Countries

Hardcover. Nairobi, The English Press,, 1st, 1954, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with black title on front, 117 pages + postscript. The Mau Mau, the black challenge to white supremacy and the need for British rule to remain in Kenya. Name on front fly leaf, light marking to margins on some pages.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 210 pages. Taking Gandhi's statements about civil disobedience to heart, in February 1922 residents from the villages around the north Indian market town of Chauri Chaura attacked the local police station, burned it to the ground and murdered twenty-three constables. Appalled that his teachings were turned to violent ends, Gandhi called off his Noncooperation Movement and fasted to bring the people back to nonviolence. In the meantime, the British government denied that the riot reflected Indian resistance to its rule and tried the rioters as common criminals. These events have taken on great symbolic importance among Indians, both in the immediate region and nationally. Amin examines the event itself, but also, more significantly, he explores the ways it has been remembered, interpreted, and used as a metaphor for the Indian struggle for independence. The author, who was born fifteen miles from Chauri Chaura, brings to his study an empathetic knowledge of the region and a keen ear for the nuances of the culture and language of its people. In an ingenious negotiation between written and oral evidence, he combines brilliant archival work in the judicial records of the period with field interviews with local informants. Clean copy.

Softcover. Hanover NH, Brandeis University Press , reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps, 228 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. The Dead Sea is unlike any other place on earth. Situated a quarter mile below sea level, so saline it can't support life, surrounded by a desolate landscape, it is not just a geologic feature but a source of mystery connected to religious faith. In elegant and vivid prose, Barbara Kreiger re-creates and analyzes the myths and legends surrounding the site and examines both its natural history and its gradual and difficult exploration. But The Dead Sea (first published as Living Waters in 1988) is more than a detailed and delightful travelogue. It is also an inquiry into the human and political drama that has swirled around this mysterious place for more than 12,000 years. In an afterword to the new edition, Kreiger shows how the sea in the post-Peace Accord era may come to take on a new symbolism: with perpetual need for water and a thriving mineral industry as common bonds, Israel and Jordan, two traditional antagonists whose border bisects the sea, may find themselves joining forces to preserve its fragile ecosystem against the threats of technology and tourism. Tan stain to top corner of text b;ock, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. London, Macmillan and Co., 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright blue cloth covers, 243 pages, 13 b/w illustrations. Author was an administrator in East Africa and the West Indies from 1908 to 1944. A memoir of 30 years of colonial rule in Africa by a lifetime member of the British Colonial Service. Beginning with his first glimpse of Africa on a tropical morning as a young man and ends with a last glimpse of Kilimanjaro after spending his entire working life as one of the last servants of the old Empire. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Durham NC, Carolina Academic Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket that has some fading to spine and edges. 443 pages, several maps. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand, McNally & Co., 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with gilt lettering, 686 pages. Maps on endpapers, frontis. portrait of author. Profusely illustrated with b&w photos. The social attitudes of the author are typical of his time, still, an interesting picture of Africa in the 1920s. Bookplate on first blank page, small tear to top of cloth spine, otherwise very good, clean.

Hardcover. NY/Berlin, Mouton Publishers, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 165 pages, three academic essays examine the codes and messages of the Brazilian Carnival. Numerous color photos. Foreword by Sebeok; Umberto Eco essay titled "The Frames of Comic 'Freedom'"; V.V. Ivanov essay titled "The Semiotic theory of Carnival as the Inversion of Bipolar Opposites"; and Monica Rector's essay "The code and Message of Carnival: 'Escolas-de-Samba''. Previous owner's name inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 212 pages, b&w illustrations. This book is an attempt to explain the most basic ritual called lsti with the help of the original texts and the photographs of the actual performance of that sacrifice that took place in Pune, India, in July 1979. The book contains in all 140 photographs showing various stages of the sacrifice with explanation of the rites. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a frayed and chipped dust jacket. Pictorial boards with a blue cloth spine. A photo essay on the young princesses during the war year of 1940. Book is clean, very good, dust jacket is fair only.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Company, 1st, 1925, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with faded gilt lettering. 245 pages, b&w illustrations. Czech writer, Hans Coudenhove writes of a long stay in Nyasaland (now Malawi) and describes the African people, mongooses, monkeys, lions, ants, kites, ravens and snakes. So immersed in African culture is author Coudenhove that he had not slept in a bed, dined with a human, or seen any entertainment in decades of living there. Quoth he: I have not been in a theatre for twenty-eight years.and I have never seen any of the modern dances--'jazz' I think they are called. So this perspective might be considered unsullied by any 'modern' thinking, and it is pure African to the core--a unique perspective on the fauna of the continent Ex-lib with marking and residue to endpapers.

