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Introduction | Works on Sociology
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Works on Sociology
Showing 55 of 55 works
| No. | Title Page | Author | The Work | Year | Discipline | Collection |
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Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) |
The Collected Works of Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) (2020). —
Editor's Note: One of my Special Projects is the Bastiat Project which consists of putting online the works of Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850), as well anthologies and translations I have done, and papers I have written. This sortable table lists 329 articles, pamphlets, and books, as well as 215 letters with links to the individual items where they available. [HTML]. |
1822 | Economics; Political Thought; Sociology | Collected Works |
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Gustave de Beaumont (1802-1866) |
Gustave de Beaumont, Ireland: Social, Political, and Religious. Edited by W.C. Taylor (London: Richard Bentley, 1839). 2 vols.
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1839 | Political Thought; Politics; Sociology | Guillaumin |
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Gustave de Beaumont (1802-1866) |
Gustave de Beaumont, L’Irlande Sociale, Politique, et Religieuse. Septième Édition entièrement revue et corrigée et précédée d'une Notice sur l'état présent de l'Irlande 1862-1863. (Paris: Michel Lévy frères, 1863). 2 volumes.
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1862 | Political Thought; Sociology | Guillaumin |
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Gustave de Beaumont (1802-1866) |
Gustave de Beaumont, Marie ou l’esclavage aux États-Unis; Tableau de Mœurs Américaines. Par Gustave de Beaumont. Quatrième Édition. (Paris: Charles Gosselin, MDCCCXL (1840)). 4th ed. 1840. 1st ed. 1835.
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1835 | Sociology | Guillaumin |
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Henry Thomas Buckle (1821-1862) |
Henry Thomas Buckle, History of Civilization in England. By Henry Thomas Buckle. In Three Volumes. New Edition. (Toronto: Rose-Belford Publishing Company, 1878).
Editor's Note: 1st edition 1857. |
1857 | History; Sociology | Guillaumin |
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John Elliott Cairnes (1823-1875) |
John Elliott Cairnes, The Slave Power: Its Character, Career, and Probable Designs: Being an attempt to explain the real issues involved in the American contest. Second edition. Much enlarged and with a new Preface (London and Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1863).
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1863 | Economics; Sociology | Guillaumin |
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Charles Comte (1782-1837) |
Charles Comte, Traité de la Propriété. Par Charles Comte. Membre de la Chambre des Députes, Secrétaire perpétuel de l' Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques de l'Institut, Professeur honoraire de Droit a l'Académie de Lausanne, Avocat a la Cour Royale de Paris (Paris: Chamerot, Libraire quai des Augustins, 13; Ducollet, Libraire, Quai des Augustins, 15. M DCCC XXXIV (1834)). 2 vols.
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1834 | Sociology | Guillaumin |
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Charles Comte (1782-1837) |
Charles Comte, Traité de législation, ou exposition des lois générales suivant lesquelles les peuples prospèrent, dépérissent ou restent stationnaire (Paris: A. Sautelet et Cie, 1826-27). Four volumes.
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1826 | Sociology | Guillaumin |
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Condorcet (1743-1794) |
Condorcet, Esquisse d’un tableau historique des progrès de l’esprit humain. Ouvrage posthume de Condorcet (Paris: Agassi, L’an III de la République, une et indivisible). (1795)
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1795 | History; Sociology | Guillaumin |
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Condorcet (1743-1794) |
Outlines of an historical view of the progress of the human mind, being a posthumous work of the late M. de Condorcet. (Translated from the French.) (Philadelphia: M. Carey, 1796).
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1796 | History; Sociology | Guillaumin |
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Charles Dunoyer (1786-1862) |
Charles Comte, Charles Dunoyer, et al., An Anthology of Articles from Le Censeur and Le Censeur européen (1814-19).
Editor's Note: This anthology (488 pp. ) in French consists of 17 articles from Le Censeur (1814-185) and 18 from Le Censeur européen (1817-1819). |
1814 | Economics; History; Political Thought; Sociology | Anthology; Guillaumin |
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Charles Dunoyer (1786-1862) |
Charles Comte and Charles Dunoyer, Censoring the State: An Anthology of Articles by Charles Comte and Charles Dunoyer from 'Le Censeur' (1814-1815) and 'Le Censeur européen' (1817-1819). Edited and translated by David M. Hart (Pittwater Free Press, 2026).
Editor's Note: This anthology consists of 17 articles from Le Censeur (1814-185) and 18 from Le Censeur européen (1817-1819) and is 488 pp. long. It is available in three parts: the complete collection of 35 articles in one volume in [HTML]; Part 1 which consists of 17 articles from Le Censeur (1814-1815) in [HTML]; and Part 2 which consists of 18 artiucles from Le Censeur européen (1817-1819) in [HTML]. |
1814 | Economics; History; Law; Political Thought; Sociology | Anthology |
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Charles Dunoyer (1786-1862) |
Charles Dunoyer, L’Industrie et la morale considérées dans leurs rapports avec la liberté (Paris: A. Sautelet et Cie, 1825).
