Social Science

No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet

by Rupert H. Wheldon Read by Ben Adams 4.4
>Though little is known about its author, this is considered the first vegan cookbook ever written. At the time of its composition, the V…

Vindication Of The Rights Of Men

by Mary Wollstonecraft Read by David Wales 3.8
Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) attacks aristocracy and advocates republicanism. It was published in response to …

Women of America

by John Ruse Larus Read by Linda Andrus 4.8
The present volume completes the story of woman as told in the series of which it forms part. The history of nations is, in its ultimate ana…

The Business of Being a Woman

by Ida M. Tarbell Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
How were women's roles changing in the 1900's? Ida Tarbell explores this in a well written, witty and insightful series of essays. "T…

In Indian Mexico

by Frederick Starr Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
In this work, Starr delves into the anthropological side of Mexico's Natives ("Indians") at the end of the XIX century. Researche…

Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule

by Mahatma Gandhi Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
First written in Gandhi's native language Gujarati, this booklet advocates for Indian non-violent self-rule during the struggle for Indian i…

The Science - History of the Universe

by Francis Rolt-Wheeler Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The seventh volume is on Anthropology written by the editor himself and on Medi…

Among the Head-hunters of Formosa

by Janet B. Montgomery Mcgovern Read by Anonymous 4.7
"Among the Head-hunters of Formosa contains the substance of observations made during a two-years' stay in Formosa — from September 191…

The Nether World

by George Gissing Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
This sad social novel revolves around the problematic issue of money. Michael returns from Australia to London a rich man. However, he hides…

The Aftermath of Slavery

by William A. Sinclair Read by Jim Locke 4.5
This work describes conditions and forces the black population of the South faced after freedom was brought by the Civil War. As Sinclair pu…

The Real Latin Quarter

by Frank Berkeley Smith Read by Bill Boerst 5
"Cocher, drive to the rue Falguière"--this in my best restaurant French.The man with the varnished hat shrugged his shoulde…

The Philadelphia Negro

by W. E. B. Du Bois Read by Jim Locke 4.9
In November, 1897, I submitted to the American Academy of Political and Social Science a plan for the study of Negro problems. This work is …

The Domestic Slave Trade Of The Southern States

by Winfield Hazlitt Collins Read by David Wales 3.8
This 1904 history of slavery in the southeastern United States reflects the state of knowledge at that time, of course. The text contains s…

Neighbors

by Jacob A. Riis Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
These stories have come to me from many sources—some from my own experience, others from settlement workers, still others from the records o…

A Century of Negro Migration

by Carter Woodson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Dr. Woodson describes the internal migration of African Americans within the United States, including the Northern Migration and the draw of…

The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion

by James Frazer Read by Leon Harvey 5
The fourth volume in Frazer's seminal 12 volume set on anthropology and traditional systems of belief. With this third part of The Golden Bo…

Thoughts on South Africa

by Olive Schreiner Read by Rachel May Ferriman 3
'Thoughts on South Africa' is a collection of Schreiner's observations of colonial South Africa in the early 19th century, mostly regarding …

The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

by Émile Durkheim Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
A study and analysis of religion as a social phenomenon by French sociologist Émile Durkheim. (Summary by Erin Stone)

The Gentleman and Lady's Book of Politeness and Propriety of Deportment

by Élisabeth Celnart Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
The Gentleman and Lady's Book of Politeness and Propriety of Deportment by Élisabeth Celnart is a comprehensive guide to the social g…

The Negro

by W. E. B. Du Bois Read by Jim Locke 4
Nevertheless, I have not been able to withstand the temptation to essay such short general statement of the main known facts and their fair …

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