Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 296 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. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a Unitarian minister, was a fervent member of New England's abolitionist movement, an active participant in the Underground Railroad, and part of a group that supplied material aid to John Brown before his ill-fated raid on Harpers Ferry. When the Civil War broke out, Higginson was commissioned as a colonel of the black troops training in the Sea Islands off the coast of the Carolinas.
Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcover volumes, dark blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spines. Emilie Haspels (1894 - 1980), a Dutch archeologist, tells about her excavation of Midas City that we nowadays know to have been the religious center of the Phrygian empire (9th - 7th century BC). She also writes about the adventurous quest for Phrygian rock-cut monuments in a romantic landscape that is still intact today. Woven into the presentation of her archaeological findings, she tells about the customs and culture in rural Turkey before and after World War II. Volume I - text, 421 pages. Volume II - 640 b&w photographic plates and plans. Very clean set, no dust jackets.
Softcover. Freetown MA, Freetown Historical Society, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, light gray wrappers, 327 pages. John Milton Deane (January 8, 1840 - September 2, 1914), was an American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient and a major in the United States Army. Deane was born in Assonet, Massachusetts to John and Lydia (Andros) Deane. The diary he kept is here type-written out in chronological order. B&w photo of Deane as a Lieutenant in 1863. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. NY, E. P. Dutton, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. David Irving's The Trail of the Fox is the best work on Rommel ever written. The circumstances around Rommel's involvement with the attempt on Hitler's life, which is the most speculated aspect of Rommel's life, and how the Gestapo came to believe Rommel was involved, have not been made clear in most of the historiography on Rommel. Irving pieces together what really happened most effectively. There are so many strengths of this book, of which the greatest is probably the fact Irving had access to Rommel's dairy and many of his letters, which he got permission from the family to view. Other items he found in collections in the United States, England, and Germany. Since he worked on this in the 1970's he also was able to interview a number of German officers who were still alive that knew and served with Rommel. The whole work is the way historical research should be done; totally reliant on primary source material, and ignores secondary sources that often use conjecture or just repeat incorrect narratives from earlier books. Every source is from people who fought the war; Germans, Italians, British, French and American officers who were in these campaigns and had either first hand observation of Rommel or were major participants like Eisenhower, Churchill, Goebbels, etc. Clean copy.
Softcover. Amherst MA, University of Massachusetts Press , reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 329 pages. An analysis of how culture, class and gender shaped American foreign policy during the Cold War. The author examines the institutions that shaped the members of the US foreign policy establishment, including all-male prep schools and Ivy-League universities.
Softcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 339 pages. Although he did not travel farther inland than the slopes of the Appalachians, Thomas Jefferson must take his place alongside Zebulon Pike, Kit Carson, Jim Bridger, and Lewis and Clark--the men who blazed the great western trails. Donald Jackson cogently recounts Jefferson's fundamental role in promoting and shaping the exploration, settlement, and development of the Trans-Mississippi West. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 550 pages. A fascinating historical study using newly-declassified documents from the time the British were in Indochina through the end of the war. A detailed, specific history of the debacle. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Charlevoix MI, Charles Francis Press, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth, 56 pages, b&w line drawings. History of a private resort area in Michigan. Bottom corner bumped otherwise clean, editor's business card laid in.
Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The personal correspondence between President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Prime Minister Anthony Eden during the time they were simultaneously in office tells the dramatic story of a relationship that began with great promise but ended in division and estrangement. Many of the letters have only recently been declassified, making it possible for the first time to publish this unique historic collection in its entirety. Peter G. Boyle's introduction, annotations, and conclusion provide context for the letters--details about the personalities and careers of Eden and Eisenhower and major issues that influenced the Anglo-American relationship up to 1955, such as relations with the Soviet Union, nuclear concerns, colonialism, the Middle and Far East, economic issues, and intelligence matters. The letters themselves offer an intimate look into the special connection between Britain and the United States through the often eloquent words of their leaders. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Yorkshire UK, Pen and Sword Military, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 320 pages. So much has been written about the Battle of Stalingrad - the Soviet victory that turned the tide of the Second World War - that we should know everything about it. But the history of the war, and the battle, is evolving and is being written anew, and Alexey Isaev's engrossing account is a striking example of this fresh approach. B&w photos, color maps. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, 2nd Ed., 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear. Based on the 1958 edition, this printing has extensive changes and additional material. Fold-out map, 136 pages. No marking.
