Hardcover. Notre Dame IN, University of Notre Dame Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black and gilt. 227 pages plus a section of b&w plates in rear.. A series of nine papers delivered at a conference with the same name in 1988 at the University of Notre Dame. It considered the relationship between politics and the literary and visual arts. Political scientists and anthropologists focus on the institutions that express power relationships. The aim of the Notre Dame Conference was to consider the relationship between politics and the literary and visual arts. The visual arts considered in this volume range from the traditional fine arts categories of painting, sculpture and architecture to minor art objects such as medals, badges, banners and seals. In general terms, the study of politics denotes the study of power relationships. Within this larger framework political scientists and anthropologists have chosen to focus on the institutions and structures that express these relationships and/or the actions that are undertaken by individuals and groups to define, alter, or reinforce them. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Baton Rouge LA, Louisiana State University Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 360 pages, b&w illustrations. Following the American Civil War, many former Confederates fled their southern homeland. Some left the United States, some moved to the western territories. Still others moved north to northeastern and midwestern towns and cities, believing that northern economic and educational opportunities offered the quickest means of rebuilding shattered fortunes and lives. Sutherland provides a detailed and illuminating account of the contributions these displaced southerners made to the financial, literary, artistic, and political life of the nation. Very nice copy.
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.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 313 pages plus index. Tan cloth boards that show minor fading to top, spine and light discoloration to back cover. Otherwise very good. No dust jacket. Generous selection of black and white illustrations. This copy also complete with both the fold-out maps that are often missing: (1) City of Richmond in 1861; and (2) Richmond-Petersburg Theatre of Operations. These ten chapters reconstitute, across an eighty-year gap, the everyday life of a capital city close behind the fighting fronts of a prolonged war. From records that originated close to the facts or in the midst of them--newspapers, advertisements, diaries, letters, stenographic reports of the time--Mr. Bill discloses how people lived on the home front of the Confederacy. He tells in abundant detail what the people did to amuse themselves, what rumors alternately exalted and depressed them, about what and whom they gossiped, what they found procurable in the black market and what it cost them.
Hardcover. Boston, Union Publishing Co., 1897, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 366 pages, includes many ads with line illustrations. Black cloth spine with ad-illustrated cardboard covers, chipping to the paper covering the boards at edges. Hinges cracked otherwise clean, solid.
Hardcover. Richmond VA, Johnson Publishing Co., 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray illustrated cloth, 306 pages with index. B&w illustrations by John Rae, several maps including endpapers. INSCRIBED BY HANNA on the front fly leaf. "The major, detailed study of the exodus of the Confederate government from Richmond; thoroughly researched and well-written." [Martin Abbott]. minor bumps to cloth covers, name tipped-in on dedication page, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Hill and Wang, BC Ed., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 352 pages, with illustrations. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. In the middle of a frigid Sunday night in January 1856, a twenty-two-year-old Kentucky slave named Margaret Gamer gathered up her family and raced north, toward Cincinnati and freedom. But Margaret's master followed just hours behind and soon had the fugitives surrounded. Thinking all was lost, Margaret seized a butcher knife and nearly decapitated her two-year-old daughter, crying out that she would rather see her children dead than returned to slavery. She was turning on her other three children when slave catchers burst in and subdued her.Margaret Garner's child-murder electrified the United States, inspiring the longest, most spectacular fugitive-slave trial in history. Abolitionists and slaveholders fought over the meaning of the murder, and the case came to symbolize the ills of the Union in those last dark decades before the Civil War.
