Search Results: History from Whiting Books

Washington, D.C.: American Historical Association, 1979. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Light, general reading wear. Clean copy. Pages numbered 619-917, several black and white illustrations. Featured articles: Gaius Noster: Substructures of Western Social Thought, by Donald R. Kelley; Frontier Municipal Baths and Social Interaction in Thirteenth-Century Spain, by James F. Powers; Marriage Politics and the Family in Florence: The Strozzi-Medici Alliance of 1508, by Melissa Meriam Bullard. Review article: Pluralist Politics in British India: The Cambridge Cluster of Historians of Modern India, by Howard Spodek..

Washington, D.C.: American Historical Association, 1980. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. General reading wear. Clean copy. Pages numbered 763-1054, several black and white illustrations. Comparative History in Theory and Practice, I (three articles): The Case for Comparing Histories, by Raymond Grew; Antebellum Planters and Vormarz Junkers in Comparative Perspective, by Shearer Davis Bowman; and In Defense of Servitude: American Proslavery and Russian Proserfdom Arguments, 1760-1860, by Peter Kolchin..

Great Britain: Sutton Publishing, 2001. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Reprint. 127 pages, b&w photos..

Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1966. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Very little wear to book other than reading crease to spine. Previous owner name on the front free endpaper. 1473 pages with Index..

Denmark: The Royal Danish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, 1953. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Cream-colored boards with green print. Very light shelf wear and a small faint stain to the top edge. Inscription inside to a previous owner, dated 1953. Illustrated jacket lightly chipped with a few small edge tears. Protected now in a new mylar cover. 167 pages with many black & white photographs illustrating the culture and history (Danish influence) of the Arctic island, as well as the indigenous Eskimo..

Gloucester, Massachusetts: Peter Smith, 1967. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint. Spotting to top edge, some shelf wear. Clean copy. 676 pages with List of Abbreviations and Index..

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1956. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Light shelf wear, spotting to top-edge of page block. Jacket is age-torn and edge-worn. 148 pages with Appendixes: Appendix 1: Sources; Appendix 2: Important Deposits of Fissionable Material; Appendix 3: Map of Sources of Raw Materials (fold-out map at back of book, attached inside rear cover)..

Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1999. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 184 pages. Some of the articles include: From "Diseases of Women" to "Secrets of Women": The transformation of gynecological literature in the later middle ages; Female Sodomy: The Trial of Katherina Hetzeldorfer (1477); and "Whether Man or Woman": Gender Inclusivity in the Town Ordinances in Medieval Douai..

France: Librairie Plon, 1968. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First French Language Edition. 307 pages with Bibliographie,plus Table des Matieres. Illustrated with 14 photographs and drawings depicting executions, some very graphic. Translated into French from the German original of 1966..

London: Secker & Warburg, 1997. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Small chip and rubbing (rear panel) to jacket. 499 pages, with Bibliography for 1998, List of Contributors, and Index. Illustrated. Contents include: German-Jewish Intellectual Development from the Late Eighteenth to the Nineteenth Century; Jewish Communities in the Nineteenth Century; Jewish Experiences in the Weimar Republic and National Socialist Germany; Jewish Refugees and Displaced Persons; and A Case Study: Mischling Desserters from the Wehrmacht and their Fate..

Philadelphia: Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1938. Book. Good. Soft cover. Edge-worn covers, crease to front cover. Foxing to rear cover. 130 pages, numerous articles and photos on a variety of topics from around the world. Cover story is The Mystery of the Lost Papyri. Front cover illustrated in color. No ads throughout magazine..

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1968. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 127 pages, illustrated with numerous historical photographs. From the Canadian Illustrated Library series..

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1968. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Slight darkening to top edge of page block. Jacket has some rubbing and a few creases. Protected in a Mylar archival cover now. 363 pages with Biographical Note, Index, and map: The Roman Empire under Hadrian..

Santa Fe, New Mexico: Sunstone Press, 1996. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Printing. Inscribed to the previous owner: "To Pedro, Ever onward. William Hawes." 160 pages with Notes and Index. Illustrated with black & white photos. History of the first public television station (PBS)--KUHT in Houston, which signed on May 25th, 1953..

Houston, Texas: Arte Publico Press, 1994. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. A few faint spots to the fore-edge and bottom edge. Memoir of Leonor Villegas de Magnon, a participant in the Mexican Revolution who rebelled against her aristocratic class. In 1910, she moved from Mexico to Laredo, Texas and continued her support of the revolution as a member of the Junta Revolucionaria and founding La Cruz Blanca (The White Cross), a corps of nurses for the revolutionary forces. [lvi] 297 pages, including Preface (In Search of an Autobiography: On Mapping Women's Intellectual History of the Borderlands) and a lengthy Introduction (Revolutionary Women and the Alternative Press in the Borderlands). Appendixes to the text include the following: Appendix I - Chronology of Events Surrounding the Mexican Revolution; Appendix II - Bio-Bibliography of Historical Characters; Appendix III - Autobiographies of the Mexican Revolution Published Between 1920-1955; Appendix IV - Glossary; Appendix V -… Read More

Houston, Texas: Rice Institute, 1950. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Some edge tears to oversized wrappers. Contents: Treason and Related Offenses in the Anglo-Saxon Dooms; Religious Disputation in Tudor England; A Frontier Interlude: Timothy Pickering and the Wyoming Valley; and Judicial Highlights of Civil Rights..

New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1962. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Printing. Light wear to boards and jacket. More than 100 illustrations, including photographs, plans, and drawings. 125 pages, indexed, with a selected bibliography..

Nedlands, Australia: University of Western Australia Press, 1999. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). The rear endpapers show some browning. The jacket has slight edge wear, no tears of chips. This is a Presentation Copy, numbered and signed by the author. This is number 252 of 1,000. The author reconstructs the career of the Duyfken, a Dutch East India Company vessel that landed the first Europeans on the Australian continent without realizing they had discovered a sixth continent. The chart of the Duyfken's skipper, Willem Jansz, lay in the archives for many years before being discovered. The author also recounts the story of the building of a replica Duyfken, a project that would also become a voyage of discovery. 218 pages, illustrated..

Melbourne: Lansdowne Press, 1971. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Trace of shelf wear and several tiny specks to the fore-edge of the page block. Previous owner names at bottom of title page. 128 pages featuring engravings from the Gold Rush era in Victoria, Australia, which were published in two albums titled Victoria Illustrated in 1857 and 1862..