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George III and the Historiansby: Butterfield, Herbert

George III and the Historians
by: Butterfield, Herbert

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 2nd pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 304 pages. In this book, a revised edition of the original published in England in 1957, Herbert Butterfield explores the sources of myths, errors and inferences concerning the reign of King George III. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 396468

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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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Madagascar: Society and Historyby: Kottak, Conrad Phillip, Rakotoarisoa, Jean-Aime, Editor: Southall, A.

Madagascar: Society and History
by: Kottak, Conrad Phillip, Rakotoarisoa, Jean-Aime, Editor: Southall, A.

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.

Record # 378694

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Illustrated Africa: North Tropical Southby: Boyce, William D.

Illustrated Africa: North Tropical South
by: Boyce, William D.

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.

Record # 380855

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Carnival! by: Eco Umberto; V. V. Ivanov; Monica Rector; Edited By Thomas A. Sebeok

Carnival!
by: Eco Umberto; V. V. Ivanov; Monica Rector; Edited By Thomas A. Sebeok

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.

Record # 378345

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Indian Fire Ritualby: Tachikawa, Musashi ; Bahulkar, Shrikant And Kolhatkar, Madhavi.

Indian Fire Ritual
by: Tachikawa, Musashi ; Bahulkar, Shrikant And Kolhatkar, Madhavi.

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.

Record # 379879

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Princess Elizabeth And Princess Margaret Rose At Homeby: Sheridan, Lisa

Princess Elizabeth And Princess Margaret Rose At Home
by: Sheridan, Lisa

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.

Record # 377862

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My African Neighbors: Man, Bird, and Beast in Nyasalandby: Coudenhove, Hans

My African Neighbors: Man, Bird, and Beast in Nyasaland
by: Coudenhove, Hans

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.

Record # 381181

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Heresy and Orthodoxy in Sixteenth-Century Paris - Francois Le Picart and the Beginnings of the Catholic Reformationby: Taylor, Larissa Juliet

Heresy and Orthodoxy in Sixteenth-Century Paris - Francois Le Picart and the Beginnings of the Catholic Reformation
by: Taylor, Larissa Juliet

Hardcover. Leiden/Boston, Brill, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket, 332 pages. Volume 77 in the 'Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought Series'. Through the examination of over 250 sermons by the most popular preacher in Paris before the Religious Wars, Francois Le Picart (1504-1556), this book offers a close look at religious mentalites in the French capital in these critical years and offers insight into changing definitions of orthodoxy and heresy.

Record # 502516

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Report from the Rhodesiasby: H. Maclear Bate

Report from the Rhodesias
by: H. Maclear Bate

Hardcover. London, Andrew Melrose, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn, chipped dust jacket. With two double page color plates and 28 black and white illustrations, plus maps for endpapers, and frontispiece.

Record # 381179

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Bo-Tsotsi: The Youth Gangs of Soweto 1935-1976 by: Clive Glaser

Bo-Tsotsi: The Youth Gangs of Soweto 1935-1976
by: Clive Glaser

Softcover. Oxford UK, James Currey, 1st pbk, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 214 pages. This book explores the style and values of youth gangs in the Soweto area from the 1930s until the 1976 student-led uprising. It also tells the story of how the ANC, PAC, and Black Consciousness movement tried, and ultimately failed, to draw the volatile gangs into disciplined political activity. Mild shelf wear, clean copy.

Record # 381135

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The Land Belongs to Us: The Pedi Polity the Boers and the British in the Nineteenth Century Transvaal by: Delius, Peter

The Land Belongs to Us: The Pedi Polity the Boers and the British in the Nineteenth Century Transvaal
by: Delius, Peter

Hardcover. Berkeley, University Of California Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 278 pages. History of the Pedi's struggle to keep the land that belonged to them in South Africa. Clean copy.

Record # 380861

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Winter Indiaby: Scidmore, E. R.

Winter India
by: Scidmore, E. R.

Hardcover. New York, The Century Co., 1st, 1903, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 400 pages, b&w plates. Red cloth covers w/ gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. Rubbing to cover corners, small stain on front cover. Front hinge cracked; frontispiece loose. Rear hinge weak. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Else pages clean and tight.

Record # 851617

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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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The Story of the Jamaican Peopleby: Philip Sherlock/ Hazel Bennett

The Story of the Jamaican People
by: Philip Sherlock/ Hazel Bennett

Softcover. Kingston, Ian Randle Publishers, 1st pbk, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 434 pages with index. The book traces the African ancestral line of Black Jamaicans through to the influence of Asian, European & Spanish rule of the island throughout the ages, culminating with early English white settlers, forging 2-types of Jamaican People. Clean, like new.

