PDF Books in Social History
The Cradle of Mankind
by Edgar T.A. WigramThe Cradle of Mankind is the historical exploration of the life in eastern Kurdistan, co-authored by Edgar T.A. Wigram and W.A. Wigram. The authors mentions in the preface as “While no attempt has been made to tell the full tale of “England in Irak,” it has been thought well to take the opportunity given by the appearance of a second editi..
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India -Volume I of IV
by R.V. RussellThe Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India is written by Rboert Vane Russell in four volumes, this being the first volume work. This book is the result of the arrangement made by the Government of India, on the suggestion of the late Sir Herbert Risley, for the preparation of an ethnological account dealing with the inhabitant..
The Frontier in American History
by Frederick Jackson TurnerThe Frontier in American History is an essay by the Harward educated American historian Frederick Jackson Turner, whose ideas were prominent to the forming of Frontier thesis. Best known for this work, his other notable writings include “Rise of the new west”, “Social Forces in American History”, "Is Sectionalism in America Dying ..
Seventeen Years Among the Sea Dyaks of Borneo
by Edwin Herbert GomesThe Bornean jungles are immense tracts of country covered by gigantic trees, in the midst of which are mountains clothed in evergreen foliage, their barren cliffs buried beneath a network of creepers and ferns. The striking features are the size of the enormous forest trees and the closeness of their growth, rather than their loveliness or brillian..
1601 - Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors
by Mark TwainConversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors. or simply 1601 is the title of a short risqu? squib by Mark Twain, first published anonymously in 1880, and finally acknowledged by the author in 1906. Written as an extract from the diary of one of Queen Elizabeth I's ladies-in-waiting, the pamphlet purports to record a con..
Children in Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life
by Oscar WildeThe circumstance which called forth this letter is a woeful one for Christian England. Martin, the Reading warder, is found guilty of feeding the hungry, nursing the sick, of being kindly and humane. These are his offences in plain unofficial language. This pamphlet is tendered to earnest persons as evidence that the prison system is opposed to all..
What Became of the Slaves on a Georgia Plantation?
by Q. K. Philander DoesticksThe largest sale of human chattels that has been made in Star-Spangled America for several years, took place on Wednesday and Thursday of last week, at the Race-course near the City of Savannah, Georgia. The lot consisted of four hundred and thirty-six men, women, children and infants, being that half of the negro stock remaining on the old Major B..
Newcom Tavern
by AnonymousIn the year of the treaty, Jonathan Dayton, head of a New Jersey land company which also included Generals Wilkinson and St. Clair and a Colonel Ludlow, acquired the so-called “seventh and eighth ranges” between the two Miami Rivers, and employed surveyors to lay out a town site. The town was to take Jonathan Dayton’s name, although he was never to..