Books - "history"
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Tibet: A History
Super octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxiii + 324pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, prev. bookseller's label to rear)
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 2011
KEYWORDS: Tibet Tibetan history buddhism China geopolitics
Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present
Super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus/maps at eps, xxv + 472pp, VG+ (light to moderate bruising/warping to spine, sl soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to half title page) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to spine & edges, sl chafing)
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 2009
KEYWORDS: Eurasia Asia silk road trade routes history historical
Between Heaven and Modernity: Reconstructing Suzhou 1895-1937
Super octavo, cream heavy boards, black lettering to spine, xvi + 325pp, VG+ (light bruising to spine & extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light to moderate fading to spine, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: Stanford University Press 2006
KEYWORDS: China Chinese history 19th 20th nineteenth twentieth century Suzhou Jiangsu Sheng economics economy
Upriver Journeys: Diaspora and Empire in Southern China 1570-1850
Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xii + 332pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Asia Center 2017
KEYWORDS: southern China Chinese history diaspora river regions internal migration
Qing Governors and Their Provinces: The Evolution of Territorial Administration in China 1644-1796
Super octavo, illus light card covers, beige lettering to spine, xii + 462pp, VG+ (light creasing to spine & cover edges, sl tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)
PUBLISHER: China Program / University of Washington Press 2013
KEYWORDS: China Chinese history teritory Qing dynasty governors provinces politics government
The Sulu Zone 1768-1898 (Second Edition)
Super octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine & covers, frontispiece, xlvii + 390pp, illus, VG+ (sl creasing to spine & cover edges, light fading to spine, sl soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)
PUBLISHER: NUS Press 2007
KEYWORDS: ethnic ethnicity slavery slave trade southeast Asia Philippines Sulu archipelago commerce history
The Small Voice of History: Collected Essays
Octavo, illus light card covers, white & beige lettering to spine, x + 666pp, VG+ (light creasing to spine & cover edges, light soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Permanent Black 2018
KEYWORDS: essays prose literature anthology history culture anthropology
Mapping Chinese Rangoon: Place and Nation Among the Sino-Burmese
Super octavo, illus light card covers, black & white lettering to spine, xvii + 200pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing to spine, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)
PUBLISHER: University of Washington Press 2016
KEYWORDS: China Chinese history Rangoon Sino-Burmese culture heritage anthropology Burma nationalism ethnicity
Unsettling the Past: Unknown Aspects and Scholarly Assessments of D D Kosambi
Octavo, illus heavy boards, white & green lettering to spine, frontispiece, illus title page, xiii + 389pp, VG- (light to moderate bruising to spine, light chafing to boards, sl tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, v heavy crack to gutters of prelim pages) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: Permanent Black 2013
KEYWORDS: history D D Kosambi India Indian sanskrit literature writings
The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia (4 Vol Boxed Set)
4 VOL BOXED SET, octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spines, mixed pagination, illus, VG+ (sl creasing & curling to spines & cover edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffeps of first 3 books, sl soiling to ffep of vol 1 part 2) in VG presentation box
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1999
KEYWORDS: Southeast Asia ancient history antiquity economic social change anthropology religion commerce
Suzhou: Where the Goods of All the Provinces Converge
Super octavo, white heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xii + (2) + 369pp, VG+ (light bruising to spine & extrems, spine sl cocked, sl soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: Stanford University Pres 2005
KEYWORDS: China Chinese Suzhou Jiangsu Sheng economic conditions economy Ming dynasty history
Chanel: An Intimate Life
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: Fig Tree / Penguin 2011
KEYWORDS: fashion icons designers houses design biography biographies memoir Gabrielle Coco Chanel history
Conquerors of Time: Exploration and Invention in the Age of Daring
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: John Murray 2004
KEYWORDS: adventure exploration history inventions heroism
Tacitus: Dialogus ; Agricola ; Germania
LACKS D/W, TEXT IN LATIN & ENGLISH, sm 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: Loeb / William Heinemann / Harvard University Press 1958
KEYWORDS: TEXT IN LATIN & ENGLISH Loeb classical library series classic literature histories history Tacitus
Nobody Said No To Go
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1999
KEYWORDS: Emily Hahn social history biography biographies memoir famous women
Liang Ch'i-ch'ao and the Mind of Modern China
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: University of California Press 1967
KEYWORDS: modern history China Chinese
Confucian China and its Modern Fate
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: Routledge and Kegan Paul 1958
KEYWORDS: modern history China Chinese confucian
Marlborough Journey
Ex-library, 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: A H & A W Reed 1963
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Marlborough A H Reed
Saint Augustine: The City of God Against the Pagans, VII: Books XXI-XXII
THIS VOL ONLY, TEXT IN LATIN & ENGLISH, sm octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG) tape/adhesive residue to boards; 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 Heinmann / Harvard University Press 1972
KEYWORDS: TEXT IN LATIN & ENGLISH Loeb classical library series classic literature Saint Augustine history historical
Manilius: Astronomica
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 Heinmann / Harvard University Press 1977
KEYWORDS: TEXT IN LATIN & ENGLISH Loeb classical library series classic literature history historical Manilius