Books - "history"
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A Century in Asia: The History of the Ecole Francaise d'Extreme-Orient
Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers with french flaps, red & black lettering to spine, 236pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing & fading to spine & cover edges, sl chafing to covers, light tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to half title page)
PUBLISHER: Editions Didier Millet 2007
KEYWORDS: history anthropology EFEO Asia philology religions language
The Compensations of Plunder: How China Lost its Treasures
Super octavo, illus light card covers, beige lettering to spine, vii + 348pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, minor crack to front gutter)
PUBLISHER: The University of Chicago Press 2020
KEYWORDS: archeology archaeology artefacts China Chinese ancient history historical treasures lost art antiquity excavations
Explorers & Scientists in China's Borderlands 1880-1950
Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, green & white lettering to spine, illus prelims, xii + 300pp, illus, VG+ (sl creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)
PUBLISHER: University of Washington Press 2011
KEYWORDS: China Chinese history exploration explorers scientists expeditions discovery American Europe
God's Playground: A History of Poland, Volume II: 1795 to the Present
THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine & covers, xxiii + 591pp, illus, VG+ (light chafing/soiling & creasing to spine & covers, sl soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, minor separation at gutter of title page)
PUBLISHER: Columbia University Press 2005
KEYWORDS: Europe European history Poland politics political communities culture
Implicit Understandings: Observing, Reporting, and Reflecting on the Encounters Between Europeans and Other Peoples in the Early Modern Era
Super octavo, illus light card covers, white & orange lettering (faded) to spine, frontispiece, xv + 637pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light fading to spine, light chafing to covers, light soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1994
KEYWORDS: Europe European foreign relations history culture communication ethnicity ethnopsychology geography
Philosophy of Religion in Nineteenth-Century England and Beyond
Octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, viii + 274pp, Near FINE (prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: Macmillan Press 2000
KEYWORDS: philosophy religion England English Christianity Anglican theology history
Ordering the World: Approaches to State and Society in Sung Dynasty China
Super octavo, purple cloth boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, xiv + 437pp, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, sl soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light tanning & fading to spine, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1993
KEYWORDS: China Chinese history antiquity sung dynasty
Soul Catcher: Java's Fiery Prince Mangkunagara I 1726-95
Super octavo, illus light card covers, black & white lettering to spine, map to prelims, xix + 439pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing to spine & cover edges, light fading to spine, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)
PUBLISHER: NUS Press 2018
KEYWORDS: Java history historical figures leaders Prince Mangkunagara i 1st first kings rulers Indonesia Surakarta biography
Early Ming Government: The Evolution of Dual Capitals
Super octavo, grey buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, xi + 271pp, illus, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light tanning & soiling to page edges, sm adhesive name label to base of ffep)
PUBLISHER: East Asian Research Center 1976
KEYWORDS: China Chinese history early Ming dynasty dual capital system
Studies in Frontier History: Collected Papers 1928-1958
Tidy ex-library, super octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 565pp, VG (minimal library markings, light bruising to extrems, minor tape staining to board edges & eps, light tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (in protective plastic cover, light creasing to edges, minor tape staining to flap edges, light fading to spine, light soiling)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1962
KEYWORDS: collected papers Professor Owen Lattimore Asia Asian frontier social history
Chinese Thought, Society, and Science: The Intellectual and Social Background of Science and Technology in Pre-modern China
Super octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xiv + 441pp, VG+ (light bruising to spine extrems, minor tearing to base of pg 441) in d/w, VG (light fading & tanning to spine, light creasing & moderate closed tearing to edges, sl tanning & soiling)
PUBLISHER: University of Hawaii Press 1991
KEYWORDS: China Chinese history science philosophy technology
Visible Cities: Canton, Nagasaki and Batavia and the Coming of the Americans
Super octavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, xi + 133pp, illus, Near FINE (prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 2008
KEYWORDS: China Chinese history Guangzhou Jakarta Indonesia Japan cultures
What Remains: Coming to Terms With Civil War in 19th Century China
Super octavo, illus glossy heavy boards, white lettering to spine, xiii + 316pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to spine extrems, light chafing to boards, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)
PUBLISHER: Stanford University Press 2013
KEYWORDS: China Chinese history 19th nineteenth century civil war
The Tibetan History Reader
Super octavo, illus light card covers, coloured lettering to spine, xxiii + 720pp, VG+ (light creasing to spine & cover edges, sl soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)
PUBLISHER: Columbia University Press 2013
KEYWORDS: Tibet Tibetan history civilisation civilization culture autonomous region
White Lotus Rebels and South China Pirates
Super octavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, vii + 339pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing)
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 2014
KEYWORDS: China Chinese history Qing empire dynasty imperial
Tibet: A History
Super octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxiii + 324pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, prev. bookseller's label to rear)
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 2011
KEYWORDS: Tibet Tibetan history buddhism China geopolitics
Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present
Super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus/maps at eps, xxv + 472pp, VG+ (light to moderate bruising/warping to spine, sl soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to half title page) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to spine & edges, sl chafing)
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 2009
KEYWORDS: Eurasia Asia silk road trade routes history historical
Between Heaven and Modernity: Reconstructing Suzhou 1895-1937
Super octavo, cream heavy boards, black lettering to spine, xvi + 325pp, VG+ (light bruising to spine & extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light to moderate fading to spine, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: Stanford University Press 2006
KEYWORDS: China Chinese history 19th 20th nineteenth twentieth century Suzhou Jiangsu Sheng economics economy
Upriver Journeys: Diaspora and Empire in Southern China 1570-1850
Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xii + 332pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Asia Center 2017
KEYWORDS: southern China Chinese history diaspora river regions internal migration
Qing Governors and Their Provinces: The Evolution of Territorial Administration in China 1644-1796
Super octavo, illus light card covers, beige lettering to spine, xii + 462pp, VG+ (light creasing to spine & cover edges, sl tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)
PUBLISHER: China Program / University of Washington Press 2013
KEYWORDS: China Chinese history teritory Qing dynasty governors provinces politics government