Hardcover. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 290 pages, b&w illustrations. In 1896, a small group of prospectors discovered a stunningly rich pocket of gold at the confluence of the Klondike and Yukon rivers, and in the following two years thousands of individuals traveled to the area, hoping to find wealth in a rugged and challenging setting. Ever since that time, the Klondike Gold Rush - especially as portrayed in photographs of long lines of gold seekers marching up Chilkoot Pass - has had a hold on the popular imagination. In this first environmental history of the gold rush, Kathryn Morse describes how the miners got to the Klondike, the mining technologies they employed, and the complex networks by which they obtained food, clothing, and tools. She looks at the political and economic debates surrounding the valuation of gold and the emerging industrial economy that exploited its extraction in Alaska, and explores the ways in which a web of connections among America's transportation, supply, and marketing industries linked miners to other industrial and agricultural laborers across the country. The profound economic and cultural transformations that supported the Alaska-Yukon gold rush ultimately reverberate to modern times. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Oxford UK, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 293 pages. A study of the Anglican Reformed tradition (often inaccurately described as Calvinist) after the Restoration. Hampton sets out to revise our picture of the theological world of the later Stuart period. Arguing that the importance of the Reformed theological tradition has frequently been underestimated, his study points to a network of conforming reformed theologians which included many of the most prominent churchmen of the age. Focussing particularlyon what these churchmen contributed in three hotly disputed areas of doctrine (justification, the Trinity and the divine attributes), he argues that the most significant debates in speculative theologyafter 1662 were the result of the Anglican Reformed resistance to the growing influence of continental Arminianism. Hampton demonstrates the strength and flexibility of the Reformed response to the developing Arminian school, and shows that the Reformed tradition remained a viable theological option for Anglicans well into the eighteenth century. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 767 pages. 'This book is a major new intellectual and cultural history of intolerance and toleration in early modern and early Enlightenment Europe. John Marshall offers an extensive study of late seventeenth-century practices of religious intolerance and toleration in England, Ireland, France, Piedmont and the Netherlands and of the arguments which John Locke and his associates made in defence of 'universal religious toleration'. He analyses early modern and early Enlightenment discussions of toleration; debates over toleration for Jews and Muslims as well as for Christians; the limits of toleration for the intolerant, atheists, 'libertines' and 'sodomites'; and the complex relationships between intolerance and resistance theories including Locke's own Treatises. This study is a significant contribution to the history of the 'republic of letters' of the 1680s and the development of early Enlightenment culture and will be essential reading for scholars of early modern European history, religion, political science, and philosophy.' Clean copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in green cloth, faded gilt lettering on spine, 500 pages. Photographs, bibliography and index.
Hardcover. The Hague, Mouton, reprint, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated green boards, 197 pages. Translated from the French. Early 'rational' language study. Originally published in 1975. Preface by Arthur Danto. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 2nd pr., 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 502 pages, b&w illustrations. "Superb...A remarkable achievement, by far the best general account of the war now available. It is critical, insightful, and rooted in a wealth of archival sources; it brings far more of the Mexican experience than any other work...and it clearly demonstrates the social and cultural dynamics that shaped Mexican and American politics and military force." -Journal of American History It has long been held that the United States emerged victorious from the Mexican-American War because its democratic system was more stable and its citizens more loyal. But this award-winning history shows that Americans dramatically underestimated the strength of Mexican patriotism and failed to see how bitterly Mexicans resented their claims to national and racial superiority. Their fierce resistance surprised US leaders, who had expected a quick victory with few casualties. By focusing on how ordinary soldiers and civilians in both countries understood and experienced the conflict, The Dead March offers a clearer picture of the brief, bloody war that redrew the map of North America. Clean copy.
Softcover. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1st pbk, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 411 pages, b&w illustrations. Tracing the erosion of white elite paternalism in Jim Crow Virginia, Douglas Smith reveals a surprising fluidity in southern racial politics in the decades between World War I and the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. Smith draws on official records, private correspondence, and letters to newspapers from otherwise anonymous Virginians to capture a wide and varied range of black and white voices. African Americans emerge as central characters in the narrative, as Smith chronicles their efforts to obtain access to public schools and libraries, protection under the law, and the equitable distribution of municipal resources. This acceleration of black resistance to white supremacy in the years before World War II precipitated a crisis of confidence among white Virginians, who, despite their overwhelming electoral dominance, felt increasingly insecure about their ability to manage the color line on their own terms. Exploring the everyday power struggles that accompanied the erosion of white authority in the political, economic, and educational arenas, Smith uncovers the seeds of white Virginians' resistance to civil rights activism in the second half of the twentieth century. Light marking to 10 pages, otherwise clean, very good.
Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 311 pages. As the Civil War drew to a close, newly emancipated black women workers made their way to Atlanta-the economic hub of the newly emerging urban and industrial south-in order to build an independent and free life on the rubble of their enslaved past. In an original and dramatic work of scholarship, Tera Hunter traces their lives in the postbellum era and reveals the centrality of their labors to the African-American struggle for freedom and justice. Household laborers and washerwomen were constrained by their employers' domestic worlds but constructed their own world of work, play, negotiation, resistance, and community organization. Hunter follows African-American working women from their newfound optimism and hope at the end of the Civil War to their struggles as free domestic laborers in the homes of their former masters. We witness their drive as they build neighborhoods and networks and their energy as they enjoy leisure hours in dance halls and clubs. We learn of their militance and the way they resisted efforts to keep them economically depressed and medically victimized. Finally, we understand the despair and defeat provoked by Jim Crow laws and segregation and how they spurred large numbers of black laboring women to migrate north. Clean copy.
