Books - "history"
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China Unbound: Evolving Perspectives on the Chinese Past
Super octavo, illus light cardcovers, black & white lettering to spine, xii + 226pp, Near FINE (sl curling to covers)
PUBLISHER: RoutledgeCurzon 2003
KEYWORDS: China Chinese history culture historiography nationalism religion
State and Scholars in T'ang China
LACKS D/W, super octavo, green cloth boards, silver gilt lettering to spine & front board, x + 423pp, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge 1988
KEYWORDS: China Chinese T'ang dynasty ancient history state intellectual life philosophy
From Philosophy to Philology: Intellectual and Social Aspects of Change in Late Imperial China
Super octavo, black heavy boards, white lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxv + 368pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light soiling to page edges, prev. owner's sm name label to ffep, sl cracking to some gutters) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping with some sl loss, moderate fading to spine, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University Press 1984
KEYWORDS: philosophy philology Chinese China late imperial history lower Yangtze region
Politics and Conservatism in Northern Song China: The Career and Thought of Sima Guang (A.D. 1019-1086)
Super octavo, green heavy boards, white lettering to spine, xi + 253pp, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems & board edges, prev. bookseller's label to front pastedown) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, 7cm closed tear to base of front cover, light fading to spine, prev. seller's price label to rear)
PUBLISHER: The Chinese University Press 2005
KEYWORDS: China Chinese politics northern Song dynasty Sima Guang biography history ancient
Revolution as Restoration: Guocui xuebao and China's Path to Modernity, 1905-1911
LACKS D/W, super octavo, pink heavy boards, black lettering to spine & boards, 135pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, spine sl cocked, light chafing to boards, ffep completely missing)
PUBLISHER: Brill/Leiden 2013
KEYWORDS: China Chinese revolution restoration history philosophy Guocui xuebao
Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture and Community in Interwar Japan
Super octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxxii + 440pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping ot edges, light fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 2000
KEYWORDS: Japan Japanese history Asian studies culture philosophy
The Fringes of Edinburgh
Octavo 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: Chambers [n. d.]
KEYWORDS: edinburgh scotland guide to travel history
Pacific Story: A Survey of the Early History of the Third New Zealand Division
Imperial octavo stapled light card covers (VG-/scruffy); 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: Army Board 1945
KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history Pacific Fiji New Hebrides Second Expeditionary Force exploration
The Wahine Disaster
Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (tatty); 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: A. H. & A. W. Reed
KEYWORDS: New Zealand maritime disaster Wahine nautical Cook Strait history
Churchill and Empire
Super octavo 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: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2013
KEYWORDS: Winston Churchill politics history biography memoir
Along the Path: Motueka's Historic Plaques
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: Eileen Stewart 2012
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Nelson Motueka plaques history historical
Plays Maori and Pakeha (2 Vol Set)
2 VOLUME SET, 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: A. H. & A. W. Reed N/D
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori Pakeha culture plays collection schools education stage drama scripts history
Love Lessons: A Wartime Diary
Super octavo 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: William Heinemann 1985
KEYWORDS: diary journals relationships ww2 second world war 2 two 2nd literature history
The Tudor Revolution in Government: Administrative Changes in the Reign of Henry VIII
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: Cambridge University Press 1960
KEYWORDS: British history politics government Henry viii eighth tudor
Wit & Wisdom of Africa: Proverbs From Africa & the Caribbean
Imperial octavo softcover (VG) ffep missing; 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: New Internationalist Publications Ltd 1998
KEYWORDS: Africa literature humour wit wisdom proverbs sayings Caribbean history
Ceremony and Civility in English Renaissance Prose
Super octavo 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: Pennsylvania State University Press 1991
KEYWORDS: literature prose renaissance English literary criticism rhetoric civilization civilisation history
A Long Time Away
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: Cheryl E. Grubb 1995
KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history biography memoir W G McConnochie ww2 world war two 2 second fighter pilots air force rnzaf
March or Die
FIRST EDITION, LACKS D/W, octavo hardcover (VG/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: Museum Press Ltd 1955
KEYWORDS: first edition war military history legion legionnaires Indo-China
Orthodoxy in Late Imperial China
LACKS D/W, super octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, x + 364pp, Near FINE (v sl bruising to extrems)
PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1990
KEYWORDS: China Chinese history imperial civilization civilisation congresses philosophy studies humanities class stratification
The Care-Taker Emperor: Aspects of the Imperial Institution in Fifteenth-Century China as Reflected in the Political History of the Reign of Chu Ch'i-yu
Super octavo, brown light card covers, black lettering to spine & covers, x + 226pp, VG+ (light creasing & chafing to spine & covers, light staining to page edges, prev. owner's sm name label to ffep)
PUBLISHER: E. J. Brill Leiden 1986
KEYWORDS: China Chinese emperors history politics imperial 15th fifteenth century Chu Ch'i-yu
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