Books - "history"
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The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas
Super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Penguin 2004
KEYWORDS: specials Anne Salmond New Zealand Captain Cook history explorers Pacific Islands British maritime history
The New History in an Old Museum: Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg
Super octavo paperback (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Duke University Press 1997
KEYWORDS: specials Richard Handler Eric Gable Williamsburg American history consumerism culture education museums entertainment patriotism revisionism social history
Tides of History: The Pacific Islands in the Twentieth Century
Imperial octavo in light card covers (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Allen & Unwin 1994
KEYWORDS: specials Kerry Howe Robert Kiste Brij Lal Pacific Islands history geography economics politics colonial history
Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War: Bardia to Enfidaville
octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering and rule to spine, blind-stamped device to front board, frontispiece, xii + 417pp, illus including folding maps (VG+), VG+ (light wear, light discolouration to pages, v slight foxing to eps and page edges) in VG- d/w (wear to extremities, rear upper edge folded down, chips to corners, small closed tear to front upper edge, upper 5mm of spine missing, medium sized chip to rear lower edge, small chip and closed tears to lower spine, faded)
PUBLISHER: War History Branch, Department of Internal Affairs 1962
KEYWORDS: new zealand military history second world war world war two wwii major-general w.g. stevens official history bardia enfidaville
The Anglo-Saxon Age c400-1042
Ex library, octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Longman Group 1983
KEYWORDS: specials DJV Fisher history England Anglo-Saxons conquest Normans Christianity religion church ecclesiastical history
Two Centuries of Soft-Hackled Flies: A Survey of the Literature Complete with Original Patterns 1747-Present
First edition, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, xi + 173pp, illus in full colour, fine, in fine d/w
PUBLISHER: Stackpole Books 2004
KEYWORDS: Sylvester Nemes sport fishing outdoors history angling anglers wet fly dry fly soft hackle trout 220 years' fly fishing history
Plotting the Golden West: American Literature and the Rhetoric of the California Trail
Super octavo hardcover in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1981
KEYWORDS: specials Stephen Fender America USA literature California Gold rush history 19th century american literary cultural history
Cochrane
Paperback (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Star Books 1978
KEYWORDS: specials Donald Thomas maritime adventure Admiral Lord Cochrane Sea-Wolf Napoleon biography history maritime history
Through the British Commonwealth
New Zealand, New Guineam, Papua, Hong Kong; The Lord Mayor's Show; Australia and Tasmania; The Opening of Parliament; India, Ceylonm, Burma & Singapore; Through Irak, Palestine to East Africa; Canada,
12 parts (complete set), super octavo, illustrated stapled wrappers, approx 20pp per volume, illus, all vols VG (some rubbing & fading to boards, rust marks from staples, tanning & foxing)
PUBLISHER: Amex Company Letchworth (year?)
KEYWORDS: Stella Mead Eulalie children's literature Brtish Commonwealth history geography history travel
Northwest Passage: The Great Columbia River
Softcover super octavo (nr fine); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: University of Washington Press 1996
KEYWORDS: specials William Dietrich Columbia River hydroelectricity exploration settlers irrigation fishermen farmer engineering industry history natural history politics
The Glory of Montclair: Past and Present - The Ultimate Guide
paperback quarto (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Dream City Publishing Company
KEYWORDS: specials montclair new jersey new york history america travel history
The Bonanza West: The Story of the Western Mining Rushes 1848-1900
Super octavo, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering in black square to spine, brown top edges, xiv + 430pp, illus, nr fine (owner's name in pencil to fep) in VG+ d/w (slight bruising to lower spine & lower front edge, slight rubbing to rear)
PUBLISHER: University of Oklahoma Press 1968
KEYWORDS: William S Greever American history gold fields California Nevada Colorado Montana Idaho Klondike Yukon western history culture politics religion social culture
Seven Deadly Sins of Gardening and the Vices and Virtues of Gardeners
Small octavo hardcover (VG+) in VG+ d/w; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: The National Trust 2006
KEYWORDS: specials Toby Musgrave Mike Calnan National Trust gardening gardeners history stories natural history
Vietnam and the Chinese Model: A Study of Nguyen and Ch'ing Civil Government in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
Super octavo hardcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 1971
KEYWORDS: specials Alexander Woodside Vietname China history culture influence politics literature education history Chinese influence Nguyen government Sino-Vietnamese characteristics
Doniphan's Epic March: The First Missouri Volunteers in the Mexican War
first edition, hardcover octavo (VG+) d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: University Press of Kansas 1999
KEYWORDS: joseph c. dawnson III alexander doniphan history mexican war missouri volunteers american history specials
Race, Nation, and Religion in the Americas
softcover octavo (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2004
KEYWORDS: henry goldschmidt elizabeth mcalister american history sociology race religion history united states of america specials
Caste and Class in A Southern Town
ex-library, hardcover octavo (VG) lacks d/w; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 1937
KEYWORDS: history caste class sociology john dollard united states of america history southern america specials
The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class
Super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1997
KEYWORDS: specials Anna Clark history Britain British working class gender capitalism industrialisation politics social history class
Good Morning New Zealand: News Stories of the Day from the 1930s
Small folio, hardcover (VG+) in d/w VG+; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Moa Publications 1990
KEYWORDS: specials Gil Dymock New Zealand history current affairs 1930s newspapers press advertising photographs pictorial history politics sport
Russia, Poland and The West: Essays in Literary and Cultural History
First edition, super octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Hutchinson 1954
KEYWORDS: specials Waclaw Lednicki history Russia Poland literary criticism cultural history Dostoevsky Pushkin Tyutchev Chaadaev Lermontov Mickiewicz Slowacki