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Liberalism and Its Discontentsby: Alan Brinkley

Liberalism and Its Discontents
by: Alan Brinkley

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. How did liberalism, the great political tradition that from the New Deal to the 1960s seemed to dominate American politics, fall from favor so far and so fast? In this history of liberalism since the 1930s, a distinguished historian offers an eloquent account of postwar liberalism, where it came from, where it has gone, and why. The book supplies a crucial chapter in the history of twentieth-century American politics as well as a valuable and clear perspective on the state of our nation's politics today. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 378824

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The Black Infantry in the West, 1869

The Black Infantry in the West, 1869

Softcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press , reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 167 pages. After nearly 200,000 African-American soldiers fought in the Civil War, Congress enacted legislation to authorize regiments of cavalry and infantry for service in the West. The Ninth and Tenth cavalries won fame as "buffalo soldiers" in the Indian wars, nearly overshadowing the critical support role of the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth infantries. Now Arlen L. Fowler brings to light the story of African-American infantry service from 1869 to 1891 in Texas, Indian Territory, the Dakotas, Montana, and Arizona.

Record # 381744

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Mr. Poilu - Notes and Sketches with the Fighting French by: Ward, Herbert

Mr. Poilu - Notes and Sketches with the Fighting French
by: Ward, Herbert

Hardcover. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1st, 1916, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 158 pages. Hardcover. Features 46 tipped-in plates. Foxing throughout. Front hinged cracked. Covers worn with areas of staining, darkening to spine cloth.

Record # 613413

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We As Freemen: Plessy v. Fergusonby: Keith Weldon Medley

We As Freemen: Plessy v. Ferguson
by: Keith Weldon Medley

Hardcover. Gretna LA, Pelican Publishing, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. In June 1892, a thirty-year-old shoemaker named Homer Plessy bought a first-class railway ticket from his native New Orleans to Covington, north of Lake Pontchartrain. The two-hour trip had hardly begun when Plessy was arrested and removed from the train. Though Homer Plessy was born a free man of color and enjoyed relative equality while growing up in Reconstruction-era New Orleans, by 1890 he could no longer ride in the same carriage with white passengers. Plessy's act of civil disobedience was designed to test the constitutionality of the Separate Car Act, one of the many Jim Crow laws that threatened the freedoms gained by blacks after the Civil War. This largely forgotten case mandated separate-but-equal treatment and established segregation as the law of the land. It would be fifty-eight years before this ruling was reversed by Brown v. Board of Education. Keith Weldon Medley brings to life the players in this landmark trial, from the crusading black columnist Rodolphe Desdunes and the other members of the Comite des Citoyens to Albion W. Tourgee, the outspoken writer who represented Plessy, to John Ferguson, a reformist carpetbagger who nonetheless felt that he had to judge Plessy guilty. Clean copy.

Record # 381598

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Writing the Range: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women's West by: Jameson, Elizabeth & Armitage, Susan (editors)

Writing the Range: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women's West
by: Jameson, Elizabeth & Armitage, Susan (editors)

Softcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 656 pages. In mythic sagas of the American West, the wide western range offered boundless opportunity to a limited cast of white men. Buffalo roamed, deer and antelope played, and women's voices were never heard. Writing the Range allows us to hear many long-silenced women: Spanish-Mexican settlers and American Indians on New Spain's northern frontiers; Chinese, Basque, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Slavic, and Irish immigrants; film stars Dolores del Rio and Lupe Velez; Navajos and African Americans who moved to western cities during World War II; and the activist Mothers of East Los Angeles, who organized to resist environmental dangers to their community. A valuable introduction to the rapidly changing field of western history, Writing the Range explains clearly how race, class, and culture are constructed and connected. The first section examines issues raised by more than a decade of multicultural western women's histories; following are six chronological sections spanning four centuries. Each section offers a short introduction connecting is essays and placing them in analytic and historical perspective. Clean copy.

