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What is the Use of Jewish History?
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NY: Schocken Books, 1992. 1st printing. Very Good/Fine dust jacket, 1 internal/1 external library stamp. xxiv, 278 p., index, 8vo, x-library; ... more information
Offered by Barbarossa Books Ltd. (Washington, United States) |
$4.50
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The Historian as Detective: Essays on Evidence
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NY: Harper & Row, 1969. 1st printing. VG/VG, three 1/4inch tears to dust jacket. xxiv, 545 p., biblio, 8vo; ... more information
Offered by Barbarossa Books Ltd. (Washington, United States) |
$6.00
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Beyond the Edge of the Sea
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New York: Random House, 2001. Fine/Fine. ISBN: 0-679-46326-7. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First Edition. x, 132 pp. First printing. "Sailing with Jason and the Argonauts, Ulysses, the Vikings, and other explorers of the ancient world." Keywords: History; Adventure. ... more information
Offered by Persephone's Books (North Carolina, United States) |
$7.00
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The Twentieth-Century West: Historical Interpretations
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Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1989. 1st paperback printing. VG. xiv, 454 p., tables, maps, biblio, index, 8vo wraps; ... more information
Offered by Barbarossa Books Ltd. (Washington, United States) |
$7.50
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Keeping Time: Memory, Nostalgia, and the Art of History
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Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990. 1st printing. Fine/Fine. xiv, 209 p., 8vo; ... more information
Offered by Barbarossa Books Ltd. (Washington, United States) |
$8.50
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Thinking Back: the Perils of Writing History
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Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986. 1st printing. Fine/Fine. x, 158 p., index, 8vo; ... more information
Offered by Barbarossa Books Ltd. (Washington, United States) |
$9.00
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Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, 2002 Washington Post Book World said of this book 'Erna Paris gives us a rich, if painful, inventory of the recent, dubious uses to which we are putting the past.' How do nations come to terms with their most painful history and what role should trials play in the attempt to reconcile national trauma in the aftermath of war, terror, and other crises? In this searing, personal examination, Paris takes the reader on a remarkable journey through four ... more information
Offered by Nan's Book Shop (Illinois, United States) |
$9.00
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Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past (and Each Other)
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NY: Simon & Schuster, 2001. 1st printing. Fine/Fine. 352 p., 8vo; ... more information
Offered by Barbarossa Books Ltd. (Washington, United States) |
$9.50
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Historians at Work: volume 2 - Valla to Gibbon
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NY: Harper & Row, 1972. 1st printing. VG/VG, slightly cocked. x, 406 p., 8vo; ... more information
Offered by Barbarossa Books Ltd. (Washington, United States) |
$10.00
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History and the Idea of Mankind
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Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1971. 1st printing. VG/VG, top of dust jacket missing two 1/2"x1" pieces. xvi, 227 p., chapter notes, index, 8vo; ... more information
Offered by Barbarossa Books Ltd. (Washington, United States) |
$11.50
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Essays in Modern European Historiography (Classic European Historians series)
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Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970. 1st printing. VG/Good, tears to edges of dust jacket, front endpaper corner clipped, name/date on front endpaper. xxii, 378 p., footnotes, index, small 8vo; ... more information
Offered by Barbarossa Books Ltd. (Washington, United States) |
$12.50
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The Ambidextrous Historian: Historical Writers and Writing in the American West
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Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1981. 1st printing. VG/VG. viii, 120 p., notes, biblio, index, small 8vo; ... more information
Offered by Barbarossa Books Ltd. (Washington, United States) |
$12.50
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Historians at Work: volume 1 - Herodotus to Froissart
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NY: Harper & Row, 1972. 1st printing. VG/VG. xxii, 431p., 8vo; ... more information
Offered by Barbarossa Books Ltd. (Washington, United States) |
$12.50
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The Sage of Monticello [Jefferson and His Time, Volume Six]
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Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Co, 1981. VG, softcover Volume 6 of Jefferson and His Time. Trade Paper. Very Good. ... more information
Offered by The Book House - St. Louis (Missouri, United States) Buy from bookhousestl.com the website of The Book House - St. Louis |
$12.00
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Victorian Families in Fact and Fiction
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New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997 The 19th century transition to a small family size in the Western world was unprecedented, and the reasons people began having fewer children are still not clear. Using contemporary novels, letters, biographies and poetry, this book brings forward the voices of the past to give their own comments and views on a wide range of issues which may have influenced that decision. Individuals in fact and fiction discuss families, love and marriage, as well as childbearing, chil... more information
Offered by Nan's Book Shop (Illinois, United States) |
$14.00
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The History of Punishment
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London: Amber Books, 2003 This book outlines changing ideas of law and punishment, from the ancient Babylonian Code of Hammurabi through Islamic Sharia Law to modern notions of rehabilitation and the continued practice of corporal and capital punishment. Discover strange and terrible methods of punishment amongs these pages, including the pillory, flogging, branding, hanging, drawing and quartering, the guillotine, the bastinado, death of a thousand cuts, the scavenger's daughter, crucifixion, lethal in... more information
Offered by Nan's Book Shop (Illinois, United States) |
$14.00
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Japanese Inn, A Reconstruction of the Past
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New York, NY: Random House, 1961 This is a book written through the long-standing calm and historic Minaguchi-ya, an inconspicuous rural inn. Oliver Statler spent several years in Japan, came to love it, and considered this inn it's most historic place of calm and beauty, stubbornly holding on to the old ways of Japan. This is a book of the social history of Japan through 400 years, closely researched with many interviews. It is enhanced by 50 prints, many of them Hiroshige (including the jacket). The p... more information
Offered by Nan's Book Shop (Illinois, United States) |
$15.00
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The Discovery of the Titanic: Exploring the Greatest of All Lost Ships
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Warner/Madison Press Books , 1998 Very Good, Paperback, illustrated with dozens of gripping full color photographs (2 pages loose from spine), two full-color foldouts of the wreck, and an all-new up-to-the-minute final chapter . Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by Marschall, Ken. ... more information
Offered by The Book House - St. Louis (Missouri, United States) Buy from bookhousestl.com the website of The Book House - St. Louis |
$14.00
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History as the Story of Liberty
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London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1949. 3rd printing. VG/VG. 328 p., small 8vo; ... more information
Offered by Barbarossa Books Ltd. (Washington, United States) |
$17.50
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Frederick Jackson Turner: Strange Roads Going Down
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Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.A.: Univ of Oklahoma Pr, 1998. Book. VG+. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing, with full number line. Very Good+/Very Good+ condition. Library discard with usual markings. Dustjacket mylar protected. General light rubbing. Otherwise corners very square and pages extremely tight, crisp and clean.. ... more information
Offered by the Word Merchant (Wyoming, United States) |
$20.00
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