The state of society as it exists or in flux. While it usually refers to society as a whole in a specified geographical or political region, it is applicable also to restricted strata of a society.
    

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Canal life: Tea-time on a "Monkey boat".

London labour and the London poor : a cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work. / by Henry Mayhew.

Life and labour of the people in London / edited by Charles Booth.

The plague in Shakespeare's London / by F.P. Wilson.

Into unknown England, 1866-1913 : selections from the social explorers / edited by Peter Keating.

Private correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Samuel Pepys, 1679-1703, in the possession of J. Pepys Cockerell / edited by J.R. Tanner.

Les Toscans et leurs familles : une étude du "catasto" florentin de 1427 / David Herlihy, Christiane Klapisch-Zuber ... ; [publié par le Centre de recherches historiques de Paris et par le] Centre national de la recherche scientifique, [Recherche coopérative sur programme no 181].

A poison stronger than love : the destruction of an Ojibwa community / Anastasia M. Shkilnyk ; foreword by Kai Erikson ; photographs by Hiro Miyamatsu.

Of good and ill repute : gender and social control in medieval England / Barbara A. Hanawalt.

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Into unknown England, 1866-1913 : selections from the social explorers / edited by Peter Keating.

Private correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Samuel Pepys, 1679-1703, in the possession of J. Pepys Cockerell / edited by J.R. Tanner.

Les Toscans et leurs familles : une étude du "catasto" florentin de 1427 / David Herlihy, Christiane Klapisch-Zuber ... ; [publié par le Centre de recherches historiques de Paris et par le] Centre national de la recherche scientifique, [Recherche coopérative sur programme no 181].

A poison stronger than love : the destruction of an Ojibwa community / Anastasia M. Shkilnyk ; foreword by Kai Erikson ; photographs by Hiro Miyamatsu.

Of good and ill repute : gender and social control in medieval England / Barbara A. Hanawalt.