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Jack Tars and Commodores: The American Navy 1783-1815 by: Fowler Jr., William M.
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Jack Tars and Commodores: The American Navy 1783-1815
by: Fowler Jr., William M.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 318 pages. Account of the US Navy from Independence through the War of 1812. 8 maps, numerous illustrations. Clean copy.

Record # 383902

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The Autumn of the Middle Agesby: Johan Huizinga

The Autumn of the Middle Ages
by: Johan Huizinga

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Clean, bright copy, 467 pages. Illustrated with 36 pages of historic Plates, b/w, on coated paper. One of the most famous works of history, Johan Huizinga presents a brilliant portrait of life, thought, and art in 14th and 15th century France and the Netherlands.

Record # 384341

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Humanists and Jurists: Six Studies in the Renaissance by: Gilmore, Myron
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Humanists and Jurists: Six Studies in the Renaissance
by: Gilmore, Myron

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 184 pages, maroon cloth with a lightly worn dust jacket. Previous owner's signature, pencil notes on front end paper. Otherwise clean. These studies concern the development in the Renaissance of a new perspective on the past, a new method for interpreting the meaning of the documents of the past, and a reformulation of traditional doctrine that history was philosophy teaching by example.

Record # 385473

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Imagining New England: Explorations of Regional Identity from the Pilgrims to the Mid-Twentieth Centuryby: Joseph A. Conforti
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Imagining New England: Explorations of Regional Identity from the Pilgrims to the Mid-Twentieth Century
by: Joseph A. Conforti

Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with silver lettering, 384 pages, b&w illustrations. Say "New England" and you likely conjure up an image in the mind of your listener: the snowy woods or stone wall of a Robert Frost poem, perhaps, or that quintessential icon of the region--the idyllic white village. Such images remind us that, as Joseph Conforti notes, a region is not just a territory on the ground. It is also a place in the imagination. This ambitious work investigates New England as a cultural invention, tracing the region's changing identity across more than three centuries. Incorporating insights from history, literature, art, material culture, and geography, it shows how succeeding generations of New Englanders created and broadcast a powerful collective identity for their region through narratives about its past. Whether these stories were told in the writings of Frost or Harriet Beecher Stowe, enacted in historical pageants or at colonial revival museums, or conveyed in the pages of a geography textbook or Yankee magazine, New Englanders used them to sustain their identity, revising them as needed to respond to the shifting regional landscape. Clean copy. No dust jacket.

Record # 385666

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American Merchant Ships 1850 1900by: Matthews, Frederick C.
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American Merchant Ships 1850 1900
by: Matthews, Frederick C.

Hardcover. Salem MA, Marine Research Society, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 399 pages. B&W portraits of sea captains and ships throughout. Tissue-covered frontispiece. Top edge colored blue. Green pictorial dust jacket with pasted-on color illustration, taping and edgewear. Blue boards with gilt title to spine and stain to front cover. Otherwise, a clean, tight copy. The twenty-first volume in the series of publications by the Marine Research Society.

Record # 385859

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Ancient Iraqby: Roux, Georges
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Ancient Iraq
by: Roux, Georges

Softcover. London, Penguin Books, 2rd Ed., 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 547 pages, b&w illustrations. Newly revised and containing information from recent excavations and discovered artifacts, Ancient Iraq covers the political, cultural, and socio-economic history from Mesopotamia days of prehistory to the Christian era. Clean copy.

Record # 386078

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From Paul to Valentinus: Christians at Rome in the First Two Centuries by: Lampe, Peter; Steinhauser, Michael (transl.)

From Paul to Valentinus: Christians at Rome in the First Two Centuries
by: Lampe, Peter; Steinhauser, Michael (transl.)