Softcover. Berkeley CA, California University Press, reprint, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 308 pages. The German Enlightenment and the Rise of Historicism traces the thought of a large and neglected group of German thinkers and their encounter with the ideas and ideal of the Enlightenment from 1740 to 1790. Concentrating on the nature of their historical consciousness, Peter Hanns Reill addresses two basic issues in the interpretation of the Enlightenment: to what degree can one speak of the unity of the Enlightenment and to what extent can the Enlightenment be characterized as "modern"? Reill attempts to revise the traditional interpretation of the Enlightenment as an age insensitive to the postulates of modern historical thought and to dissolve the alleged opposition of the Enlightenment to later intellectual developments such as Idealism. He argues that German Enlightened thinkers generated the general presuppositions upon which modern historical thought is founded. Bright, clean copy.
Albany NY, Joel Munsell, 1st, 1854, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Contemporary blind-stamped dark brown cloth. Frontispiece and full page plates with tissue guards plus text illustrations. 601 pages. Mild to moderate foxing thoughout. Binding sound, top of spine worn with chipping to cloth. A few dog-eared/creased pages.
Hardcover. Rockport MA, Protean Pree, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, b&w illustrations. In 1943, the author was on track to become a doctor like his parents when he flunked organic chemistry at Harvard and enlisted in the army, finding himself heading off to fight in Europe with the 45th Infantry Division (in which famed editorial cartoonist Bill Mauldin also served). Garland chronicles the division's journey from the landing at Sicily through the liberation of Dachau and then, some 60 years later, also seeks to come to terms with his experiences and those of his comrades. Part personal and collective memoir and part history, Garland's book is loaded with recollections compiled from interviews, diaries, drawings, and photographs that he neatly fits into the historical framework. His writing is highly engaging and shares the story of the 45th and its 511 days in combat and four amphibious landings, providing an excellent narrative history of the division during World War II, as well as a personal reckoning.
Hardcover. Brooklyn NY, Zone Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 594 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page. In this long-awaited study, Claudio Lomnitz tells an unprecedented story about the experience and ideology of American and Mexican revolutionary collaborators of the Mexican anarchist Ricardo Flores Magon. Based on extensive research in American and Mexican archives, Lomnitz explores the rich, complicated, and virtually unknown lives of Magon and his comrades devoted to the "Mexican Cause." This anthropological history of anarchy, cooperation, and betrayal seeks to capture the experience and meaning of these dedicated militants who themselves struggled to understand their role and place at the margins of the Mexican Revolution. For them, the revolution was untranslatable, a pure but deaf subversion: "La revolucion es la revolucion." For Lomnitz, their experiences reveal the meaning of this phrase.
Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 455 pages, b&w illustrations. From John Hope Franklin, America's foremost African American historian, comes this groundbreaking analysis of slave resistance and escape. A sweeping panorama of plantation life before the Civil War, this book reveals that slaves frequently rebelled against their masters and ran away from their plantations whenever they could. For generations, important aspects about slave life on the plantations of the American South have remained shrouded. Historians thought, for instance, that slaves were generally pliant and resigned to their roles as human chattel, and that racial violence on the plantation was an aberration. In this precedent setting book, John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger demonstrate that, contrary to popular belief, significant numbers of slaves did in fact frequently rebel against their masters and struggled to attain their freedom. By surveying a wealth of documents, such as planters' records, petitions to county courts and state legislatures, and local newspapers, this book shows how slaves resisted, when, where, and how they escaped, where they fled to, how long they remained in hiding, and how they survived away from the plantation. Of equal importance, it examines the reactions of the white slaveholding class, revealing how they marshaled considerable effort to prevent runaways, meted out severe punishments, and established patrols to hunt down escaped slaves. Clean copy.
Softcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st pbk, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 325 pages. How do dictators stay in power? When, and how, do they use repression to do so? Dictators and their Secret Police explores the role of the coercive apparatus under authoritarian rule in Asia - how these secret organizations originated, how they operated, and how their violence affected ordinary citizens. Greitens argues that autocrats face a coercive dilemma: whether to create internal security forces designed to manage popular mobilization, or defend against potential coup. Violence against civilians, she suggests, is a byproduct of their attempt to resolve this dilemma. Drawing on a wealth of new historical evidence, this book challenges conventional wisdom on dictatorship: what autocrats are threatened by, how they respond, and how this affects the lives and security of the millions under their rule. It offers an unprecedented view into the use of surveillance, coercion, and violence, and sheds new light on the institutional and social foundations of authoritarian power. ^ pages with dog earred crease, otherwise clean.
