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Through Central Africa: From Coast to Coastby: Barnes, James

Through Central Africa: From Coast to Coast
by: Barnes, James

Hardcover. NY, D. Appleton & Co., 1st, 1915, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped with gilt lettering. 283 pages, color frontis, monochrome photo illustrations by Cherry Kearton. The author was accompanied by Kearton as companion and photographer on the journey from Mombasa to Boma via British East Africa, Uganda and the Congo. From a college library with minimal stamping, light marking to endpapers, bookplate inside front cover, spine faded with ink number on spine. Inerior very good.

Record # 381178

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Short History of the Italian People, Aby: Trevelyan, Janet Penrose

Short History of the Italian People, A
by: Trevelyan, Janet Penrose

Hardcover. New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st Edition, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 580 pages. Hardcover. 24 b/w illustrations throughout including frontispiece with tissue guard and 6 maps (fold out). Blue cover boards, gilt title on spine (slightly faded) and front cover, some moisture damage to front cover, bump to bottom right corner of board. Tanning to pages and edges, pages otherwise unmarked.

Record # 99146

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Where Giants Trod: The Saga of Kenya's Desert Lakeby: Brown, Monty

Where Giants Trod: The Saga of Kenya's Desert Lake
by: Brown, Monty

Hardcover. London, Quiller Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 432 pages. Profusely illustrated in color and b&w, folding map in rear pocket. The story of Lake Rudolph/Turkana, and its exploration by numerous expeditions of explorers from the earliest days. The author has spent his life in Kenya and roamed the Northern Frontier District for over 35 years. Clean copy.

Record # 381177

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Nazi Culture: The Brown Darkness Over Germanyby: Josephson, Matthew

Nazi Culture: The Brown Darkness Over Germany
by: Josephson, Matthew

Softcover. New York, John Day Company, 1st Edition, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 pages. Softcover pamphlet with French flaps. Tan wrapper with black title on front cover and text on back cover (see image). Staple bound. A couple of stray marks on front cover (see image). Some light tanning throughout from age. In amazing shape for its age.

Record # 369279

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The Once Upon a Time World: The Dark and Sparkling Story of the French Riviera by: Miles, Jonathan

The Once Upon a Time World: The Dark and Sparkling Story of the French Riviera
by: Miles, Jonathan

Hardcover. NY, Pegasus Books, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Chronicling two-hundred years of glamour, intrigue, and hedonism, this rich and vivid history of the French Riviera features a vast cast of characters, from Pablo Picasso and Coco Chanel to Andre Matisse and James Baldwin. In 1835, Lord Brougham founded Cannes, introducing bathing and the manicured lawn to the wilds of the Mediterranean coast. Today, much of that shore has become a concrete mass from which escape is an exclusive dream. In the 185 years between, the stretch of seaboard from the red mountains of the Esterel to the Italian border hosted a cultural phenomenon well in excess of its tiny size. A mere handful of towns and resorts created by foreign visitors - notably English, Russian and American - attracted the talented, rich and famous as well as those who wanted to be. For nearly two centuries of creativity, luxury, excess, scandal, war and corruption, the dark and sparkling world of the Riviera was a temptation for everybody who was anybody. Clean copy.

Record # 387739

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Impressions of South Africaby: Bryce, James

Impressions of South Africa
by: Bryce, James

Hardcover. London, Macmillan Co., 2nd pr., 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 604 pages, 3 fold-out color maps in rear of book. Red coth covers, hinges tender, spine with fading. An account of the landscape, vegetation and wildlife of southern Africa precedes an historical survey of the non-European inhabitants and the arrival and spread of the European settlers.

Record # 602829

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Indian culture in the days of the Buddha by: Zoysa, A. P. de

Indian culture in the days of the Buddha
by: Zoysa, A. P. de

Hardcover. Colombo INDIA, Gunasena, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket. 135 pages.

Record # 382052

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Here is the Veld by: Attilio Gatti

Here is the Veld
by: Attilio Gatti

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth stamped in black, 154 pages. Numerous black & white photographs printed with the text; maps on endpapers. A survey of South African society, including much on traditional Zulu culture. The author was an Italian explorer, who wrote numerous books on sub-Saharan Africa and made documentary films of the region. Light envelope residue to rear paste-down indicating ex-lib, but no oher markings.