Hardcover. London, Richard Bentley, 1st, 1854, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes, 503, 474 pages. Bound in calf with raised spine bands, marbled edges, marbled end papers. Spine labels chipped on Volume 1, missing on Volume 2. Spines age-darkened, light wear to top and bottom. Previous owner's inscription otherwise internally clean and bright.

Hardcover. London, Heinemann, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 303 pages, black & white photos and maps. Name on front fly leaf. Otherwise, clean.

Hardcover. London, Phoenix House , 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly chipped dust jacket, 148 pages. Color frontispiece; twenty-four pages of photographs; two maps; and a statistical Appendix. A personal travel journal: "a well-substantiated account of a continent that is now emerging as a major political, economic, and cultural force."

Hardcover. NY, G P Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth, 10 pages of b&w photos. The struggling New York/Massachusetts writer, lecturer, and young mother writes of her third venture into Africa in the 1930s. Spine cocked, clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Adam & Charles Black, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 32 tipped-in color plates, 32 small black & white illustrations by Jungman. Intro. by Gordon Hume. Light spotting to covers.

Hardcover. Kampala Uganda, Saben's Directories, 1st, 1960, Hardcover, 312, 74, , 64 pages. Original publisher's brown cloth boards with black lettering at front and gilt lettering and illustration at spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Laid in is the envelope holding 3 folding maps: Uganda Protectorate Map, East African Railway Map, Kampala Street Plan. Some tanning at edges of pages. Binding is slightly cocked where maps were laid in. Previous owner's name inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Lichfield UK, A.C. Lomax's Successors, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers with gilt lettering on front and spine. The spine is sunned and slightly over onto front board. 180 pages. No markings, a clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A director, producer, actor, and author, Joshua Logan had more Broadway hits than almost anyone else. In the late 1940s . Logan worked in theater and film throughout his career, showing talent from the time he was a young student at Princeton University. He acted on stage before achieving his first major success as a director with 'I Married an Angel,' in 1938; he also produced several shows. For many years Logan struggled with manic-depressive illness, and late in life he toured the country to offer encouragement to fellow sufferers. 408 pages, b&w photos. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages. Hardcover. Green-blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine. No dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, light fading to spine title, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: 100.00, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt titles on the spine and front cover. Gilt still bright. The book shows little if any use. Two maps in excellent condition in pocket on rear paste down. 784 page, b&w frontispiece, fully illustrated with 138 photographs, 34 plates, 9 maps and 2 maps in a rear pocket, 4 fold out maps. Copyright page states: "Published in November 1921", title page states 1922. Preface by Stefansson, commander of expedition, who explains that he is an anthropologist by profession & he started his work. To learn whatever he could about the Eskimos. During 5-6 years of continuous residence he learned that the Eskimos resemble an uninstructed peasantry with a large measure of native intelligence lying fallow, lacking opportunities of instruction and development, "the Eskimos are honest and intelligent but have a higher percentage of unfounded beliefs than any white people with whom I have associated." Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 348 pages, b&w illustrations. This handsomely illustrated book offers a panoramic view of ancient Mexico, beginning more than thirty thousand years ago and ending with European occupation in the sixteenth century. Drawing on archaeological and ethnohistorical sources, the book is one of the first to offer a unified vision of Mexico's precolonial past. Typical histories of Mexico focus on the prosperity and accomplishments of Mesoamerica, located in the southern half of Mexico, due to the wealth of records about the glorious past of this region. Mesoamerica was only one of three cultural superareas of ancient Mexico, however, all interlinked by complex economic and social relationships. Tracing the large social transformations that took place from the earliest hunter-gatherer times to the Postclassic states, the authors describe the ties between the three superareas of ancient Mexico, which stretched from present-day Costa Rica to what is now the southwestern United States. According to the authors, these superareas-Mesoamerica, Aridamerica, and Oasisamerica - cannot be viewed as independent entities. Instead, they must be considered as a whole to understand the complex reality of Mexico's past.