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.
Hardcover. Locust NJ, Jervey Close Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering. 128 pages with index, bibliography, b&w illustrations. Using a collection of eyewitness accounts, diaries, logbooks, military papers, newspapers and magazines of the times, the author looks at the long neglected history of this fascinating part of the New Jersey coast, from lower New York Bay and the Atlantic Highlands to Sandy Hook. Folded dust jacket laid in. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, The Dial Press, 2nd pr., 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardccover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 497 pages, b&w illustrations. An overview of what entertained America for 200 years, from opera to comics. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, Revised Ed., 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in dark green, 456 pages, b&w illustrations, map endpapers. INSCRIBED BY BEARSE opposite title page. Tight, clean revised second edition of this volume in the Works Progress Administration's admirable "American Guide Series". No dust jacket. Publisher's presentation copy with slip tipped onto inside front cover.
Softcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st pbk., 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 267 pages. This book argues that modern presidents could learn much from Franklin Roosevelt's method of organizing his presidency. Roosevelt consciously avoided a large, functionally specialized White House bureaucracy. Instead, he developed staff agencies composed mostly of civil servants and personally managed them using competitive administrative practices. Matthew Dickinson is the first scholar to reconstruct the methods FDR used and his research suggests modern presidents could benefit greatly by studying them. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Rochester NY, The Democrat and Chronicle, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and soiled dust jacket. 154 pages, b&w photos. Reprints a series that ran in The Democrat and Chronicle in thr 1940s, an account of the Finger Lakes region of New York, all rich in scenic beauty, history and lore. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 354 pages, b&w illustrations. Describing Washington Square, Henry James wrote that it was "as if the wine of life had been poured for you, in advance, into some pleasant old punch bowl." Created in 1826 through the visionary efforts of philanthropist and New York City mayor Philip Hone, the elegant and vibrant square anchors one of the world's most storied neighborhoods, Greenwich Village. Today, the quarter retains much of the charm it possessed in earlier eras when it served as a mecca for artists and activists, intellectuals and indigents, brahmins and bohemians. Yet its history has been clouded by half-truths and myths, while some of its most colorful and influential residents-and its role in the city's growth-lie undiscovered. Neighborhood historian and preservationist Luther S. Harris has spent twenty years researching the real story of New York's social and cultural hub, and in Around Washington Square he has produced the definitive history of Greenwich Village, illustrated with more than two hundred photographs and engravings, many from his private collection. Harris's prodigious research efforts among city council minutes, real-estate tax and conveyance ledgers, directories, family histories, architectural records, institutional and business inventories, newspapers, private collections, and public archives have uncovered surprising facts about the origins of Greenwich Village and its influence on the development of Fifth Avenue and upper Manhattan. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Hill and Wang, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, stated First Edition, 210 pages. Clean copy. A study of the religious revival that found it's most spectacular expression i Rochester, New York. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Mountain View NY, self-published, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket, 371 pages, b&w illustrations including two double page maps in rear. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. Previous owner's signature on same page. Otherwise clean, no markings.
Hardcover. Knoxville, University of Tennessee Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 357 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Burlington, Chauncy Goodrich, 1st, 1851, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, full leather with a red and gilt paste down on the spine.1850 on spine. 815 pages. Front hinge weak, previous owner's inscription, signatures on end papers, worn calf covers, internally VG w/ light foxing.
Softcover. Urbana IL, University of Illinois Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 198 pages. This text depicts both the ordinary occupation and ethnic and racial diversity in America at the turn of the century. Some speak of farms, others speak of factory sweatshops. Katzman and Tuttle have drawn upon 75 brief autobiographies or "lifelets" of working-class Americans published between 1902 and 1906 in The Independent magazine. Among the seventeen life stories included here are those of a Lithuanian stockyards worker in Chicago, a Polish sweatshop girl and a Chinese merchant in New York City, a black peon in rural Georgia, and a Swedish farmer in Minnesota. Together they provide an unmediated and seldom-seen view of American life during this period. Clean copy.