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.
Softcover. Libya, Antiquities, Museums and Archives of Tripoli, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 178 text pages, three fold-out maps and many b/w plates in second half of the book.
Hyde Park VT, Town of Hyde Park , 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in gilt. 196 pages, b/w plates, maps. Clean copy, like new.
Softcover. St. Louis MO, Missouri Historical Society, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Perfect binding is tight. Interior is clean. Recreates, in words and pictures, the visual and emotional impact of the 1904 World's Fair. Using over two hundred images from the Missouri Historical Society's Photographs and Prints Collection, many reproduced from rare glass-plate negatives, From the Palaces to the Pike offers a tour of the St. Louis World's Fair that has been unavailable for nearly a century. Following an introduction that explains how the park was transformed into the World's Fair, the book takes readers inside the big exhibit palaces, brings them face-to-face with "human exhibits," and transports them over the fair grounds in hard-to-find aerial views. Special chapters also provide views of the Fair's entertainment district, known as the Pike, and of the 1904 Olympic Games. After the Fair, "the palaces crumbled, the exhibits dispersed, the Pike gave way to the mansions on Lindell Boulevard, and the fantasy land was reconfigured back into Forest Park," Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Dublin, Brett Smith, 1st thus, 1788, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, leather bound. 553 pages plus Index of Proper Names. Uncommon translation from Ireland. Hawkey was a Reverend and Master of the Free-School in Dundalk. "The Commentaries of his Wars in Gaul" is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic Wars, written as a third-person narrative. In it Caesar describes the battles and intrigues that took place in the nine years he spent fighting the Germanic peoples and Celtic peoples in Gaul that opposed Roman conquest. The Gallic Wars were a series of military campaigns waged by the Roman proconsul Julius Caesar against several Gallic tribes. Rome's war against the Gallic tribes lasted from 58 BC to 50 BC and culminated in the decisive Battle of Alesia in 52 BC, in which a complete Roman victory resulted in the expansion of the Roman Republic over the whole of Gaul (mainly present-day France and Belgium). "His Commentaries of the Civil War" is an account written by Julius Caesar of his war against Gnaeus Pompeius and the Senate. It covers the events of 49-48 BC, from shortly before Caesar's invasion of Italy to Pompey's defeat at the Battle of Pharsalus and flight to Egypt with Caesar in pursuit. It closes with Pompey assassinated, Caesar attempting to mediate rival claims to the Egyptian throne, and the beginning of the Alexandrian War. Prelim pages gone so the book opens on the title page. Interior pages bright with no foxing, firm binding. Light wear to covers, front cover with partial split along spine, Otherwise clean.
Softcover. Nantucket MA, The Inquirer and Mirror, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, approx. 60 pages, b&w illustrations. Some text, but Largely a collection of black and white historical photos of Nantucket Island shipwrecks and trains with captions. Clean copy.
Softcover. Washington DC, Greeters of America, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled tan wrappers. Compliments of the Arlington Hotel. Giving Location and description of principal points of interest, public buildings, etc., etc., illustrated with reproductions of latest photographs. 72 pages with a foldout map. in rear. In addition there is second, different street map of Washington's streets laid in. Folds out to approx, 20 X 23". All in very good condition.
Hardcover. Columbus OH, Ohio State University Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth, giltlettering on spine.861 pages including index. Pencil underling to a few pages. Name on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 332 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. NY, International Publishers, 1st, 1944, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages. Author was leader of the American communist party, and the Teheran he refers to, is the meeting between Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt in Teheran in 1943, and Brewstewr's wish to maintain the colalition post war. Clean, light shelf wear.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 430 pages. SIGNED BY MONOD on the tile page, also INSCRIBED on the half-title page. The late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are known as the Age of Enlightenment, a time of science and reason. But in this illuminating book, Paul Monod reveals the surprising extent to which Newton, Boyle, Locke, and other giants of rational thought and empiricism also embraced the spiritual, the magical, and the occult. Although public acceptance of occult and magical practices waxed and waned during this period they survived underground, experiencing a considerable revival in the mid-eighteenth century with the rise of new antiestablishment religious denominations. The occult spilled over into politics with the radicalism of the French Revolution and into literature in early Romanticism. Even when official disapproval was at its strongest, the evidence points to a growing audience for occult publications as well as to subversive popular enthusiasm. Ultimately, finds Monod, the occult was not discarded in favor of "reason" but was incorporated into new forms of learning. In that sense, the occult is part of the modern world, not simply a relic of an unenlightened past, and is still with us today. Clean copy.