Record # 396643

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Allison - Power of Excellence - 1915 - 1990 - Allison Transmission Division - General Motors Corporationby: Sonnenberg, Paul/William A. Schoneberger

Allison - Power of Excellence - 1915 - 1990 - Allison Transmission Division - General Motors Corporation
by: Sonnenberg, Paul/William A. Schoneberger

Hardcover. Malibu, Coastline Publishers, First Edition, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages. Hardcover. Full color photograph to cover boards with marginal wear. Faint foxing to endpapers. Light toning to edges. Bright black & white illustrations throughout. Otherwise very clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 750724

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The American Compromise: Theme and Method in the Histories of Bancroft Parkman and Adamsby: Vitzthum, Richard C.

The American Compromise: Theme and Method in the Histories of Bancroft Parkman and Adams
by: Vitzthum, Richard C.

Hardcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 236 pages. Clean copy.

Record # 397494

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Rambles in Old Londonby: Gordon, George Byron

Rambles in Old London
by: Gordon, George Byron

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, George W. Jacobs & Company, 1st Edition, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 334 pages. Hardcover. Color frontispiece and b/w illustrations throughout. Previous owner's bookplate, stamp, and pencil markings on front endpapers. Some pages untrimmed. Blue leather cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover boards with two color decoration. Boards are excellent. Dust jacket has agewear, but present. binding very good. Pages and edges have some tanning. Top edge dyed. Dr. Gordon brings an artist's eye as well as the knowledge of a historian to the beautiful city of London and her historic landmarks.

Record # 99185

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North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, 1790-1860 by: Litwack, Leon F.

North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, 1790-1860
by: Litwack, Leon F.

Hardcover. Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, 6th pr., 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 318 pages. The treatment of Negro Americans, North and South, in the years before the Civil War. Uncommon in hardcover. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397174

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The Worst of While you were Sleepingby: Gastman, Roger

The Worst of While you were Sleeping
by: Gastman, Roger

Hardcover. Atglen, PA, Schiffer Publishing, 2nd, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 489 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Color photo throughout. While You Were Sleeping was a graffiti and pop culture magazine started by graffiti supply business owner Roger Gastman when he was 19. Here are some of the greatest stories the magazine ever published-and many that are not so good. From stories on admirable serial killers and interviews with child stars to photos of graffiti and people's naked sisters, this book takes you into the dirty minds of Gastman and his team of juvenile delinquents. You've been warned.

Record # 369124

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Switched On: Women Who Revolutionized Style in the 60'sby: Wills, David

Switched On: Women Who Revolutionized Style in the 60's
by: Wills, David

Hardcover. San Francisco, CA, Weldonowen, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Switched On takes you back to a time of looming social and cultural upheaval, when a cadre of energetic, creative, forward-thinking women explored undiscovered fashion terrain, and painted the backdrop for a transformative ten years. Lavishly illustrated with more than 250 photographs from the likes of David Bailey, Bert Stern, Milton H. Greene, Patrick Lichfield, Gianni Penati, Sam Levin, Arthur Evans, Loomis Dean, Susan Wood, Veronique Bucossi, David Hurn, Alan Pappe, Bud Fraker, and Malcolm Bulloch.

Record # 353034

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Reminiscences of the Civil War (Collector's library of the Civil War)by: Gordon, John B.

Reminiscences of the Civil War (Collector's library of the Civil War)
by: Gordon, John B.

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 474 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Dark blue leather bound with gilt titles to front cover and spine. Embossed decoration on front cover. Gilt text block edges, red ribbon marker. Clean, tight copy. Fascinating reminiscences of our Civil War by an important participating leader on the Southern side with wide experience. Covers wartime highlights, anecdotes, and other recollections drafted some 3 decades after the conclusion of hostilities.

Record # 372352

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Army Memoirs (Collector's Library of the Civil War)by: Barber, Lucius W.

Army Memoirs (Collector's Library of the Civil War)
by: Barber, Lucius W.

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 233 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Dark blue leather bound with gilt titles to front cover and spine. Embossed decoration on front cover. Gilt text block edges, red ribbon marker. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 372368

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Hartland (Vermont) - The Way It Was 1761-1976by: N?A

Hartland (Vermont) - The Way It Was 1761-1976
by: N?A

Softcover. Hartland VT, Hartland Historical Society, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 8 1/2 X 11", stapled wraps with photo of grazing sheep on front. 73 pages, b&w illustrations throughout, maps on inside covers. Clean copy. Scarce.

