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'''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.
==Career==
==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). [http://oll.libertyfund.org/Home3/Book.php?recordID=0683 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) [http://books.google.com/books?id=wWJN3l36B_oC&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:william+inauthor:graham+inauthor:sumner&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&num=30&as_brr=1&as_pt=ALLTYPES full text online]
* ''The Challenge of Facts: and Other Essays'' ed. Albert Galloway Keller (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1914)
* [http://www.mises.org/books/forgottenman.pdf ''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)
* [http://praxeology.net/WGS-CUS.htm "The Conquest of the United States by Spain,"] Molinari Institute.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wumner, William Graham}}
[[category:Sociologists]]
[[category:Libertarians]]
[[category:Political Scientists]]
[[category:Gilded Age]]
[[category:Conservatives]]
==Career==
==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). [http://oll.libertyfund.org/Home3/Book.php?recordID=0683 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) [http://books.google.com/books?id=wWJN3l36B_oC&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:william+inauthor:graham+inauthor:sumner&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&num=30&as_brr=1&as_pt=ALLTYPES full text online]
* ''The Challenge of Facts: and Other Essays'' ed. Albert Galloway Keller (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1914)
* [http://www.mises.org/books/forgottenman.pdf ''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)
* [http://praxeology.net/WGS-CUS.htm "The Conquest of the United States by Spain,"] Molinari Institute.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wumner, William Graham}}
[[category:Sociologists]]
[[category:Libertarians]]
[[category:Political Scientists]]
[[category:Gilded Age]]
[[category:Conservatives]]