Hardcover. Minneapolis, Fortress Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a dust jacket with large chunk of rear panel gone. 525 pages. In this pathbreaking study of the rise and shape of the earliest churches in Rome, Lampe integrates history, archaeology, theology, and social analysis. He also takes a close look at inscriptional evidence to complement the reading of the great literary texts: from Paul's Letter to the Romans to the writings of Clement of Rome, Justin Martyr, Montanus, and Valentinus. Thoroughly reworked and updated by the author for this English-language edition, this study is a groundbreaking work, broad in scope and closely detailed. Lampe deals with the shape of leadership and the Christians' relation to the Judeans living in Rome. In six parts, comprised of fifty-one chapters and four appendices, Lampe greatly advances our knowledge of the shape of leadership and the Christians' relation to the Judeans living in Rome. Name and date on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 386442

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Learn Latin from the Romans: A Complete Introductory Course Using Textbooks from the Roman Empireby: Dickey, Eleanor
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Learn Latin from the Romans: A Complete Introductory Course Using Textbooks from the Roman Empire
by: Dickey, Eleanor

Softcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 2nd pr., 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 512 pages. Learn Latin from the Romans is the only introductory Latin textbook to feature texts written by ancient Romans for Latin learners. These texts, the 'colloquia', consist of dialogues and narratives about daily life similar to those found in modern-language textbooks today, introducing learners to Roman culture as well as to Latin in an engaging, accessible, and enjoyable way. Students and instructors will find everything they need in one complete volume, including clear explanations of grammatical concepts and how Latin works, both British and American orders for all noun and adjective paradigms, 5,000 easy practice sentences, and over 150 longer passages (from the colloquia and a diverse range of other sources including inscriptions, graffiti, and Christian texts as well as Catullus, Cicero, and Virgil). Written by a leading Latin linguist with decades of language teaching experience, this textbook is suitable for introductory Latin courses worldwide. Clean copy.

Record # 386562

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The Atlantic Battle Won, May 1943-May 1945: History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume 10 by: Morison, Samuel Eliot
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The Atlantic Battle Won, May 1943-May 1945: History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume 10
by: Morison, Samuel Eliot

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, reprint, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Volume X in The History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. 399 pages, illustrated with maps (one fold-out) and b&w photos. Gilt on spine with light fading, lacks dust jacket, dj flap copy pasted inside front cover, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 386591

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Records of New Amsterdam From 1653 t0 1674 Anno Domini -  Vol. 6: Minutes of the Court of Burgomasters and Schepens May 8 1666 to Sept. 5 1673 Inclusive. by: Fernow,
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Records of New Amsterdam From 1653 t0 1674 Anno Domini - Vol. 6: Minutes of the Court of Burgomasters and Schepens May 8 1666 to Sept. 5 1673 Inclusive.
by: Fernow,

Hardcover. Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with purple and gilt title block an front and spine. 409 pages. VOLUME 6 ONLY of a 7 volume set. Reprint of the 1897 edition. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 386812

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An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen (1673)by: Bathsua Makin
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An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen (1673)
by: Bathsua Makin

Softcover. Los Angeles, Augustan Reprint Society, reprint, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, facsimile reprint of a 1673 pamphlet. Introduction by Paula L. Babour, 56 pages. Early feminist tract. Name on front cover, otherwise a clean copy.

Record # 386979

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Dear Wife: The Civil War Letters of Chester K. Leachby: Feidner, Edward (Ed.)

Dear Wife: The Civil War Letters of Chester K. Leach
by: Feidner, Edward (Ed.)

Softcover. Burlington VT, University of Vermont, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 231 pages plus 9 pages of photos from the Leach family album. These 200+ letters were written during the Civil War to Leach's wife, Ann Leach, from June 1861 - June 1864. Leach's hometown was Fletcher, Vermont and many members of Fletcher, as well as surrounding towns of Fairfax and Fairfield, enlisted in what would become Company H of the 2nd Vermont Volunteer Infantry Regiment. It has been reported that during the Civil War, at least one out of every five military aged Vermont males served at some time. Leach gives his (and his Regiment's) opinion on the war as well as details history about developments, strategies, and occurrences. The close of the book also features 30+ pages titled "Who is Who." This is a large listing of Vermont Civil War soldiers, their rank, and details with dates (enlisted, commissioned, discharged, wounded, died, mustered, taken prisoner, etc.) INSCRIBED BY FEIDNER on the title page. Some sun fading to front cover, otherwise very good, clean. Newspaper review laid in.

