William Graham Sumner

William Graham Sumner (1840-1910) was a leading American social scientist of the late 19th century. based at Yale College, he influenced generations of students and a very wide readership. He is best known for promoting his version of libertarian political philosophy. Many of his ideas have been thorougly incorporated into American conservative thought. His academic work in sociology, economic history and anthropology proved influential in its day.

Bibliography

Sumner's Writings

• Sumner, William Graham. On Liberty, Society, and Politics: The Essential Essays of William Graham Sumner, ed. Robert C. Bannister (Liberty Fund, 1992). online
• A History of American Currency: with chapters on the English bank restriction and Austrian paper money : to which is appended "The bullion report" (1874)
• Lectures on the History of Protection in the United States: delivered before the International Free-Trade Alliance (1877)
• Andrew Jackson as a Public Man (1882)
• What Social Classes Owe to Each Other (1883)
• Protectionism: the -ism which teaches that waste makes wealth (1885)
• Alexander Hamilton (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1890)
• The Financier & the finances of the American Revolution (2 vols. 1891)
• Robert Morris (1892)
• A history of banking in all the leading nations: comprising the United States Great Britain Germany Austro-Hungary France Italy Belgium Spain Switzerland Portugal Roumania Russia Holland: the Scandinavian nations Canada China Japan Ed. the editor of the Journal of commerce and commercial bulletin (4 vols. New 1896)555
• Folkways: a study of the sociological importance of usages,manners, customs, mores, and morals (1906)
• The science of society , edited by Albert G. Keller, (1927)
• Collected Essays in Political and Social Science (1885)
• War, and other essays, ed. by , Albert Galloway Keller (1911)
• Earth-hunger and other essays , ed. Albert Galloway Keller (1913) full text online
• The Challenge of Facts: and Other Essays ed. Albert Galloway Keller (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1914)
• The Forgotten Man, and Other Essays ed. Albert Galloway Keller (New Haven, Yale University Press, 1918)
• Selected Essays of William Graham Sumner, edited Albert Galloway Keller ... and Maurice R. Davie (New Haven: Yale University press, 1934)
• Sumner today: selected essays of William Graham Sumner, with comments American leaders, ed. Maurice R. Davie (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1940
• The forgotten man's almanac rations of common sense from William Graham Sumner, ed. A. G. Keller (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1943)
• Social Darwinism: Selected Essays of William Graham Sumner, ed. Stow Persons (Englewood Cliff, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1963).
• The conquest of the United States by Spain, and other essays ed. Murray Polner (Chicago:Henry Regnery, 1965)
• "The Conquest of the United States by Spain," Molinari Institute.