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First published 1919

War and Other Essays

by William Graham Sumner

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1919; Online Library of Liberty edition191 pages

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Author
William Graham Sumner
First published
1919
Format
PDF and EPUB
Pages
191
Publisher
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1919; Online Library of Liberty edition
License
Public domain by publication date.

A collection of essays by William Graham Sumner edited by Albert Galloway Keller and first issued by Yale University Press in 1911. The title essay, The Conquest of the United States by Spain, is a famous anti-imperialist attack on the Spanish-American War. The volume adds essays on the mores, religion, sociology, and public questions.

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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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23 chapters · 112,358 words · free to read here

  1. PREFATORY NOTE
  2. INTRODUCTION
  3. I: WAR [1903]
  4. II: THE FAMILY AND SOCIAL CHANGE [1909]
  5. III: THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN CHALDEA, EGYPT, INDIA, JUDEA, AND GREECE TO THE TIME OF CHRIST [1909]
  6. IV: WITCHCRAFT [1909]
  7. V: RELIGION AND THE MORES [1910]
  8. VI: THE MORES OF THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE [1909]
  9. VII: SOCIOLOGY [1881]
  10. VIII: THE ABSURD EFFORT TO MAKE THE WORLD OVER [1894]
  11. IX: STATE INTERFERENCE [1887]
  12. X: DO WE WANT INDUSTRIAL PEACE? [1889]
  13. XI: ON THE CASE OF A CERTAIN MAN WHO IS NEVER THOUGHT OF [1884]
  14. XII: THE CASE OF THE FORGOTTEN MAN FURTHER CONSIDERED [1884]
  15. XIII: THE PROPOSED DUAL ORGANIZATION OF MANKIND1 [1896]
  16. XIV: THE FALLACY OF TERRITORIAL EXTENSION [1896]
  17. XV: THE CONQUEST OF THE UNITED STATES BY SPAIN [1898]
  18. XVI: THE PREDOMINANT ISSUE [1900]
  19. XVII: OUR COLLEGES BEFORE THE COUNTRY [1884]
  20. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  21. About Liberty Fund
  22. The Online Library of Liberty
  23. Copyright Information
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William Graham Sumner 1840–1910

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. Read more about William Graham Sumner.

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