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Revision as of 20:38, 19 June 2011
Introduction
Public domain books are freely available works and can hold valuable information relevant to efforts towards sustainability. Generally, these books were published pre 1930's and therefore are from a "simpler" age. The early 1900s are notable in their efficiency studies of household management and small scale production; the 1700s and 1800s explore the practical application of newly found scientific principles. There are also valuable records of traditional arts and crafts. During WW1 there were a number of austerity programs that produced books about living simply and maximising production.
BE WARNED: Ignorance of the dangers of using heavy metals (mercury, lead, chromium etc) was prevalent throughout this period and the 1800s especially was particularly bad for crank medicinal treatments for people and animals.
BE AWARE of the profound sexism and racism of the age - we know now that men make excellent housekeepers. In a sustainable society that retains today's liberal attitudes, everyone will need to do their share of domestic duties to compensate for the lack of underclass.
Most scientific knowledge was well understood by the 1900s - plastics, genetics, insulin, antibiotics and nuclear physics were still to come but application of scientific knowledge to daily life was common and sometimes profound - and still ignored...
WHY REINVENT THE WHEEL?
I would like to see these books assessed for scientific accuracy (to current understanding) so the knowledge in them can be used again, confidently. If a book has worthwhile information, it should have it's own page with a description and any hazards pointed out. If it has been produced into an ebook then particularly good bits could be posted or it could be posted in its entirety as the basis of a wiki page on the subject - with additions, subtractions and discussion to update or expand.
Sources
- Internet Archive - scanned books
- Project Gutenberg- these books have been proofread and produced in plain text and html versions. This makes them searchable and editable, so we can paste sections onto the wiki and discuss/revise.
- Distributed proofreaders (DP) - this is where the scanned texts are converted - they're always looking for more volunteers. If you are interested in producing a particular book, start at DP to build up experience and contact me (zoeannl) through the Kiwi team.
- Distributed Proofreaders list of sources
- Advanced Google Books search - pick "Full view only", search by subject etc and the public domain books will have a "pdf" download tab.
My Bookmarks - http://www.archive.org/bookmarks/zoeannl
Subjects
Appropriate tech
- Labor saving devices for the farm home (1912)
- Home labor saving devices ([c1917)]
- Nature's teachings: human invention anticipated by nature; (1907)
- The Manufacture Of Organic Dyestuffs (1919)
- Home labor saving devices (c1917)
- Mechanical devices in the home (1922)
- Labor saving devices for the farm home (1912)
Construction
- The book of woodcraft (1912)
- Knots, Splices and Rope Work by A. Hyatt Verrill
- Wiring houses for the electric light; together with special references to low voltage battery systems (1916, c1911)
- Public health. The Lomb prize essays (1886)
- Building by a builder; practical and economical considerations for the man about to build (1914)
- The house-owner's book; a manual for the helpful guidance of those who are interested in the building or conduct of homes, illustrated with cuts and diagrams (1922)
- How we are sheltered; a geographical reader (1906)
- The better homes manual (c1931)
- Chat with the ladies about house building (1905)
- The honest house, presenting examples of the usual problems which face the home-builder, together with an exposition of the simple architectural principles which underlie them: arranged especially in reference to small house design (1914)
Agriculture
See also Project Gutenberg Agriculture bookshelf
- School gardening (n.d.)
- Gardening à la mode--vegetables (1895)
- Weeds; simple lessons for children (1913)
- Lesson plans; domestic animals (c1907)
- Nature teaching based upon the general principles of agriculture for the use of schools (1904)
- A normal course in nature-science and agriculture .. (1904)
- School gardens for California schools; a manual for teachers (1905)
- Nature studies on the farm : soils and plants (1907)
- The family, farm and gardens, and the domestic animals . In three parts. Illustrated (1859)
- Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan
- Help for the hard times. Important to farmers (1910)
- The California vegetables in garden and field; a manual of practice, with and without irrigation, for semitropical countries (1910)
- The country home month by month; a guide to counry living (1915)
- United States business man's, farmer's & gardener's companion and complete domestic animal doctor (comprehensive) (1851)
- Farming for profit. A handbook for the American farmer, a practical work, devoted to agriculture and mechanics, fruit-growing and gardening, live-stock, business principles, home life, and showing how to make money, preserve health and secure happiness on the farm (1881)
- The farmer's manual : being a plain practical treatise on the art of husbandry : designed to promote an acquaintance with the modern improvements in agriculture : together with remarks on gardening, and a treatise on the management of bees (1819)
- Compendium of agriculture; or, The farmer's guide, in the most essential parts of husbandry and gardening; compiled from the best American and European publications, and the unwritten opinions of experienced cultivators .. (1824)
- Productive plant husbandry; a text-book for high schools, including plant propagation, plant breeding, soils, field crops gardening, fruit growing, forestry, insects, plant diseases and farm management (1917)
- Gleanings from the most celebrated books on husbandry, gardening, and rural affairs (1803)
- The gardener's and farmer's reason why; containing reasons for the principles of scientific cultivation applicable to gardening and agriculture (1860)
- How the farm pays : the experiences of forty years of successful farming and gardening (1884)
- Country life: a handbook of agriculture, horticulture, and landscape gardening (1866)
- Agronomy; a course in practical gardening for high schools ([c1913)]
- Practical farming and gardening; or, Money saving methods in farming, gardening, fruit growing, also horse, cattle, sheep, hog and poultry raising .. (1914)
- Kitchen gardening made easy (1879)
- Essay on modern gardening by Horace Walpole (1904)
- Pamphlets on vegetable gardening (1867)
- Educational school gardening and handwork (1913)
- Children's gardens for school and home : a manual of cooperative gardening (1904)
- School and home gardening; a text book for young people, with plans, suggestions and helps for teachers, club leaders and organizers (1918)
- Studies in gardening (1916)
- The Beginners Book Of Gardening (1911)
- Firmingers Manual Of Gardening For India (1930) (need earlier edition to be public domain.)