Record # 387384

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The Barbarians Speak How the Conquered Peoples Shaped Roman Europe by: Wells, Peter S.

The Barbarians Speak How the Conquered Peoples Shaped Roman Europe
by: Wells, Peter S.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 335 pages. The Barbarians Speak re-creates the story of Europe's indigenous people who were nearly stricken from historical memory even as they adopted and transformed aspects of Roman culture. The Celts and Germans inhabiting temperate Europe before the arrival of the Romans left no written record of their lives and were often dismissed as "barbarians" by the Romans who conquered them. Accounts by Julius Caesar and a handful of other Roman and Greek writers would lead us to think that prior to contact with the Romans, European natives had much simpler political systems, smaller settlements, no evolving social identities, and that they practiced human sacrifice. A more accurate, sophisticated picture of the indigenous people emerges, however, from the archaeological remains of the Iron Age. Here Peter Wells brings together information that has belonged to the realm of specialists and enables the general reader to share in the excitement of rediscovering a "lost people." In so doing, he is the first to marshal material evidence in a broad-scale examination of the response by the Celts and Germans to the Roman presence in their lands.

Record # 387561

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Uncle Lisha's Shop: Life in a Corner of Yankeelandby: Rowland E. Robinson
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Uncle Lisha's Shop: Life in a Corner of Yankeeland
by: Rowland E. Robinson

Hardcover. NY, Forest & Stream Publishing, 5th Ed., 1891, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial gray cloth stamped in black and gold. 187 pages, floral decorative endpapers. Tales of Vermont life back in the day. Chapter headings include: The School Meeting in District 13; Uncle Lisha's Spring Gun; Concerning Owls, Uncle Lisha's Courting; A Rainy Day in the Shop; The Turkey Shoot at Hamner's; Sam Lovel's Bee-Hunting; In the Shop Again; The Fox Hunt; The Coon Hunt; In the Sugar Camp; Indians in Danvis; The Boy out West; Breaking Up; The Departure; The Wild Bees' Swarm, etc. Robinson (1833-1900) was a noted Quaker author from a well-respected and artistic Vermont family whose writings and art captured the dialect, culture and time of pre-Civil War Vermont, set in the imaginary town of Danvis, largely drawing from his the inhabitants and experiences of Ferrisburgh, VT. Name and date on a blank prelim page. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 387682

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The Decision to Intervene: The Prelude to Allied Intervention in the Bolshevik Revolution by: Kennan, George F.
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The Decision to Intervene: The Prelude to Allied Intervention in the Bolshevik Revolution
by: Kennan, George F.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket, 513 pages, b&w illustrations. In 1918 the U.S. government decided to involve itself with the Russian Revolution by sending troops to Siberia. This book re-creates that unhappily memorable story: the arrival of British marines at Murmansk, the diplomatic maneuvering, the growing Russian hostility, the uprising of Czechoslovak troops in central Siberia which threatened to overturn the Bolsheviks, the acquisitive ambitions of the Japanese in Manchuria, and finally the decision by President Wilson to intervene with American troops. Of this period Kennan writes, "Never, surely, in the history of American diplomacy, has so much been paid for so little." Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 387772

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Joseph Warren: Physician, Politician, Patriotby: Cary, John
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Joseph Warren: Physician, Politician, Patriot
by: Cary, John

Hardcover. Urbana IL, University of Illinois Press, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in alightly worn dust jacket, 260 pages. "In this first biography of Warren since 1865, John Cary re-establishes Warren's deserved reputation as an American patriot and leading figure of the American Revolution. He ranks Warren with Samuel Adams as the two most important figures in the Massachusetts revolutionary movement." Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 387803