Softcover. Shelburne VT, Red Barn Books, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 124 pages, illustrated in b&w and color. The true story of an extraordinary children's summer camp during the 1920s and 1930s, where teenagers built and sailed their own 75 foot long "pirate ship" on Lake Champlain. Over eleven incredible summers, Francis Godfrey Baker, engineer, boat builder, and visionary, led groups of intrepid teenagers on an odyssey of life-changing experiences while traveling aboard their pirate ship, Aladdin. Baker believed that a little ingenuity and determination turned boys into men; he steered them on a course of events through raging weather and water, meetings with extraordinary people and self-sustainability. He showed them the amazing power that comes through teamwork and camaraderie. This is the first in-depth account of the Adventurers' Camp, and the first time rare photographs of the boys' activities have been presented. INSCRIPTION BY THE AUTHOR on the half-title page. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Lieber Publishing Co., reprint, 1896, Book: Good, Hardcover, pebbled brown cloth, 800 pages plus ads. Gilt lettering on spine. A collection of codeworks for use in telegrams, compiled by Benjamin Franklin Lieber. 'Lieber's Standard Telegraphic Code' is a simplified and condensed list of codewords used for telegrams. Lists of codeworks were often compiled from the 1870s to the 1950s as telegrams charged per word. The codewords were created to be able to send longer messages for a lower cost. Some of the codewords included in this work are 'Adeschiamo', meaning 'is it a good time to buy', 'Assipondio', meaning 'according to our view of the matter', 'Atrafago', meaning 'one month', 'Brassement', meaning 'endeavor to settle it in a friendly manner', and more. Both hinges cracked otherwise sound and clean.
Softcover. Montpelier, State of Vermont, 1st, 1869, Book: Good, Softcover, 344 pages, light foxing throughout, cover page wear and tears, especially along spine. Lightly soiled but tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 411 pages. Blue pictorial cover. Blue boards with faded gilt title to spine. Overall, a clean, tight copy. A look at the names given to places, bodies of water etc. and as to why a certain name was given.
Softcover. Vermont Woman's Suffage Assoc., 1899-1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Minutes of their annual minutes held in various towns in Vermont, starting with the 15th meeting on June 1 and 2, 1899 to the 26th in 1913. MISSING 23rd, 24th & 25th. Also included: The Vermont Equal Suffrage Association Year Books for 1913 and 1915. All staple bound in very good condition. The booklet for the 22nd Meeting has detached covers but all there.
Softcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st pbk, 1969, Book: Very Good, Softcover, 334 pages. Study of the living conditions of the Black Americans and the changes - migration to the cities which in the mid 20th century led to riots & social unrest. The authors traveled all over the USA & interviewed many directly involved in the rioting. Different responses to ghetto life, ranging from the apathetic to the militant, from the skid-row bum to the affluent, from the head of a numbers racket to ministers. Observes the riots in Watts, Houston, Hunters Point (Oakland), Newark, Detroit, and Orangeburg,
Softcover. NY, Viking Press, reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 306 pages, b&w illustrations. This book tries to tell where the Negroes came from, how they were enslaved in Africa, how they were purchased by sea captains, how they were packed into the hold like other merchandise (though with greater losses in transit), and how the survivors were sold in West Indian and American markets. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, New York University Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 274 pages. Covers political and economic developments, particularly those involving unions and employment, from 1777 to 1965. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2nd pr., 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with elaborate decoration in gilt, green and black on front cover and spine. Pages are deckle-edged with gilt on top. Frontis. illustration of Plymouth in 1622 with tissue guard. Information on Maine: Portland; Massachusetts: Rutland, Salem, Cambridge, Concord, Boston, Plymouth, Cape Cod, Deerfield; Rhode Island: Providence, Newport; and Connecticut: Hartford, New Haven. B/W illustrations. 599 pages, indexed. Extra illustrated by former owner with photo clippings tipped-in. Large folding map titled "Boston and its Environs in 1775" facing page 206. Fascinating histories of Early American towns, biographies of individual Pilgrims and settlers. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press , 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Timothy Connor, a rebel sailing on an American privateer during the Revolutionary War, was captured and imprisoned for 2 years; keeping a book of 56 "coarse sailor songs" he heard or read, and here are the lyrics! with an introduction on privateering and prison life "from the bottom up." 164 pages, Clean copy.
