Books - "history"
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The Girl Problem: Female Sexual Delinquency in New York 1900-1930
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press 1998
KEYWORDS: women history sex sexual realtionships delinquency rehabilitation juvenile corrections New York early 20th twentieth century
The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: The University of Chicago Press 2008
KEYWORDS: men's journalism history magazines print media gender men
The Science Question in Feminism
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press 1986
KEYWORDS: history feminism feminist women's studies philosophy science
Livy XIV: Summaries, Fragments and Obsequens
THIS VOL ONLY, TEXT IN LATIN & ENGLISH, sm octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG-) heavy insect damage to flaps of jacket- still reasonably tidy though; 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: Loeb / William Heinemann / Harvard University Press 1967
KEYWORDS: TEXT IN LATIN & ENGLISH Loeb classical library series classic literature Livy ancient history historical Rome antiquity
Saint Augustine: The City of God Against the Pagans IV: Books XII-XV
THIS VOL ONLY, TEXT IN LATIN & ENGLISH, sm 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: Loeb / William Heinemann / Harvard University Press 1966
KEYWORDS: TEXT IN LATIN & ENGLISH Loeb classical library series classic literature Saint Augustine ancient history historical
Images of Human Nature: A Sung Portrait
LACKS D/W, super octavo, black buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xi + 322pp, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to spine & board extrems, sl soiling to front board & page edges)
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 1988
KEYWORDS: philosophy anthropology Hsi Chu history neo-confucianism China Chinese methodology
Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States Along a Southeast Asian Frontier, 1865-1915
Super octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine, xvi + 437pp, VG+ (sl creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, sl fading & chafing/soiling to covers, light tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to half title page)
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 2005
KEYWORDS: southeast Asia history smuggling crime Asian studies opium human trafficking currency money
Beyond the Pass: Economy, Ethnicity and Empire in Qing Central Asia 1759-1864
Octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine, xxii + 353pp, VG+ (sl creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to half title page)
PUBLISHER: Stanford University Press 1998
KEYWORDS: China Chinese commerce history ethnicity Uighur region
Confucianism and Autocracy: Professional Elites in the Founding of the Ming Dynasty
LACKS FFEP, octavo, beige buckram boards, maroon lettering to spine, ix + 358pp, VG+ (sl bruising to spine & board extrems, sl soiling to page edges, ffep missing) in d/w, VG+ (minor adhesive staining to edges, light fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1983
KEYWORDS: China Chinese ancient history Ming dynasty elite politics confucianism
Ah Ku and Karayuki-san: Prostitution in Singapore 1870-1940
Super octavo, illus light card covers, white & black lettering to spine, xxi + 433pp, VG (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light chafing to covers, prev. bookseller's label to rear cover, sl tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)
PUBLISHER: Singapore University Press 2003
KEYWORDS: Singapore sex trade prostitutes prostitution history
A Certain Age: Colonial Jakarta Through the Memories of its Intellectuals
Super octavo, illus light card covers, cream & beige lettering to spine, xiii + 310pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)
PUBLISHER: Duke University Press 2010
KEYWORDS: colonialism colonial Jakarta history Indonesia
Japan's Occupation of Java in the Second World War: A Transnational History
Super octavo, illus glossy heavy boards, black lettering to spine, xii + 386pp, VG (light bruising to extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, light staining to top page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, pgs 127/128 & 295/296 detached but present & still tidy)
PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury Academic 2018
KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 Japan Japanese occupation Java Asia
Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India
Octavo, yellow heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 540pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, light tanning/discolouration to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl fading to spine, sl soiling)
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins 2015
KEYWORDS: Gita Press history print Hindu hinduism India Indian press
Bringing the World Home: Appropriating the West in Late Qing and Early Republican China
Super octavo, maroon heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, ix + 370pp, VG (light bruising to spine extrems, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, moderate crack to gutter of pgs 278/279) in d/w, VG+ (sl curling to edges, 2cm closed tear to top edge of rear cover, sl chafing, light fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: University of Hawaii Press 2005
KEYWORDS: China Chinese history late Qing dynasty early republic western culture
These Bones Shall Rise Again: Selected Writings on Early China
Super octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, xviii + 340pp, illus, VG+ (sl creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)
PUBLISHER: SUNY / State University of New York Press 2014
KEYWORDS: early China Chinese history antiquity literature writings literature Asia Asian studies
Southeast Asia and the Middle East: Islam, Movement and the Longue Duree
Super octavo, illus light card covers, white & blue lettering to spine, frontispiece, viii + 392pp, VG+ (light creasing to spine & cover corners, sm label to rear cover, light soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)
PUBLISHER: Stanford University Press 2009
KEYWORDS: southeast Asia Middle east history Islam religion
Imperial Creatures: Humans and Other Animals in Colonial Singapore 1819-1942
Super octavo, illus light card covers, white & black lettering to spine, xi + 264pp, illus, VG+ (sl creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)
PUBLISHER: NUS Press / National University of Singapore 2019
KEYWORDS: colonialism colonial Singapore history animals human ecology
Material Culture in Europe and China, 1400-1800: The Risk of Consumerism
LACKS D/W, octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, ix + 279pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl soiling to boards, light tanning to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)
PUBLISHER: Macmillan 1997
KEYWORDS: history Europe China Chinese economics consumerism consumption
Changing Gods in Medieval China 1127-1276
Super octavo, black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xii + 256pp, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl tanning to spine, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 1989
KEYWORDS: ancient history China Chinese antiquity religion religious medieval Sung dynasty cults
Contemplating the Ancients: Aesthetic and Social Issues in Early Chinese Portraiture
Super octavo, red heavy boards, white lettering to spine, xv + 259pp, illus, VG+ (boards sl warped, preface detached but present & still tidy) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1990
KEYWORDS: China Chinese ancient history antiquity Sui dynasty art arts portraits