Books - "history"
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The Phoenix Years: Art, Resistance, and the Making of Modern China
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PUBLISHER: Allen & Unwin 2016
KEYWORDS: china chinese history 20th century twentieth art culture communism politics political madeleine o'dea
The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia, Volume Two: From c. 1500 to c. 1800
[Volume Two]
THIS VOL. ONLY; 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 1999
KEYWORDS: southeast asia cambridge history asian pacific 1500 1800 age of exploration india china europe colonialism colonization colonisation islam christianity economic political economy
The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia, Volume Three: From c. 1800 to the 1930s
[Volume Three]
THIS VOL. ONLY; 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 1999
KEYWORDS: southeast asia cambridge history asian pacific 1800 1930s twentieth nineteenth 20th 19th first world war one ww1 wwi empire india china europe colonialism colonization colonisation economic political economy
Singapore Burning: Heroism and Surrender in World War II
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: Viking 2005
KEYWORDS: singapore second world war two ww2 wwii military history malaya colin smith
The Cubans: Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times
PROOF COPY; 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: The Bodley Head 2020
KEYWORDS: proof copy cubans cuba history anthony depalma
The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
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PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 2014
KEYWORDS: tim butcher first world war one ww1 wwi archduke franz ferdinand assassination assassin austria-hungary gavrilo princip military history europe
A Guide to Japanese Prints and Their Subject Matter
With 274 Illustrations
Imperial 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: Dover 1979
KEYWORDS: basil stewart japan japanese prints art illustrated history asia asian printmaking visual arts culture
The Rock Art of South Africa
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: Nelson 1963
KEYWORDS: rock art south africa a.r. wilcox anthropology art history culture african illustrated
Ways of Thinking of Eastern Peoples: India-China-Tibet-Japan (Revised English Translation)
Super octavo softcover (VG), occasional annotations in light pencil throughout, heavy vertical crease along middle of spine - no cracking; 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 Hawaii Press (1968)
KEYWORDS: hajime nakamura eastern peoples society societies sociology anthropology culture cultural social religious religion asian studies philosophy identity identities indian china chinese tibetan japanese history
Somerled and the Emergence of Gaelic Scotland
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PUBLISHER: John Donald 2005
KEYWORDS: somerled gaelic scotland john marsden scottish history argyll
The Malatesta of Rimini and the Papal State; A Political History
Very tidy ex-library - unread; 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1974
KEYWORDS: ex-library pj jones malatesta family rimini renaissance italy italian papal state history european politics political government dynasties religious religion
The Georgics of Virgil
Super octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (VG-, price-clipped); 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1951
KEYWORDS: virgil georgics c day lewis poems poets poetry farming agriculture vineyards forestry viticulture stock-breeding landscape gardening nature classical classics history
The Culture of the New Capitalism
Octavo softcover (VG, intermittent light pencil underlining/annotation throughout, some page corners folded); 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 2006
KEYWORDS: richard sennett late stage capitalism industrial sociology organisation organization organising organizing economics history bureaucracy
Madame de Maintenon
FIRST EDITION; Octavo hardcover (VG-, moderate foxing); 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: J. M Dent and Sons Ltd 1930
KEYWORDS: madame marquise de maintenon francoise d'aubigne scarron maud cruttwell biography biographies french france european history monarchy monarchies monarchs royals royalty king louis xiv
Men, Manners & Morals in South America
FIRST EDITION; Super octavo hardcover (VG-, boards shaky, moderately heavy foxing to page edges, one photo plate detached but present); 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: William Heinemann 1920
KEYWORDS: first editions jop john otway percy bland south american travel writing anthropology history
Index to Illustrations of the Natural World
Very tidy ex-library - unread; Sm. quarto 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Gaylord Bros., Inc. 1977
KEYWORDS: ex-library index indices illustrations natural world history zoology pictorial botany north america reference guides
The Private Life of Louis XV
LACKS FEP; Super octavo hardcover (VG-, boards slightly shaky, cracking to gutters, light foxing); 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: The Bodley Head Limited 1924
KEYWORDS: mouffle d'angerville king louis xv biography biographies french france european history royalty monarchs monarchy
My Own Story
Super octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (POOR - spine entirely missing except for one fragment loosely enclosed, covers held in place by flaps only); 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Eveleigh Nash 1911
KEYWORDS: louisa of tuscany crown princess saxony autobiography autobiographies memoirs european royal history monarchy monarchies
Conservative Politics in Western Europe
Very tidy ex-library - unread; 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: The Macmillan Press Ltd 1982
KEYWORDS: ex-library western european political politics history conservative right-wing christian democracy ideology analysis
The Bibliographer's Manual of American History
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PUBLISHER: Gale Research Company 1968
KEYWORDS: ex-library bibliographies bibliographer's manuals reference index indices guides american united states usa u.s.a. history