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$28.50
xxste172092

The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History


Aydin, Cemil

Lacks front page. Octavo 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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 2017

KEYWORDS: islam muslim world globalisation history politics anthropology religion modernity

$40.00
2i41a/10

Global Indigenous Media: Cultures, Poetics and Politics


WILSON, PAMELA & STEWART, MICHELLE (Eds)

Super octavo, illus light card covers, blue lettering to spine, frontispiece, ix + 362pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing to covers & edges, sl fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: Duke University Press 2008

KEYWORDS: global media studies indigenous anthropology illustrated cultures politics

$50.00
2i41a/38

Maoism at the Grassroots: Everyday Life in China's Era of High Socialism


BROWN, JEREMY & JOHNSON, MATTHEW D. (Eds)

Super octavo, red buckram boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, vi + 468pp, Near FINE (prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chippping to edges)

PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 2015

KEYWORDS: China Chinese history Mao Maoism politics socialism socialist culture social aspects discontent communism customs

$75.00
2i41a/50

A Complete Book Concerning Happiness and Benevolence: Fu-Hui Ch'uan-shu: A Manual For Local Magistrates in Seventeenth-Century China


LIU-HUNG, HUANG & CHU, DJANG (Trans & Ed)

Super octavo, brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xvi + 656pp, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & staining to edges, light fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: University of Arizona Press 1984

KEYWORDS: China Chinese magistrate Huang Liu-hung 17th seventeenth century history Ch'ing period politics control

$60.00
2i41a/56

Politics and Conservatism in Northern Song China: The Career and Thought of Sima Guang (A.D. 1019-1086)


JI, XIAO-BIN

Super octavo, green heavy boards, white lettering to spine, xi + 253pp, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems & board edges, prev. bookseller's label to front pastedown) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, 7cm closed tear to base of front cover, light fading to spine, prev. seller's price label to rear)

PUBLISHER: The Chinese University Press 2005

KEYWORDS: China Chinese politics northern Song dynasty Sima Guang biography history ancient

$15.00
xxste172111

Differences - A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies: Male Subjectivity (Vol. 1)


SILVERMAN, KAJA et. al.

This vol. only. Super octavo softcover (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: Brown University 1989

KEYWORDS: male subjectivity feminism gender studies politics culture race white skins brown masks the of suffering christopher newfield paul smith action movie hysteria george cunningham called into existence desire marjorie garber spare parts surgery

$30.00
xxste172140

Churchill and Empire


JAMES, LAWRENCE

Super octavo 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 costs

PUBLISHER: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2013

KEYWORDS: Winston Churchill politics history biography memoir

$16.50
xxstf172178

The Tudor Revolution in Government: Administrative Changes in the Reign of Henry VIII


ELTON, G. R.

Super octavo softcover (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: Cambridge University Press 1960

KEYWORDS: British history politics government Henry viii eighth tudor

$45.00
2i42a/7

The Care-Taker Emperor: Aspects of the Imperial Institution in Fifteenth-Century China as Reflected in the Political History of the Reign of Chu Ch'i-yu


DE HEER, PH.

Super octavo, brown light card covers, black lettering to spine & covers, x + 226pp, VG+ (light creasing & chafing to spine & covers, light staining to page edges, prev. owner's sm name label to ffep)

PUBLISHER: E. J. Brill Leiden 1986

KEYWORDS: China Chinese emperors history politics imperial 15th fifteenth century Chu Ch'i-yu

$40.00
2i42a/11

Chang Ping-Lin (1869-1936): A Political Radical and Cultural Conservative


LEE, JER-SHIARN

Octavo, cream light covers, pink lettering to covers & spine, 217pp, VG (light soiling to frnt cover, light fading to spine, moderate creasing & folding to rear cover & pgs)

PUBLISHER: The Liberal Arts Press 1993

KEYWORDS: China Chinese history politics cultural conservative Chang Ping-lin

$60.00
2i42a/25

Classicism, Politics, and Kinship: The Ch'ang-chou School of New Text Confucianism in Late Imperial China


ELMAN, BENJAMIN A.

Super octavo, grey cloth boards, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, illus prelims, xxxiii + 409pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, spine sl cocked, prev. owner's sm name label to prelims, adhesive errata slip to full title page) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1990

KEYWORDS: China Chinese history classicism politics philosophy imperial confucianism confucius literature

$65.00
2i42a/34

Mirror to the Son of Heaven: Wei Cheng at the Court of T'ang T'ai-tsung


WECHSLER, HOWARD J.

LACKS D/W, super octavo, orange cloth boards, black lettering to spine, xi + 259pp, VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to board edges, boards sl warped, ex-libris plate to ffep)

PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 1974

KEYWORDS: China Chinese ancient history T'ang dynasty politics antiquity

$40.00
2i42a/38

Early Modern Japan


TOTMAN, CONRAD

Super octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps & prelims, xxix + 593pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to cover edges)

PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1993

KEYWORDS: Japan Tokugawa early modern period history Japanese Asia politics economics

$22.50
xxstg172236

The Once and Future King: The Rise of Crown Government in America


BUCKEY, F. H.

Imperial octavo 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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Encounter Books 2014

KEYWORDS: history of democracy america american american constitution monarchism politics political government one-man rule

$55.00
2i45a/8

Anyuan: Mining China's Revolutionary Tradition


PERRY, ELIZABETH J.

LACKS D/W, super octavo, grey cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xv+ 392pp, VG+ (prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, light folding/creasing to top page corners to rear)

PUBLISHER: University California Press 2012

KEYWORDS: Mao China Chinese history politics military revolution

$100.00
2i45a/20

A Cultural History of Civil Examinations in Late Imperial China


ELMAN, BENJAMIN A.

Super octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xlii + 847pp, illus, Near FINE (sl soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, 1cm closed tear to base of spine, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: University of California Press 2000

KEYWORDS: late imperial China Chinese history social politics culture

$45.00
2i45a/21

Winston S. Churchill: Youth/Young Statesman: 1874-1914 (2 Vol Set)


CHURCHILL, RANDOLPH S.

Octavo, blue & cream cloth boards, gilt lettering to spines, deckled page edges, frontispieces, vol 1- xxxviii + 629pp, vol 2- xxxiv + 763pp, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG- (moderate to heavy creasing & chipping to edges with some light closed tearing, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin 1966-67

KEYWORDS: biography memoir Winston Churchill British politics history

$100.00
2i48a/6

Earth at Omega: Passage to Planetization


KEYS, DONALD & COUSINS, NORMAN (Intro)

Octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, vi + 117pp, VG+ (light foxing to page edges, prev. ownership stamp in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG-/scruffy (heavy creasing & chipping to edges with some loss, 3cm loss to top of front flap, moderate chafing with light surface loss)

PUBLISHER: The Branden Press 1982

KEYWORDS: philosophy politics Donald Keys planetary existence

$45.00
2i48a/65

Lands For the People? The Highland Clearances and the Colonisation of New Zealand: A Biography of John McKenzie


BROOKING, TOM

SIGNED, super octavo, illus light card covers with french flaps, white lettering to spine, illus prelims, 363pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & creasing to spine & covers, light chafing, light soiling & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: University of Otago Press 1996

KEYWORDS: signed New Zealand history biography memoir John McKenzie politics colonisation Otago regional

$40.00
xxsti172336

Church and State in Tonga: The Wesleyan Methodist Missionaries and Political Development 1822-1875


LATUKEFU, SIONE

Octavo softcover (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: Australian National University Press 1980

KEYWORDS: Tonga religion politics history Methodists Pacific Islands 19th nineteenth century

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