Softcover. Oxford UK, Blackwell, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 630 pages. This is an account of 110 years of turbulence and change. At the offset there were not one, but two revolutions: by intent the first was egalitarian, the second - Bonaparte's - authoritarian. The tension between the two characterized the period and shaped the Republic that in the end emerged from the ruins of the Ancien Regime. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 223 pages. The Nzema of West Africa, who inhabit a land of forest and lagoons along the Atlantic, continue a heritage untapped by anthropologists and scarcely influenced by Western civilization. Vinigi L. Grottanelli first discovered the rich culture of this southern Ghanaian tribe in 1954. Over the next three decades, intermittent sojourns enabled Grottanelli to develop friendships with the Nzema and learn about their beliefs, traditions, and practices. In twenty absorbing vignettes, The Python Killer renders a vivid portrayal of Nzema life. B&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Softcover. Nairobi, East African Publishing House, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 162 pages, index, genealogy of kings and chiefs, bibliography, chronology, notes. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Paris, Arthaud, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly edgeworn dust jacket. A photographic study of Morocco and it's people. Gravure photos, mostly b&w, some color. TEXT IN FRENCH. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a nice dust jacket with a faded spine. 388 pages, b&w frontis. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Athens GA, University of Georgia Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with light fading to spine, 305 pages, b&w illustrations. Notes, bibilography, index. Highly informed opinions concerning most of the controversial aspects of the Allied occupation of Japan and the adjustment of Japanese politicians to the democratic process. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. NY, Harper Torchbooks, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 397 pages. "Few works that I know convey the excitement of the intellectual life of nineteenth-century England as immediately as Gertrude Himmelfarb's Victorian Minds. The essays are remarkable no less for the cogency of their wit than for the range and precision of their scholarship" ` ~ Lionel Trilling. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Saudi Arabia, Information Window Agency, 1st, 1995, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 155 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Bilingual English-Arabic. "Reviews the huge positive development that has taken place in more than half a century. Shows the old simple ways of living, desert life, pasturing, pearl diving, irrigation and farming, sea trade through simple traditional ports - then moves to the period following the discovery of oil and the developments which followed the proper use of such natural resources making this Province a high-tech employment area and a place that the world looks up to." Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Chicago, A.C. McClurg, 1st, 1911, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 445 pages, b&w photos by the author. Front fly leaf with top corner clipped. Tan covers and spine have discoloration, fading, internally very good. Map on front end paper. No markings.

Hardcover. University of Texas Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, with a foreword by Howard S. Becker, red cloth; gilt titles; 166 pages.; b/w illustrations; some edgewear and spine sunning to price-clipped dust jacket, INSCRIBED BY SELBY on front fly leaf. clean copy.

Hardcover. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 388 pages, hardcover. B&w plates. INSCRIBED BY ECKERT. Light foxing to edge and light wear to bottom edges of cover. According to conventional interpretations, the Japanese annexation of Korea in 1910 destroyed a budding native capitalist economy on the peninsula and blocked the development of a Korean capitalist class until 1945. In this expansive and provocative study, now available in paperback, Carter J. Eckert challenges the standard view and argues that Japanese imperialism, while politically oppressive, was also the catalyst and cradle of modern Korean industrial development. Ancient ties to China were replaced by new ones to Japan - ties that have continued to shape the South Korean political economy down to the present day.Eckert explores a wide range of themes, including the roots of capitalist development in Korea, the origins of the modern business elite, the nature of Japanese colonial policy and the Japanese colonial state, the relationship between the colonial government and the Korean economic elite, and the nature of Korean collaboration. He conveys a clear sense of the human complexity, archival richness, and intellectual challenge of the historical period. His documentation is thorough; his arguments are compelling and often strikingly innovative.

Softcover. Johannesburg, Picador Africa, reprint, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 376 pages. INSCRIBED BY EDITOR on title page, Clean copy. First published in the U.S. under a different title in 1978.

Hardcover. Westport CT, Greenwood Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth covers stamped in silver, 242 pages. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Over the course of the American Occupation of Japan, the U.S. attitude toward the Japanese Communist Party (JCP) gradually shifted from one of friendly cooperation to one of mutual opposition. This new study examines the initial approach toward communism in Japan; internal and external factors that affected American attitudes; the various phases of the relationship; and how Japan ultimately became a democratic nation. Oinas-Kukkonen investigates American information gathering techniques used at the time to determine possible links with the Soviet Union. He also discusses the possibility that Nosaka Sanzo, one of the main leaders of the JCP, was an American spy. Using previously secret records of General MacArthur's intelligence staff and plentiful archival materials on the Occupation, this study explores how the United States originally sought to utilize the JCP to assist in the democratization process. It identifies the perceived threat of a revolution in March 1947 as a key turning point in U.S. attitudes. Involved in a delicate balancing act with multiple Japanese interests, some American officials feared that elements of the extreme left might even evolve into extreme right-wing terrorists. In this comprehensive account, Oinas-Kukkonen includes information on the indirect role of the Europeans in this affair, as well as the roles of outsider groups such as the outcaste burakumin and the Koreans residing in Japan.

