Books - "history"
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Winds of Change : Britain in the Early Sixties
Octavo softcover (VG+); Photos available on request. 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 2020
KEYWORDS: Peter Hennessy history Britain UK United Kingdom sixties 60's culture politics economics
Defending New Zealand : A Study of Structures, Processes and Relationships
Octavo softcover (VG+); Photos available on request. 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: Institute of Policy Studies 1993
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history James Rolfe defense policy military politics war warfare
If Walls Could Talk : An Intimate History of the Home
Octavo softcover (VG); Photos available on request. 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: Faber and Faber 2012
KEYWORDS: Lucy Worsley pop history domestic life Britain British uk United Kingdom
The Poetics of Perspective
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PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press 1996
KEYWORDS: James Elkins academia art history renaissance culture rationality
Gender and Germanness : Cultural Productions of a Nation
Octavo softcover (Near FINE); Photos available on request. 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: Berghahn Books 1997
KEYWORDS: Patricia Herminghouse Magda Mueller culture gender studies German Germany history academia
Australianama : The South Asian Odyssey in Australia
Octavo softcover (VG); Photos available on request. 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: Hurst and Compant 2018
KEYWORDS: Samia Khatun Australia south Asian culture identity colonial history
A Public Life : THe Memoirs of Zelman Cowen
Super Octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); Photos available on request. 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 Miegunyah Press 2006
KEYWORDS: Sir Zelman Cowen Australian history memoir autobiography biography Australia
The British Steam Railway Locomotive 1925 - 1965
Imperial octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); Photos available on request. 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: Ian Allen 1986
KEYWORDS: British Britain history steam railways trains engines locomotive locomotives O S Nock
The Artists of Hill End : Art, Life and Landscape
Quarto softcover (VG+); Photos available on request. 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 Art Gallery of New South Wales 1995
KEYWORDS: history Australia Australian art illustrated photographs New South Wales Donald Friend hill end Russell Drysdale Jeffrey Smart
Russian Aircraft since 1940
Ex-library. Octavo, blue card boards, spine lettered in gilt, 555 pp., VG- (light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems & soiling to boards, moderate cracking to gutters, bdg sloppy, light soiling to pg edges, eps & prelims/terminals, library stamps & paste-ins), in d/w, VG- (moderate bruising to edges & extrems w light to moderate chipping, light tanning & soiling). Photos available on request.
PUBLISHER: Putnam & Company 1975
KEYWORDS: Russia Russian Soviet aircraft air force military history
Plato's Parmenides
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, grey card boards, grey cl spine lettered in purple, 192 pp., VG+ (light bruising, light soiling to pg edges), in d/w, VG (light bruising, light to moderate rubbing, some tanning, bookseller sticker to rear). Photos available on request.
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1991
KEYWORDS: Plato classics ancient Greece Greek philosophy history criticism
British Colonial Policy in the Mid-Victorian Age: South Africa, New Zealand, The West Indies
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, blue card boards, spine lettered in gilt, 507 pp., VG+ (light bruising, light soiling to pg edges, ownership inscription to front pastedown), in d/w, VG (light bruising, light to moderate fading & soiling, some tanning, price clipped). Photos available on request.
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1969
KEYWORDS: Britain British empire colony colonial law policy government politics political history
The Shorter Cambridge Medieval History
Two volume set. Super octavo, blue cl boards, spine lettered in gilt, 643, 644-1202 pp., VG (light to moderate bruising, light soiling to boards, light soiling to pg edges, ownership inscription to front pastedown, dampwrinkling to pgs throughout, tanning), in d/w, VG- (light to moderate bruising, moderate soiling & rubbing, tanning). Photos available on request.
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1962
KEYWORDS: C W Previte-Orton Previte Orton medieval mediaeval history
Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World
FIRST EDITION. Super octavo, brown card boards, spine lettered in brown, 326 pp., VG+ (light bruising, sl soiling to pg edges), in d/w, VG (light bruising, light to moderate soiling & rubbing, waterstained, bookseller sticker to rear). Photos available on request.
PUBLISHER: Reaktion Books 2015
KEYWORDS: tea trade social cultural history food beverage
The Waikato: A History of New Zealand's Greatest River
Super octavo, illus card boards, 453 pp., VG (light bruising, wrinkling & waterstaining to pg edges & throughout), in d/w, VG (light bruising, light soiling & rubbing, waterstained, bookseller sticker to rear). Photos available on request.
PUBLISHER: Atuanui Press 2018
KEYWORDS: Paul Moon early New Zealand local history Waikato
The Art of Hearing: English Preachers and Their Audiences, 1590-1640
Super octavo, illus light card covers, 414 pp., VG (light to moderate bruising, light soiling & rubbing to covers, sporadic annotations throughout). Photos available on request.
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2014
KEYWORDS: English 16th 17th century religion religious social preaching early modern history
Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations
FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo, card boards, spine lettered in gilt, 361 pp., VG (light bruising, light to moderate soiling to boards, moderate soiling & foxing to pg edges & eps), in d/w, VG- (moderate soiling, tanning & foxing, moderate bruising with moderate chipping, tanning). Photos available on request.
PUBLISHER: Allen Lane 1978
KEYWORDS: military history war warfare philosophy
Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge
Super octavo, black cl boards, spine lettered in gilt, 417 pp., VG- (light to moderate bruising, light to moderate soiling & rubbing to boards, light soiling & foxing to pg edges & eps, hole to corner of rfep), in d/w, VG- (moderate soiling, tanning & foxing, moderate bruising with moderate chipping & tearing, moderate tanning, price clipped). Photos available on request.
PUBLISHER: Routledge and Kegan Paul 1965
KEYWORDS: Karl R Popper science history philosophy political
Grandeur and Misery of Victory
FIRST US EDITION. Super octavo, blue cl boards, spine lettered in gilt, 432 pp., VG (light to moderate bruising, light to moderate soiling & rubbing to boards, light soiling to pg edges & eps), in d/w, VG- (moderate soiling, tanning & foxing, moderate rubbing, moderate bruising with light to moderate chipping, light tanning, price clipped). Photos available on request.
PUBLISHER: Harcourt, Brace and Company 1930
KEYWORDS: Georges Clemenceau military history politics political
Ismailia: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade
Second edition. Octavo, green cl boards, spine lettered in gilt, xx + 524 + 32 pp., VG (moderate bruising with light to moderate chipping, light to moderate soiling & rubbing to boards, moderate soiling & light foxing to pg edges & eps, light cracking to hinges, light to moderate cracking to central gutters, some underlining & soiling/foxing throughout, some pgs unopened). Photos available on request.
PUBLISHER: Macmillan and Co. 1879
KEYWORDS: slave trade slavery Africa African history Sir Samuel W Baker