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British Subministers and Colonial America 1763-1783by: Wickwire, Franklin B.
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British Subministers and Colonial America 1763-1783
by: Wickwire, Franklin B.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 228 pages. This study is an attempt to add a new dimension to our understanding of the causes of the American Revolution. It is an analysis of the role of the subministers--the secretaries and undersecretaries--of the major departments of the British government responsible for colonial policy during the period from 1763 to the outbreak of the Revolution--the period of the Stamp and Sugar Acts, the Townshend Duties, and the Coercive Acts--and of their role in the war itself. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 387887

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The War Conspiracy; The Secret Road to the Second Indochina War by: Peter Dale Scott
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The War Conspiracy; The Secret Road to the Second Indochina War
by: Peter Dale Scott

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. All about the motivation and planning for the Wars in Laos (1959-62), Vietnam (from 1954) and Cambodia. Peter Dale Scott examines the many ways in which war policy has been driven by "accidents" and other events in the field, in some cases despite moves toward peace that were directed by presidents. Name on front fly leaf, light rubbing to dj, otherwise clean.

Record # 396255

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Slavery in the South: First-Hand Accounts of the Ante-Bellum American Southland from Northern & Southern Whites, Negroes, & Foreign Obervers by: Wish, Harvey [Ed.]
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Slavery in the South: First-Hand Accounts of the Ante-Bellum American Southland from Northern & Southern Whites, Negroes, & Foreign Obervers
by: Wish, Harvey [Ed.]

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 3rd pr., 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 290 pages. This book about slavery and the southern plantation system includes writings by Nat Turner, Frederick Douglass, Thomas Jefferson, and many others. Name on a blank prelim page, otherwise clean.

Record # 396380

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A Collection of Papers Relative to the Dispute Between Great Britain and America 1764-1775by: Almon, John (Ed.)
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A Collection of Papers Relative to the Dispute Between Great Britain and America 1764-1775
by: Almon, John (Ed.)

Hardcover. NY, Da Capo Press, reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering on spine, front cover. 280 pages plus index. Facsimile reprint from 1777. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 396466

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The Dominican Crisis: The 1965 Constitutional Revolt and American Interventionby: Gleijeses, Piero
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The Dominican Crisis: The 1965 Constitutional Revolt and American Intervention
by: Gleijeses, Piero

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, 460 pages. Translated by Lawrence Lipson. A vivid historical narrative of the US military intervention in Central America. Uncommon. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 396487

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The Civil War: A Narrative. Volume I. Fort. Sumter to Perryvilleby: Foote, Shelby
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The Civil War: A Narrative. Volume I. Fort. Sumter to Perryville
by: Foote, Shelby

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. 1 begins one of the most remarkable works of history ever fashioned. All the great battles are here, of course, from Bull Run through Shiloh, the Seven Days Battles, and Antietam, but so are the smaller ones: Ball's Bluff, Fort Donelson, Pea Ridge, Island Ten, New Orleans, and Monitor versus Merrimac. The word "narrative" is the key to this extraordinary book's incandescence and its truth. The story is told entirely from the point of view of the people involved in it. One learns not only what was happening on all fronts but also how the author discovered it during his years of exhaustive research. This first volume in Shelby Foote's comprehensive history is a must-read for anyone interested in one of the bloodiest wars in America's history. Endpaper maps. First published in 1958, this appears to be a 70s reprint ($40 price on dust jacket). Clean copy.

Record # 396586

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A New World: An Epic of Colonial America from the Founding of Jamestown to the Fall of Quebec by: Quinn, Arthur
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A New World: An Epic of Colonial America from the Founding of Jamestown to the Fall of Quebec
by: Quinn, Arthur

Hardcover. Boston, Faber and Faber, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, pages. "I write of peoples and of a struggle." So begins A New World, an ambitious and extraordinary book that challenges conventional historical narrative by presenting episodes in North America's history through the eyes and voices of the Europeans who established the first colonial outposts here. Beginning with the swaggering John Smith at Jamestown and ending with the beleaguered Montcalm at Quebec, Arthur Quinn allows towering historical figures to emerge from an often beautiful, sometimes forbidding early American landscape and speak. An elderly William Bradford looks back with growing despair at the early promise of the Pilgrim colony at Plymouth. Governor John Winthrop tries to administer a dose of practicality to the Puritans of Massachusetts. Jesuit missionaries bring Christianity and disaster to the Huron Confederacy. A blustering Peter Stuyvesant watches Manhattan slip from Dutch grasp. William Penn's Holy Experiment in Pennsylvania goes increasingly awry. And, finally, the British and the French fight history's first world war for supremacy in the New World. Telling each story using the literary conventions of the day, Quinn casts North America's colonial beginnings as a multicultural epic, gripping the reader throughout with his uncanny eye and storytelling skill. Clean copy.