Hardcover. NY, John Lane Company, 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with faded gilt lettering. Written by Isaac Frederick Marcosson, an American magazine editor, on his travels through Africa and along the Congo. Complete with 48 illustrations including photographs, maps and frontispiece of King Albert. Newspaper photo of author pasted to inside front cover, otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 490 pages, green cloth covers with black and gilt decoration. Two gravure frontispieces (of author and Henry Stanley), 21 full-page plates plus text illustrations. Folding map and facsimile of letter in envelope in rear. There is a small chunk of cloth gone from top of spine and some scuffing of cloth on spine and rear cover, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. London, The Folio Society, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth boards, gilt titles, pictorial pastedown on cover. Maroon card slipcase is a little faded at entrance. 203 pages with endpaper maps plus 16 plates from photographs. A legendary explorer's own account of his expedition up the Gambia river originally published in 1799, here with the text of the 1860 edition with new opening and closing material by John Keay. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Public Affairs, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wraps, 422 pages, b&w illustrations. Combining razor-sharp analysis with dramatic narrative, vivid portraits of soldiers and commanders with illuminating discussions of battle tactics and covert actions, The Sword and the Olive traces the history of the IDF from its beginnings in Palestine to today. The book also goes beyond chronology to wrestle with the political and ethical struggles that have shaped the IDF and the country it serves--struggles that are manifesting themselves in the recent tragic escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Often revisionist in attitude, surprising in many of its conclusions, this book casts new light on the struggle for peace in the Middle East. Clean copy.

Softcover. Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 245 pages. Crisp, clean, illustrated wraps. From the back cover: "An astute observer of the soviet Union, Robert Daniels collects here his observations of political change in the USSR over a twenty-five-year period." Tight binding, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Hardcover. Paris, France, E. Plon, Nourrit , unk, nd, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 47 pages. Color illustrations by the author. Red top edge. Yellow covers with green and gold decoration. Corners and spine rubbed. Light soiling to covers. Spine a bit loose.

NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 485 pages, b/w plates, maps, notes, bibliog., index, Describes how under Marcos, Manila became an international hub for money-laundering, narcotics trafficking, gambling, white slavery & child prostitution.Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, George Braziller , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A history of apartheid traces the institution back to its roots in the 17th century, and shows how it developed along with Afrikaner nationalism, as well as the response from the Africans.

Softcover. London, C Hurst & Co, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 176 pages. An analysis of the background to the current crisis in Algeria, placing in perspective the threats to the state posed by Islamic fundamentalism and economic mismanagement. It looks at the role of the National Liberation Front (FLN), international relations, the economy, and more. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, A. & C. Black, 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, olive-green cloth decorated in two-colors and gilt. 37 color plates by Amedee Forestier with captions on tissue guards. 187 pages. Top edge gilt. Small ink notation on Preface page otherwise clean, very good.

Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 3rd pr., 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, blue wrappers, 200 pages. Name on half-title page, otherwise clean. Some fading to cover wrappers.

Hardcover. NY, James Pott & Co., 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with bright gilt design to cover, gilt lettering on spine, 127 pages. Introduction by George Meredith. Bookplate/name on inside front cover. Otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. London, Mills & Boon], 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering, 208 pages. 9 b&w photographic plates. Charming guide to this historic section of London. Small ownership stamp to front fly leaf, tiny nicks to cloth corners, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Yokohama, unknown, 1st, 1909, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 842 pages, gray cloth covers worn, spine cloth loose from spine backing, hinges cracked. Inside very good,clean, lacks title page which may never have been printed. A detailed collection of names, places, events, throughout Japanese history. English text. From a library in Japan with card and envelope inside rear cover and sticker on spine. Uncommon.

Hardcover. NY, Paragon House, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 274 pages. Black cloth spine over brown boards. First published in 1925.

Softcover. Boulder CO, Westview Press , 1st US, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 360 pages. B&w illustrations. The period 1000 to 1630 was the most dynamic era in the history of the Mande- and West Atlantic-speaking peoples living between the bend of the Niger River and the Atlantic littoral. Many of the economic, social, and cultural patterns that evolved during those centuries remain of fundamental importance.This study delineates historical processes in the context of climate change, expanding trade networks, and widespread state-building. The long dry period, c. 1100-c. 1500, impelled Mande-speaking traders and blacksmiths to move progressively southward and westward, founding chapters of Mande "power associations" among host communities. Smiths and traders were followed by horse warriors who founded conquest states and imposed a tripartite social stratification. During the brief c. 1500-c. 1630 wet period, the southward movement of horse warriors was temporarily checked, but Europeans and Eur-Africans promoted an expanding trade in slaves that ravaged the peoples of western Africa during the centuries following. Landlords and Strangers provides a comprehensive synthesis of documentary and oral data and includes numerous extracts from contemporaneous sources to vividly portray the peoples and lands of western Africa.