- The family, farm and gardens, and the domestic animals . In three parts. Illustrated (1859)
- Young America does its bit, or, Gardening to win (1918)
- Home gardening vegetables and flowers; originally published under the title of The gardenette, or, City back yards gardening, the sandwich system (1915)
- New Improvements of Planting and Gardening, Both Philosophical and Practical (1739)
- Applied economic botany based upon actual agricultural and gardening projects (1919)
- Glenny's catechism of gardening ... arranged for the use of schools .. (1849)
- Old-fashioned gardening; a history and a reconstruction (1913)
- The Gardenette: Or, City Back Yard Gardening ; the Sandwich System (1915)
- Gardening for health and recreation; a booklet of information about gardening for busy men and women (1910)
- The garden farmer: profitable market gardening (1882)
- Farm-gardening and seed-growing (1884)
- Observations on modern gardening, illustrated by descriptions.. (1771)
- Sea-coast gardens and gardening (1908)
- Amateur's guide to gardening in Cairo (1912)
- A-B-C of gardening (1915)
- Gardening and monthly calendar of operations (1861)
- Instructions in gardening for ladies (1840)
- A year's gardening (1912)
- The lighter branches of agriculture
- The gardens, poultry, and bees; embracing (1859)
- Jacques' new manual of the garden, farm and barn-yard, embracing practical horticulture, agriculture, and cattle, horse and sheep husbandry. With instructions to cultivate vegetables, fruit, flowers, all the field crops, execute the details of farm work, and breed and rear the various species of domestic animals (1870)
- Plant production (c1919)
- Birds and Flowers: Or, The Children's Guide to Gardening and Bird-keeping (1862)
- School and Home Gardening: A Text Book for Young People, with Plans ... (1918)
- Gardening under glass; a little book of helpful hints written particularly for those who would extend their gardening joys around the twelvemonth (1923)
- The joyous art of gardening; a book of first aid to the amateur (1917)
- How plants are trained to work for man Vol 1 (c1921) (plant breeding)
- How plants are trained to work for man Vol 2 (c1921)
- How plants are trained to work for man Vol 3 (c1921)
- How plants are trained to work for man Vol 4 (c1921)
- How plants are trained to work for man Vol 5 (c1921)
- How plants are trained to work for man Vol 6 (c1921)
- How plants are trained to work for man Vol 7 (c1921)
- How plants are trained to work for man Vol 8 (c1921)
- The farmer's own book; or, Family receipts for the husbandman and housewife; being a compilation of the very best receipts on agriculture, gardening, and cookery, with rules for keeping farmers' accounts (1832)
- The farmer's and horseman's true guide : pointing out the perfections and imperfections of the horse, with cures for his diseases, and for neat cattle and sheep. Together with useful recipes in gardening ... From practical experience. Well-tried and approved by farmers, farriers, &c (1841)
- An epitome of Mr. Forsyth's treatise on the culture and management of fruit-trees ; also, notes on American gardening and fruits with designs for promoting the ripening of fruits, and securing them as family comforts ; and further, of economical principles in building farmers' habitations (1803)
- Rural life described and illustrated, in the management of horses, dogs, cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry, etc. etc. : their treatment in health and disease : with authentic information on all that relates to modern farming, gardening, shooting, angling, etc. etc. (1868)
- Farmer's handbook; a convenient reference book for all persons interested in general farming, fruit culture, truck farming, market gardening, livestock production, bee keeping, dairying, etc (1912)
- Market gardening and farm notes : experiences and observations in the garden and field, of interest to the amateur gardener, trucker and farmer (1892)
- Manual of gardening; a practical guide to the making of home grounds and the growing of flowers, fruits, and vegetables for home use (1916)
- The new gardening: a guide to the most recent developments in the culture of fruits, flowers and vegetables (1913)
- A plain and easy introduction to the knowledge and practice of gardening, with hints on fish-ponds (1805)
- French market-gardening : including practical details of "intensive cultivation" for English growers (1909)
- Handbook of gardening for New Zealand, with chapters on poultry and bee-keeping (1888?)
