org) Problems in American Democracy, by Thames Williamson (Gutenberg text)
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