Softcover. New Jersey, Bergen County Board, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 101 pages. Volume five of a seven volume set on the history and heritage of Bergen County. Clean, like new..
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, reprint, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Volume VI in The History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. 463 pages, illustrated with maps (one fold-out) and b&w photos. Gilt on spine with fading, lacks dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, reprints, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two hardcover volumes, blue cloth covers with bright gilt decoration on spines. and front covers. Top edge gilt. Both volumes with original blue CLOTH dust jackets. Illustrated Holiday Edition with 45 photogravure plates. Vol. 1. Chapters I-XV (xix, 529 pages) - Vol. 2. Chapters XVI-XXXII (xv, 562 pages). Clean bright set. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Softcover. Bowie MD, Heritage Books, reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Pages 426-908 . A facsimile reprint of the 1904 edition. Volume 2 ONLY. The present-day New York City neighborhood of Harlem was founded in the mid-17th century by Dutch Protestants, whose numbers included Huguenots (or their descendants) who had fled the counter-Reformation in France and the Walloon provinces of Artois, Cambresis, and Hainalt. Riker's Harlem is an extremely detailed historical and genealogical account of Harlem from its establishment by Kuyter and Stuyvesant between 1656 and 1660 to the end of the 17th century. Following several preliminary chapters on the Dutch and French context for the settlement of "New Haerlem," the author treats us to what seem like minute-by-minute accounts of its colonial development, including early efforts to settle the territory that became Harlem, the original land patents and their subsequent rearrangement, Indian wars, displacement of Dutch rule by the British in 1663 (and the brief reoccupation by Dutch forces in 1673), 17th-century village life, migrations to New Jersey, influx of Swedes, difficulties in assimilating English ways, and much, much more.
Softcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 299 pages, b&w illustrations. Brooke Larson's interpretive analysis of the history of Andean peasants reveals the challenges of nation making in the republics of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia during the volatile nineteenth century. Nowhere in Latin America were postcolonial transitions more turbulent than in the Andes, where communal indigenous roots grew deep and where the "Indian problem" seemed so discouraging to liberalizing states. The analysis raises broader issues about the interplay of liberalism, racism, and ethnicity in the formation of exclusionary "republics without citizens" over the nineteenth century.
Hardcover. NY, McGraw Hill, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The American Trails Series, edited by A.B. Guthrie, Jr. 383 pages, includes a two-page map. This book offers an account of the route between Siberia and Alaska that continues southward along the Rockies all the way to Mexico and beyond. Cushman details the stories of the many groups who have traversed parts of the route from prehistoric peoples to Native Americans, Spanish explorers, fur traders, cowboys, and whiskey runners of the Prohibition era. A clean and pristine copy of the first printing,
Hardcover. London, Edward Arnold, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, maroon cloth with lightly worn dust jacket. St. Martin's Press the US distributor has put their sticker at the bottom of the spine on the jacket.
Hardcover. Gloucester MA, Peter Smith, reprint, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth with dark blue lettering on spine. 360 pages. Originally published in 1902. The author looks at the formation of the Tory or Loyalist party in the American Revolution, its persecution, the banishment (or death) of over 100,000 of these most conservative and respectable Americans, and the consequences of their banishment. In numbers, historically it is only comparable to the fates of the Moors of Spain and the Huguenots of France. This was the first book by the famous historian Claude Halstead van Tyne (1869-1930), who was a Michigan and Pennsylvania professor and author who wrote extensively on the American Revolution. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise a bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, light brown cloth w/ black lettering on spine., 237 pages. Lightest of edgewear to dj. A collection of 42 letters written between 1769 and 1777 by Eddis, a young Englishman, loyal to the Crown. The correspondence offers unique insights into a critical point in American history, especially around the Cheapeake area where he was a resident. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & Co., reprint, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 337 pages. In one of the true classics of twentieth-century political economy, R. H. Tawney addresses the question of how religion has affected social and economic practices. He tracks the influence of religious thought on capitalist economy and ideology since the Middle Ages, shedding light on the question of why Christianity continues to exert a unique role in the marketplace. In so doing, the book offers an incisive analysis of the morals and mores of contemporary Western culture. Religion and the Rise of Capitalism is more pertinent now than ever, as today the dividing line between the spheres of religion and secular business is shifting, blending ethical considerations with the motivations of the marketplace. By examining the period that saw the transition from medieval to modern theories of social organization, Tawney clarifies the most pressing problems of the end of the century. In tough, muscular, richly varied prose, he tells an absorbing and meaningful story. And in his new introduction, which may well be a classic in its own right, Adam Seligman details Tawney's background and the current status of academic thought on these issues, and he provides a comparative analysis of Tawney with Max Weber that will at once delight and inform readers. Based on his Holland Memorial Lectures, 1922. Hinge cracked at title page. front end papers with bookplate, old ink price.
