Books - "history"
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A Japanese View of Nature: The World of Living Things
Octavo, illus green light card wrappers, white lettering to spine & wrappers, 97pp, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: RoutledgeCurzon 2002
KEYWORDS: Japan Japanese natural history nature environment
The Japanese and Western Science
Super octavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, 141pp, illus, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (label residue to front, light creasing & soiling to edges & rear)
PUBLISHER: University of Pennsylvania Press 1990
KEYWORDS: science Japan Japanese philosophy history evolution
Inventing the Classics: Modernity, National Identity, and Japanese Literature
OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF ROY STARRS, super octavo, illus light card wrappers, white & green lettering to spine, 333pp, VG (light to moderate fading & creasing to spine, light creasing & curling to wrapper edges, light soiling to page edges, minor cracking to title page gutter, review copy label to inside front wrapper, sporadic ink markings to margins plus an impressive pencil drawing by prev. owner to rear)
PUBLISHER: Stanford University Press 2000
KEYWORDS: Japan Japanese literature history ideology nationalism education
Nations Out of Empires: European Nationalism and the Transformation of Asia
FIRST EDITION, octavo, grey heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, 263pp, Near FINE (sm ink stamps to title page & rear pastedown) in d/w, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: Palgrave 2001
KEYWORDS: first editions Asia history nationalism Europe
China Races
REPRINT WITH NEW POSTSCRIPT, suoer octavo, illus light card wrappers, black lettering to spine, printed eps, 314pp, illus, VG (moderate fading to spine, minor chafing & curling to wrappers, prev. bookseller's label to rear, light tanning & soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1994
KEYWORDS: sport horse racing horseracing China Chinese races history Asia
Anabaptism: A Social History 1525-1618: Switzerland, Austria, Moravia, South and Central Germany
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 523pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, moderate to heavy creasing & chipping/tearing to edges, moderate chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press 1972
KEYWORDS: early church religion history anabaptist first editions
Asia as Method: Toward Deimperialization
Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, yellow & red lettering to spine, 321pp, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: Duke University Press 2010
KEYWORDS: Asia history postcolonial culture social Asian studies
The Japanese Social Structure: Its Evolution in the Modern Century (Second Edition)
SECOND EDITION, super octavo, blue light card wrappers, black lettering to spine, 232pp, VG+
PUBLISHER: University of Tokyo Press 1989
KEYWORDS: Japan Japanese social history modern
International Symposium: Historical Consciousness, Historiography and Modern Japanese Values
TEXTS IN ENGLISH & JAPANESE [NOT TRANSLATED], imperial octavo, black light card wrappers, brown & white lettering to spine, 332pp, VG+
PUBLISHER: International Research Center for Japanese Studies 2006
KEYWORDS: Japan Japanese social history values customs international symposiums historiography
International Symposium: Writing Histories in Japan: Texts and Their Transformations from Ancient Times Through the Meiji Era
Imperial octavo, black light card wrappers, brown & white lettering to spine, 371pp, VG+
PUBLISHER: International Research Center for Japanese Studies 2007
KEYWORDS: international symposiums Japan Japanese history texts Meiji historiography
The British Press and the Japan-British Exhibition of 1910 (Facsimile reprint)
Sm folio, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, xvii + 212pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+
PUBLISHER: Imperial Japanese Commission (2001 facsimile reprint)
KEYWORDS: facsimile reprints British press Japan Japanese exhibitions history
The Origins of Modern Critical Thought: German Aesthetic and Literary Criticism from Lessing to Hegel
Super octavo, blue & white light card wrappers, white lettering to spine, 449pp, VG (light to moderate fading to rear wrapper, 1.5cm closed tear to head of rear hinge, light creasing & curling to wrapper edges, light tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name [Roy Starrs] in ink to ffep)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1988
KEYWORDS: aesthetics German Germany literature history criticism theory
The Bunraku Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Japan's Uniue Puppet Theatre With Synopses of All Popular Plays
Octavo, illus light card wrappers, white & black lettering to spine, 423pp, VG+ (light fading to spine, light tanning & soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Maison des Arts 1976
KEYWORDS: Japan Japanese puppet theatre theater plays culture history guides
Japan Review - Number 24 / 2012
THIS VOL ONLY. Super 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: International Research Centre for Japanese Studues 2012
KEYWORDS: Japan Japanese literature history criticism journal research
The Great Moghuls
Super 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Constable 1998
KEYWORDS: History India Asian Asia Bamber Christina Gascoigne Moghul Moghuls
War & Society : Vol 21, No 1 - May 2003
THIS VOL ONLY. Super 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: University of New South Wales 2003
KEYWORDS: military history Australia New Zealand journal academia literature America USA United States Soviet Union society
Pacific Affairs Vol. 48, No. 3
THIS VOL ONLY. Super 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: University of British Columbia 1975
KEYWORDS: history journal academia pacific politics war culture economy Vietnam India Korea Japan Fiji
Humanity Above Nation : The Impact of Manjiro and Heco on America and Japan
Stapled 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: The Joseph Heco Society of Hawaii / Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii 1995
KEYWORDS: history Japan pacific America United States Joseph Heco Nakahama John Majiro Edo Meiji
Inflation in Tudor and Early Stuart England
Stapled 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: The Economic History Society / Macmillan and Co 1970
KEYWORDS: Outhwaite history England Britain Tudor Stuart economics medieval
Crosstown Traffic : Jimi Hendrix and Post-War Pop
Super 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1989
KEYWORDS: music history Jimi Hendrix influence influences rock and roll psychedelia musicology