Social history
Here 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.
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Broader terms:Narrower terms:- Social history -- 1945-
- Social history -- 1960-1970
- Social history -- 1970-
- Social history -- 20th century
- Social history -- 21st century
- Social history -- Bibliography
- Social history -- Congresses
- Social history -- Medieval, 500-1500
- Social history -- Periodicals
- Social history -- Philosophy
- Automobiles -- Social aspects
- Buddhism and social problems
- Industrial revolution
- Mass society
- Publishers and publishing -- Social aspects
- Quality of life
- Social change
- Social history in literature
- Social indicators
- Social movements
- Social problems
- Technology and civilization
- Urbanization
- Descriptive sociology
- Social history -- Modern, 1500-
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The Future of Class in History: What's Left of the Social? (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Geoff Eley and Keith Nield (page images at HathiTrust)- 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 (PDF files 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
- Some Ethical Gains Through Legislation (New York and London: Macmillan, 1905), by Florence Kelley
- Foucault, Marxism, and History: Mode of Production Versus Mode of Information, by Mark Poster (frame-dependent HTML at Wayback Machine)
- 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)
- Energy and Equity, by Ivan Illich (HTML at Wayback Machine)
- Satanism and the World Order (London: G. Allen and Unwin Ltd., c1920), by Gilbert Murray
- Social Decay and Regeneration (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1921), by R. Austin Freeman, contrib. by Havelock Ellis
- Nobility and Analogous Traditional Elites in the Allocutions of Pius XII, by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira (HTML with commentary at tfp.org)
- Solution: The Values of the Qur'an, by Hârun Yahya (multiple formats at harunyahya.info)
- The Individual and Society in the Middle Ages (originally published 1966; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Walter Ullmann (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
- "A Tender Age": Cultural Anxieties Over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries (c2008), by William F. MacLehose (HTML and PDF files at gutenberg-e.org)
- The Oldest Vocation: Christian Motherhood in the Medieval West (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1991), by Clarissa W. Atkinson (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
- Charity and Welfare: Hospitals and the Poor in Medieval Catalonia, by James Brodman (PDF files at Libro)
- Daughters of the Reconquest: Women in Castilian Town Society, 1100-1300, by Heath Dillard (PDF files at Libro)
- Irrigation and Society in Medieval Valencia, by Thomas F. Glick (PDF files at Libro)
- Tidsskrift for Samfunnsforskning (partial serial archives)
- Archiv für Sozialgeschichte (partial serial archives)
- Social History (partial serial archives)
- Reason (full serial archives)
- Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura (in Spanish) (full serial archives)
- Buddhism and Social Action: An Exploration, by Ken Jones (HTML at Access to Insight)
- What Matters Now (2009), ed. by Seth Godin (PDF with commentary at typepad.com)
- Hacking Life: Systematized Living and Its Discontents (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2019), by Joseph M. Reagle (illustrated HTML with commentary at MIT Press)
- Happiness, Economics and Public Policy (London: Institute of Economic Affairs, 2007), by Helen Johns and Paul Ormerod, contrib. by Samuel Brittan and Melanie Powell (PDF with commentary at IEA)
- 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)
- How Change Happens (Oxford, UK et al.: Oxford University Press, c2016), by Duncan Green (PDF with commentary at how-change-happens.com)
- 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)
- Social Change (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, c1963), by Wilbert E. Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Age of Perplexity: Rethinking the World We Knew (Madrid: BBVA, c2017), contrib. by Francisco González Rodríguez, Jannis Kallinikos, Robin Mansell, Jan-Werner Müller, José Luis Pardo, Diana Marie Owen, Evgeny Morozov, Simon Springer, Marysia Zalewski, John Andrews, Nayef R. F. Al-Rodhan, Ian Storey, Miguel Angel Centeno, Andrés Lajous, Douglas R. Nelson, Zia Qureshi, Adam Saunders, Andrew Gamble, Richard J. White, Helen Hester, Nick Srnicek, Adriana Conconi, and Mariana Viollaz (multiple formats with commentary at bbvaopenmind.com)
- 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 via aeinstein.org)
- Nonviolence Versus Capitalism (London: War Resisters' International, 2001), by Brian Martin (HTML and PDF in Australia)
- 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)
- Purpose and Necessity in Social Theory (originally published 1987; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Maurice Mandelbaum (multiple formats with commentary at Project Muse)
- 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)
- Voices of Resistance: Communication and Social Change (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2012), by Mohan J. Dutta (PDF files with commentary at Purdue)
- Women Count: A Guide to Changing the World (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2010), by Susan Bulkeley Butler, contrib. by Bob Keefe (PDF with commentary at Purdue)
- 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)
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