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1825 | Sociology | Guillaumin |
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Adam Ferguson (1723-1797) |
Adam Ferguson, An Essay on the History of Civil Society. By Adam Ferguson, LL. D. Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh. The Fifth Edition. (London: Printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand; and W. Creech, and J. Bell, Edinburgh. M DCC LXXXII. (1782)).
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1782 | Sociology | Guillaumin |
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Thomas Hodgskin (1787-1869) |
Thomas Hodgskin, Travels in the North of Germany, describing the Present State of the Social and Political Institutions, the Agriculture, Manufactures, Commerce, Education, Arts and Manners in that Country, particularly in the Kingdom of Hannover, 2 vols. (Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1820).
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1820 | Sociology | Guillaumin |
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John Millar (1735-1801) |
John Millar, The Origin of the Distinction of Ranks: Or, An Inquiry into the Circumstances which give rise to Influence and Authority, in the different Members of Society. By John Millar, Esq. Professor of Law in The University of Glasgow. The Fourth Edition, Corrected. To which is prefixed, An Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, by John Craig, Esq. (Edinburgh: Printed For William Blackwood, South-Bridge Street; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, Paternoster-Row, London. 1806).
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1806 | Sociology | Guillaumin |
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Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912) |
Gustave de Molinari, The Collected Articles from the Dictionnaire de l'Économie politique (1852-53). Edited and translated into English by David M. Hart (March, 2025 draft).
Editor's Note: This is a translation of Gustave de Molinari, The Collected Articles from the Dictionnaire de l'Économie politique (1852-53). In French, edited by David M. Hart (The Pittwater Free Press, 2023). [HTML]. |
1852 | Economics; Political Thought; Sociology | Anthology; Translation |
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Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912) |
Gustave de Molinari, The Collected Articles from the Dictionnaire de l'Économie politique (1852-53). In French, edited by David M. Hart (The Pittwater Free Press, 2023).
Editor's Note: See the translation of these articles: The Collected Articles from the Dictionnaire de l'Économie politique (1852-53). Edited and translated into English by David M. Hart (March, 2025 draft). 33 items. In HTML |
1852 | Economics; Political Thought; Sociology | Anthology |
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Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912) |
Gustave de Molinari, Économie de l'histoire: Théorie de l'Évolution (Paris: F. Alcan, 1908).
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1908 | Sociology | Guillaumin |
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Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912) |
Gustave de Molinari, Esquisse de l'organisation politique et économique de la société future (Paris: Guillaumin et cie., 1899).
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1899 | Economics; Political Thought; Sociology | Guillaumin |
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Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912) |
Gustave de Molinari, L’évolution politique et la Révolution (Paris: C. Reinwald, 1884).
Editor's Note: See my translation Political Evolution and the Revolution. Translated and edited by David M. Hart (Pittwater Free Press, 2025). In HTML. |
1884 | Economics; Political Thought; Sociology | Guillaumin |
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Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912) |
Gustave de Molinari, L’évolution économique du XIXe siècle: théorie du progrès (Paris: C. Reinwald 1880).
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1880 | Economics; Political Thought; Sociology | Guillaumin |
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Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912) |
Gustave de Molinari, Grandeur et décadence de la guerre (The Rise and Fall of War) (Paris: Guillaumin, 1898).
Editor's Note: See the English translation: Gustave de Molinari, The Greatness and Decline of War. Edited and translated by David M. Hart (The Pittwater Free Press, 2025). In HTML. |
1898 | Economics; Political Thought; Sociology | Guillaumin |
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Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912) |
Gustave de Molinari, The Greatness and Decline of War. Edited and translated by David M. Hart (The Pittwater Free Press, 2025).
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1898 | Economics; Political Thought; Sociology | Guillaumin; Translation |
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Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912) |
Gustave de Molinari, Political Evolution and the Revolution. Translated and edited by David M. Hart (Pittwater Free Press, 2025).
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1884 | Economics; Political Thought; Sociology | Guillaumin; Multi-Pane Readers; Translation |
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Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912) |
Gustave de Molinari, Political Evolution and the Revolution. Translated and edited by David M. Hart (Pittwater Free Press, 2025).
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1884 | Economics; Political Thought; Sociology | Guillaumin |
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Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912) |
Gustave de Molinari, Les Problèmes du XXe siècle (Paris: Guillaumin, 1901).
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1901 | Economics; Political Thought; Sociology | Guillaumin |
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Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912) |
Gustave de Molinari, Religion (Paris: Guillaumin et Cie, 1892).
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1892 | Philosophy; Political Thought; Sociology | Guillaumin |
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Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912) |
Gustave de Molinari, Revolutions and Despotism considered from the Perspective of Material Interests (1852). Translated by David M. Hart (The Pittwater Free Press, 2025).