Record # 387916

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East Londonby: Walter Besant

East London
by: Walter Besant

Hardcover. NY, The Century Co., 1st US, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with pictorial design in black, orange and white, top edge gilt, 364 pages with 54 b&w illustrations throughout by Phil May, Joseph Pennell and L. Raven Hill. Ex-lib with spine label, light marking, residue to endpapers. Interior is clean, bright.

Record # 387522

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Brazil and the Struggle for Rubber:A Study in Environmental History by: Dean, Warren

Brazil and the Struggle for Rubber:A Study in Environmental History
by: Dean, Warren

Softcover. London/NY, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 234 pages with index, b&w illustrations. Brazil once enjoyed a near monopoly in rubber when that commodity was gathered in the wild. By 1913, however, cultivated rubber from Southeast Asia swept the Brazilian gathered product from the market. In this innovative study, Warren Dean demonstrates that environmental factors have played a key role in the many failed attempts to once again produce a significant rubber crop in Brazil. Dean traces the numerous attempts to plant rubber in Brazil, including the ill-fated Ford estates, and others established by the major multinational tire companies. He also analyzes the struggles of the Brazilian government to foster rubber development, in the hope of obtaining a domestic source of supply for national industries that are now dependent on imports from Southeast Asia. Bookseller label on rear cover otherwise clean.

Record # 385717

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ADVICE TO A GRAND-DAUGHTER - Letters from Queen Victoria to Princess Victoria of Hesseby: Richard Hough, Editor

ADVICE TO A GRAND-DAUGHTER - Letters from Queen Victoria to Princess Victoria of Hesse
by: Richard Hough, Editor

Hardcover. London, Heinemann, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 24 illustrations. Genealogical chart of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. These letters were only discovered in the 1970's at Broadlands, the home of Princess Victoria's younger son, the Earl Mountbatten of Burma. These letters bring new light to bear on major world and minor domestic events, from the crisis with the Prussian court in 1888 to the Queen's agonized concern for her haemophilic children and grandchildren, from the assassination of the Tsar of Russia to her stalwart but fruitless efforts to persuade Princess's Victoria's sister to marry the eldest son of the Prince of Wales. Lord Mountbatten's elder daughter, Lady Brabourne, has provided a fascinating introduction. Clean copy.

Record # 386008

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Beyond the Arab Spring: The Evolving Ruling Bargain in the Middle Eastby: Kamrava, Mehran (Editor)

Beyond the Arab Spring: The Evolving Ruling Bargain in the Middle East
by: Kamrava, Mehran (Editor)

Softcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st Edition, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 480 pages. Softcover. Wrapper very good, french flaps, small bump to bottom of spine (see image). Pages clean. Binding good. Examines the nature and evolution of ruling bargains, the political systems to which they gave rise, the steady unraveling of the old systems and the structural consequences thereof, and the uprisings that have engulfed much of the Middle East since Dec. 2010.

Record # 99050

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Conflict in Northwest Africa: The Western Sahara Dispute (INSCRIBED COPY)by: Damis, John

Conflict in Northwest Africa: The Western Sahara Dispute (INSCRIBED COPY)
by: Damis, John

Hardcover. Stanford CA, Hoover Institution Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with gilt lettering. 196 pages. illustrated with several maps. A study of the conflict between Morocco and Algeria over tribal areas in the Sahara. Clean copy.

Record # 387565

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Return to Paradiseby: Breyten Breytenbach

Return to Paradise
by: Breyten Breytenbach

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The painter, writer, and political activist returns to his native South Africa, where he was once imprisoned for working for the African National Congress, and reflects on the decline of apartheid and his own attachment to the Boer state. He describes the travail of his country riven by racial conflict. He recounts his seven-year imprisonment for treason and shares the passionate love of an exile--he resides in Paris--for his native land. In the recent period of "stability laced with blood" as De Klerk and Mandela's forces struggle to maintain a precarious political equilibrium, Breytenbach has been allowed to return for visits with his Vietnamese wife. Part travelogue and part memoir, this account offers frequent political discussions about the rivalry between the African National Congress and the Inkatha Freedom Party. A careful observer of people, their surroundings, fauna and flora, Breytenbach weaves richly colored narrative history, local lore and personal allusions. Clean copy.

