Here I make the book “War and other Essays” from William Graham Sumner, available as one pdf-file per essay. The objective is to make it easier to read them on a smartphone or tablet.I have tried to process the pdf-Versions of the following projects:
https://archive.org/details/warandotheressa00kellgoog
http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/sumner-war-and-other-essays
The facsimile -pdf version of oll.libertyfund.org has by far the best quality (as of May 10th, 2016). Probably they had a better printed copy. Because even this produced many recognition errors, I first checked the introduction and the first essay manually, using FineReaders check-function. The small pdf-text files resulted from this effort. Then I played more with FineReaders pdf-export options and found that a resolution with 150dpi , a reduction of the color to black and wite, and ‘original picture over text’ resulted in the best compromise of file size, readability , ease of use and reliability on my smart phone. If I would like to print out one or more of the essays I would use the pdf-files from archive.org or oll.libertyfund.org, which seem to have a resolution of 300 dpi.
The Numbers and Names of the chapters as well as the page numbers are taken from the table of contents of the original book.
| Chapter | Page |
| Introduction (pdf-text, 57 kb) | ix |
| I. War (pdf-text, 107 kb or pdf-150dpi, 678 kb | 3 |
| II. The Family and socialChange (pdf-text, 55 kb or pdf-150dpi, 339 kb) | 43 |
| III.The Status of Woman in Chaldea, Egypt, Judea and Greece to the Time of Christ (pdf-150dpi, 708 kb) | 65 |
| IV. Witchcraft (pdf-150dpi, 418 kb) | 105 |
| V. Religion and the Mores (pdf-150dpi, 311 kb) | 129 |
| VI. The Mores of the Present and Future (pdf-150dpi, 273 kb) | 149 |
| VII. Sociology (pdf-150dpi, 470 kb) | 167 |
| VIII. The Absurd Effort to Make the World Over (pdf-150dpi,283 kb) | 195 |
| IX. State Interference (pdf-150dpi, 263 kb) | 213 |
| X. Do We Want Industrial Peace? (pdf-150dpi, 267 kb) | 229 |
| XI. On the Case of a Certain Man Who Is Never Thought of (pdf-150dpi) | 247 |
| XII. The Case of the Forgotten Man Further Considered (pdf-150dpi) | 257 |
| XIII. The Proposed Dual Organization of Mankind (pdf-150dpi, 174 kb) | 271 |
| XIV. The Fallacy of Territorial Extension (pdf-150dpi, 154 kb) | 285 |
| XV. The Conquest of the United States by Spain (pdf-150dpi, 686 kb) | 297 |
| XVI. The Predominant Issue (pdf-150dpi, 276 kb ) | 337 |
| XVII. Our Colleges before the Country (pdf-150dpi, 333 kb) | 355 |
| Bibliography (pdf-150dpi, 82 kb ) | 375 |
