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    19/09/2024
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    Mobilizing Woman-Power

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    Chapter: 17 | Listen: 1

    Harriot Stanton Blatch, a suffragist in her own right, was the daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton who was one of the champions of women’s rights and a force in the suffragist movement. In this volume, Blatch focuses on the mobilization of women during World War I, both in Europe and American. These courageous women stepped into roles formerly the domain of men and provided the essential services crucial to the success of the outcome of the war. – Summary by Larry Wilson     [chương_files]  

    19/09/2024
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    Salem Witchcraft, the Planchette Mystery, and Modern Spiritualism

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    Chapter: 10 | Listen: 1

    The object in reprinting this most interesting review is simply to show the progress made in moral, intellectual, and physical science. The reader will go back with us to a time—not very remote—when nothing was known of Phrenology and Psychology; when men and women were persecuted, and even put to death, through the baldest ignorance and the most pitiable superstition. If we were to go back still farther, to the Holy Wars, we should find cities and nations drenched in human blood through religious bigotry and intolerance. Let us thank God that our lot is cast in a more fortunate age, when the light of revelation, rightly interpreted by the aid of Science, points to the Source of all knowledge, all truth, all light. When we know more of Anatomy, Physiology, Physiognomy, and the Natural Sciences generally, there will be a spirit of broader liberality, religious tolerance, and individual freedom. Then all men will hold themselves accountable to God, rather than to popes, priests, or parsons. Our progenitors lived in a time that tried men’s souls, as the following lucid review most painfully shows. (Summary by Samuel Robert Wells)     [chương_files]  

    19/09/2024
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    Special Report on Negro Domestic Service in the Seventh Ward Philadelphia

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    This paper is an attempt to give the most accurate facts obtainable bearing upon the question of colored domestic service in Philadelphia. (Summary by the author)     [chương_files]  

    19/09/2024
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    Among Cannibals

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    From 1880-1883, the author undertook an academic expedition to Australia, with the purpose of recording zoological phenomena. While there, he developed an interest in the indigenous people and, unlike contemporary studies, did not restrict himself to appearance and outward behavior, but rather looked at the social, economic and anthropological. – Summary by Lynne Thompson     [chương_files]  

    19/09/2024
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    Researches into the Physical History of Man

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    Prichard’s Researches into the Physical History of Man has been called the most important pre-Darwinian anthropological work in English of the nineteenth century. He is considered by many to be the “Father of Anthropology”. The central conclusion of the work is the unity of the human species, which has been acted upon by causes that have since divided it into permanent varieties or races. In his Preface, he writes: “In the course of this essay I have maintained the opinion that all mankind constitute but one race or proceed from a single family”. In this summary passage Prichard indicates Africa (indirectly) as the place of human origin: “On the whole, there are many reasons which lead us to the conclusion that the primitive stock of men were probably Negroes, and I know of no argument to be set on the other side.” Could this be the first historic recognition that “Black Lives Matter”? Note: Latin, Greek and German passages recorded by Kazbek. (Summary by John Greenman & Wikipedia)     [chương_files]  

    19/09/2024
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    The Road

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    “We are arrived at a chief turning-point in the history of the English highway. New instruments of locomotion, a greater volume of traffic, a greater weight in loads, and vastly increased rapidity in road travel have between them brought us to an issue: either some very considerable and immediate change in the character of the Road, or a serious and increasing handicap in our rivalry with other nations through the strain and expense of an out-worn system. “The moment therefore calls for some examination of the Road, its theory and history. That need has prompted me to write this essay; but I must say at the outset that I approach my task with no expert qualification. My only equipment for the general sketch I intend is historical reading and the experience acquired in the writing of certain monographs upon the topography of the Road in the past. I can do no more than suggest lines of thought which, if they lead to practice, need a detailed science I do not possess. … “We have had (as I shall develop in more detail) five great moments … in the history of the English road system: the moment when the British trackway was superseded by the Roman military road; the moment when the latter declined in the Dark Ages; the moment when the mediaeval system of local roads grew up on the basis of the old Roman trunk roads and around them; the moment when this in its turn declined in the […]

    19/09/2024
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    Our Androcentric Culture, or the Man-Made World

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    Chapter: 15 | Listen: 1

    This is a book about men—as such. It differentiates between the human nature and the sex nature. It will not go so far as to allege man’s masculine traits to be all that excuse, or explain his existence: but it will point out what are masculine traits as distinct from human ones, and what has been the effect on our human life of the unbridled dominance of one sex. (Taken from the first chapter)     [chương_files]  

    19/09/2024
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    Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study

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    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 an essay along the lines there laid down, and is thus part of larger design of observation and research into the history and social conditions of the transplanted Africans. W.E.B. Du Bois At the end of this work are appendices, mainly additional statistics and not included here–the most noteworthy of them being Appendix B, a list of legislation regarding the Philadelphia Negro during this period.     [chương_files]  

    18/09/2024
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    Social Settlement Movement in Chicago

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    This is Ms. Raymond’s thesis submitted for the awarding of her master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin (Madison.) Raymond clearly knows her subject well and describes the aims and practices of the various social settlements established in disadvantaged districts in the City of Chicago and with detail enough to offer a brief but comprehensive view of the social settlement ideal then in place at the turn of the 19th Century in Chicago and other major American cities. – Summary by KevinS     [chương_files]  

    18/09/2024
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    Twilight in Italy

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    Chapter: 10 | Listen: 1

    This is one of the author’s “travel books”, recounting his walking journeys in and around the Lago di Garda in Northern Italy. Every turn prompts musings on the nature and character of the people he encounters and their relationship to the land which they inhabit. His insights, while sometimes condescending, show elements of Lawrence’s analysis of the human condition, and his despair over the relentless erosion of a bucolic environment with the advance of modernism. – Summary by Peter Tucker     [chương_files]