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Softcover. New Brunswick NJ, Rutgers University Press, 1st pbk., 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 372 pages. The first set of essays seeks to analyze the patriarchal discourses of a colonial society and includes an analysis of the shaping of Hindu-Aryan identity, the parameters of the discourse on widow-immolation, the "defeminization" of popular culture in nineteenth-century urban Calcutta, the nature of the reforms proposed by early women's journals in Hindi, and the implications of the nationalist movement and of Indo-Anglian literature on middle-class patriarchal norms. The second set of articles relates to women of the productive classes--the reconstitution of patriarchies in the agrarian transition in Haryana, in the Oudh peasant movement, in the armed peasant struggle in Telangana, and among the working class in Bengal. The contributors explore the interrelation of patriarchies with political economy, law, religion, and culture, and suggest a different history of "reform" movements, and of class and gender relations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. UK, Oxford, at the Clarendon Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn yellow dust jacket with sunning to spine, 201 pages. Some pencil underlining to about 20 pages. Some b&w photos.

Hardcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 298 pages. Commodifying Communism is an ethnographic study of the role of personal ties between private entrepreneurs and local officials in the organization of China's emerging market economy. It is based on almost two years of fieldwork in Xiamen City, Fujian, one of China's five special economic zones. A close examination of how private business is conducted through these ties sheds light on the dynamism of China's market economy and its political consequences. Clean copy.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 210 pages. In this rich comparative ethnography, Lee describes how two radically different factory cultures have emerged from a period of profound economic change. In Hong Kong, "matron workers" remain in factories for decades. In Guangdong, a seemingly endless number of young "maiden workers" travel to the south from northern provinces, following the promise of higher wages. Whereas the women in Hong Kong participate in a management system characterized by "familial hegemony," the young women in Guangdong find an internal system of power based on regional politics and kin connections, or "localistic despotism." Having worked side-by-side with these women on the floors of both factories, Lee concludes that it is primarily the differences in the gender politics of the two labor markets that determine the culture of each factory. Posing an ambitious challenge to sociological theories that reduce labor politics to pure economics or state power structures, Lee argues that gender plays a crucial role in the cultures and management strategies of factories that rely heavily on women workers. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 345 pages. As political change sweeps the streets and squares, the parliaments and presidential palaces of the Arab world, Shereen El Feki has been looking at an upheaval a little closer to home--in the sexual lives of men and women in Egypt and across the region. The result is an informative, insightful, and engaging account of a highly sensitive and still largely secret aspect of Arab society. Sex is entwined in religion, tradition, politics, economics, and culture, so it is the perfect lens through which to examine the complex social landscape of the Arab world. From pregnant virgins to desperate housewives, from fearless activists to religious firebrands, from sex work to same-sex relations, Sex and the Citadel takes a fresh look at the sexual history of the region and brings new voices to the debate over its future. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Trans Pacific Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy boards, 170 pages. Stratification in Cultural Contexts is a collection drawn from research results of the East Asian Division of the Center for the Study of Social Stratification and Inequality at Tohoku University. In this book, scholars who specialize in areas of East and Southeast Asia examine how the problem of stratification manifests itself in different cultural and historical contexts, discussing when and in what circumstances the problem of stratification has become more serious, and suggesting how the tension could be eased. The topics dealt with are diversified, from religion to economic concerns. The local wisdom of traditional societies is used to analyze inequality and stratification in cases such as the phenomenon of 'religious revival' following democratization in Mongolian society, the lives of 'slaves' under the Choson dynasty in Korea, and the role of warrior-class women in early-modern Japan. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Armonk NY, M.E. Sharpe, 1st pbk, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 272 pages. "The Political Economy of Chinese Socialism" re-conceptualized the political economy of China by highlighting the changing character of urban-rural and state-society conflicts in the era of Mao Zedong's leadership and in the contemporary post-Mao reforms. The economic and social crises that engulfed China - and indeed much of the rest of the socialist world - in the late 1980s, culminating in the 1989 democratic movement and its suppression, stimulated a rethinking of central propositions of the first edition. It particularly led the author to inquire anew into the meaning of socio-political as well as economic development in a populous and poor agrarian nation. This volume, then, assesses the economic performance and social consequences of China's political economy over four decades, with a focus on China's countryside and city-countryside relations.

