Books - "history"
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The Economic History of China: From Anitquity to the Nineteenth Century
Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, blue lettering to spine, xiv + 461pp, VG+ (light creasing to spine, sl chafing & curling to covers, light soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to title page)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge Univesity Press 2016
KEYWORDS: China Chinese ancient history antiquity economics politics trade commerce
China Among Equals: The Middle Kingdom and its Neighbours, 10th - 14th Centuries
Super octavo, grey buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xiv + 419pp, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (in plastic protective cover- easily removed of desired, light creasing to edges, light fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1983
KEYWORDS: China Chinese history foreign relations
Muslim Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Empire
Super octavo, green heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, xi + 490pp, VG+ (spine sl warped/bruised, sl soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, sl chafing)
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 2015
KEYWORDS: India Indian history Muslim islam islamic countries
China as a Sea Power 1127-1368
Super octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine & covers, xx + 378pp, VG+ (light creasing to spine & cover edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)
PUBLISHER: NUS Press / Hong Kong University Press 2020
KEYWORDS: China Chinese history navy naval maritime expansion southern song yuan dynasties periods
Speaking to History: The Story of King Goujian in Twentieth Century China
Super octavo, black buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxiv + 354pp, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing, light fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: University of California Press 2009
KEYWORDS: China Chinese kings rulers ancient history King Goujian
Tang China in Multi-Polar Asia: A History of Diplomacy and War
Super octavo, beige heavy boards, black lettering to spine, xiv + 462pp, Near FINE (prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: University of Hawaii Press 2013
KEYWORDS: China Chinese history Tang T'ang dynasty foreign relations
The Museum on the Roof of the World: Art, Politics, and the Representation of Tibet
Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, xi + 314pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing & fading to spine, light chafing & curling to covers, sl soiling to page edges, sl cracking to front gutter, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press 2014
KEYWORDS: Tibet Tibetan history museums art appreciation tantric buddhist buddhism
The Seen and Unseen Worlds in Java, 1726-1749: History, Literature and Islam in the Court of Pakubuwana II
Octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxiv + 391pp, illus, VG+ (light rubbing to spine extrems, sl soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing to spine & covers)
PUBLISHER: Allen & Unwin / University of Hawaii Press 1998
KEYWORDS: Java history 18th eighteenth century literature art culture southeast asia
Hammer and Anvil: Nomad Rulers at the Forge of the Modern World
Super octavo, illus glossy heavy boards, purple & black lettering to spine, xxiii + 334pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to spine, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)
PUBLISHER: Rowman & Littlefield 2019
KEYWORDS: Mongols Eurasia history medieval
The World of a Tiny Insect: A Memoir of the Taiping Rebellion and its Aftermath
Octavo, illus light card covers, yellow & red lettering to spine, viii + 200pp, VG+ (sl creasing/curling to spine & cover edges, sl soiling to covers, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)
PUBLISHER: University of Washington Press 2014
KEYWORDS: China Chinese history Taiping rebellion rebellions uprisings 19th nineteenth century
Sudden Appearances: The Mongol Turn in Commerce, Belief and Art
Super octavo, illus heavy boards, black & white lettering to spine, xi + 287pp, illus, VG+ (spine sl cocked, light bruising & wrinkling to spine, light soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)
PUBLISHER: University of Hawaii Press 2019
KEYWORDS: Asia asian art history Eurasia Mongol Mongols
Savage Exchange: Han Imperialism, Chinese Literary Style, and the Economic Imagination
Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xiv + 363pp, illus, Near FINE (prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Asia Center 2014
KEYWORDS: China Chinese ancient history antiquity Han dynasty imperialism literature economics commerce
Chinese Poetry and Prophecy: The Written Oracle in East Asia
Super octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, xxx + 218pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing to cover edges, prev. bookseller's sm labels to rear cover, light tanning & soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Stanford University Press 2005
KEYWORDS: China Chinese literature history literary religion religoin religious divination prophecy
The Art of Being Governed: Everyday Politics in Late Imperial China
Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xv + 303pp, illus, Near FINE (prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 2017
KEYWORDS: China Chinese history imperialism politics political government Ming dynasty military
The Riddle of the Bamboo Annals
Quarto, illus light card covers, red & white lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 293pp, VG+ (light creasing to spine & cover edges, sl chafing & covers, light soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Airiti Press 2009
KEYWORDS: China Chinese history historical text bamboo annals
The Franklin D Murphy Lectures IX: Three Alternative Histories of Chinese Painting
Imperial octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, 112pp, illus, Near FINE (sl rubbing to extrems)
PUBLISHER: University of Kansas / Spencer Museum of Art 19888
KEYWORDS: Franklin D Murphy lectures China Chinese art painting history landscapes
Rugby: A New Zealand History
Quarto, illus heavy boards, white & black lettering to spine, viii + 451pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, prev. owner's name in ink to half title page) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 2015
KEYWORDS: New Zealand sport history rugby union ABs All Blacks Ron Palenski grass roots international
China Before China
Imperial octavo, illus stiffened boards, white lettering to red suede-effect spine, printed/illus eps, 159pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light chafing to boards, sl tanning to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities 2004
KEYWORDS: China Chinese history artefacts collections antiquities
Asia Inside Out: Changing Times
Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, vii + 325pp, illus, Near FINE (prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing)
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 2015
KEYWORDS: Asia Asian history culture
Asia Inside Out: Connected Places
Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, vii + 418pp, illus, VG+ (spine warped & lightly bruised, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing, light fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 2015
KEYWORDS: Asia Asian history culture geopolitics