Books - "history"
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The Naval and Military Heroes of Great Britain or Calendar of Victory being a Record of British Valour and Conquest by Sea and Land on Every Day in the Year
duodecimo, green cloth boards with design and gilt lettering and design to spine, frontispiece, xxiii + 660pp + 13pp adverts, VG (wearing to boards and extremities, light soiling to prelims, v light foxing), 3 fold out maps loosely enclosed
PUBLISHER: Bell & Daldy 1872
KEYWORDS: navy military history great britain nautical major johns p.h. nicolas
Pride, Passion and Parochialism: a Hisstory of FMG 1905-2005
quarto, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to front board and spine, illus eps, frontispiece, 375pp, illus, fine in near fine d/w (light wear to extremities)
PUBLISHER: Dunmore Press Ltd 2005
KEYWORDS: history new zealand FMG farmers' mutual group russell a.j. standing
The India-China Relationship: What the United States Needs to Know
paperback octavo (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: columbia university press
KEYWORDS: specials india china international relations america history economics culture
the Farming and Memorandum Books of Henry Best of Elmswell, 1642
Octavo green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, lxxiv + 347pp, illus; fine, d/w (near fine, fading to spine, rubbing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1984
KEYWORDS: history henry best elmswell farming practices seventeenth century economics sociology
Down the Bay: The History of the Ferries on Otago Harbour
Quarto illus light card covers, 151pp, illus; VG+ (light tanning to page edges)
PUBLISHER: New Zealand Ship & Marine Society 1995
KEYWORDS: otago harbour ferry maritime history new zealand dunedin f. h. mccluskey
Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgement: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England
Scarce first edition octavo green cloth boards with french blue card covers, gilt lettering to cover and spine, 316pp; near fine (Owner's name in pen on fep) d/w (near fine, light rubbing)
PUBLISHER: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989
KEYWORDS: history new england religion sociology cultural studies david hall
The Writings of William Walwyn
Octavo grey cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontis, xvi + 584pp, illus; near fine (owner's name to fep, small discolouration to page top edge) d/w (VG, small holes along corners and edges)
PUBLISHER: University of Georgia Press 1989
KEYWORDS: english revolution 1640's history william walwyn democracy politics autobiography letters
Metropolis London: Histories and Representations since 1800
octavo, illus light card covers, ix + 330pp, illus, near fine (small ink owner's name to fep)
PUBLISHER: Routledge 1989
KEYWORDS: history london sociology david feldman gareth stedman jones
The Rise of Nationalism in Vietnam, 1900-1941
octavo, light green cloth boards with red lettering to spine, frontispiece, 313pp, VG+ in VG d/w (light rubbing, several chips and closed tears to extremities)
PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press 1976
KEYWORDS: history nationalism vietnam william j duiker
By Batons and Barbed Wire: A Response to the 1981 Springbok Tour of New Zealand
Square super octavo illus light card covers, frontis, 96pp, illus; VG+ (light rubbing and creasing to covers, sl foxing to upper page edges) tidy copy of delicate book
PUBLISHER: Graphic Publications 2003
KEYWORDS: new zealand springbok tour 1981 social history anti-apartheid movement south africa racism rugby tom newnham
Class, Conflict and Protest in the English Countryside, 1700 - 1880
Octavo brown buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine, 236pp; VG+ (owner's pencilled annotations throughout book, owner's name in pen to inner back board) d/w (VG+, rubbing and slight tanning)
PUBLISHER: Frank Cass 1990
KEYWORDS: history sociology english countryside protest conflict eighteenth nineteenth century mick reed roger wells
Madagascar or Robert Drury's Journal, During Fifteen Years' Captivity on that Island: And a further descrition of Madagascar by the Abbe Alexia Rochon
Octavo red cloth boards, gilt lettering to front board and spine, black illus to front board, frontis, 399pp, illus + folding map, VG- (3cm portionn of upper spine missing, heavy fraying with loss to spine base, moderately heavy browning to spine & less so to boards, some browning & soiling to page edges, light foxing to eps, one plate loose, owner's ex libris label to front pastedown)
PUBLISHER: T. Fisher Unwin 1890
KEYWORDS: history autobiography robert drury madagascar personal account nineteenth century
Reading and Writing: Literacy in France from Calvin to Jules Ferry
Octavo illus light card covers, ix + 369pp, illus; near fine (owner's name to fep)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1982
KEYWORDS: cambridge studies in oral literate culture france history sociology education francois furet jacques ozouf
Harvesters and Harvesting, 1840 - 1900: A Study of the Rural Proletariat
Octavo black buckram boards, silver lettering to spine, 224pp; near fine (owner's name to fep in pen, owner's pencillings throughout body) d/w (VG+, rubbing and fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Croom Helm 1982
KEYWORDS: history agriculture harvest technology rural lifestyle nineteenth century england david hoseason morgan
George III and the American Revolution: The Beginnings
Octavo royal blue buckram boards with gilt lettering and illus to front and spine, xvi + 432pp, frontis, illus; VG (tanning, moderate foxing, light rubbing), INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR
PUBLISHER: Contstable 1924
KEYWORDS: King George III american revolution history politics frank a. mumby
Victorian Village: The Diaries of the Reverend John Coker Egerton of Burwash, 1857 - 1888
Octavo illus light card covers, frontis, 369pp, illus; near fine (light fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Alan Sutton, 1992
KEYWORDS: diaries autobiography john coker egerton burwash nineteenth century history england
The Demography of Victorian England and Wales
Octavo red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxv + 449pp, illus; near fine (owner's name to fep) d/w (fine)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2000
KEYWORDS: victorian england wales deomgraphy history population economy society sociology robert woods
English Masculinities, 1660 - 1800
Octavo illus light card covers, x + 268pp; near fine (owner's name to fep in pen)
PUBLISHER: Longman 1999
KEYWORDS: english history gender studies sociology essays tim hitchcock michele cohen
Sport and the English Middle Classes, 1870 - 1914
Scarce octavo brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, ix + 310pp; fine in fine d/w
PUBLISHER: Manchester University Press 1993
KEYWORDS: history john lowerson sport english middle class sociology nineteenth century
The Religion of Fools? Superstition Past and Present
Scarce octavo illus light card covers, 350pp; fine
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2008
KEYWORDS: religion susperstition history past and present supplement s. a. smith alan knight