Beating apartheid and building the future
South African Institute of Race Relations, January 1990. Paper Back. More
History
Conversations with Chester Himes (Literary Conversations Series)
University Press of Mississippi, November 1995. Trade Paperback. The late African American novelist Chester Himes (1909-1984) is well known both in America and Europe for his moving depictions of black men destroyed by a pervasive racism and for darkly humorous stories of Harlem's underworld. His novels and stories are all..... More
Correspondence of James K. Polk: July - December 1845 (Correspondence of James K Polk)
University of Tennessee Press, April 2004. Hardcover. In the second half of 1845 the focus of Polk s correspondence shifted from those issues relating to the formation of his administration and distribution of part patronage to those that would give shape and consequence to his presidency: the admission of Texas..... More
Counterfeit Justice: The Judicial Odyssey of Texas Freedwoman Azeline Hearne (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War)
Louisiana State Univ Pr, May 2009. Hardcover. For many of the forty years of her life as a slave, Azeline Hearne cohabitated with her wealthy, unmarried master, Samuel R. Hearne. She bore him four children, only one of whom survived past early childhood. When Sam died shortly after the Civil..... More
Days of Destruction: Augustine Thomas Smythe and the Civil War Siege of Charleston (Non Series)
University of South Carolina Press, June 2017. First Edition. Cloth. In Days of Destruction, editors W. Eric Emerson and Karen Stokes chronicle the events of the siege of Charleston, South Carolina, through a collection of letters written by Augustine Thomas Smythe, a well-educated young man from a prominent Charleston family..... More
Engaging Europe: Rethinking a Changing Continent
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, May 2007. Trade Paperback. What and where and who is Europe? This unique collection contends that Europe cannot be defined as simply a particular geographic location or a group of citizens who inhabit the same place and share a culture. Instead, Europe is a question to..... More
How to Lose a War at Sea: Foolish Plans and Great Naval Blunders
William Morrow & Company, September 2013. Trade Paperback. An engrossing compendium of high-seas military disasters From the days of the Spanish Armada to the modern age of aircraft carriers, battles have been bungled just as badly on water as they have been on land. Some blunders were the result of..... More
The Life of Rev. John Emory, D.D.
George Lane, January 1841. Hardcover. Hinges weak. Foxing. Ownership name/date (1841) in ink. Otherwise, solid. More
Mao's Lost Children: The Stories of Those Who Were Rusticated During the Cultural Revolution
MerwinAsia, August 2015. Trade Paperback. This is a collection of memoirs by more than fifty Chinese who as young people during the rule of Mao Zedong were rusticated to Hainan Island to clear the jungle for rubber plantations. The stories tell of suffering, hardship and disillusionment, but also of joys..... More
Mirrors of Violence: Communities, Riots and Survivors in South Asia (Oxford India Paperbacks)
Oxford University Press-India, January 1990. Trade Paperback. Light edge wear and shelf wear on the cover. Binding tight. Text clean and clear. More
Napoleon: On War
Oxford University Press, July 2015. Hardcover. This is the book on war that Napoleon never had the time or the will to complete. In exile on the island of Saint-Helena, the deposed Emperor of the French mused about a great treatise on the art of war, but in the end..... More
Naval Chronicle: The Contemporary Record of the Royal Navy at War
Stackpole Books, October 1999. First American. Cloth. From 1799 to 1819 more than 1,000 pages of British naval news and views were published every year in The Naval Chronicle, including action reports, intelligence of foreign naval matters, and biographies of officers. In short, it was the most important original account..... More
The Record of Aggression 1958 - 1967
Israel Information Services, July 1967. Paper Back. Stapled Pamphlet. More
Revolutions: How They Changed History and What They Mean Today
Thames & Hudson, September 2020. Hardcover. Whether it's because their rhetoric--"liberty, fraternity, equality"--articulates those ideals to which we most aspire, or because we are shocked by the destructive forces that are unleashed when social conventions break down, revolutions hold a distinct place in the popular imagination. And while all revolutions..... More
Selected Utterances of Marcus Moziah Garvey 'Africa For the African'
Cleage Group Publications, 1990. Stapled Soft Cover. 34 pages. More
Shadows of Tender Fury: The Letters and Communiques of Subcomandante Marcos and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation
Monthly Review Press, January 1995. Trade Paperback. Clean, without markings. More
Sieges of the Middle Ages
Barnes & Noble Inc, July 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Minor shelf wear on the jacket. More
Six Plays by Corneille and Racine: The Cid; Cinna; Phaedra; Andromache; Britannicus; Athaliah. Modern Library #194
Modern Library, January 1959. Cloth. In mildly edgeworn dust jacket. More
Social Exclusion and Mobility in Brazil (Directions in Development)
World Bank Publications, January 2008. Trade Paperback. Brazil is a country of sharp disparities. The gap between the richest and the poorest citizens is one of the largest in the world. Inequality in Brazil is well-known, but its low mobility is not. Until now, few studies have sought to investigate..... More
Social Mobility in the Caste System in India: An Interdisciplinary Symposium
Mouton De Gruyter, December 1968. Soft Cover. Covers chipped. More
The Society of Siam: Selected articles for the Siam Society's centenary
Siam Society, January 2004. Trade Paperback. More
Southeast Asia in a New Era: Ten Countries, One Region in Asean
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. Trade Paperback. More
Thai literary traditions
Institute of Thai Studies, Chulalongkorn University, January 1995. Trade Paperback. Two corners bumped. Otherwise unmarked. More
Transition to Christianity: Art of Late Antiquity, 3rd-7th Century AD
Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, January 2011. Hardcover. More