Softcover. University of Chicago Press, reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 568 pages, b&w illustrations. Out of a lifetime of study of the ancient Near East, Professor Olmstead has gathered previously unknown material into the story of the life, times, and thought of the Persians, told for the first time from the Persian rather than the traditional Greek point of view. "The fullest and most reliable presentation of the history of the Persian Empire in existence."-M. Rostovtzeff. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard/Belknap Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright price-clipped dust jacket, 493 pages, illustrated in b&w and color. In an original and evocative journey through modern Paris from the mid-eighteenth century to World War II, Patrice Higonnet offers a delightful cultural portrait of a multifaceted, continually changing city. In examining the myths and counter-myths of Paris that have been created and re-created over time, Higonnet reveals a magical urban alchemy in which each era absorbs the myths and perceptions of Paris past, adapts them to the cultural imperatives of its own time, and feeds them back into the city, creating a new environment. Clean copy.

Softcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 273 pages. From Ramallah to New York, Tel Aviv to Porto Alegre, people around the world celebrate a formidable, transnational Palestinian LGBTQ social movement. Solidarity with Palestinians has become a salient domain of global queer politics. Yet LGBTQ Palestinians, even as they fight patriarchy and imperialism, are themselves subjected to an "empire of critique" from Israeli and Palestinian institutions, Western academics, journalists and filmmakers, and even fellow activists. Such global criticism has limited growth and led to an emphasis within the movement on anti-imperialism over the struggle against homophobia. With this book, Sa'ed Atshan asks how transnational progressive social movements can balance struggles for liberation along more than one axis. He explores critical junctures in the history of Palestinian LGBTQ activism, revealing the queer Palestinian spirit of agency, defiance, and creativity, in the face of daunting pressures and forces working to constrict it. Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique explores the necessity of connecting the struggles for Palestinian freedom with the struggle against homophobia. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Ann Arbor MI, University of Michigan Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. 250 pages, b&w illustrations. The story of the inhabitants of Lari, a village in the Colca Valley of the Andes, and their struggle with three forces in their endeavor to find and use water--the drive of individuals to accumulate resources and wealth, the interest of the predatory state, and gravity. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, George H. Doran Company, 1st US, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 335 pages including index. First Printing stated, with the letter B at the bottom of the copyright page. Brown cloth, lacking the dust jacket. B&w illustrations, foldout map in fine condition in rear. Lawrence's firsthand account of the Arab Revolt during WWI, detailing guerrilla warfare campaigns from sabotaging the Hejaz Railway to the push toward Damascus. This book, originally written in 1919, was printed for the author and his friends, not for general publication. Lawrence abridged the original work and the present volume is about one-half the size of the original. Clean copy.

Softcover. Cambridge MA, The M.I.T. Press, reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 268 pages, b&w illustrations. Marco Polo was the first Westerner to describe the old capital of China in its grand design, and the early Jesuits were the first to appraise its architectural values. George Kates is one of the last Westerners to take its measure. After his seven leisurely, abundant years in Peking, by the end of which the Japanese had come to occupy it, the old China had finally disintegrated under the blows of warfare and social revolution.What Kates reveals cannot be found today. Kates describes the city with a special competence because he made it a particular object of scholarly research. He wormed out of the Imperial City itself every secret of its hidden courts and deserted harems; and in this book he brings to life again the people and the system that created it.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket, 273 pages, endpapers map. In 1966, Edward Hoagland made a three-month excursion into the wild country of British Columbia and encountered a way of life that was disappearing even as he chronicled it. Showcasing Hoagland's extraordinary gifts for portraiture--his cast runs from salty prospector to trader, explorer, missionary, and indigenous guide--Notes from the Century Before is a breathtaking mix of anecdote, derring-do, and unparalleled elegy from one of the finest writers of our time. Light soil to dust wrapper, otherwise clean.