Record # 396684

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Communistic Societies of the United States from Personal Visit and Observation by: Charles Nordhoff
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Communistic Societies of the United States from Personal Visit and Observation
by: Charles Nordhoff

Softcover. NY, Schocken Books, reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 439 pages. Reprint of a work first published in 1875, b&w illustrations. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. An historical account written during the late 19th century. The book explores various communistic communities in the United States, documenting their origins, practices, and social structures. Nordhoff's investigation is based on personal visits and observations, aiming to provide insights into how these societies operate and their contributions to the labor question.

Record # 396913

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Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy 1932-1945 by: Dallek, Robert

Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy 1932-1945
by: Dallek, Robert

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 2nd pr., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 657 pages. Robert Dallek vigorously and convincingly defends Roosevelt's foreign policy. He emphasizes how Roosevelt operated as a master politician in maintaining a national consensus for his foreign policy throughout his presidency and how he brilliantly achieved his policy and military goals. Name on half-title page otherwise a clean copy.

Record # 397275

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Vermonters: Oral Histories from Down Country to the Northeast Kingdomby: Strickland, Ron
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Vermonters: Oral Histories from Down Country to the Northeast Kingdom
by: Strickland, Ron

Softcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 186 pages, b&w illustrations. Warm, wonderfully entertaining accounts by a general store proprietor, a basket weaver, a gravedigger, a town gadfly, and 34 others reveal how time-honored traditions are carried on in spite of the inroads of the 20th century. As colorful as the state's autumn hues, and, in the matter of opinions, as obdurate as mountain granite, these recollections are accompanied by candid portraits. Clean copy.

Record # 397440

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The Night The Revolution Began: The Boston Tea Party, 1773by: Wesley S. Griswold
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The Night The Revolution Began: The Boston Tea Party, 1773
by: Wesley S. Griswold

Hardcover. Brattleboro VT, Stephen Greene Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 160 pages, b&w illustrations. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397474

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Historians Against History: The Frontier Thesis and the National Covenant in American Historical Writing since 1830 by: David W. Noble

Historians Against History: The Frontier Thesis and the National Covenant in American Historical Writing since 1830
by: David W. Noble

Hardcover. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, 2nd pr., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 197 pages. Professor Noble examines the basic philosophy and writing of six American historians, George Bancroft, Frederick Jackson, Charles A. Beard, Carl Becker, Vernon Louis Parrington, and Daniel J. Boorstin, and finds in them a common tradition which he calls anti-historical. He argues that this viewpoint is founded in the frontier interpretation of American history, that American historians have served as the chief political theorists and theologians of this country since 1830, and that their writings can be interpreted as Jeremiads designed to preserve a national covenant with nature. Clean copy.

Record # 397493

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Middle Class Democracy and the Revolution in Massachusetts, 1691-1780 by: Robert E. Brown

Middle Class Democracy and the Revolution in Massachusetts, 1691-1780
by: Robert E. Brown

Softcover. NY, Harper Torchbooks, reprint, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 458 pages. This book argues that there was a middle-class democracy in Massachusetts even before the Revolution, which only removed British power from the area. Bump to top corner of volume causing a crease, remainder lines to bottom edge. No markings.

Record # 397527

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Poor-Relief In Vermontby: K.R.B. Flint

Poor-Relief In Vermont
by: K.R.B. Flint

Hardcover. Northfield VT, Norwich University, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light tan cloth with black lettering on front cover, 39 pages. A study of the social conditions in the counties of Vermont in the earl part of the 20th century. Flint was Professor of Political Science at Norwich University.