Editor's Note: This is a translation ofwas a lecture given at the Museum of Industry in Brussels, on October 4, 1852. It was published in a book along with a Letter he wrote to Count Arrivabene: Gustave de Molinari, Les Révolutions et le despotisme envisagés au point de vue des intérêts matériels; précédé d'une lettre à M. le Comte J. Arrivabene, sur les dangers de la situation présente, par M. G. de Molinari, professeur d'économie politique (Brussels: Meline, Cans et Cie, 1852). Deuxième Partie, pp. 81-152. See the original French version in facs. PDF and [HTML]. |
1852 | Sociology | Translation |
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Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912) |
Gustave de Molinari, Les Révolutions et le despotisme envisagés au point de vue des intérêts matériels; précédé d'une lettre à M. le Comte J. Arrivabene, sur les dangers de la situation présente, par M. G. de Molinari, professeur d'économie politique (Brussels: Meline, Cans et Cie, 1852). Deuxième Partie, pp. 81-152.
Editor's Note: This was a lecture given at the Museum of Industry in Brussels, on October 4, 1852. It was published in a book along with a Letter he wrote to Count Arrivabene. Only the lecture is in HTML |
1852 | Sociology | — |
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Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912) |
Gustave de Molinari, A Sketch of the Political and Economic Organisation of the Society of the Future. Edited and translated by David M. Hart (Pittwater Free Press, 2025).
Editor's Note: See also my introduction to the translation in HTML. A translation of Gustave de Molinari, Esquisse de l'organisation politique et économique de la société future (Paris: Guillaumin et cie., 1899). See the original French version in facsimile PDF and [HTML]. It was first translated in 1904 as The Society of Tomorrow: A Forecast of its Political and Economic Organization, ed. Hodgson Pratt and Frederic Passy, trans. P.H. Lee Warner (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904). In facs. PDF and HTML. |
1899 | Economics; Political Thought; Sociology | Guillaumin; Translation |
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Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912) |
The Works of Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912) (2023). —
Editor's Note: One of my Special Projects is the Molinari Project which consists of putting online the essays and books of Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912) as well as anthologies and translations I have done and essays I have written. This sortable table lists of over 300 items including 44 stand alone books, 8 Introductions or Prefaces he wrote for other books, 3 Journals he edited, 17 Pamphlets which were reprints of journal articles, and 249 Articles he wrote for magazines and journals, with links to the individual items where available. [HTML]. |
1842 | Economics; Political Thought; Sociology | Collected Works |
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Charles Louis de Secondat de Montesquieu (1689-1755) |
Charles Louis de Secondat baron Montesquieu, De l' Esprit des Lois. Nouvelle Édition, Revue, corrigée, & considérablement augmentéé par l' Auteur. (Londres, MDCCLXXVII (1777). 4 vols.
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1748 | Law; Sociology | Guillaumin |
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Gaetano Mosca (1858–1941) |
Gaetano Mosca, Elementi di scienza politica. Seconda edizione con una seconda parte inedita. (Torino: Fratelli Boca, 1923).
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1923 | Sociology | Guillaumin |
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Albert Jay Nock (1870-1945) |
Albert Jay Nock, Our Enemy, The State (Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, 1950).
Editor's Note: Third Impression. First 1935. Second 1946. |
1935 | Political Thought; Sociology | Guillaumin |
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Franz Oppenheimer (1864-1943) |
Franz Oppenheimer, Der Staat (Frankfurt am Main: Literarische Anstalt. Rotten & Loening, 1907).
Editor's Note: This is the first, short version of what would laster become a much longer work: Franz Oppenheimer, System der soziologie. Zweiter Band: Der Staat (Jena: G. Fischer, 1926). |
1907 | Political Thought; Sociology | Guillaumin |
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Franz Oppenheimer (1864-1943) |
Franz Oppenheimer, System der soziologie. Zweiter Band: Der Staat (Jena: G. Fischer, 1926). See the short version - Der Staat (1907).
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1907 | Political Thought; Sociology | Guillaumin |
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Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923) |
Vilfredo Pareto, An Application of Sociological Theories. Translated and edited by David M. Hart (Pittwater Free Press, 2025).
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1900 | Sociology | Translation |
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Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923) |
Vilfredo Pareto, “Un’applicazione di teorie sociologiche,” Rivista Italiana di sociologia, (Luglio 1900), pp. 402-456.
Editor's Note: See my translation "An Application of Sociological Theories" (2025) in HTML. Translated earlier as The Rise and Fall of the Elites: An Application of Theoretical Sociology. Introduction by Hans L. Zetterberg (Totowa, New Jersey: The Bedminster Press, 1968). |
1900 | Sociology | — |
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Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923) |
Vilfredo Pareto, Traité de sociologie générale. Édition française par Pierre Boven. Revue par l’auteur. Volume I (Paris: Librairie Payot, 1917). Volume II (Paris: Librairie Payot, 1919).
