The Commonweal Archive
A curated digital repository of public domain texts focusing on Distributism, Georgism, and Non-Resistance. The project utilizes OCR and formatting remediation to make early 20th-century political economy texts accessible to modern researchers.
Theology and non-resistance
1927: The Everlasting Man by G. K. Chesterton
1924: William Lloyd Garrison on Non-Resistance by Fanny Garrison Villard
1923: Atonement and Non-Resistance by William Wilson
1908: Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton
1896: On Non-Resistance: Letter to Ernest Howard Crosby by Leo Tolstoy
1896: Patriotism or Peace: Letter to Manson by Leo Tolstoy
1894: Christianity and Patriotism by Leo Tolstoy
1894: The Kingdom of God is Within You by Leo Tolstoy
1888: Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
1887: What a Christian May Do, and What Not by Leo Tolstoy
1839: Non-Resistance in relation to Human Governments by Adin Ballou
Political economy and political science1933: Flight from the City by Ralph Borsodi
1926: Outline of Sanity by G. K. Chesterton
1924: Economics for Helen by Hilaire Belloc
1923: Towards a Christian Sociology by Arthur J. Penty
1922: What I Saw in America by G. K. Chesterton
1922: Eugenics and Other Evils by G. K. Chesterton
1922: The Control and Distribution of Production by C. H. Douglas
1921: Guilds, Trade, and Agriculture by Arthur Penty
1921: The Acquisitive Society by R. H. Tawney
1920: The Superstition of Divorce by G. K. Chesterton
1920: Economic Democracy by C. H. Douglas
1919: Guilds and the Social Crisis by Arthur Penty
1919: Mutual Banking by William B. Greene
1918: The Free Press by Hilaire Belloc
1917: Utopia of Usurers by G. K. Chesterton
1912: The Servile State by Hilaire Belloc
1910: What's Wrong with the World by G. K. Chesterton
1906: The Restoration of the Guild System by Arthur Penty
1891: The Condition of Labor by Henry George
1883: Social Problems by Henry George
1797: Agrarian Justice by Thomas Paine
History and biography1923: St. Francis of Assisi by G. K. Chesterton
1920: A Guildsman's Interpretation of History by Arthur Penty
1900: Count Tolstoy and His Philosophy of Life by Ernest Howard Crosby
Fiction and parable1908: The Man who was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton