First published 1913
Earth-Hunger and Other Essays
Earth-Hunger and Other Essays by William Graham Sumner is available as a free PDF and EPUB download at freecapitalists.org.
- William Graham Sumner
- First published
- 1913
- Format
- PDF and EPUB
- Pages
- 390
- Publisher
- New Haven: Yale University Press, 1913; Online Library of Liberty edition
- License
- Public domain by publication date.
Essays by William Graham Sumner edited by Albert Galloway Keller and published by Yale in 1913. It includes fifteen essays on liberty from 1887 to 1889 and important papers on what he called plutocracy, meaning the use of political influence to enrich favored business interests, and the title essay on how nations' land hunger leads to war.
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- 390 pages, 52 chapters, and about 106,238 words in the edition this archive serves.
- Who wrote Earth-Hunger and Other Essays?
- William Graham Sumner (1840–1910) was an American classical liberal social scientist and one of the founding fathers of American sociology. He taught at Yale University, where he wrote his most influential works. This archive holds 8 of Sumner's works.
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52 chapters · 106,238 words · free to read here
- PREFACE
- PREFATORY NOTE
- AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER
- THE TEACHER’S UNCONSCIOUS SUCCESS
- THE SCIENTIFIC ATTITUDE OF MIND1
- EARTH HUNGER OR THE PHILOSOPHY OF LAND GRABBING [1896]
- PURPOSES AND CONSEQUENCES1
- RIGHTS1
- EQUALITY1
- THE FIRST STEPS TOWARD A MILLENNIUM [1888]
- WHAT IS CIVIL LIBERTY? [1889]
- The History of the Dogma of Natural Liberty
- Liberty in History and Institutions
- IS LIBERTY A LOST BLESSING? [1887]
- Is It the Savage?
- Who Is Free? Is It the Civilized Man?
- Who Is Free? Is It the Millionaire?
- Who Is Free? Is it the Tramp?
- LIBERTY AND RESPONSIBILITY
- Liberty and Law
- Liberty and Discipline
- Liberty and Property
- Liberty and Opportunity
- Liberty and Labor
- Does Labor Brutalize?
- Liberty and Machinery
- The Disappointment of Liberty
- SOME POINTS IN THE NEW SOCIAL CREED
- AN EXAMINATION OF A NOBLE SENTIMENT
- THE BANQUET OF LIFE
- SOME NATURAL RIGHTS
- THE ABOLITION OF POVERTY
- THE BOON OF NATURE
- LAND MONOPOLY
- A GROUP OF NATURAL MONOPOLIES
- ANOTHER CHAPTER ON MONOPOLY
- THE FAMILY MONOPOLY
- THE FAMILY AND PROPERTY
- THE STATE AND MONOPOLY
- DEMOCRACY AND PLUTOCRACY
- DEFINITIONS OF DEMOCRACY AND PLUTOCRACY
- THE CONFLICT OF PLUTOCRACY AND DEMOCRACY
- DEMOCRACY AND MODERN PROBLEMS
- SEPARATION OF STATE AND MARKET
- SOCIAL WAR IN DEMOCRACY
- ECONOMICS AND POLITICS [1905]
- THE POWER AND BENEFICENCE OF CAPITAL [1899]
- SOCIOLOGICAL FALLACIES [1884]
- WHAT OUR BOYS ARE READING [1880]
- About Liberty Fund
- The Online Library of Liberty
- Copyright Information
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