History from Glynn's Books

London: Croom Helm, 1978. Hb, 228pp. Good in a Good dj which has sunned spine. Previous owner's name on fep. Examines the social, economic and political consequences for Iran in the five years following the boom in oil prices in 1973. In three main parts: The creation of modern Iran; Cycle of the boom; The system of power.. Hard… Read more about this item

London: The Iran Society, 2003. Pb, 160pp, frontis. and b/w photos. Good, mark on front cover, contents clean. Collection of writings on Anglo-Iranian relations by Sir Denis Wright, a diplomat and author with a longstanding interest in Iran and in Persian culture. Examples of topics include " Samuel Manesty and his unauthorised embassy to the court of Fath ' Ali… Read more about this item

Baltimore/London: John Hopkins University Press, 1988. Pb, xvi + 331pp. Good, light wear, previous owner's inscription on fep. Examines the effect of Khomeini and the Iranian fundamentalist revolution on its neighbours; the reasons for its origins; and a critical analysis on US foreign policy in the Middle East with a new epilogue on the Iranian-American arms deal.. Soft Cover. Good.… Read more about this item

London: Hutchinson, 1979. Hb, 504pp, b/w photos. Good+ in a Good+ dj which has only marginal wear. Small mark on edge of fep, contents otherwise clean. Examines the political social background to the Soviet recruitment of spies at Cambridge University during the 1930s. While Philby, Burgess and Maclean are the most famous of these, the author also discloses others including… Read more about this item

BCA, 2000. Hb, xvii + 524pp, b/w plates. Good in a Good dj which has marginal wear. Contents clean, a few light speckles along edge of page block. Translated from the Russian by Judson Rosengrant.. Hard Cover. Good/Good.

London: Booth-Clibbon Editions, 1998. Hb, 240pp, b/w phots. VG with clean contents in VG dj. Translated from the Russian by Maria Schwartz and Antonina Bovis. Conjecture that the 14 year old heir to the Russian throne escaped the execution suffered by the rest of his family and grew up in a peasant family under the name of Vasily Filatov..… Read more about this item

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1985. Hb, xiii + 192pp, b/w plates, maps. VG with clean contents in a Good dj which has slight edgewear. Account of Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of Russia, examining his reasons for the ill-fated attempt and subsequent failure.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

London: Constable, 1999. Hb, xx + 316pp, b/w plates. Good in a Good dj which has slight corner wear. Clean contents, a light marks along edge of page block. Biography of the Russian aristocrat Princess Zinaida Volkonskaya (1792-1862), rumoured lover of Emperor Alexander I, hostess of famous literay and musical salons in Moscow and Rome, and friend to many of… Read more about this item

The National Institution of the Boot and Shoe Industry, 1949. Hb, red cloth covers, no dj, 119pp, b/w frontis. and illustrations. Fair+. Covers have edgeworn corners and a couple of light marks, spine sunned/faded, endpapers browned, contents clean. History of the shoemaking industry in Norwich, from its beginnings in the medieval period through to its development in the 18th and… Read more about this item

Thrupp: Sutton Publishing, 1999. Pb, xi + 340pp, b/w illustrations. Good, light corner wear and crease, clean contents. Describes the history and culture of the Arctic and its native peoples - the Inuit, Samoyed and others, from its first occupation up until the 1990s. Also examines the impact of European, American and Russian exploration and exploitation of the region and… Read more about this item

Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 2001. Pb, xiv + 554pp, b/w illustrations and maps. Good+, marginal wear, clean contents. Presents the essential facts of modern Japanese history up to the 1990s, discussing political and economic events as well as social, cultural and intellectual developments.. Soft Cover. Good.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985. Hb, xxv + 328pp. VG with clean contents in VG dj. Contents : Social order and progressive reform in Chicago 1877-1912; The ironies of progressive child-saving; The limits of reform : child labour, compulsory education and the remaking of the Chicago working class; The triumph of vocationalism; Centralization and the transformation of public education;… Read more about this item

Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pb, xviii + 301pp, b/w illustrations/maps. Good+, marginal wear, clean contents. Compact and accessible history of Thailand which ranges over political, economic, social and cultural themes.. Soft Cover.

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1957. Hb, maroon cloth, no dj, xi, 696pp-1269pp, index xlv, pullout maps. Second volume of a two-volume work of Fisher's " A History of Europe". Good, clean contents. . Hard Cover.

N.Y.: William Sloane Associates, 1946. Hb, green boards, no dj, xvi + 331pp, maps. Fair+. Previous owner's inscription dated 1947 on fep, foxing along edge of page block, a few pages with brief underlining. Describes the war-stricken years in China between 1937 and 1946; the fight against the Japanese; the reasons for the fall of the Kuomintang and Chiang K'ai-Shek… Read more about this item

London: Hutchinson, 2016. Hb, xxvi + 430pp, b/w photos. VG(-) with clean contents in VG dj, tiny smudge on one edge of page block. " A gripping, vivid, deeply researched chronicle of the Russian Revolution told through the eyes of a surprising, flamboyant cast of foreigners in Petrograd." ( Simon Sebag Montefiore). Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

London: Jonathan Cape, 2013. Hb, xv + 436pp, b/w photos. Good+ with clean contents in a VG dj, slight tan to edge of page block. Biography of the Chinese Empress Dowager Cixi ( 1835-1908) who ruled for several decades . Using recently available documents and fresh research, the author overturns the conventional view of Cixi as a " die-hard conservative… Read more about this item

Singapore: Ministry of Culture Information Division, 1984. Pb, 397pp, numerous colour and b/w photos. Good, clean contents, light wear. Presents the history of Singapore from 1941 to 1984 in pictures with a short accompanying narrative.. Soft Cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 1993. Pb, xiv + 254pp, b/w photos. Good, marks on back cover/inside back cover, contents clean. Biography of the Cambodian communist leader and revolutionary who led Democratic Kampuchea in the mid-1970s and whose regime was responsible for the deaths of a quarter of Cambodia's population, through genocide and the failure of collectivisim. . Soft Cover.

Bangokok/London: Thai Watana Panich/Yale University Press, 1984. Hb, xviii + 351pp, b/w illustrations. Good with clean contents in a Good dj which has a closed tear. Concise and readable history of Thailand up until the early 1980s.. Hard Cover. Good/Good.