Record # 396634

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Betrayal in the Philippines by: Abaya, Hernando

Betrayal in the Philippines
by: Abaya, Hernando

Hardcover. NY, A. A. Wyn, Inc., 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with red lettering on spine. 272 pages, Introduction by Harold Ickes. The author accuses General MacArthur of colluding to help elect the corrupt Manuel Roxas, President of the Filipino Republic. The author was a resistance fighter who fought against the Japanese. Related newspaper clippings laid in. Mild musty odor. Clean copy.

Record # 383640

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Navya-Nyaya Doctrine of Negation - The Semantics and Ontology of Negative Statements in Navya-Nyaya Philosophy, Theby: Matilal, Bimal Krishna

Navya-Nyaya Doctrine of Negation - The Semantics and Ontology of Negative Statements in Navya-Nyaya Philosophy, The
by: Matilal, Bimal Krishna

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.

Record # 855866

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The Friendly Arctic: The Story of Five Years in Polar Regions by: Vilhjalmur Stefansson

The Friendly Arctic: The Story of Five Years in Polar Regions
by: Vilhjalmur Stefansson

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.

Record # 385397

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Mexico's Indigenous Past (The Civilization of the American Indian Series) (Volume 240) by: Austin, Alfredo Lopez / Leonardo Lopez Lujan

Mexico's Indigenous Past (The Civilization of the American Indian Series) (Volume 240)
by: Austin, Alfredo Lopez / Leonardo Lopez Lujan

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.

Record # 385735

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Revolutionary France 1770-1880 by: Furet, Francois

Revolutionary France 1770-1880
by: Furet, Francois

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.

Record # 386024

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The Islands of England: A Survey of the Islands Around England and Wales; and the Channel Islandsby: J. H. Ingram

The Islands of England: A Survey of the Islands Around England and Wales; and the Channel Islands
by: J. H. Ingram

Hardcover. London, B.T. Batsford, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 194 pages. Color frontis plus photographic b&w plates. Clean copy.

Record # 387459

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Moroccoby: Nevill Barbour

Morocco
by: Nevill Barbour

Hardcover. London, Thames And Hudson, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 239 pages, 91 b&w illustrations, 5 maps. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 387743

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Palms Wine and Witnesses:Public Spirit and Private Gain in an African Farm Community by: Parkin, David J.

Palms Wine and Witnesses:Public Spirit and Private Gain in an African Farm Community
by: Parkin, David J.

Softcover. Prospect Heights IL, Waveland Press, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 113 pages. A look at the economic development of the Giriama of Kenya where traditional customs are sometimes at odds with the needs and desires of the individual, enterprising farmers. Illustrated with statistical tables, reproductions of black-&-white photographs, and a map. Appended: Bibliography, Index.

Record # 387843

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The Letters Of King George IIIby: Dobree, Bonamy (Ed.)

The Letters Of King George III
by: Dobree, Bonamy (Ed.)

Hardcover. NY, Funk & Wagnalls, reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 294 pages. First published in 1935. The Editor selected a series of letters, many of them previously unpublished, from a vast mass of material. The larger proportion of them belongs to the period before his great triumph of 1784 when, he succeeded in smashing the great 'Whig' oligarch, and brought the Constitution back to what he considered more orthodox lines. A few letters showing him from more personal aspects have also been included. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 396469

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Passing the Time in Ballymenoneby: Henry Glassie

Passing the Time in Ballymenone
by: Henry Glassie

Softcover. Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press, reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 852 pages. The life and art, the folklore, history, and common work of a rural community in Northern Ireland-through the eyes and pen of gifted folklorist Henry Glassie. Glassie regards the people of Ballymenone with respect and affection, allowing them to describe their ideas, life-ways, and values on their own terms, not his. Recognizing that theirs is a mindset and lifestyle that must be seen as an integrated whole, Glassie studies everything about Ballymenone from traditional songs to entertainment to religious beliefs to architecture, liberally quoting from the people who welcomed him into their homes over his extended stays. Some of his insights are pure brilliance, such as recognizing the way the poets and storytellers of a rural Irish district have adapted ancient Gaelic metrics to the English they use today. You will learn more about Ireland and its people in this one book than in a host of others. Clean copy.

Record # 396706

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Sun Yat-Sen and the Origins of the Chinese Revolution by: Harold Z. Schiffrin

Sun Yat-Sen and the Origins of the Chinese Revolution
by: Harold Z. Schiffrin

Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2nd pr., 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 412 pages with index. Frontis. map. Ex-lib with stamping to edges and endpapers, name on front fly leaf.