Record # 381651

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Battle of the Bulge, The - In Luxembourg - The Southern Flank December 1944 - January 1945by: Gaul, Roland

Battle of the Bulge, The - In Luxembourg - The Southern Flank December 1944 - January 1945
by: Gaul, Roland

Hardcover. Atglen, Schiffer Publishing , First Edition, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 267 pages. Hardcover with marble styled endpapers. Grey cloth boards with black printed titles to cover & spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Bright dust jacket with light marginal wear. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 750688

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Historic Doubts Relative to Napolean Buonaparte, and Historic Certainties Respecting the Early History of Americaby: Whately, Richard

Historic Doubts Relative to Napolean Buonaparte, and Historic Certainties Respecting the Early History of America
by: Whately, Richard

Hardcover. New York, Robert Carter & Brothers, Reprint, 1867, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 184 pages. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Foxing to pages. Cloth covers rubbed along edges and corners. Chipping to cloth at top and bottom of spine.

Record # 608896

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Early Northamptonby: N/A

Early Northampton
by: N/A

Hardcover. Northampton MA, Betty Allen Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution, 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 233 pages, b&w illustrations. Blue cloth with gilt lettering, light fading to edges, spine. Previous owner's signature, address on front fly leaf.

Record # 405085

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Gentlemen Freeholders: Political Practices in Washington's Virginia by: Charles S. Sydnor

Gentlemen Freeholders: Political Practices in Washington's Virginia
by: Charles S. Sydnor

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press , 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, 180 pages. Study of late eighteenth-century Virginia and its "often hot-tempered local politics." Name on front fly leaf, residue to inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Record # 387791

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Victoria - A Lifeby: Wilson, A. N.

Victoria - A Life
by: Wilson, A. N.

Hardcover. New York, Penguin Press, First Edition, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 642 pages. Hardcover. Grey cloth boards with silver titles to spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Crisp dust jacket with only minor wear. Very clean & unmarked. Crisp, tight copy.

Record # 750727

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Weimar Years, The : A Culture Cut Shortby: Willett, John

Weimar Years, The : A Culture Cut Short
by: Willett, John

Softcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Previous owner's sticker on front end paper, light edgewear and soil to wrappers. Clean, tight copy. The pictures assembled here show how this artistic culture originated in the aftermath of the First World War and the unsettled early years of the Weimar Republic, uneasily balanced between revolutionary pretensions and the desire for order. The montage of images--photographs, paintings, drawings, collages, books, and film stills--evokes the period with shocking vividness.

Record # 458889

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Support of the Shaken Sangat - Personal Recollections of Three Great Mastersby: Oberoi, A. S.

Support of the Shaken Sangat - Personal Recollections of Three Great Masters
by: Oberoi, A. S.

Softcover. Sanbornton, Sant Bani Press, First Edition, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 333 pages. Softcover. Full page, full color illustrations and a few in bw. Interviews & reflections with Kirpal Singh, Baba Sawan & Sant Ajaib. Light wear to spine edges, light sunfading to lower spine. Discolored smudge to top edge. Previous owner's signature to preliminary pages. Otherwise, clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 750480

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Descriptive Souvenir of Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa. by: (N.A.) Fairmont Park Guard Assoc.

Descriptive Souvenir of Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa.
by: (N.A.) Fairmont Park Guard Assoc.

Hardcover. Philadelphia PA, Fairmount Park Guard Pension Fund Association, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright blue cloth covers with white lettering, 88 pages with b&w photos, ads. Clean copy.

Record # 378081

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History of Anderson County 1780-1936 (SIGNED COPY)by: McKee, Major Lewis W; Bond, Lydia K.

History of Anderson County 1780-1936 (SIGNED COPY)
by: McKee, Major Lewis W; Bond, Lydia K.

Hardcover. Frankfort, KY, Robert's Printing Co., 1st, n.d., Book: Good, 219 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Top front corner heavily damaged. Signed and inscribed by Lydia Bond on front fly leaf. Front hinge tear at top. Soil to front cover.

Record # 368155

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Orientals: Asian Americans in Popular Cultureby: Robert Lee

Orientals: Asian Americans in Popular Culture
by: Robert Lee

Softcover. Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 271 pages. Confronting the cultural stereotypes that have been attached to Asian-Americans over the last 150 years, this title seizes the label Oriental and asks where it came from. It shows how the bewildering array of racialized images first proffered by music hall songsters and social commentators have evolved and become generalized to Asian-Americans. Clean copy.