Record # 397560

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Twelve Thousand Years: American Indians in Maine by: Bruce J. Bourque

Twelve Thousand Years: American Indians in Maine
by: Bruce J. Bourque

Softcover. Lincoln NE, Bison Books, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 368 pages. Documents the generations of Native peoples who for twelve millennia have moved through and eventually settled along the rocky coast, rivers, lakes, valleys, and mountains of a region now known as Maine. Arriving first to this area were Paleo-Indian peoples, followed by maritime hunters, more immigrants, then a revival of maritime cultures. Beginning in the sixteenth century, Native peoples in northern New England became tangled in the far-reaching affairs of European explorers and colonists. Twelve Thousand Years reveals how Penobscots, Abenakis, Passamaquoddies, Maliseets, Micmacs, and other Native communities both strategically accommodated and overtly resisted European and American encroachments. Clean copy.

Record # 397852

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Cadet Gray: A Pictorial History of Life At West Point As Seen through its Uniforms by: Todd Col., Frederick P. /Frederick T. Chapman (Illust.)

Cadet Gray: A Pictorial History of Life At West Point As Seen through its Uniforms
by: Todd Col., Frederick P. /Frederick T. Chapman (Illust.)

Hardcover. NY, Bonanza Books, reprint, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 112 pages, many b&w illustrations plus gorgeous color plates by Frederick Chapman. A reprint of the 1955 edition. Clean copy.

Record # 397971

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The Impact of World War II on Italian Americans 1935-Present by: Mormino, Gary R. (Ed.)
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The Impact of World War II on Italian Americans 1935-Present
by: Mormino, Gary R. (Ed.)

Softcover. NY, American Italian Historical Association, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 244 pages, 35th Conference of the American Italian Historical Association . "'Italian Americans and World War II, ' explores many facets of the dynamic period of the 1940s and the consequences of war and peace. Scholars within AIHA and outside the academy have been slow to recognize the significance of World War II, now recognized as a seminal event in Italian-American life and culture. . . . "This volume is dedicated to all Italian Americans who lived and died, fought and prayed during World War II." Clean copy.

Record # 398114

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The Development of Central and Western New York: From the Arrival of the White Man to the Eve of the Civil War by: Mau, Clayton
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The Development of Central and Western New York: From the Arrival of the White Man to the Eve of the Civil War
by: Mau, Clayton

Hardcover. Rochester NY, Du Bois Press, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering and rules, 444 pages. Written with numerous extracts from period sources. This is a social and economic history of the settlement of the lands west of the Mohawk River. Well done. Includes notes, appendices & index. A nice copy. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 398283

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Early Vermont Conventions 1776-1777 Arranged by Redfield Proctor by: Redfield Proctor /Jonas Fay
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Early Vermont Conventions 1776-1777 Arranged by Redfield Proctor
by: Redfield Proctor /Jonas Fay

Hardcover. Washington DC, Vermont Historical Society, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray boards with white cloth spine, dark brown lettering on front cover with original seal of Vermont. Records of Conventions in the New Hampshire Grants for the Independence of Vermont 1776-1777. The publisher is not stated but the Society has an introductory letter. 26 pages of text and letters. Majority of text block is photo-copies of original documents (unpaginated). Clean, bright copy.

Record # 398529

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Westering Women and the Frontier Experience 1800-1915by: Myres, Sandra L

Westering Women and the Frontier Experience 1800-1915
by: Myres, Sandra L

Softcover. Albuquerque NM, University of New Mexico Press, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 365 pages, b&w illustrations. Professor Myres gives frontier women a voice they never had. She uses extensive source material by and about women ( letters, journals, and reminiscences from over 400 collections ) to study the impact of the frontier on women's lives and the role of women in the West. She offers a major reinterpretation of the experience of pioneer women, including that of Indian, Mexican, French, black, and Anglo-American women. The account recreates in detail the frontier experience of all these women, beginning with their physical and intellectual responses to the trek West, and concluding with their struggle for political suffrage and economic opportunity. Clean copy.

