Books - "history"
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The Pacific Way: A Memoir
SIGNED. 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 Hawaii Press 1997
KEYWORDS: Fiji Pacific islands politics history culture memoir
The Death of the Fronsac
Super octavo hardcover (VG) spine cocked. 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: Apollo 2017
KEYWORDS: fiction ww2 wwii world war two Poland history novel literature
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life
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: Hamish Hamilton 2023
KEYWORDS: George Orwell Eileen O'Shaughnessy history letters biography female perspective
With the White People: The Crucial Role of Aborigines in the Exploration and Development of Australia
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 1990
KEYWORDS: Aboriginal history Aborigines Australia culture academia colonization colonial settler labour
The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea
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: Phoenix 2005
KEYWORDS: industrial revolution history Britain England UK United Kingdom labour empire imperialism company infrastructure
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
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: Oxford University Press 1988
KEYWORDS: slavery history pulitzer prize winner academia abolition America USA slave trade
The Papacy 1073 - 1198: Continuity and Innovation
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 1993
KEYWORDS: history religion christianity catholocism academia pope papacy Italy medieval
The Muslim Empires of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals
Owndership signature of Brian Moloughney. 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 2013
KEYWORDS: Ottoman Muslim Islam Safavid Mughal history umma empire civilization politics religion academia Middle East Africa
Sir John French's Despatches (Second Series): Official Story of the Battle Around Ypres, Armentieres, and the Defence of Antwerp; Including the Roll of Honour and Illustrated by Specially drawn War Maps
Oblong 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 cost
PUBLISHER: The Graphic N/D (c.1914?)
KEYWORDS: Sir John French military history war maps British army wwi ww1 world war one
Official naval despatches : the Admiralty's reports of the Battle of the Bight, destruction of German East Asiastic Squadron, sinking of the Emden, and other work of the Navy in the War.
FIRST EDITION. Oblong 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 cost
PUBLISHER: The Graphic N/D (c.1914?)
KEYWORDS: military history war maps British army wwi ww1 world war one navy navel Germany
Until The Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata
Ownership Signature of Brian Moloughney. 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 cost
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins 2015
KEYWORDS: history poetry mythology fiction India literature Mahabharata
Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World
Super octavo softcover (VG) tidy ex-library; 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: Hodder & Stoughton 2022
KEYWORDS: history culture classical papyrus paper books
What Are You Doing Out Here: Heroism and Distress at a Cricket Test
Small 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: Last Side 2010
KEYWORDS: cricket sport Tangiwai disaster history New Zealand
Questioning Ramayanas: A South Asian Tradition
Ownership signature of Brian Moloughney. 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 cost
PUBLISHER: University of California Press 2001
KEYWORDS: Rama Ramkatha culture history south Asia academia anthropology literature religion
Imperial China 900-1800
OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BRIAN MOLOUGHNEY, super ocatvo, orange heavy boards, gilt lettering to blue buckram spine, patterned eps, illus title page, xix + 1107pp, VG+ (sl rubbing to extrems, light soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name [Brian Moloughney] in ink to ffep, light wrinkling to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG+ (light to moderate fading to spine, sl creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 2000
KEYWORDS: imperial China Chinese history
Tibet in Agony: Lhasa 1959
OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BRIAN MOLOUGHNEY, super octavo, red heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to grey buckram spine, xvi + [8] + 410pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light soiling to page edges, spine sl cocked, prev. owner's name [Brian Moloughney] in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (minor fading to spine, light creasing to edges, sl soiling)
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 2016
KEYWORDS: Tibet China history relations autonomous region politics government
Trade and Society in the Straits of Melaka: Dutch Melaka and English Penang 1780-1830
OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BRIAN MOLOUGHNEY, super octavo, illus light card wrappers, black & white lettering to spine, xxvii + 388pp, illus, VG+ (light rubbing & creasing to spine & wrapper edges, light fading to spine, sl chafing to wrapper, light soiling to page edges & back page, prev. owner's name [Brian Moloughney] in ink to half title page)
PUBLISHER: NIAS Press / NUS Press 2009
KEYWORDS: Dutch Melaka English Penang history commerce Malacca Malaysia maritime
Artisans in Early Imperial China
Tidy ex-library, imperial octavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, x + 394pp, illus/photos, VG (usual libray markings- minimal, minor bruising to spine & board edges, sl soiling to boards, sl soiling & tanning to page edges, sl adhesive damage to pastedowns) in d/w, VG (minimal library labels, in plastic protective wrapper, light creasing to edges, light fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: University of Washington Press 2007
KEYWORDS: imperial China Chinese history artisans
A New Literary History of Modern China
OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BRIAN MOLOUGHNEY, imperial octavo, white heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to black spine, printed eps, xxiv + [4] + 1001pp, VG+ (spine warped- binding still sound, sl soiling to board & page edges, prev. owner's name [Brian Moloughney] in ink to half title page, minor creasing to top corners of terminals) in d/w, VG+ (light fading to spine, light creasing to edges, minor chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2017
KEYWORDS: literature literary history China Chinese modern
Art & Political Expression in Early China
Imperial octavo, green cloth boards, black lettering to spine, xiv + 438pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light fading to board edges, light bruising to extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light fading to spine, light creasing & fading to edges, sl chafing)
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 1991
KEYWORDS: early China Chinese history art politics expression political sculpture sepulchral ch'in han dynasties
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