Record # 380923

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The Perry's Victory Centenary; Report of the Perry's Victory Centennial Commission, State of New Yorkby: George D. Emerson

The Perry's Victory Centenary; Report of the Perry's Victory Centennial Commission, State of New York
by: George D. Emerson

Hardcover. Albany NY, J. B. Lyon Company, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 309 pages of text. 73 pages of b&w illustrations throughout. Oversized, brown embossed cloth cover with gilt lettering and design. Bumped corners, some wear to edges. Slight foxing to pages. Diverse content, commemorates Oliver H. Perry's naval victory in the War of 1812. Clean copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 386252

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Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York for 1869by: Shannon, Joseph

Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York for 1869
by: Shannon, Joseph

Hardcover. New York, Joseph Shannon, 1st, 1870, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 896 pages, rebound in green cloth with original leather cover affixed to front with a special presentation in gilt to Dr. C. Brailey/ compliments of Matthew T. Brennan (former NY State Assembly member who became city Police Commissioner in 1868). This 1869 edition the "Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York" was one of the two manuals published by the New York City Common Council to be issued by Joseph Shannon, clerk of the council in 1868 and 1869. The "Manuals of the Corporation" were directories of extensive historical and contemporary records of New York first compiled by D.T. Valentine. These books include detailed information on the meetings of the Aldermen Council, ordinances passed, public officials, the city"s debts, directories of hospitals, alms houses and schools, ferry schedules, lists of public porters, demographics and census information, and descriptions of historic buildings and streets. Folding maps are present. There is a folding color map frontispiece of the plan of the city of New York 1869, also there are color folding illustrations of the city of Harlem, Central Park, the Battery and Merchants Exchange and other fold out plates. The Harlem plate is damaged by paper sticking to the folding plate, resulting in some loss to image. All edges gilt, light foxing, the cover pastedown with light rubbing, Overall clean.

Record # 412041

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The Age of Deficits: Presidents and Unbalanced Budgets from Jimmy Carter to George W. Bushby: Iwan Morgan

The Age of Deficits: Presidents and Unbalanced Budgets from Jimmy Carter to George W. Bush
by: Iwan Morgan

Hardcover. Lawrence KS, University Press of Kansas, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in bright dust jacket, 375 pages. The debate over the federal budget-and the deficit spending it tends to produce-has assumed a renewed urgency for reasons that are painfully clear to all of us. Over the past thirty-two years-from the presidency of Jimmy Carter through that of George W. Bush-the U.S. government has in fact balanced its budget in only four of them, while the fiscal challenges confronting President Obama make a balanced budget anytime soon a remote possibility. Iwan Morgan's book provides a much-needed historical perspective on this perennially troubling issue. Clean copy.

Record # 378810

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Norway 1940 by: Kersaudy, Francois

Norway 1940
by: Kersaudy, Francois

Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 272 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped. Binding tight. Clean inside and out. In very good condition.

Record # 31008

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Vermont in the Great Rebellion - Containing Historical and Biographical Sketches, Etc.by: Waite, Major Otis F. R.

Vermont in the Great Rebellion - Containing Historical and Biographical Sketches, Etc.
by: Waite, Major Otis F. R.

Hardcover. Claremont, Tracy, Chase and Company, 1st, 1869, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth with titles in gilt on cover and spine. Black & white illustrations. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612495

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Dodge City - The Cowboy Capital And The Great Southwest In The Days of The Wild Indian The Buffalo The Cowboy Dance Halls Gambling Halls and Bad Men by: Wright, Robe

Dodge City - The Cowboy Capital And The Great Southwest In The Days of The Wild Indian The Buffalo The Cowboy Dance Halls Gambling Halls and Bad Men
by: Wright, Robe

Hardcover. Wichita KS, Pr. Printed, 2nd Ed., n.d. (1930), Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Black & white frontispiece of author. Many black & white photo plates. 342 pages. No date. Nice tight copy. Green covers with bright cover decoration, spine lettering faded otherwise very good. One of the classic books on the policing, range-roving, & settlement of the Western plains.