Record # 397203

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History of the United Netherlands: From the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Years Truce - 1609 (4 vol. set)by: Motley, John Lothrop

History of the United Netherlands: From the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Years Truce - 1609 (4 vol. set)
by: Motley, John Lothrop

Hardcover. New York, Harper Brothers, 1st Edition, 1869, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2326 total pages. 4 volume set. Hardcovers. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. B/w illustrated fold-out map in volume 1. Decorated marbled edges. Decorated endpapers. Decorated cover boards with leather corners and quarter cloths. Leather spines with raised bands, gilt title and decorations. Spines straight. Light tanning from age to pages.

Record # 99240

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Kenya's Warning: The Challenge to White Supremacy in Our British Colonyby: Wilson, Christopher

Kenya's Warning: The Challenge to White Supremacy in Our British Colony
by: Wilson, Christopher

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.

Record # 380869

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Event, Metaphor, Memory: Chauri Chaura, 1922-1992by: Shahid Amin

Event, Metaphor, Memory: Chauri Chaura, 1922-1992
by: Shahid Amin

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.

Record # 378520

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The Dead Sea: Myth, History, and Politics (SIGNED COPY)by: Barbara Kreiger

The Dead Sea: Myth, History, and Politics (SIGNED COPY)
by: Barbara Kreiger

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.

Record # 382174

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African Crossroadsby: Dundas, Sir Charles

African Crossroads
by: Dundas, Sir Charles

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.

Record # 387816

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Thailand's Vanishing Flora and Faunaby: Graham, Mark and Philip Round

Thailand's Vanishing Flora and Fauna
by: Graham, Mark and Philip Round

Hardcover. Bangkok, Finance One, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 247 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Bright, unclipped dust jacket. Light bumps to corners, otherwise clean, very good.

Record # 951424

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Mocambique: East African Province of Portugulby: Spence C. F.

Mocambique: East African Province of Portugul
by: Spence C. F.

Hardcover. Cape Town, Howard Timmins, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, cream color cloth, black lettering on spine. 147 pages, tables, maps, charts, photographs: author spent most of his life in Portuguese East Africa and this is both a history and an authoritative study of the economic and political situation circa early 1960s. Clean copy.

Record # 380853

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Uganda National Parks Handbookby: N/A

Uganda National Parks Handbook
by: N/A

Softcover. UK, Trustees of the Uganda National Parks, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 102 pages plus ads in rear. Also has a small folded map of Uganda in back pocket. B&w illustrations throughout.

Record # 359813

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The Jews in New Spain: Faith Flame and the Inquisitionby: Seymour B. Liebman

The Jews in New Spain: Faith Flame and the Inquisition
by: Seymour B. Liebman

Hardcover. Coral Gables FL, University of Miami Press, 1st, 1970, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 381 pages with index. No dust jacket. "Professor Liebman has researched and translated many Inqusition documents, and through these and other sources has defined, described, and analyzed the personalities, lives and customs of representative Hispanic Jews. Two outstanding families, those of Luis de Carvajal and Tomas Trevino de Sobremonte, are treated in full in separate chapters. Other chapters trace the colonists from their departure from Spain through their centuries of faith and flame in the New World." Clean copy.

Record # 378338

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Spanish Elizabethans, The - The English Exiles at the Court of Philip IIby: Loomie, Albert J.

Spanish Elizabethans, The - The English Exiles at the Court of Philip II
by: Loomie, Albert J.

Hardcover. NY, Fordham University, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover with dust jacket with light wear, rubbed. 280 pages.

Record # 58645

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The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold Warby: Grandin, Greg

The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War
by: Grandin, Greg

Softcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 311 pages. After decades of bloodshed and political terror, many lament the rise of the left in Latin America. Since the triumph of Castro, politicians and historians have accused the left there of rejecting democracy, embracing communist totalitarianism, and prompting both revolutionary violence and a right-wing backlash. Through unprecedented archival research and gripping personal testimonies, Greg Grandin powerfully challenges these views in this classic work. In doing so, he uncovers the hidden history of the Latin American Cold War: of hidebound reactionaries holding on to their power and privilege; of Mayan Marxists blending indigenous notions of justice with universal ideas of equality; and of a United States supporting new styles of state terror throughout the region. With Guatemala as his case study, Grandin argues that the Latin American Cold War was a struggle not between political liberalism and Soviet communism but two visions of democracy--one vibrant and egalitarian, the other tepid and unequal--and that the conflict's main effect was to eliminate homegrown notions of social democracy.