- Gardening for young and old. The cultivation of garden vegetables in the farm garden (1882)
- Gardening; an elementary school text treating of the science and art of vegetable growing (1922)
- Science and Practice of Gardening, in which are Explained and Illustrated ... (1862)
- A manual of veterinary hygiene (1911)
Food
- Procedures for home freezing of vegetables, fruits, and prepared foods : classified notes on review of literature (1950)
- Food guide for war service at home (1918)
- Home canning and drying of vegetables and fruits .. (1918)
- Preservation of food; canning, preserving, drying an preserving, drying and preserving of eggs (1917)
- Vegetable gardening and canning; a manual for garden clubs (1917)
- War gardening and home storage of vegetables for the southern states (1919)
- Fifteen lessons on food conservation (1917)
- Food and freedom; a household book (c1918)
- Food and the war; a textbook for college classes (1918)
- The conservation of food energy (1918)
- Milk and its hygienic relations (1916)
- Suggestive outline of work on food conservation for home economics teachers (1918)
Green living
- The modern household. (1912)
- Green Gardening: Environmentally Friendly Alternatives to Chemicals (2003)
- What I know; or, Hints on the daily duties of a housekeeper. Comprising nearly five hundred receipts, for cooking, preserving, pickling, washing, ironing, gardening, plain and fancy needle-work, putting up of winter stores, and numerous other receipts useful and needful in every well-regulated household (1856)
- Liberty and a living; the record of an attempt to secure bread and butter, sunshine and content, by gardening, fishing, and hunting (1904)
- How to take care of your home (1947)
- Three short courses in home making (1917)
- Increasing home efficiency (1912)
- The new housekeeping: efficiency studies in home management (1918)
- Hints for housekeepers : compiled and edited under the auspices of the Women's Auxiliary of the Hospital of the Good Shepherd (1904)
- The home and its management; a handbook in homemaking, with three hundred inexpensive cooking receipts (1917)
- Housewifery; a manual and text book of practical housekeeping (1921)
- Duties in the home and the family (1904)
- The business of home management (The principles of domestic engineering) (1918)
- How to do home work right (1915)
- Home problems from a new standpoint (1908)
- Household Engineering: Scientific Management in the Home (1919)
- Manual of home-making education (1922)
- The home-keeping book; (1918)
- An experiment in home education (1914)
- Home life in colonial days (1910)
- The Economics of the Household: Six Lectures Given at the London School of ... (1907) On Waste.
- The home economy handbook (1917)
- The home-keeping book; (1918)
- The formula. A book for laundrymen, containing formulas for various laundry operations, including washing, bleaching, bluing, etc (1889)
Energy
- Wiring houses for the electric light; together with special references to low voltage battery systems (1916, c1911)
- How to reduce energy costs in your building (1983)
- Energy notes : mobile homeowners's guide to saving money & energy (1994)
- How to reduce energy costs in your building (1983)
- Electricity for the Farm and Home (1913)
Health
- Health and education (1887)
- Home Care of the Sick (1907)
- A Textbook of Simple Nursing Procedure for Use in High Schools: Together with Instructions for ... (1921)
- A Practical Dietary Computer (1917)
- Health for the family in wartime (1918)
- Personal hygiene, designed for undergraduates (1906)
- The voyage of growing up (c1928)
- The cost of cleanness (1911)
- The care of the body (1912)
- The efficient life (1913)
- Outlines of rural hygiene for physicians, students, and sanitarians (1897)
- A treatise on anatomy, physiology, and hygiene. Designed for colleges, academies, and families (1858)
- The principles of hygiene; a practical manual for students, physicians, and health-officers (1918)
- Personal hygiene applied (1922)
- Hygiene as nature study; a series of inductive-deductive lessons in hygiene for grades V, VI, VII and VIII of the elementary schools (1917)
- How to live : rules for healthful living based on modern science : authorized by and prepared in collaboration with the Hygiene Reference Board of the Life Extension Institute, Inc. (1915)
- The possibility of living 200 years (1896)
- The community health problem (1920)
- Oral lesson book in hygiene for primary teachers (1901)
- Preventable diseases (1909)
- Practical nursing; an elementary condensed textbook for trained attendants and for use in practical home nursing (1919)
- Handbook of health in war and peace; a manual of personal preparedness (1917)
Knowledge
- Biological atlas: a guide to the practical study of plants and animals (1881)
- Three kingdoms. A handbook of the Agassiz Association (1888)
- The microscope and its revelations (1901)
- A course of practical work in the chemistry of the garden, for teachers and students of horticulture gardening and rural science (1914)
- The home school (c1913)
- Home and school training (1884)
- The education of the child from one to three, prepared by the literary staff of the American institute of child life (1914)
- Household arts for home and school (1920)
- Suggestive courses of study in manual arts, mechanical drawing and household economics for Texas high schools (1911)