Record # 67326

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The Challenge of the Greek and other Essays by: T. R. Glover

The Challenge of the Greek and other Essays
by: T. R. Glover

Hardcover. Cambridge UK/NY, Cambridge University Press/Macmillan, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 241 pages, b&w frontis. Clean copy. Essays include: The Challenge of the Greek, Purpose in Classical Studies, The Greek Farmer, The Gastronomers, Homer and his Readers, Virgil & Erasmus etc.

Record # 382312

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History of the Union Pacific Coal Mines 1868 to 1940by: N/A

History of the Union Pacific Coal Mines 1868 to 1940
by: N/A

Hardcover. Omaha NE, The Colonial Press, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers with gilt title on spine. 265 pages plus appendix with names of workers, tonnage statistics, wages, etc. b&w illustrations. About 15 pages with yellow highlighting, otherwise a solid copy.

Record # 382022

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Naval Documents of the American Revolution VOLUME 5: American Theatre: May 9, 1776 -July 31, 1776by: Morgan (Ed.), William James

Naval Documents of the American Revolution VOLUME 5: American Theatre: May 9, 1776 -July 31, 1776
by: Morgan (Ed.), William James

Hardcover. Washington DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 1486 pages. B&w illustrations. Decorated endpapers. Introduction by President Nixon. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Light wear to cover edges. Pages clean and tight.

Record # 851891

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Trade and Currency in Early Oregon. A Study in the Commercial and Monetary History of the Pacific Northwestby: James Henry Gilbert

Trade and Currency in Early Oregon. A Study in the Commercial and Monetary History of the Pacific Northwest
by: James Henry Gilbert

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University, 1st, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt stamping, 126 pages. Ex-library with light markings and stamping. Much on the fur trade, early agriculture, gold dust and Civil War currency and trade in Oregon during the 1800s.

Record # 381970

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Diamond : The History of a Cold-Blooded Love Affairby: Hart, Matthew

Diamond : The History of a Cold-Blooded Love Affair
by: Hart, Matthew

Hardcover. London, Fourth Estate, 2nd pr., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 287 pages. A very clean, tight copy. Here is the true story of the strike that upset the diamond kings, and with it, a history of the world's most acclaimed diamonds, the process by which they are cut, smuggled and stolen, legends and superstitions, and of the shadowy hand of De Beers, for whom diamonds are forever.

Record # 454230

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Not-Quite Puritans, The: Some Genial Follies and Peculiar Frailties of Our Revered New England Ancestors (SIGNED COPY)by: Lawrence, Henry W.

Not-Quite Puritans, The: Some Genial Follies and Peculiar Frailties of Our Revered New England Ancestors (SIGNED COPY)
by: Lawrence, Henry W.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Little Brown & Company, 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light gray cloth with red lettering, 228 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on prelim-page. Slight wear and soil to covers, internally very good

Record # 855227

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The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln Sixteenth President of the United States together with His State Papers including His Speeches Addresses Messages Letters and Proclamations and the Closing Scenes connected with His Lif

The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln Sixteenth President of the United States together with His State Papers including His Speeches Addresses Messages Letters and Proclamations and the Closing Scenes connected with His Lif

Hardcover. NY, Derby & Miller, 1st, 1865, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover embossed brown cloth with bright gilt title and decoration on spine. 808 pages plus 6 pages of ads. Beautiful steel engraving frontispiece of Lincoln engraved by A. H. Ritchie. Illustrated with 15 additional engravings. The book is tight and square. Raymond was the Editor of the New York Times and he brought this volume out with amazing dispatch after the assassination of Lincoln. Frank B. Carpenter, who had lived in the White House for an extended period , added a section , "Anecdotes And Personal Reminiscences Of President Lincoln." Mild wear to rear cover, clean copy.

Record # 398452

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Random Recollections of the House of Commons, from The Year 1830 to the close of 1835, including Personal Sketches of the Leading Members of all Parties. By one of No Party by:

Random Recollections of the House of Commons, from The Year 1830 to the close of 1835, including Personal Sketches of the Leading Members of all Parties. By one of No Party
by:

Hardcover. London, Saunders and Otley, 5th Ed., 1837, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown calf covers with embossed design, black leather spine label with gilt lettering, gilt-decorated raised bands. Title page states Fifth Edition. Previous owner's ink name inside front cover. Otherwise clean.