Record # 381613

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Le chrysantheme solitaire: Edition du manuscrit Smith Lesouef japonais 96 (French Edition)by: Jacqueline Pigeot and Kosugi Keiko

Le chrysantheme solitaire: Edition du manuscrit Smith Lesouef japonais 96 (French Edition)
by: Jacqueline Pigeot and Kosugi Keiko

Hardcover. Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, 1st thus, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 80 pages, color illustrations. Text in French and Japanese. Clean copy in a bright dust jacket.

Record # 358607

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Guns & Rain - Guerrillas & Spirit Mediums in Zimbabweby: Lan, David

Guns & Rain - Guerrillas & Spirit Mediums in Zimbabwe
by: Lan, David

Paperback. London/Berkeley, James Curry/University of California, 1st wraps, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 244 pages. Focuses on the events in one key "operational zone" in the Zambezi valley in the struggle for Zimbabwe between 1966-1980. Preface by Maurice Block. Illustrated with many maps and photographs. Bibliography, index.

Record # 53694

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Miraculous Stories from the Japanese Buddhist Tradition: The Nihon Ryoiki of the Monk Kyokaiby: Nakamura (transl.), Kyoko Motomochi

Miraculous Stories from the Japanese Buddhist Tradition: The Nihon Ryoiki of the Monk Kyokai
by: Nakamura (transl.), Kyoko Motomochi

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 322 pages, bright maroon cloth covers with silver lettering on spine. Bright, clean copy in a similar dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.

Record # 403090

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Japan's Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period (Studies of the East Asian Instituteby: Gluck, Carol

Japan's Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period (Studies of the East Asian Institute
by: Gluck, Carol

Hardcover. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 407 pages. Red cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Lovely copy with only minor wear to upper edge of dust jacket, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, else in like new condition.

Record # 453656

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Ejido, The: Mexico's Way Outby: Simpson, Eyler N.

Ejido, The: Mexico's Way Out
by: Simpson, Eyler N.

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press , 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 849 pages, b&w illustrations. Tan cloth covers with dark brown decoration. Previous owner's stamp on both end papers.

Record # 406010

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The Trial of Jomo Kenyatta by: Slater, Montague

The Trial of Jomo Kenyatta
by: Slater, Montague

Hardcover. London, Secker & Warburg, reprint, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a very worn, chipped dust jacket, 255 pages, fold-out chart in rear. A blow by blow account of the Mau Mau leader's trial that lasted for over 100 days, "one of the most dramatic and important this century". In 1952, Kenyatta was arrested in Kenya by the British colonial authorities and charged with masterminding the anti-colonial Mau Mau Uprising. Although protesting his innocence, a view shared by later historians, he was convicted. He remained imprisoned at Lokitaung until 1959 and was then exiled to Lodwar until 1961. Appears to be a book club edition. Overall clean copy but cheap paper is tanning.

Record # 387826

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Sauna as a Symbol. Society and Culture in Finlandby: Edelsward, L. M.

Sauna as a Symbol. Society and Culture in Finland
by: Edelsward, L. M.

Softcover. NY, Peter Lang, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 267 pages. Every culture has a secret ingredient, and for Finnish culture and society it is the sauna. The sauna is an actual bath and bathhouse which in practical life brings people together in ways otherwise impossible. And the sauna as symbol brings together and integrates the many contradictory ideals and realities of Finnish society and culture. Through the sauna, nature and culture, the individual and society, the person and the polity, may be woven into an integral whole. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 383462

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Dictionary of the History and Geography of Japanby: Papinot, E.

Dictionary of the History and Geography of Japan
by: Papinot, E.

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.

Record # 404532

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JOURNEY TO POLAND: A GERMAN NOVELIST SEEKS HIS JEWISH ROOTS ON THE EVE OF THE NAZIS' RISE TO POWERby: Alfred Doblin

JOURNEY TO POLAND: A GERMAN NOVELIST SEEKS HIS JEWISH ROOTS ON THE EVE OF THE NAZIS' RISE TO POWER
by: Alfred Doblin

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.

Record # 384879

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Landlords and Strangers: Ecology, Society, and Trade in Western Africa, 1000-1630 by: Brooks, George E.

Landlords and Strangers: Ecology, Society, and Trade in Western Africa, 1000-1630
by: Brooks, George E.

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.

