Books - "history"
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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
Travels in Tartary, Thibet and China (2 volume set)
First edition octavo illus boards, silver lettering to front and spine, (vol 1) xiv + 326pp, frontis, fldg map (near fine), illus (vol 2) frontis, x + 342pp + 4pp adverts, illus; both VG+ (foxing, tanning, owner's inscription in pencil to feps)
PUBLISHER: Kegan Paul, Trench, Truebner & Co. 1898
KEYWORDS: travel china thibet tartary asia history autobiography m. huc
Searching for Vedic India
Octavo illus light card covers, xi + 620pp illus; near fine (v light discolouration to page edges and foxing to fep)
PUBLISHER: The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust 2007
KEYWORDS: india vedic texts ancient history devamrita swami
Materializing Gender in Early Modern English Literature and Culture
Octavo black buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xii + 226pp, illus; fine in near fine d/w (slight fanning to top, light rubbing)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2006
KEYWORDS: early modern england gender studies literary criticism british culture history sociology will fisher
A County in Community in Peace and War: Sussex 1600 - 1660
Octavo orange cloth boards, silver lettering to spine, x + 445pp, fldg map (fine), illus; near fine (owner's name to feps) d/w (VG+, fading to front)
PUBLISHER: Longman Group Ltd 1975
KEYWORDS: regional history sussex seventeenth-century sociology politics anthony fletcher
Wives and Property: Reform of the Married Women's Propery Law in Nineteenth-Century England
Octavo burgundy buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontis, viii + 311pp, illus; near fine (owner's name in pen to eps) in near fine d/w (fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Martin Robertson & Co Ltd 1983
KEYWORDS: britain history property law women's suffrage politics sociology england lee holcombe
Mystical Bedlam: Madness, Anxiety, and Healing in Seventeenth-Century England
Scarce in hardcover, octavo black cloth boards, xvii + 323pp, illus; near fine (owner's name to eps) in near fine d/w (tape attaching d/w and protective covering to boards)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1981
KEYWORDS: social history insanity healing mental disorders health psychology psychiatry medicine madness mystical beliefs michael macdonald
The Gates of Hell
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: arrow books
KEYWORDS: specials naval history ewart brookes arctic ww2
The Silent Service
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: signet books
KEYWORDS: specials naval history military ww2 literature william chambliss
Submarine!
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: coronet books
KEYWORDS: specials naval literature history submarines