Record # 371301

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Principles of History: And Other Writings in Philosophy of History by: R. G. Collingwood; Editor W. H. Dray; Editor W. J. van der Dussen

Principles of History: And Other Writings in Philosophy of History
by: R. G. Collingwood; Editor W. H. Dray; Editor W. J. van der Dussen

Softcover. UK, Oxford University Press, Revised Ed., 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 384 pages. Published here for the first time is much of a final and long-anticipated work on the philosophy of history by the great Oxford philosopher and historian R. G. Collingwood (1889-1943). The original text of this uncompleted work has only recently been discovered and is accompanied here by Collingwood's shorter writings on historical knowledge and inquiry. Besides containing entirely new ideas, these incredible writings discuss many of the issues which Collingwood famously raised in The Idea of History and in his Autobiography. This book also includes two conclusions written by Collingwood, which were eventually revised and published as The Idea of Nature. and a lengthy editorial introduction that puts Collingwood's writings in their context and discusses the philosophical questions they initiate. A landmark publication, this work will appeal not only to those studying Collingwood but also to anyone broadly curious about philosophy of history. Clean copy.

Record # 371623

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90 Miles From Home - behind the beards, the oratory, the headlines, the everyday face of Cubaby: Miller, Warren

90 Miles From Home - behind the beards, the oratory, the headlines, the everyday face of Cuba
by: Miller, Warren

hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 279 pages. Light edgewear and chipping to dust jacket.

Record # 202443

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Rights of Discovery: Christopher Columbus's Final Appeal to King Fernando/Derechos del Descubrimiento: Apelacion Final de Cristobal Colon al Rey Fernando. by: Nader,

Rights of Discovery: Christopher Columbus's Final Appeal to King Fernando/Derechos del Descubrimiento: Apelacion Final de Cristobal Colon al Rey Fernando.
by: Nader,

Hardcover. Colombia, Carvajal S. A., 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, folio, maroon cloth backed decorative paper boards, 75 pages. Translated by Elvira de Martin from the Spanish. Illustrated by 4 engravings appeared in Theodor de Brys' America Pt. 4 1594 (Frankfurt) and original handwritten facsimile 1492. Facsimile edition. No slipcase. Published by Carvajal S.A., Cali, Colombia and the John Carter Brown Library, Providence, Rhode Island, in Honor of the Quincentenary Year Date: 1992. Preface by Norman Fiering. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 383271

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An Introduction to the History of Mysticismby: Margaret Smith

An Introduction to the History of Mysticism
by: Margaret Smith

London, Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers with gilt title on spine. 121 pages including index. Clean copy.

Record # 383374

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The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World by: Anthony, David W.

The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
by: Anthony, David W.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 4th pr., 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 553 pages including index, b&w illustrations. Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? Until now their identity has remained a tantalizing mystery to linguists, archaeologists, and even Nazis seeking the roots of the Aryan race. The Horse, the Wheel, and Language lifts the veil that has long shrouded these original Indo-European speakers, and reveals how their domestication of horses and use of the wheel spread language and transformed civilization. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 383487

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Journal of a Voyage From Boston to the West Coast of Africa; with a Full Description of the Manner of Trading with the Natives on the Coastby: J. A. Carnes

Journal of a Voyage From Boston to the West Coast of Africa; with a Full Description of the Manner of Trading with the Natives on the Coast
by: J. A. Carnes

Hardcover. Boston, John P. Jewett & Co., 1st, 1852, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original blind stamped cloth with gilt stamped lettering on spine. 479 pages with mild foxing to a few pages. Very good plus, no markings.