Record # 398984

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Narragansett Bay: Its Historic and Romantic Associations and Picturesque Settingby: Bacon, Edgar Mayhew
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Narragansett Bay: Its Historic and Romantic Associations and Picturesque Setting
by: Bacon, Edgar Mayhew

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam"s Sons, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt stamping, pictorial label, top edge gilt, 377 pages. Tissued frontis, b&w plates plus text illustrations. Folding map. Sound and square. All very good, clean copy.

Record # 399290

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Men Against Granite by: Tomasi, Mari / Richmond, Roaldus

Men Against Granite
by: Tomasi, Mari / Richmond, Roaldus

Softcover. Shelburne VT, New England Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 323 pages, b&w illustrations. A selection of 52 interviews (from over 120) conducted 1938-1940 around Barre, Vermont. All of whom had a connection to the granite industry. Edited by Alfred Rosa and Mark Wanner. Name and address on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 399632

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Two Centuries Of Cornwall Lifeby: Sanford, Beulah M.
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Two Centuries Of Cornwall Life
by: Sanford, Beulah M.

Hardcover. Rutland,VT, Sharp Printing, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, 111 pages. B&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Record # 399660

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One Eye Closed, the Other Red: The California Bootlegging Years [INSCRIBED] by: Walker, Clifford James

One Eye Closed, the Other Red: The California Bootlegging Years [INSCRIBED]
by: Walker, Clifford James

Softcover. Barstow CA, Back Door Publishing, 2nd Ed., 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 607 pages of text and black & white illustrations. The book is signed and inscribed by the author on the front free end paper. After 22 years of interviewing old timers and researching newspapers, archives and document, Walker finished this book on California bootlegging, rum-running and moonshining. The years covered are from 1917-1935, the war years, Roaring 20s, and early depression years. Bootleggers, moonshiners, border patrolmen, and constables tell their own stories. To cover more of the state, about 30 local authors and historians contributed their articles. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 399863

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Hides, Hemlocks And Adirondack History: How the Tanning Industry Influenced the Region's Growthby: Barbara McMartin

Hides, Hemlocks And Adirondack History: How the Tanning Industry Influenced the Region's Growth
by: Barbara McMartin

Hardcover. Utica NY, North Country Books, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 332 pages, b&w illustrations. The story of how Adirondack forests lured investments from financial centers; how roads pushed deep into the wilderness; how tanneries were built in remote places and how towns sprang up around them; how hides were shipped to canal ports in Warrensburg or along the Erie Canal and how teamsters drove great distances to reach the tanneries. A largely forgotten history is brought to life in this well-researched book of an industry that disappeared in the 1890s.

Record # 399937

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Dauntless St. Roch: The Mounties' Arctic Schoonerby: James P. Delgado

Dauntless St. Roch: The Mounties' Arctic Schooner
by: James P. Delgado

Softcover. Victoria BC, Horsdal & Schubart, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 53 pages, b&w illustrations and maps. Clean copy.

Record # 400275

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The Jews of East Central Europe Between the World Wars by: Mendelsohn, Ezra

The Jews of East Central Europe Between the World Wars
by: Mendelsohn, Ezra

Softcover. Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press, reprint., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 300 pages. Illustrated with maps. Contents: Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Bibliographical Essay, Index. Clean copy.

Record # 400888

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An Answer to War In Disguise, or, Remarks Upon the New Doctrine of England, concerning Neutral Tradeby: King)(Rufus
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An Answer to War In Disguise, or, Remarks Upon the New Doctrine of England, concerning Neutral Trade
by: King)(Rufus

Softcover. New York, I. Riley & Co./Hopkins and Seymour, 1st, 1806, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 76 pages, original marbled paper wrappers with blue title label on cover. Second signature is bound upside-down (pages 9-16), but all there. Marbled pattern on outer wraps faded in spots. Mild foxing to pages, edgewear with light loss of paper to bottom corner.