Softcover. NY, Quadrangle, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 344 pages. In this exciting history, Professor Mowry has determined the motives and actions of men who established the Progressive movement in California, and has reconstructed the conditions which opened the way to their ascendancy and fall. The progressive represented, in the author's words, "a pivot on which the democratic process could swing." By examining progressivism in California, its grassroots development and its leaders, Professor Mowry contributes to an understanding of the nature of national progressivism and recent American liberalism. He also illuminates the curious and paradoxical social phenomena of American reform movements - why they begin and why they die. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Softcover. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina, reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 378 pages. Namias shows that visual, literary, and historical accounts of the capture of Euro-Americans by Indians are commentaries on the uncertain boundaries of gender, race, and culture during the colonial Indian Wars, the American Revolution, and the Civil War. She compares the experiences and representations of male and female captives over time and on successive frontiers and examines the narratives of captives Jane McCrea, Mary Jemison, and Sarah Wakefield. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 358 pages. Satirical analysis of the election of the first president running unopposed. A well researched commentary on the politics of the early republic. Includes notes, bibliography & index. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 206 pages. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 2 focuses on the pivotal year of 1863, as Shelby Foote's masterful narrative history brings to life the Battle of Gettysburg and Grant's Vicksburg campaign and covers some of the most dramatic and important moments in the Civil War. Endpaper maps. First published in 1963, this appears to be a 70s reprint ($40 price on dust jacket). Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 358 pages. A riveting historical mystery of Colonial America. In April, 1586, Queen Elizabeth I acquired a new and exotic title. A tribe of Native Americans, "savages," had made her their weroanza-a word that meant "big chief." The news was received with great joy, both by the Queen and by her favorite, Sir Walter Ralegh. His first American expedition had brought back a captive, Manteo, whose tattoed face and otter-skin cloak had caused a sensation in Elizabethan London. In 1857, Manteo was returned to his homeland as Lord and Governor, along with more than 100 English men, women and children.In 1590, a supply ship arrived at the colony to discover that the settlers had vanished. For almost twenty years the fate of Ralegh's colonists was to remain a mystery. When a new wave of settlers sailed to America to found Jamestown, their efforts to locate the lost colony were frustrated by the mighty chieftain, Powhatan, father of Pocahontas, who vowed to drive the English out of America. Only when it was too late did the settlers discover the incredible news that Ralegh's colonists had survived in the forests for almost two decades before being slaughtered in cold blood by Powhatan's henchmen. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Miami, University Press of Florida , 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 186 pages. Under Carter and Reagan, US foreign policy toward Central America failed. In this intriguing study, Dario Moreno explains how policy in those administrations was made, tracing its failure to a foreign policy establishment plagued by division and lack of consensus. Moreno shows that in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Panama, and Cuba, Carter and Reagan played out two dramatically different Third World strategies and that neither Carter's liberal internationalists nor Reagan's rollback theorists understood the reality changes in those countries. Moreno's study draws authenticity from his interviews and discussions with a dozen key Central American policy makers in each of the two administrations and with eminent political figures in Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, among them, Patricia Derian, assistant secretary of state for human rights under Carter, Elliot Abrams, Reagan's assistant secretary of state for human rights, and former president of Honduras, Jose Azocona. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University , 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 173 pages. This work is a brief look at worldwide slave revolts in the 17th through 19th centuries, emphasizing their interrelations with European power struggles, which gave rebels hope of finding weak spots in the defenses of the slave powers. The French Revolution also had an influence on slave revolts, but the canny European powers used indigenous peoples to suppress slave revolts (e.g., native Americans) and took advantage of African ethnic divisions as well. American slaves stood little chance of revolt and were under constant surveillance from Southerners, who coward in fear after the successful rebellions in the Caribbean, particularly in Hispaniola, and after Nat Turner and John Brown's efforts. Genovese also brings up religion's double-edged sword: one side used to pacify slaves and the other side to inspire them to break their chains. In short, this scholarly treatise is thought-provoking as well as informative and ends with an inspirational quote from one of Frederick Douglass's lectures. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean copy.
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