Unmarked text. Previous owner's name on cover. 64p. Glossary. Over 500 illustrations depicting the history of Britain in the Middle Ages courtesy of the British Museum, the London Museum, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Dust jacket (unclipped) under clear mylar cover. Index. 409p. Measures 7.25x10.25 inches. Essays, originally delivered as the 2010 Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., Lectures in the History of Cartography at the Newberry Library, encompass more than two centuries and three continents--Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Ranging from the late eighteenth century through the mid-twentieth. Topics include mapping and national identity in late colonial Mexico, the enduring complications created by the partition of British India, the racialized organization of space in apartheid and post-apartheid Sout... View More...
Unmarked. Includes "Orgasm, Generation and the Politics of Reproductive Biology" by Thomas Laquer, "Skeletons in the Closet: The First Illustrations of the Female Skeleton in Nineteenth Century Anatomy" by Londa Schiebinger, "The Body Versus the Social Body in the Works of Thomas Malthus and Henry Mayhew" by Catherine Gallagher, "Cage au folles: Sensation and Gender in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White" by D. A. Miller. Also articles by Mary Poovey, on Victorian Women, Laura Engelstein on Russian doctors and syphillis, Alain Corbin on sexuality in 19th century France and Christine Buci-Gluck... View More...
Unmarked text. Copy 210 of a limited edition of 500 copies. 115p. Index. 2 illustrations. 3 maps. Bibliography. Index.
Steven van der Hagen (1563-1621) was the first admiral of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). He made three visits to the East Indies. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Text in French. Measures 33x10.5 inches unfolded. Folded into 8 panels, 4 on each side. Includes the Family trees of the kings of France: Bourbon, Merovingines, Carolingiens, Capetiens and Valois. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Edge wear. Compiled and edited by Barton H. Barbour. Introduction by David J. Weber. Illustrations by Andrew Burns. 75p. Bibliography. Measures 9.25x8 inches.
Recounts some of the hair-raising and humorous exploits of the Mountain Men and the Rocky Mountain fur trade.The heyday of the mountain men spanned only a few short decades. By the 1840s wagon pioneers were flooding into the West. And the free-roaming mountain men disappeared. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Dust jacket (unclipped) under clear mylar cover. 224p. Measures 9.75x10.75 inches. Color reproductions.
Gathered from five centuries of exploration, over 120 maps of oceans and continents, mountains and forests, cities and shires, presented in chronological order. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Loose errata sheet included. 37p. Bibliographic references. Topics include how large is the Soviet defense budget, current economic prospects, etc. • •• View More...
Unmarked. Illustrated. Features genocide in Rwanda (Alex de Waal) the Greeks and anthropology William Robertson Smith, legal anthropology (Chris Fuller), and more. 28p. Measures 8.25x11.75 inches. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Some chipping on clipped dust jacket. Previous owner's name on front end page. Bibliography. Maps on end pages. English translation by Norman Kurtin.
Using interviews, analysis, descriptions, and photographs, the Bergs offer a comprehensive examination of what they see as a late 20th century India in crisis. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Includes a tribute to Dorothy Lois Riker (1904-1994) by Lana Ruegamer, Margaret Black Tatum on the Civil War Letters of William Allen Clark, "A Letter from the Front: Vicksburg, 1863" by Erich L. Ewald, the Indiana Archive since 1945, Reveiws, etc. pp246-358 • • • View More...
Defines Darwinism in the context of 19th century thought and traces the scientific, philosophical, and religious reactions to the theory. • • • View More...
Ex-library. Unmarked text. A few pencil marks on front end page. Rebound in a permabind with a clear front cover. Section with 16 color plates. 78p. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Report includes black-and-white illustrations and a map. Bibliography. 32p. Measures 5.5x8.5 inches.
Report discusses the circumstances and consequences of massive displacements of population, including the armed conflict and prolonged and escalating violence in Angola and failed agricultural policies and poor weather conditions. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Slight foxing on the cover. B/W illustrations throughout. Topics include a short editorial on The Wattis Hall of Man and articles on the material of music, atomics at Amchitka, In the Himalaya, and Sunflower trees of the Galapagos. 33p. Measures 8.5x11 inches. • • • View More...
Features Leonardo da Vinci's World Map by Christopher Tyler, A Map Colorist's Tale by Dorothy Raphaely, Maps of the American Colonial Frontier by Ken Habeeb, and more. 51p. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Unclipped dust jacket. Index. Former counterterrorism czar for Bill Clinton and George W. Bush reveals the Bush Administration's lack of interest in al Qaeda prior to 9/11. 304p. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Worn cover and edges. Material covers a number of general ideological questions: Is the US an imperialist country? Why American imperialism is responsible for the war danger, some lies about the Soviet Union, etc. 35p. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Hampton Lectures in America, Number 5. Delivered at Columbia University 1952. Eighth printing.
4 chapters: Science and Technology in the Last Decade, The Changing Scientific Scene, 1900-1950, Science and Human Conduct, Science and Spiritual Values. 111p. No dust jacket. • • • View More...
Articles by Suzanne Berger, Edmondo Berselli, Renato Brunetta, Letizia Paoli, Massimo Livi-Bacci, et al. 185p. Issued as Vol. 130, No. 3 of the Proceedings of the Academy. • • • View More...
