Social Science Books

The Querist

George Berkeley

The Querist Containing Several Queries Proposed to the Consideration of the Public. Whether the bank proposed to be established in Ireland, under the notion of a national bank, by the voluntary s..

Biographies of Working Men

Grant Allen

"Biographies of Working Men" is a volume containing brief biographies of seven men from working class backgrounds who went on to excel in their chosen fields. They are: Thomas Telford, George Stephens..

Mutual Aid - A Factor of Evolution

kniaz Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution is a book by Peter Kropotkin on the subject of mutual aid, written while he was living in exile in England. It was first published by William Heinemann in London in O..

An Inquiry into the Nature and Progress of Rent, and the Principles by Which It is Regulated

T. R. Malthus

The following tract contains the substance of some notes on rent, which, with others on different subjects relating to political economy, I have collected in the course of my professional duties at th..

Observations on the Effects of the Corn Laws, and of a Rise or Fall in the Price of Corn

T. R. Malthus

A revision of the corn laws, it is understood, is immediately to come under the consideration of the legislature. That the decision on such a subject, should be founded on a correct and enlightened vi..

The Grounds of an Opinion on the Policy of Restricting the Importation of Foreign Corn Intended as an appendix to "Observations on the corn laws"

T. R. Malthus

The professed object of the Observations on the Corn Laws, which I published in the spring of 1814, was to state with the strictest impartiality the advantages and disadvantages which, in the actual c..

The Dominion in 1983

Ralph Centennius

The Dominion in 1983 was first published as a thirty page booklet in 1883 under the pseudonym Ralph Centennius. (The author's real name is unknown.) This edition has been proof-read word-by-word again..

Colloquies on Society

Robert Southey

It was in 1824 that Robert Southey, then fifty years old, published “Sir Thomas More, or Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society,” a book in two octavo volumes with plates illustrating lak..