Search Results: History from Birkitt's Books

Benediction Classics, 2014-08-14. hardcover. Very Good. 6x1x9. Pictorial boards have minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Argonauts of the Western Pacific: An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea is a 1922 ethnography by Bronisław Malinowski, which has had enormous impact on the ethnographic genre. The book is about the Trobriand people who live on the small Kiriwana island chain northeast of the island of New Guinea. It is part of Malinowski's trilogy on the Trobrianders, including The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia (1929) and Coral Gardens and Their Magic

T & T Publishing, Inc, 1970. Paperback. Acceptable. 0x0x0. Covers are worn, chipping to the spine, cover is torn at the stapled binding, front endpage has a name, pages lightly tanned.

2012-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 10x9x1. Jacket has have minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Winner of an exceptional two Gold Publisher's Medals, AT THEIR DOORSTEP is lush with 157 exclusive private, vintage, photographic fairground postcards from early 1900s Paris saved through carnival generations and captioned with family memories and entertaining anecdotes. Hundreds of carnival families traveled from neighborhood to neighborhood of Paris bringing street entertainment to tens of thousands of hard working, exuberant residents thrilled to escape the drudgery and boredom of their difficult, daily lives. The fabulous shows and tents, enormous steam driven rides and family circuses were inexpensive, fun entertainment, but second to experiencing the newest, otherwise inaccessible 20th century industrial inventions and novelties - an automobile and airplane ride, bright electric lighting, photography, the cinema and much more. Wonderfully entertaining and… Read More

Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, 1996. Hardcover. Very Good. 12x10x0. Jacket has Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. "Photographic history of Mexican diplomacy in the decades after World War I"-

Hakluyt Society, 1991-12-28. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. No dust jacket, Blue cloth boards have minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Jean Barbot, who served as a commercial agent on French slave-trading voyages to West Africa in 1678-9 and 1681-2, in 1683 began an account of the Guinea coast, based partly on his voyage journals (only one of which is extant) and partly on previous printed sources. The work was interrupted by his flight to England, as a Huguenot refugee, in 1685, and not finished until 1688. When Barbot found that his lengthy French account could not be published, he rewrote it in English, enlarging it even further, and then continually revising it up to his death in 1712. The manuscript was eventually published in 1732. Barbot's book had considerable influence on later European attitudes to Black Africa and the Atlantic slave trade and in modern writings on both subjects is frequently cited as evidence. The French account serves as the base for the present… Read More

Pen and Sword, 2007-04-16. Paperback. Acceptable. 8x5x0. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages underlining and bracketing. On 14 April 1471 the forces of Lancaster under the Earl of Warwick and those of York under Edward IV clashed at Barnet in Hertfordshire in one of the decisive battles of the Wars of the Roses. In a bloody encounter the two armies fought to resolve a bitter dynastic dispute that had already fuelled twenty years of war. Warwick's death and Edward's victory changed the course of English history.In this new guide to the battle, David Clark, one of the leading battlefield historians, gives a gripping account of the fighting and of the intrigue that led to it, and he provides a full tour of the battlefield itself.

London, England: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8x5x1. Jacket has minor wear and is enclosed in a mylar jacket, binding sound, front endpage has a tiny cigarette burn? else internally clean.

John Carter Brown Library, 2003-09-30. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 11x9x1. Fine/Fine. Minimal wear, binding tight, internally clean. Catalogue of an exhibition of rare books, maps, charts, prints and manuscripts relating to maritime history from the John Carter Brown Library.

Mouton,, 1970-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. No dust jacket, minor shelf wear, binding tight, front endpage has a name, pages clean and unmarked. Contents include: I The Accession of the Habsburgs in Croatia;II The Political Organization of Croatia and Slavonia under Habsburg Rule; III Ferdinand I and the Croats 1527-1564;IV The Founding of the Military Frontiers;V The Siege of Sziget 1566 and the Peasant Revolt of 1573;VI The Turkish Wars to the Peace of Zvita Török 1606;VII Beware the Hands of Senj;XII Maria Theresa and the Croatian Urbarial Legislation;XIII Maria Theresa and the Croats 1756-1780;XIV The Josephine Era 1780=1790;XV The Short Reign of Leopold II 1790-1792;XVI The SocioEconomic Development of Eighteenth Century Croatia-Slavonia;XVII Education and Religion;XVIII Croatian Literature 1500=1700;XIX Eighteenth Century Croatian LiteratureVIII Seventeenth Century Croatia;IX The Zrini-Frankapan Plot 1663-1671;X From Vienna to Passarowitz 1683-1718;XI The Pragmatic… Read More

Cahokia Mounds Museum Society, 1992-05-01. 2nd Printing. Paperback. Very Good. 8x5x5. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked.