Softcover. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 327 pages. For decades, historians have primarily analyzed charges of black-on-white rape in the South through accounts of lynching or manifestly unfair trial proceedings, suggesting that white southerners invariably responded with extralegal violence and sham trials when white women accused black men of assault. Lisa Lindquist Dorr challenges this view with a careful study of legal records, newspapers, and clemency files from early-twentieth-century Virginia. White Virginians' inflammatory rhetoric, she argues, did not necessarily predict black men's ultimate punishment. Bump to top rear corner otherwise very good, clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 2nd pr., 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 346 pages, b&w illustrations. Argues that Cook actually did beat Peary to the pole and the assault against Cook was largely led by Peary and his cadre. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. NY, Quadrangle Books, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 270 pages. Book is sound and bright but has occasional ink marking to text.
NY, Basic Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 793 pages. In this exceptionally innovative work, Walter McDougall projects on a large screen four hundred years of exciting voyages of discovery, pioneering feats, engineering marvels, political plots and business chicanery, racial clashes and brutal wars. It is a chronicle complete with little-known facts and turning points, but always focused on the remarkable people at the center of events, among them the America-loving Japanese ambassador to Washington on the eve of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Russian builder of the Trans-Siberian Railway, and a Hawaiian queen during the first period of Western competition for the islands.Let the Sea Make a Noise . . . is a gripping account of the rise and fall of the empires in the last, vast, unexplored corner of the habitable earth -- an area occupying one-sixth of the globe. Clean copy.
Hardcover. San Francisco, CA, John Howell-Books, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Limited to 5000 copies. 130 pages. 6 color illustrations. Color frontispiece. The original narrative, hitherto unpublished by Father Vicente Maria and further details by participants in the first explorations of the Bay's waters. Illustrations by Louis Choris in brush and pencil who was at San Francisco in 1816. Blue dust jacket with wear. Sun-fading to spine. Blue boards with gilt title to spine and front. Previous owner sticker on front flyleaf. Overall, a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Manchester VT, Town of Manchester , 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth with gilt lettering and design on cover and spine. 317 pages, endpapers map, b&w illustrations. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The colonists who settled the backcountry in eighteenth-century New England were recruited from the social fringe, people who were desperate for land, autonomy, and respectability and who were willing to make a hard living in a rugged environment. Mark Williams' microhistorical approach gives voice to the settlers, proprietors, and officials of the small colonial settlements that became Granby, Connecticut, and Ashfield, Massachusetts. These people-often disrespectful, disorderly, presumptuous, insistent, and defiant-were drawn to the ideology of the Revolution in the 1760s and 1770s that stressed equality, independence, and property rights. The backcountry settlers pushed the emerging nation's political culture in a more radical direction than many of their leaders or the Founding Fathers preferred and helped put a democratic imprint on the new nation. This accessibly written book will resonate with all those interested in the social and political relationships of early America.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow and Company, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 369 pages, b&w maps. Edge wear, chipping to price-clipped dust jacket. Light smudging to top edge. Else a clean, tight copy. "Reveals something of the majesty of the westward movement of the American people as they grappled to win and hold the first great West beyond the Appalachians."
Hardcover. NY, MacMillan, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 246 pages, b&w photos. Light wear to pictorial dust jacket. Overall a nice, clean copy. Ignoring death threats and a foiled bomb plot, Ms. Baker stalked the back alleys and Maoist communes of Berkeley and Oakland, pointing the way for police and other reporters assigned to the story. Now, Ms. Baker tells the story as she couldn't tell it on the air--the twisted story of the seven-headed cobra and the conversion of the mild apolitical heiress into the armed and dangerous Tania.
Hardcover. London, Souvenir Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 251 pages. Illustrated with phtographs, line drawings and maps. Translated from the Dutch by Adrienne Dixon. The autobiography of a Dutch youth who "joined the German navy in a spirit of bravado, only to find himself trapped in the final, agonising throes of Germany's defeat." Subsequent tours in the French Foreign Legion and Korea led from his being a devotee of war to a confirmed pacifist. A fancnating life told with honesty and passion.
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Used & Antiquarian History Books
The history section spans American and world history in used, rare and out-of-print editions, from local and regional chronicles to Civil War narratives and primary sources. Titles include Joseph Judge's Season of Fire: The Confederate Strike on Washington, Letters of Abraham Lincoln (Heretofore Unpublished) and the two-volume History of Pittsfield, MA.
You will also find exploration and regional accounts such as A Summer in Alaska and Brian L. Knight's No Braver Deeds: The Story of the Equinox Guards. Multi-volume sets, signed copies and antiquarian printings appear here regularly, making the shelves worth checking for scarce and out-of-print references.
