Books - "history"
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Imagining the Pacific: In the Wake of the Cook Voyages
First edition, quarto, dark green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, dark green eps, illus title page, frontispiece, xiii + 262pp, illus, VG+ (slight rubbing to spine extrems, sl foxing and soiling to page edges) in VG+ d/w (rubbing to rear, slight bruising to spine extrems, sunning to spine)
PUBLISHER: Melbourne University Press 1992
KEYWORDS: first edition Bernard Smith Pacific history artists science art
Sons & Brothers; The Days of Jack and Bobby Kennedy
ex-library, hardcover super octavo (VG) 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Arcade Publishing 1999
KEYWORDS: american politics history john f. kennedy robert kennedy richard d. mahoney biography specials
Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution
hardcover super octavo (VG) 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Little, Brown and Company 1999
KEYWORDS: lisa jardine science history scientific revolution specials
Home and Away: Images of New Zealanders in World War II
Oblong quarto hardcover (VG+) 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: David Bateman 1990
KEYWORDS: specials David Filer New Zealand pictorial military history world war two second world war WWII New Zealanders Kiwi soldiers airmen sailors POWs
Historical Vines: Enga Networks of Exchange, Ritual, and Warfare in Papua New Guinea
Super octavo, illus light card covers, xvii + 494pp, illus, nr fine (slight rubbing to cover edges)
PUBLISHER: Crawford House Publishing 1998
KEYWORDS: Polly Wiessner Akii Tumu Papua New Guinea Enga history anthropology rites ceremonies warfare social organization ecology political processes sweet potato
Enga: Foundations for Development Volume 3 of Enga Yaaka Lasemana
Super octavo, illus light card covers, xii + 380pp, illus, VG (rubbing & spotting to covers, nick to front cover lower edge, creasing to rear cover lower corner, 4cm closed tear to upper spine/rear cover edge, rust showing to staples, some pencil underlining)
PUBLISHER: Enga Provincial Government 1982
KEYWORDS: Bruce Carrad David Lea Kundapan Talyaga Enga Papua New Guinea history environment demography anthropology horticulture agriculture economy violence land communication education health infrastructure government
Studies in Enga History
The Oceania Monographs No. 20
Super octavo, light blue light card covers with black lettering, 95pp, VG (fading to covers, esp to spine and cover edges, 2cm stain to rear board edge)
PUBLISHER: University of Sydney 1974
KEYWORDS: MJ Meggitt Papua New Guinea Enga anthropology history te exchange
A View of Enga Culture
Imperial octavo, illus light card covers, 64pp, illus, VG (rubbing & fading to front, bruising to lower spine, v slight foxing to rear eps)
PUBLISHER: Dept of Enga / KPI Publishing 1989
KEYWORDS: Akii Tumu Pesone Munini Alome Kyangali Polly Wiessner Papua New Guinea Enga traditions culture history anthropology
On Government of Rulers De Regimine Principum
With Portions attributed to Thomas Aquinas
Super octavo, grey cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, xi + 310pp, (fine) in d/w (fine)
PUBLISHER: University of Pennsylvania Press 1997
KEYWORDS: Ptolemy of Lucca Thomas Aquinas political thought Middle Ages Renaissance Aristotle history
Indigenous Peoples' Rights in Australia, Canada, & New Zealand
Super octavo, light card coverss with white lettering, xvi + 520pp, fine
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2000
KEYWORDS: Paul Havemann Australia New Zealand Canada indigenous people legal law politics colonialism essays history ethnicity sociology anthropology
Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1798-1939
Super octavo,illus light card covers , x + 406pp, VG+
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2002
KEYWORDS: Albert Hourani Arabic thought islam politics society European influence Egypt Lebanonn religion history
Sovereign Individuals of Capitalism
Tidy ex library, octavo, grey cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 211pp, VG+ (library label to front pastedown, usu library markings) in VG+ d/w (rubbing to rear board, usu library markings)
PUBLISHER: Allen & Unwin 1986
KEYWORDS: Nicholas Abercrombie Stephen Hill Bryan S Turner politics capitalism economics individualism Tocqueville Milton Friedman collectivism history
Te Whanau o Waipareira Report / Waitangi Tribunal Report 1998
Quarto, green light card covers with black lettering, xxix + 266pp, VG+ (rubbing & creasing to lower rear cover edge, bruising & creasing to front cover corners, slight bruising to spine extrems)
PUBLISHER: GP Publications 1998
KEYWORDS: Waitangi tribunal New Zealand Maori Waipareira history law justice claims
Hokianga
softcover 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1987
KEYWORDS: new zealand history geography hokianga ngapuhi jack lee specials
Big Business, The State, and Free Trade: Construction Coalitions in Mexico
octavo, maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, gilt lettering and rule to front board, xvi + 239pp, near fine in VG+ d/w (light rubbing and fading)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2000
KEYWORDS: strom c. thacker mexico history free trade construction coalitions business politics
A Turn to Empire: The Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France
first edition, scarce in hardcover, octavo, blue cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, xiii + 382pp, near fine in VG+ d/w (v light wear and rubbing)
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 2005
KEYWORDS: jennifer pitts politics political philosophy history britain france imperial liberalism empire
The Invention of the West: Joseph Conrad and the Double-Mapping of Europe and Empire
octavo, illus light card covers, xii + 281pp, VG+ (v light wear)
PUBLISHER: Stanford University Press 1995
KEYWORDS: history christopher gogwilt literary criticism imaginative geography europe empire the west cartography joseph conrad
Clio In Oceania: Towards a Historical Anthropology
hardback octavo with 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Smithsonian Institution, 1991
KEYWORDS: specials oceania anthropology fiji politics history culture polynesia melanesia
Samoan Village Economy
ex library hardback 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press; 1971
KEYWORDS: specials Samoa economy history culture society anthropology brian lockwood
Readings in New Guinea History
ex library hardback octavo w d/w, faded spine (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: Angus and Robertson 1973
KEYWORDS: specials new guinea history sociol science development economics military labour