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A Guide to Communities and Social Conditions
Works examining social customs, public institutions, biographies and everyday life in their historical settings.
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AJUEL Historical Social Sciences Library: Society, History, and Everyday Life
The AJUEL Historical Social Sciences Library is a digital collection of public-domain works examining societies, cultures, and historical change. With 91 books and 105 authors, the catalogue covers categories including communities and social conditions, history and empires, social manners and perspectives, and romance and domestic life. The collection provides access to primary and secondary sources from various periods.
91 public-domain works105 represented authorsSource-attributed catalogue records
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A Guide to History, Empires & Change
Sources on nations, communities, law, migration and the public institutions through which historical societies were organized.
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Society, Manners & Change: Sources & Perspectives
A focused group of public-domain works connected by subject, historical context and recurring questions across the collection.
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Romance & Domestic Life: Texts & Context
A focused group of public-domain works connected by subject, historical context and recurring questions across the collection.
Social Sciences — Editor’s Selection
A concise group of works selected to introduce the subjects, source types and historical questions represented in this catalogue.
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Society, Manners & Change: Sources & Perspectives
The Industrial Condition of Wome...
This work is presented within Society, Manners & Change: Sources & Perspectives, where it can be read alongside related sources and historical perspectives.
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Human nature and the social orde...
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Social devices for impelling wom...
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The city — Edition Insights
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Negro life in New York's Harlem ...
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Social Civics — A Reader’s Guide
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Social organization — Reading Co...
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Psyche's task — Edition Insights
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Start with legal historyFollow works on law, courts, constitutions and changing public institutions.Explore crime and investigationRead historical cases, prison accounts, forensic sources and investigative writing.Discover social historyLook at everyday life, customs, biographies and the institutions shaping communities.Browse military and political sourcesMove through battles, military organization, naval affairs and political conflict.
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