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 "Art and Politics in Late Mediaeval and Early Renaissance Italy, 1250-1500 by: Charles M. Rosenberg")
 "INSIDE S.O.E. The first full story of Special Operations Executive in Western Europe, 1940-45 by: E.H. Cookridge")
 "The Confederate Carpetbaggers by: Sutherland, Daniel E")
 "Jack Tars and Commodores: The American Navy 1783-1815 by: Fowler Jr., William M.")
 "Flight Into Oblivion (SIGNED COPY) by: Hanna, A. J.")
 "Modern Medea: A Family Story of Slavery and Child-Murder from the Old South by: Weisenburger, Steven")
 "The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush by: Morse, Kathryn")
 "Anti-Arminians: The Anglican Reformed Tradition from Charles II to George I (Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs) by: Hampton, Stephen")
 "John Locke, Toleration and Early Enlightenment Culture (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History) by: Marshall, John")
 "General and Rational Grammar: The Port Royal Grammar Janua Linguarum Series Minor No. 208 by: Antoine Arnauld; Claude Lancelot; Jacques Rieux Translator; Bernard E. R")
 "The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War by: Guardino, Peter")
 "Managing White Supremacy: Race, Politics, and Citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia by: J. Douglas Smith")
 "To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors after the Civil War by: Hunter, Tera W.")
 "The Autumn of the Middle Ages by: Johan Huizinga")
 "Nauvoo to the Hook: An Iconography of a Barrier Beach by: Moss, George H")
 "The Book Of The Archpriest Of Hita. (libro De Bien Amor) by: Singleton, Mack (Trans.)")
 "The Unembarrassed Muse: The Popular Arts in America by: Nye, Russell")
 "Vermont: A Guide to the Green Mountain State (INSCRIBED COPY) by: Bearse, Ray (editor) Works Progress Administration")
 "Bitter Harvest: FDR, Presidential Power and the Growth of the Presidential Branch by: Dickinson, Matthew")
 "The Lakes Country by: Merrill, Arch")
 "Around Washington Square: An Illustrated History of Greenwich Village by: Harris, Luther S.")
 "A Shopkeeper's Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837. by: Johnson, Paul E.")
 "Water Over the Dam at Mountain View in the Adirondacks - Early Resort Days in the Great North Woods (SIGNED COPY) by: Hyde, Floy S.")
 "Wilderness Calling: The Hardeman Family in the American Westward Movement, 1750-1900 by: Hardeman, Nicholas Perkins")
 "History of the Town of Poultney, Vermont, from its settlement to the year 1875 with family and biographical sketches and incidents by: Joslin, J. B. Frisbie & F. Ruggl")
 "Compiled Statutes of the State of Vermont Being Such of the Revised Statutes, and of the Public Acts and Laws Passed Since, as are Now in Force: To Which are Prefixed the Constitutions of the United States and of the State of Vermont")
 "Plain Folk: The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans by: Katzman, David M. And Tuttle, William M., Jr.")
 "The Pirates of Dingley Dell: A True Swashbuckling Adventure at a Vermont Boys' Camp by: Corbin, Bret")
 "Lieber's Standard Telegraphic Code by: B. Franklin Lieber")
 "Laws of Vermont 1869: Acts and Resolves Passed by the General Assembly of the State of Vermont by: N/A")
 "Names on the Globe by: Stewart, George R.")
 "13 different booklets published for the Vermont Woman's Suffrage Association 1899-1915 (along with 11 duplicates) by: N/A")
 "Life Styles in the Black Ghetto by: McCord, William, J. Howard, B. Friedberg, E. Harwood")
 "Black Cargoes; A History of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1518-1865 by: Daniel P. Mannix, Malcolm Cowley")
 "Circle of Discrimination: An Economic and Social Study of the Black Man in New York by: Bloch, Herman D.")
 "Historic Towns of New England by: Powell Lyman P. (Editor)")
 "A Sailor's Songbag: An American Rebel in an English Prison, 1777-1779 by: Carey, George G.(ed.)")
 "White Women, Rape, and the Power of Race in Virginia, 1900-1960 by: Dorr, Lisa Lindquist")
 "Winner Lose All; Dr. Cook and the Theft of the North Pole by: Eames, Hugh")
 "Slavery in the Americas, A Comparative Study of Virginia and Cuba by: Herbert S Klein")
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