Record # 383760

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Public Workers: Government Employee Unions, the Law, and the State, 1900-1962by: Joseph E. Slater

Public Workers: Government Employee Unions, the Law, and the State, 1900-1962
by: Joseph E. Slater

Hardcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 260 pages. From the dawn of the twentieth century to the early 1960s, public-sector unions generally had no legal right to strike, bargain, or arbitrate, and government workers could be fired simply for joining a union. Public Workers is the first book to analyze why public-sector labor law evolved as it did, separate from and much more restrictive than private-sector labor law, and what effect this law had on public-sector unions, organized labor as a whole, and by extension all of American politics. Joseph E. Slater shows how public-sector unions survived, represented their members, and set the stage for the most remarkable growth of worker organization in American history. Slater examines the battles of public-sector unions in the workplace, courts, and political arena, from the infamous Boston police strike of 1919, to teachers in Seattle fighting a yellow-dog rule, to the BSEIU in the 1930s representing public-sector janitors, to the fate of the powerful Transit Workers Union after New York City purchased the subways, to the long struggle by AFSCME that produced the nation's first public-sector labor law in Wisconsin in 1959. Slater introduces readers to a determined and often-ignored segment of the union movement and expands our knowledge of working men and women, the institutions they formed, and the organizational obstacles they faced.

Record # 396318

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Victorian Attitudes to Raceby: Bolt, Christine

Victorian Attitudes to Race
by: Bolt, Christine

Hardcover. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 254 pages. Spine slightly cocked. Dust jacket shows light wear. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 609613

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Vermont: A Souvenir of Its Government 1902-1903by: Jeffrey, William H.

Vermont: A Souvenir of Its Government 1902-1903
by: Jeffrey, William H.

Hardcover. East Burke VT, Historical Publishing Co., 1st, 1903, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 135 pages, notable for b&w portraits throughout of government officials and buildings. Green cloth with gilt lettering. There is a light water stain to the bottom of the book in the margin, text and photos not affected.

Record # 403326

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An Empire of Facts: Colonial Power, Cultural Knowledge, and Islam in Algeria, 1870??"1914 by: Trumbull IV, George R.

An Empire of Facts: Colonial Power, Cultural Knowledge, and Islam in Algeria, 1870??"1914
by: Trumbull IV, George R.

Softcover. NY, Cambridge University Press, 1st pbk, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 309 pages. An Empire of Facts presents a fascinating account of the formation of French conceptions of Islam in France's largest and most important colony. During the period from 1870 to 1914, travelers, bureaucrats, scholars, and writers formed influential and long-lasting misconceptions about Islam that determined the imperial cultural politics of Algeria and its interactions with republican France. Narratives of Islamic mysticism, rituals, gender relations, and sensational crimes brought unfamiliar cultural forms and practices to popular attention in France, but also constructed Algerian Muslims as objects for colonial intervention. Personal lives and interactions between Algerian and French men and women inflected these texts, determining their style, content, and consequences. Drawing on sources in Arabic and French, this book places such personal moments at the heart of the production of colonial knowledge, emphasizing the indeterminacy of ethnography, and its political context in the unfolding of France's empire and its relations with Muslim North Africa. Clean copy.

Record # 379160

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An Officer and a Lady: The World War II Letters of Lt. Col. Betty Bandel, Women's Army Corps by: Sylvia J. Bugbee (Ed.)

An Officer and a Lady: The World War II Letters of Lt. Col. Betty Bandel, Women's Army Corps
by: Sylvia J. Bugbee (Ed.)

Softcover. Hanover NH, University Press of New England, 1st, 2004, Softcover, 222 pages. From 1942 to 1945, Lieutenant Colonel Betty Bandel (retired) served in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC, later WAC, the Women's Army Corps), eventually heading the WAC Division of the Army Air Force. During these years she wrote hundreds of letters to family and friends tracing her growth from an enthusiastic recruit, agog in the presence of public figures such as Eleanor Roosevelt (code named Rover), to a seasoned officer and leader. Bandel was one of the Corps' most influential senior officers. Her letters are rich with detail about the WAC's contribution to the war effort and the inner workings of the first large, non-nurse contingent of American military women. In addition, her letters offer a revealing look at the wartime emergence of professional women. Perhaps for the first time, women oversaw and directed hundreds of thousands of personnel, acquired professional and personal experiences, and built networks that would guide and influence them well past their war years.

Record # 387523

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The History of the Civil War in America Comprising a Full and Impartial Account of the Origin and Progress of the Rebellion....(Two Volumes)by: John S. C. Abbott

The History of the Civil War in America Comprising a Full and Impartial Account of the Origin and Progress of the Rebellion....(Two Volumes)
by: John S. C. Abbott

Hardcover. Springfield MA, Gurdon Bill, 1st, 1863/1866, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 398435

Price: $400.00 
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