Record # 385651

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A Concise Economic History of Britain: From 1750 to Recent Times by: W. H. B. Court

A Concise Economic History of Britain: From 1750 to Recent Times
by: W. H. B. Court

Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 368 pages. Red cloth with gilt lettering. This volume concerns the economic life of Britain from 1750 to the beginning of the war of 1939. Front fly leaf with stamping, Harvard Book Store sticker. Otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 386013

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The Continent of Circe: Being an Essay on the People's of Indiaby: Nirad C Chaudhuri

The Continent of Circe: Being an Essay on the People's of India
by: Nirad C Chaudhuri

Hardcover. London, Chatto and Windus, 2nd pr., 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with faded spine, 320 pages, b&w frontis. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 386151

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The Puritans in Africa: Story of Afrikanerdom by: W. A.( William Abraham) De Klerk

The Puritans in Africa: Story of Afrikanerdom
by: W. A.( William Abraham) De Klerk

Softcover. UK, Penguin Books, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 317 pages. The roots of apartheid. The book relates the history of a small people, the Afrikaners, and their attempts to remake their particular world according to a rational plan from the radical Right. First published in 1975. Clean copy.

Record # 387566

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African Railwaymen: Solidarity and Opposition in an East African Labour Force by: Grillo R. D.

African Railwaymen: Solidarity and Opposition in an East African Labour Force
by: Grillo R. D.

Hardcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 215 pages. This was the first anthropological monograph to have dealt at length with the labour force of a major East African industry. It is a study of the African employees of the East African Railways and Harbours stationed at Kampala, Uganda, and living on the Railway-owned Nsambya housing estate. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 387823

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Cycle Of Cathay: An Historical Perspectiveby: Young, Arthur N.

Cycle Of Cathay: An Historical Perspective
by: Young, Arthur N.

Hardcover. Vista CA, Ibis Publishing, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 315 pages. As Financial Advisor to China, Arthur N. Young had an intimate insight as an on-the-spot observer of events during the critical 18 years leading to the fall of the Nationalists and the Communist takeover. Along with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, Dr. Young worked closely with the highest-ranking officials of the National Government in carrying out monetary and fiscal reforms prior to World War II, and stayed through the war to aid with problems of war finance, including procurement of American aid. As the Pacific Rim gains increasing international prominence, this book will prove to be of particular importance to students, scholars, business and political leaders with an interest in Asian affairs. Clean copy.

Record # 396386

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Kenkenroku: a Diplomatic Record of the Sino-Japanese War, 1894-1895 by: Munemitsu, Mutsu /Translated By Gordon Mark Berger

Kenkenroku: a Diplomatic Record of the Sino-Japanese War, 1894-1895
by: Munemitsu, Mutsu /Translated By Gordon Mark Berger

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with a hole on front fore-edge, 318 pages. Mutsu Munemitsu was the Foreign Minister of Japan during the time of the Sino-Japanese War from 1894 until the signing of the peace treaty on May 8, 1895. Mutsu was responsible for the secret documents on diplomatic matters in which he was involved, such as the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 and the facts about the Triple Intervention. The phrase "kenken" means "serving the sovereign with a pained heart," thus showing his loyalty to serve the Emperor. The documents in this book are exceedingly important as they are virtually the only material mentioning the diplomatic situations in the days of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 396625

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Japan and America: From Earliest Times to the Presentby: Lawrence Henry Battistini

Japan and America: From Earliest Times to the Present
by: Lawrence Henry Battistini

Hardcover. Westport CT, Greenwood Press, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, no dj issued, 198 pages including index, 5 maps. The author looks back over the hundred years that have passed since Perry opened up Japan and forward to the future of our relationship with Japan. He deals with the problems of Japan's rearmament and of its economic survival. First published in 1953.

Record # 396916

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Speak for England An Oral History of England: 1900 1975 Based on Interviews with Inhabitants of Wigton Cumberlandby: Melvyn Bragg

Speak for England An Oral History of England: 1900 1975 Based on Interviews with Inhabitants of Wigton Cumberland
by: Melvyn Bragg

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, BD Ed., 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 499 pgs. illustrated with photographs and maps. Who speaks for England? A farmer, a miner, a housewife, factory workers, dog breeders, shopkeepers and pigeon fanciers, more than sixty men and women of various ages and occupations, all inhabitants of the small northern English town, Wigton. Stated First Edition but no price on dj, embossed square to back cover, so a Book Club Ed. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397418

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A Motor Flight Through Algeria and Tunisia by: Ayer, Emma Burbank

A Motor Flight Through Algeria and Tunisia
by: Ayer, Emma Burbank

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.

Record # 374793

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Zapotec Deviance: the Convergence of Folk and Modern Sociology (SIGNED COPY) by: Selby, Henry A.

Zapotec Deviance: the Convergence of Folk and Modern Sociology (SIGNED COPY)
by: Selby, Henry A.

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.

Record # 378330

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