Softcover. UK, Longman Caribbean, 5th pr., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 84 pages, b&w illustrations. The history of each of the main Caribbean states is depicted in a series of maps. Biographical notes of historical figures are included. Light wear, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, PublicAffairs, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 380 pages. At the heart of Africa is the Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal war in which millions have died. In Dancing in the Glory of Monsters, renowned political activist and researcher Jason K. Stearns has written a compelling and deeply-reported narrative of how Congo became a failed state that collapsed into a war of retaliatory massacres. Stearns brilliantly describes the key perpetrators, many of whom he met personally, and highlights the nature of the political system that brought these people to power, as well as the moral decisions with which the war confronted them. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in lightly worn dust jacket, 446 pages. A full review of the history of this initially small band of middle class intellectual socialists, the Mackenie's are undaunted in tackling what becomes a full and multi-character biography of the group that became and remains influential in British politics. This study includes a full and sensitive account of the lives and thought of the Webbs (usefully exploring their differences as well as their points of agreement), Shaw, Pease and Podmore, and even H.G. Wells, amongst others, as well as the history of the relationship of this band with the diverse groups and individuals in the broader British socialist movement - and their ambivalent relationships with the liberal and then the labour governments. Remainder stamp to bottom edge. Otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Broadway Books, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 394 pages. In this authoritative biography, Sterling Seagrave, bestselling author of The Soong Dynasty, and Peggy Seagrave bring to light the uneasy history of the Yamato Dynasty, from Emperor Meiji in 1852 to the present day. Revealed here for the first time is the full scale of the Japanese looting operation, code-named Kin No Yuri ("Golden Lily") --which systematically removed billions of dollars' worth of gold, platinum, diamonds, art, religious artifacts, and other treasures from a dozen occupied countries during World War II--and the fate of these hidden assets after 1945. Drawing on decades of research, the Seagraves reveal Golden Lily and other secrets of the family's long reign, such as the police state resulting from the Meiji restoration; the folly that led to Japan's 1920s economic crash; the greed that forced hundreds of thousands of working-class girls into prostitution; the devastating effects of the Meiji dogma, which asserts that the imperial family is of divine descent and infallible; and how money--not Shinto--became the state religion of Japan. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Palgrave Macmillan, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 266 pages. This book focuses on the development of towns in France, taking into account military technology, physical geography, shifting regional networks tying urban communities together, and the emergence of new forms of public authority and civic life as embodied in the "wall," an image at once intensely physical and deeply symbolic. It traces the evolution of towns across much of what is today France from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century when the walls began to come down, opening up new, ultimately revolutionary possibilities for urban life. This long-term perspective on town fortifications--how they were built, the contests to control them, and how they shaped the lives of people both inside and outside them. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 231 pages. Aristocratic Experience and the Origins of Modern Culture explores a crucial moment in the history of European selfhood. During the seventeenth century, French nobles began to understand their lives in terms of personal histories and inner qualities, rather than as the products of tradition and inheritance. This preoccupation with the self accompanied a critical view of society, monarchy, and Christian teachings. It also shaped a new understanding of political realities and personal relations. Drawing from a combination of memoirs, literary works, and archival sources, Jonathan Dewald offers a new understanding of aristocratic sensibilities. In detailed fashion, he explores the nobles' experience of war, career, money, family, love, and friendship. In all of these areas, nobles felt a gap between social expectations and personal needs; in the seventeenth century this tension became increasingly oppressive. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 346 page with index. This unique book weaves linguistic, cultural, and historical themes together to form a concise and accessible account of the development of the Slavic languages. Alexander Schenker demonstrates that inquiry into early Slavic culture requires an understanding of history, language, and texts and that an understanding of early Slavic writing is incomplete outside the context of medieval culture. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Syracuse NY, Syracuse University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, off-white cloth with black lettering, 253 pages. This volume contains a comprehensive examination of the crucial first ten years of the Arab League and of the continuing dilemma it faces in juggling opposing local and regional interests. Clean copy.

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

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1881, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Two volumes. 441 and 474 pages. 235 black & white illustrations. Volume One has a map in rear pocket. Previous owner's bookplate on front end papers in both volumes. Rubbing to corners, spine, and covers. Corners a little bumped otherwise a bright, collectible set.

Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 708 pages. Hardcover. This is Volume two only. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Some darkening to endpapers and to a few pages. Dust jacket with chipping, darkening to edges. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. New York, Excalibur Books, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 216 pages. 169 black & white illustrations. Edgewear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 2nd, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 332 pages. Color fold-out map opposite title-page. Mild soiling to covers. Faded gilt on spine.

Hardcover. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 388 pages, hardcover. B&w plates. INSCRIBED BY ECKERT. Light foxing to edge and light wear to bottom edges of cover. According to conventional interpretations, the Japanese annexation of Korea in 1910 destroyed a budding native capitalist economy on the peninsula and blocked the development of a Korean capitalist class until 1945. In this expansive and provocative study, now available in paperback, Carter J. Eckert challenges the standard view and argues that Japanese imperialism, while politically oppressive, was also the catalyst and cradle of modern Korean industrial development. Ancient ties to China were replaced by new ones to Japan - ties that have continued to shape the South Korean political economy down to the present day.Eckert explores a wide range of themes, including the roots of capitalist development in Korea, the origins of the modern business elite, the nature of Japanese colonial policy and the Japanese colonial state, the relationship between the colonial government and the Korean economic elite, and the nature of Korean collaboration. He conveys a clear sense of the human complexity, archival richness, and intellectual challenge of the historical period. His documentation is thorough; his arguments are compelling and often strikingly innovative.