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1917 | Sociology | Guillaumin; Multi-Pane Readers |
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Georg Simmel (1858–1918) |
Georg Simmel, Philosophie des Geldes. Zweite, vermehrte Auflage. (Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. 1907).
Editor's Note: See also the 1930 edition: Georg Simmel, Philosophie des Geldes. Fünfte, unveränderte Auflage. (München und Leipzig: Duncker & Humboldt, 1930). |
1907 | Economics; Sociology | Guillaumin |
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Adam Smith (1723-1790) |
Adam Smith, Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue and Arms. Delivered In The University of Glasgow by Adam Smith. Reported by a Student in 1763. And Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Edwin Cannan (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1896).
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1763 | Economics; Law; Political Thought; Sociology | Guillaumin |
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Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) |
Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Sociology, in Three Volumes (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1898).
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1898 | Sociology | Guillaumin |
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William Graham Sumner (1840-1910) |
The Collected Essays of William Graham Sumner (1872-1910) (2024). —
Editor's Note: After Sumner's death in 1910 Yale University Press published a four volume collection of his essays and talks edited by Albert Galloway Keller between 1913 and 1919. They are listed here in a sortable table with links to the individual essays (115 items) [HTML]. |
1872 | Political Thought; Sociology | Collected Works |
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William Graham Sumner (1840-1910) |
William Graham Sumner, Earth-Hunger and Other Essays, ed. Albert Galloway Keller (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1913).
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1913 | Political Thought; Sociology | Guillaumin |
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William Graham Sumner (1840-1910) |
William Graham Sumner, The Challenge of Facts and Other Essays, ed. Albert Galloway Keller (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1914).
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1914 | Political Thought; Sociology | Guillaumin |
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William Graham Sumner (1840-1910) |
William Graham Sumner, The Forgotten Man and Other Essays, ed. Albert Galloway Keller (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1918).
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1918 | Political Thought; Sociology | Guillaumin |
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William Graham Sumner (1840-1910) |
William Graham Sumner, War and Other Essays, ed. Albert Galloway Keller (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1919).
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1919 | Political Thought; Sociology | Guillaumin |
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William Graham Sumner (1840-1910) |
William Graham Sumner, What Social Classes owe to Each Other (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1883).
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1883 | Sociology | Guillaumin |
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Augustin Thierry (1795-1856) |
Augustin Thierry, L'Industrie littéraire et scientifique liguée avec l'industrie commerciale et manufacturière, ou Opinions sur les finances, la politique, la morale et la philosophie, dans l'intérêt de tous les hommes livrés à des travaux utiles et indépendans. Tome Premier. Seconde Partie. Politique. (Paris: Delaunay, 1817).
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1817 | Political Thought; Sociology | Guillaumin |
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Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) |
Alexis de Tocqueville, L’Ancien Régime et la Révolution. Deuxième Édition (Paris: Michel Lévy Frères, 1856).
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1856 | History; Political Thought; Sociology | Guillaumin |
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Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) |
De la Démocratie en Amérique. Par Alexis de Tocqueville, Membre de l’Institut. Revue, corrigée et augmentée d’un Avertissement et d’un Examen comparatif de la Démocratie aux États-Unis et en Suisse. (Paris: Pagnerre, Éditeur. Rue de Seine, 14 Bis, 1848).
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1835 | Political Thought; Sociology | Guillaumin |
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John Wade (1788–1875) |
John Wade, Appendix to the Black Book: An Exposition of the Principles and Practices of the Reform Ministry and Parliament: the Church and the Dissenters; Catastrophe of The House of Lords; and Prospects of Tory Misrule: With Tables of Ecclesiastical and Election Statistics, and Corrections of Former Editions of The Black Book. By the Original Editor. Sixth Edition, with The ‘Crisis’ and a Characteristic List of the Anti-Reform Government. (London: Published By Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange. MDCCCXXXV (1835)).
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1835 | Political Thought; Sociology | Guillaumin |
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John Wade (1788–1875) |
John Wade, The Black Book: An Exposition of Abuses in Church and State, Courts of Law, Municipal Corporations, and Public Companies; With a Précis of the House of Commons, Past, Present, and to Come. A New Edition, greatly enlarged and corrected. By the original Editor. With an Appendix. (London: Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange. MDCCCXXXV (1835).)
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1835 | Political Thought; Sociology | Guillaumin |
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Friedrich Wieser (1851-1926) |
Friedrich von Wieser, Das Gesetz der Macht (Wien: Verlag von Julius Springer, 1926).
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1926 | Economics; Sociology | Guillaumin |














