Record # 403673

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Pilot Knob: The Thermopylae of the Westby: Peterson, Cyrus A. and Joseph Mills Hanson
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Pilot Knob: The Thermopylae of the West
by: Peterson, Cyrus A. and Joseph Mills Hanson

Hardcover. New York, Neale Publishing Co., 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 324 pages, dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. An account of a Civil War battle fought in Missouri. Tight, clean copy.

Record # 405414

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History of Salisbury Vermontby: Weeks, John M.

History of Salisbury Vermont
by: Weeks, John M.

Hardcover. Middlebury VT, A.H. Copeland, 1st, 1860, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 362 pages, embossed green cloth covers. B&w illustrations. Front spine edge with 2 inch cloth tear, previous owner's stamp on prelim page, small label on spine, numbers on title page. Internally very good, clean.

Record # 407042

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Lights and Shadows of African History (Parley's Cabinet Library #10)by: Goodrich, Samuel G.
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Lights and Shadows of African History (Parley's Cabinet Library #10)
by: Goodrich, Samuel G.

Hardcover. Boston, Bradbury Soden & Co., 1st thus, 1844, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 336 pages, frontispiece engraving with tissue guard, extra engraved title page, several other full page engraved plates as well as text illustrations. Brown cloth with black leather spine stamped in gilt. Pages with tanning to edges, faint water stain to top corners of some pages, not affecting text or images. Covers show mottling, discoloration to foredges, front and rear. Interior clean, binding tight.

Record # 411476

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Spoils of War, The: World War II and Its Aftermath: The Loss, Reappearance, and Recovery of Cultural Propertyby: Simpson (Ed.), Elizabeth
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Spoils of War, The: World War II and Its Aftermath: The Loss, Reappearance, and Recovery of Cultural Property
by: Simpson (Ed.), Elizabeth

Softcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 336 pages. Softcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Covers in excellent condition. Touch of foxing to top edge. Pages clean and bright. The ever-rapacious Nazis looted staggering quantities of great art and antiques from the nations they occupied. Much of it found its way back to Germany, and following the Allied victory, many thousands of rare (and some priceless) pieces were identified, and returned to the countries from which they had been taken. But not all of the paintings, statues, and archaeological treasures were recovered: Some were taken by Soviet troops and disappeared into Russia. Still others slipped into the black market in western Europe, and were snapped up by wealthy (if unprincipled) collectors. A 1995 symposium at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts brought together European and American investigators and historians to discuss both the the Nazi thefts and the current state of knowledge of the whereabouts of the many still missing treasures. Those papers are reprinted here. While the pieces are detailed, dry, and likely to be of most interest to specialists, there are some extraordinary stories, most prominently the description of the recent rediscovery of ``Priam's treasure,'' excavated by Schliemann at Troy and hidden since WW II in a Russian museum. (123 illustrations, 25 in color).

Record # 30963

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Customs Of Service for Non Commissioned Officers and Soldiers as Derived from Law and Regulations and Practised in the Army of the United States by: Kautz, August V.
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Customs Of Service for Non Commissioned Officers and Soldiers as Derived from Law and Regulations and Practised in the Army of the United States
by: Kautz, August V.<

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 2nd Ed., 1865, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green pebbled cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 4" x 6 1/4", 303 pages including index. A detailed instructional guide for the Civil War era soldier. Copyright page states 1964, title page says 1865. Probably a second edition. Still scarce in this nice condition. A few pages with dog ears, previous owner's pencil signature on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 412231

Price: $125.00 
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Union Officer in the Reconstruction, Aby: De Forest, John William, James, H. Croushore, David M. Potter (Editors)
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Union Officer in the Reconstruction, A
by: De Forest, John William, James, H. Croushore, David M. Potter (Editors)

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st thus Edition, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 211 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket price clipped, in very good condition with some tanning from age. Dj wrapped in protective clear plastic brodart. Cover boards bound in tan cloth, black title on spine, boards very good, clean. Edges and pages clean, with a touch of tanning from age. Young Union officer and great American writer, De Forest wrote about what he saw with quiet precision and humor, without favor or prejudice or any concessions to the cherished beliefs of the orthodox in the North or the South.

Record # 32384

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