Social Science

Japanese Girls and Women

by Alice Bacon Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
A clear and delightful peek into the world of Japanese girls and women of the late 1800s: their childhood, education, marriage and intimate …

The Negro Problem

by Various Read by James K. White 4.5
This is a collection of essays, edited by Booker T. Washington, representative of what historians have characterized as "racial uplift …

London Labour and the London Poor

by Henry Mayhew Read by Peter Yearsley 4.5
Subtitled, "A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work.&…

The Pauper, the Thief, and the Convict

by Thomas Archer Read by Peter Yearsley 4.6
"Bare, unpicturesque, and sordid as are the conditions of poverty, there are sights in London which everybody may and should see - sigh…

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

by Charles Mackay Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The book chronicles and vilifies its targets in three parts: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philoso…

How the Other Half Lives

by Jacob A. Riis Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890) was a pioneering work of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting…

My Chinese Marriage

by Mae Franking Read by Danielle Cartwright 4.7
Mae Watkins, a University of Michigan student, unexpectedly falls in love with a Chinese international law student in the midst of World War…

The Crowd

by Gustave Le Bon Read by Oxenhandler 4.3
"Civilisations as yet have only been created and directed by a small intellectual aristocracy, never by crowds. Crowds are only powerfu…

Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young

by Jacob Abbott Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Subtitled, "The principles on which a firm parental authority may be established and maintained, without violence or anger, and the rig…

Wonderful London

by William James McGlothlin Read by Peter Yearsley 4.8
"Wonderful London, its lights and shadows of humour and sadness". (That's the full title of the book.) A collection of short essay…

Neighbourhood – A Year’s Life in and About an English Village

by Tickner Edwardes Read by Peter Yearsley 4.8
Tickner Edwardes (properly Edward Tickner Edwardes) served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during WWI and later became the vicar of the West…

Mary Barton

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Mary Barton is the first novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell, published in 1848. The story is set in the English city of Manchester du…

American Indians

by Frederick Starr Read by mpinedag 4.7
School students is Starr's intended audience of this work. The easy-to-read stories discuss and describe a wide range of topics such as food…

Human Nature And Conduct

by John Dewey Read by William Allan Jones 4.2
John Dewey, an early 20th Century American philosopher, psychologist, educational theorist saw Social Psychology as much a physical science …

The Psychology of Peoples

by Gustave Le Bon Read by Oxenhandler 4.4
"It is barely a century and a half ago that certain philosophers, who, it should be remarked, were very ignorant of the primitive histo…

The Book of the Dead

by E. A. Wallis Budge Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.6
The Egyptian Book of the Dead, or the Book of Coming Forth by Day, is an Ancient Egyptian funerary text consisting of spells to protect the …

The Idea of Progress

by John Bagnell Bury Read by Barry Ganong 5
John Bagnell Bury was Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University in the early twentieth century. In The Idea of Progress, he…

What the White Race May Learn from the Indian

by George Wharton James Read by Roger Melin 4.6
People learn from other people, and races have forever learned from other races. Herein we are treated to an in-depth understanding of categ…

Social Statics

by Herbert Spencer Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Social Statics, or The Conditions essential to Happiness specified, and the First of them Developed is an 1851 book by the British polymath …

The Indians in Wisconsin's History

by John M. Douglass Read by Verla Viera 4.4
Pre-European arrival history of Wisconsin's Native American tribes, with discussions of their way of life, crafts, clothing, shelter, huntin…

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