Record # 387815

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Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States 1944-1954 by: Gleijeses, Piero

Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States 1944-1954
by: Gleijeses, Piero

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 430 pages, b&w illustrations. The most thorough account yet available of a revolution that saw the first true agrarian reform in Central America, this book is also a penetrating analysis of the tragic destruction of that revolution. In no other Central American country was U.S. intervention so decisive and so ruinous, charges Piero Gleijeses. Yet he shows that the intervention can be blamed on no single "convenient villain." "Extensively researched and written with conviction and passion, this study analyzes the history and downfall of what seems in retrospect to have been Guatemala's best government, the short-lived regime of Jacobo Arbenz, overthrown in 1954, by a CIA-orchestrated coup." Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396385

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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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Offspring of Empire: The Koch'ang Kims and the Colonial Origins of Korean Capitalism 1876-1945 (SIGNED COPY)by: Eckert, Carter J.

Offspring of Empire: The Koch'ang Kims and the Colonial Origins of Korean Capitalism 1876-1945 (SIGNED COPY)
by: Eckert, Carter J.

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.

Record # 510084

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The Testimony of Steve Biko by: Arnold, Millard W. (Ed.)

The Testimony of Steve Biko
by: Arnold, Millard W. (Ed.)

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.

Record # 379543

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Tolerance, Suspicion, and Hostility: Changing U.S. Attitudes toward the Japanese Communist Movement, 1944-1947by: Oinas-Kukkonen, Henry

Tolerance, Suspicion, and Hostility: Changing U.S. Attitudes toward the Japanese Communist Movement, 1944-1947
by: Oinas-Kukkonen, Henry

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.

Record # 378775

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An African Adventure by: Isaac F. Marcosson

An African Adventure
by: Isaac F. Marcosson

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.

Record # 380839

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Emin Pasha and the Rebellion at the Equator: A Story of Nine Months Experiences in the Last of the Soudan Provincesby: Mounteney-Jephson, A. J.

Emin Pasha and the Rebellion at the Equator: A Story of Nine Months Experiences in the Last of the Soudan Provinces
by: Mounteney-Jephson, A. J.

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.

Record # 406621

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Travels in the Interior of Africa by: Mungo Park

Travels in the Interior of Africa
by: Mungo Park

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.

Record # 380847

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The Sword And The Olive: A Critical History Of The Israeli Defense Force by: Creveld, Martin van

The Sword And The Olive: A Critical History Of The Israeli Defense Force
by: Creveld, Martin van

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.

Record # 396674

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Russia's Transformation: Snapshots of a Crumbling Systemby: Daniels, Robert V.

Russia's Transformation: Snapshots of a Crumbling System
by: Daniels, Robert V.

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.

Record # 30167

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Myths and Legends of the Bantuby: Werner, Alice

Myths and Legends of the Bantu
by: Werner, Alice

Hardcover. London, Harrap, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 335 pages. Illustrated with 32 black & white photographs. Front flyleaf gone. Front hinge exposed at top 1" at gutter. Light wear to covers and dust jacket.

Record # 604429

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Bangkok: Biography of a Cityby: Alec Waugh

Bangkok: Biography of a City
by: Alec Waugh

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 282 pages, b&w illustrations. A graceful, witty and dramatic biography of one of the most fabulous cities in the world. Clean copy.

Record # 381194

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War and Slavery in Sudan The Ethnography of Political Violence by: Jok, Jok Madut

War and Slavery in Sudan The Ethnography of Political Violence
by: Jok, Jok Madut

Softcover. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2nd pr., 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 211 pages. Exposes the fact that slavery remains widespread in Sudan and is not grounded in the current civil war but on old prejudices between the Muslim north and the Christian south. A shocking account of Sudanese slavery.

Record # 381170

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Pharaoh to Faroukby: Jarvis, H. Wood

Pharaoh to Farouk
by: Jarvis, H. Wood

Hardcover. London, John Murray, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, 299 pages. A history of Egypt beginning with the early Dynasties from 3000 BC, with very readable and detailed accounts of the more dramatic episodes, including the battles of Napoleon's invasion, the siege of Khartoum, and Kitchener's battles. Bookplate on inside front cover, small blank sticker on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 387820

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Brabant & East Flandersby: Omond, George W. T.; Painted by Amedee Forestier

Brabant & East Flanders
by: Omond, George W. T.; Painted by Amedee Forestier

Hardcover. London, A. & C. Black, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth decorated in two-colors and gilt. 20 color plates by Amedee Forestier with captions on tissue guards. 127 pages. Top edge gilt. The tissue guard on Waterloo has a pencil notation, light foxing to pages otherwise clean.

Record # 415187

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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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