Hardcover. London, John Murray, 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 552 pages. Green cloth boards with gilt title on spine and cover. Moisture stain in upper right corner of front endpaper. Fold-out map of Japan shows light foxing. Endpapers age faded. Light soiling to front and back covers.

London, Baynard Press, 1st, N.D., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 124 pages, Illustrated with 5 b&w portraits of Generals, 15 fold-out maps in color. Label on front cover is torn, chipped, with paper loss to 3 sides. Otherwise book is very good with all maps in excellent condition. Scarce.

Hardcover. NY, Street & Smith, 1st, 1898, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Book is divided into 4 sections: Cuba, Porto Rico, The Philippines, & Hawaii. Each with a fold-out color map. 178, 171, 174, & 178 pages respectively. All maps present and in very good condition. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. The pale green covers suffer from rubbing and abrasions causing discoloration, fading. Internally very good.

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

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

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 312 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribners, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 hardcover volumes. Volume 1 - 547 pages. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Features black & white Illustrations and fold-out map in rear pocket. Title in gilt on front cover and spine. Light wear to green cloth covers. Clean, tight copy. Volume 2 - 540 pages. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Features black & white illustrations and 2 fold-out maps in rear pocket. Title in gilt on front cover and spine. Light wear to green cloth covers. Clean, tight set. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Berlin, Brasch & Rothenstein, 1st, 1892, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 206 pages. Hardcover. Includes 2 of 3 fold-out maps. Note: Rear fold-out map is missing. Previous owners name in pencil at top of title page. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Cornmarket Press Ltd., reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 205 pages + advertisement. Reprint of 1911 edition. Part of series of 50 books reprinted in facsimile from originals in the National Maritime Museum Library. B/W illustrations. Fold-out map at end of book. Dust jacket faded and lightly soiled otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York , Century Company, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 268 pages. 48 B/W photographs and color illustrations by Jules Guerin. Front end papers show remnants of inscription and sticker paper. Blue cloth covers with gold ornamental design and lettering on front and spine. Some foxing on pages. Rare and in very good condition.

Hardcover. Leningrad, Aurora Art Publishers, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 170 pages. Brown cloth w/ color pictorial label on front. Color pictorial slipcase shows minor edgewear. Text in French, captions next to pictures also in English. Beautiful color plates throughout. Tight, clean, unmarked.

Hardcover. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 602 pages. Dark blue cloth covers, silver titles to spine, illustrated dust jacket, 38 color plates, 39 b&w drawings, textured blue endpapers decorated with map of China, variant names list, checklist of species, Latin and English alphabetical indices. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, pages crisp and unmarked, clean covers; a very clean, tight copy in great condition.

Hardcover. Tokyo, Sophia University, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 87 pages. INSCRIBED BY GEORGE M. WILSON ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Black boards, cream cloth spine with gilt titles, white dust jacket with illustration. Price-clipped, slight rubbing to dust jacket, pages crisp and unmarked; overall, a very clean, tight copy in great condition.

Hardcover. London, Chatto and Windus, reprint, 1892, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 335 pages. Introduction by John Ruskin. Green cloth covers, gilt titles to spine and front, all edges gilt, slip-on plastic protective covering to boards, numerous b&w illustrations by George Cruikshank. Slight foxing to endpapers, previous owner's inscription in pencil to half title page, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding, clean covers; a very clean, tight copy in great condition.

Hardcover. London, Eliot Stock, 1st, 1896, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, AUTHOR'S INSCRIPTION on tipped-in card. 241 pages, b&w illustrations by Alfred Beaver and others. Light green cloth covers w/ gilt lettering and design. Ink markings to first few pages. Wear to cover corners. Hinges cracked. Staining to end papers and some pages.

Hardcover. London/Colorado, Heinemann/Westview press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 310 pages. Yellow cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Lacks dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Scotland, Kiscadale, Reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 609 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Cigaretten-Bilderdienst, Herausgegeben Vom, 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 volumes. Text in German. Approx. 300 pages. B&W tipped in photographs. Dark blue cloth with gilt pictorial bell to cover. Spine cocked. Edges soiled. Inscription in German on front flyleaf of second volume. Overall, a nice set.

Hardcover. New York, Hunt & Eaton, 1st, 1892, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 562 pages. B&w frontispiece and b&w photographs throughout. Decorated cover with minor soiling and wearing and rubbing to edges. Ex-library stickers on front flyleaf and rear endpapers. Decorated endpapers.

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

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages. Hardcover. Green-blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine. No dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, light fading to spine title, else a clean, tight copy.