White Lotus USA, 1997-12-31. Paperback. Very Good. 5x8x0. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. This book covers the turbulent and dramatic history of Cambodia. Through the format of a regular diary we see a country emerging from the disaster of the Khmer Rouge era, only to find itself embroiled in a protracted war. The first volume discusses the ups and downs of the resistance, the secretive life of the communist party, the suffereing of the people, the emergence of new leaders, like Prince Ranariddh and Hun Sen and the continuous efforts of Prince Sihanouk to bring peace to his troubled land.

Westminster, MD: Heritage Books, 2006. paperback. Very Good. 5x0x8. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. he journals of Christopher Gist reflect the surveyor's experiences and observations while exploring the Ohio Territory in the early 1750s. They provide a unique record of early interactions with Native Americans during this period of British expansion that precipitated the French and Indian War.

Hakluyt Society, 1999-01-31. Hardcover. Very Good. 8x5x1. No dust jacket, blue cloth boards have minor wear binding sound, internally clean. A special volume of essays to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Society, with a full listing and index of Hakluyt Society publications 1847-1995. Containing: P.E.H. Hair, ’The Hakluyt Society: from Past to Future’; R.C. Bridges, ’William Desborough Cooley and the Foundation of the Hakluyt Society’; Tony Campbell, ’R.H. Major and the British Museum’; R.J. Bingle, ’Henry Yule: India and Cathay’; Ann Savours, ’Clements Markham: longest serving Officer, most prolific Editor’; C.F. Beckingham, ’William Foster and the Records of the India Office’; D.B. Quinn, ’R.A. Skelton of the Map Room’; Michael Strachan,… Read More

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014-01-30. Hardcover. Very Good. 9x6x0. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked.vThe Dawn of the Cheap Press provides the first detailed study of the mid-Victorian campaign for the repeal of the taxes on knowledge for over a hundred years. Using the recently discovered papers of the Association for the Promotion of the Repeal of the Taxes on Knowledge and taking advantage of new forms of research made possible by the digitisation of nineteenth century newspapers, it assesses the impact of the removal of the last surviving legal disabilities on the newspaper industry, the nature of journalism, and the cultures and practices of newspaper reading. The book demonstrates that the campaign against the taxes on knowledge retained broad popular appeal, and played an important role in the politics of mid-Victorian budgets. It not only makes a seminal contribution to the history of the nineteenth century press and print culture, but also illuminates the culture and… Read More

Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1979. Hardcover. Good/Good. 9x6x1. Jacket is rubbed, chipped, edges tattered, spine has superficial loss due to sticker removal, binding sound, internally clean. The book focuses on the milestones in Delta's evolution, the personalities that contributed most significantly to the development of the firm.

Pigeon Point Pub, 1999-01-01. Unknown Binding. Very Good. 8x5x0. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Within days of the death of Princess Diana, Rayelan Allan received a call from a nervous European. The caller said Diana had been sacrificed to create the New World Religion. He went on to say that the place of her death, Pont de L'Ala was more than a Temple to the Goddess Diana. It was an ancient Hospice, called the Bridge of Souls. Those killed at Pont de L'Alma go directly to Heaven and sit at the Throne of God. Robert Anton Wilson calls this theory of Diana's death, The most intricately interesting scenario to emerge... Quoted from Everything is Under Control.

London, England: Thames & Hudson, 1981. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 0x0x0. Jacket has light wear, binding sound, internally clean. Here, astonishingly after almost four hundred years, is a hitherto unpublished witness account of Elizabethan England. Describing a visit in the summer of 1600, it is part of the Latin diary which young Baron Waldstein, from Moravia, kept during his grand tour of Europe.

London, England: Egypt Travel, 2015. Hardcover. Very Good. Unknown date of publication, 54 pages, includes a map on the rear endpage, contains information on each oasis, some suggested tours, and highlights of points of interest.

Essex County Tourist Association, 1974-01-01. Paperback. Good. 0x0x0. Moderate wear to wraps, stapled binding, internally clean, pages have underlining in pen. A history of Essex County, Canada.

London, England: A. & C. Black, Ltd, 1934-01-01. Hardcover. Good/Missing. 0x0x0. Blue cloth boards have light soiling, binding sound, pages age-toned. Pull-out maps in very good condition.