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• Down With Empire! Up With Spring! (published in book form 2006), by Torrance Hodgeson (PDF with commentary at Rebel Press)

• Canadian Countercultures and the Environment (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2016), ed. by Colin MacMillan Coates (PDF files with commentary at University of Calgary)

• A Little Corner of Freedom: Russian Nature Protection From Stalin to Gorbachev (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999), by Douglas R. Weiner (frame-dependent illustrated HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Transnational Japan in the Global Environmental Movement (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c2017), by Simon Andrew Avenell (PDF and Epub with commentary at Hawaii)

• Transnational Japan in the Global Environmental Movement (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c2017), by Simon Andrew Avenell (PDF and Epub with commentary at Hawaii)

• A Little Corner of Freedom: Russian Nature Protection From Stalin to Gorbachev (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999), by Douglas R. Weiner (frame-dependent illustrated HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• The New Woman International: Representations in Photography and Film from the 1870s through the 1960s (c2011), ed. by Elizabeth Otto and Vanessa Rocco (illustrated HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)

• The Trouble and Strife Reader (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2009), ed. by Deborah Cameron and Joan Scanlon (HTML at Bloomsbury Academic (registration optional))

• Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination (with commentary), by Mary Darby Robinson (HTML at Romantic Circles)

• A History of International Women's Day in Words and Images, by Joyce Stevens (illustrated HTML in Australia)

• May Her Likes Be Multiplied: Biography and Gender Politics in Egypt (2001), by Marilyn Booth (HTML at UC Press)

• Woman's Cause: The Jewish Woman's Movement in England and the United States, 1881-1933 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1990), by Linda Gordon Kuzmack (PDF at Ohio State)

• Challenging Women's Agency and Activism in Early Modernity (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2016), ed. by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks (PDF at OAPEN)

• Bluestocking Feminism and British-German Cultural Transfer, 1750-1837 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2014), by Alessa Johns (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The Eloquence of Mary Astell (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2005), by Christine Mason Sutherland (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, For the Advancement of Their True and Greatest Interest, In Two Parts, by a Lover of Her Sex (London: Printed for R. Wilkin, 1697), by Mary Astell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Thoughts on the Education of Daughters, with Reflections on Female Conduct in the More Important Duties of Life (London: J. Johnson, 1787), by Mary Wollstonecraft (multiple formats at Google)

• Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity (c2008), by Margaret Poulos (HTML and PDF files at gutenberg-e.org)

• The Woman's Movement in the Netherlands (1915), by Maria Boissevain (page images at delpher.nl)

• Jewish Women in Pre-State Israel: Life History, Politics, and Culture (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2008), ed. by Ruth Kark, Margalit Shilo, and Galit Hasan-Rokem (PDF with commentary at Brandeis)

• Still Fighting: The Nicaraguan Women's Movement, 1977-2000 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001), by Katherine Isbester (page images at Pitt)

• Jewish Women in Pre-State Israel: Life History, Politics, and Culture (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2008), ed. by Ruth Kark, Margalit Shilo, and Galit Hasan-Rokem (PDF with commentary at Brandeis)

• Woman's Cause: The Jewish Woman's Movement in England and the United States, 1881-1933 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1990), by Linda Gordon Kuzmack (PDF at Ohio State)

• On the Equality of the Sexes (as published in The Massachusetts Magazine, 1790), by Judith Sargent Murray (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897 (New York: T. Fisher Unwin, 1898), by Elizabeth Cady Stanton (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Feminist Chronicles, 1953-1993, by Toni Carabillo, Judith Meuli, and June Bundy Csida (HTML at feminist.org)

• Globalization and Labour in the Twenty-First Century (London and New York: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, c2016), by Verity Burgmann
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Early Colombian Labor Movement: Artisans and Politics in Bogotá, 1832-1919 (originally published 1992; this edition Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018), by David Sowell, contrib. by Pamela S. Murray (multiple formats with commentary at Temple)

• Bread, or Bullets! Urban Labor and Spanish Colonialism in Cuba, 1850-1898 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1998), by Joan Casanovas (page images at Pitt)

• Workers Against Work: Labor in Paris and Barcelona During the Popular Fronts (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Michael Seidman (HTML at UC Press)

• The Fabrication of Labor: Germany and Britain, 1640-1914 (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1995), by Richard Biernacki (HTML at UC Press)

• The Fabrication of Labor: Germany and Britain, 1640-1914 (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1995), by Richard Biernacki (HTML at UC Press)
• A Worker Looks at History: Being Outlines of Industrial History Specially Written for Labour College Plebs classes (London: Plebs League, 1919), by Mark Starr (page images at HathiTrust)

• Urban Revolt: Ethnic Politics in the Nineteenth-Century Chicago Labor Movement (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Eric L. Hirsch (HTML at UC Press)

• All-American Anarchist: Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movement (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1998), by Carlotta R. Anderson (multiple formats at Wayne State)

• Working Detroit: The Making of a Union Town (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1984), by Steve Babson, contrib. by Ron Alpern, Dave Elsila, and John Revitte (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)

• Advocating the Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008), by Joshua R. Greenberg (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at gutenberg-e.org)

• Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948, by Zachary Lockman (HTML at UC Press)

• The Radical and Labor Periodical Press in Chicago: Its Origin and Development to 1890 (Urbana: Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, University of Illinois, 1949), by E. L. Sheppard (page images at HathiTrust)

• S. P. Bunting: A Political Biography, by Edward Roux (HTML in South Africa)

• Chapters in the History of Organized Labor in Texas (University of Texas Publication #4143; 1941), by Ruth Alice Allen (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Can Unions Survive? The Rejuvenation of the American Labor Movement (New York and London: New York University Press, c1995), by Charles B. Craver (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• Joe Worker and the Story of Labor (New York: National Labor Service, ca. 1948), by Nathan Schachner and Jack Alderman
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Jewish Labor in U.S.A.: An Industrial, Political and Cultural History of the Jewish Labor Movement (2 volumes, respectively covering 1882-1914 and 1914-1952; New York: Trade Union Sponsoring Committee, c1950-1953), by Melech Epstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Workers in American History (second edition; Terre Haute, IN: J. Oneal, 1910), by James Oneal (multiple formats at Indiana)
• Life of Albert R. Parsons; With Brief History of the Labor Movement in America (Chicago: L. E. Parsons, 1889), by Lucy E. Parsons, contrib. by Albert Richard Parsons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Revolutionary Radicalism: Its History, Purpose and Tactics; With an Exposition and Discussion of the Steps Being Taken and Required to Curb It (4 volumes; Albany: J. B. Lyon and Co., 1920), by New York (State) Legislature Joint Committee Investigating Seditious Activities
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org

• Eight Men Buried Alive: The Centralia Case Calls to Every Decent Man and Woman in the State of Washington to Act Quickly, by Industrial Workers of the World
  • HTML at MSU
  • PDF page images at MSU

• Uprooting War (electronic edition, 1998), by Brian Martin (HTML in Australia)
• History of Peace (2 volumes; supersedes older book "The Way to Peace"), by Sanderson Beck (HTML at beck.org)

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