Search Results: History - Not Britain, Europe, USA, Canada from Lawrence Jones

New York: iUniverse Inc., 2007. xiii, 173pp, bw ills. Or card. Near new. A journalist's first hand look at Papa Docs reaction to events in Cuba and the Dominican Republic in 1959. He then traces the ensuing impacts on Haiti's relations with the USA, other Caribbean nations, the rest of the Western Hemisphere and the international community.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Washington D.C.: University Publications of America, 1979. 2 volumes. xxvii, 360; xxvii, pp361-697; index, appendices, tables. Light spotting to cloth, occasional light foxing. Originally published in 1904. All aspects of Japan in the Meiji period.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/None, as Issued.. 8vo.

Indonesia: State Secretariat, Republic of Indonesia , 1975. VERY HEAVY. 3 volumes. 1031pp, hundreds bw ills, endpaper maps. Or card covers in slipcase. All three volumes are in excellent condition and appear unread. The laminate on the slipcase is lifting/peeling and there is some wear to the slipcase edges. Extensive coverage of the first thirty years following Indonesia's Independence.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/Slipcase. 4to.

New York: Random House, 1992. 339pp, appendix, index. Cloth-backed papered boards in dust-jacket. The author describes Abu Nidal's organization, from its beginnings in Baghdad to its home in Libya.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London: Faber & Faber, 1974. 268pp, index, bw ills, map. Or brown cloth in jacket. Slight fading to author's name on spine. In 1929 the author was awarded a Rhodes Trust Travelling Fellowship witha vague commission to study problems of race and colour. This book contains a section of her diary, essentially as she wrote it, devoted to Southern Africa including the Rhodesias and the Congo. She addressed a huge night time meeting of African workers called by Zulu union organizer, George Champion. In Bechuanaland she met the young and capable regent; in Basutoland she accompanied an Assistant Commissioner on a long trek on horseback into the interior. Thoroughly entertaining it also sets the scene for much of what was to follow in the subsequent history of the territories she visited.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

London: Hutchinson Benham, 1980. 328pp, index, appendices, bw photographs, endpaper maps. Or green cloth in jacket. Some toning to jacket flaps. Excellent copy of this important biography of Saudi Arabia's founder, Ibn Saud. His story covers the capture of Riyadh from the Saud family's greatest rivals, the Rashids, and the eventual defeat of Al Rashid at the battle of Rowdhat Muhanna; the elimination of Ibn Bijad and the redoubtable Faisal Ad-Dawish, Ibn Saud's most implacable enemies; the incorporation of Asir and Hejaz into the kingdom; and the rise, rebellion and eventual defeat of the puritanical Ikhwan tribesmen. Describes life with the King's Bedouin warriors and the intricacies of the Arabian tribal system; the confrontation with Imam Yahya of the Yemen; and finally the start of oil exploration, which was to transform the country. There are also chapters on life at the Court, the outstanding court personalities of the time and the celebreated explorer Harry St John Philby.… Read More

London: Cassell, 1978. xii, 224pp; index. Or black cloth in ajcket. Some spotting/foxing to page edges. Minimal edge wear to jacket. Lt Glubb was one of 350 volunteers to go to Iraq in 1919 where a tribal rebellion had broken out. The rebellion was soon suppressed, followed by the inauguration of Air Control, under which the RAF took over from the army. He served as Special Service Officer with the RAF until 1926 when he resigned his commission and became an Administrative Inspector under the Iraq government. He was deeply involved in tribal control, the abolition of tribal raiding, and the protection of the Iraqi tribes from the massacring raids of the fanatical Wahhabis. Fascinating document in the history of the Middle East illuminating the benevolent ideals and political blunders of the British policy between the wars, but above all it is a loving tribute to the vanishing way of life of the desert Arab and a tribute to the Britons who in the days of empire gave up home and family to work for the… Read More

London: Collins / Harvill, 1983. ix, 211 pages, colour and b/w illustrations, bibliography, index, end-paper maps. Blue papered boards in dust-jacket. A document of Arab life and thought produced to accompany the television series of the same name.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

New York: Barnes & Noble, 2003. xii, 258pp, index, bibliography, notes, maps. Or cloth backed boards in jacket. Near new. How infectious deiseases have impacted history with chapters (in most cases multiple chapters) on bubonic plage, malaria, typhus, cholera, smallpox, influenza and yellow fever.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

New York: Barnes & Noble, 2000. xii, 258pp, index, bibliography, notes, maps. Or card. Light edge wear to cover. How infectious diseases have impacted history with chapters (in most cases multiple chapters) on bubonic plage, malaria, typhus, cholera, smallpox, influenza and yellow fever.. Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

London: Thames and Hudson, 1995. 224 pages,143 illustrations, annual ceremonies of the Aztecs, notes, index. Remainder line in black marker at the centre of the lower page edges. Paperback. The book ranges fromthe everyday life of farmers and priests, artisans and kings, to the sinsister spying activities of Aztec traders; from the making of chocolate to battle tactics.. Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Stanford, Ca.: Stanford University Press, 1976. x, 657pp, 12 maps, text-figures, b/w plates, appendices, glossary, bibliography, index. Pencil underlining and notes about 25 pages (from p5 to p50). The impact of Spain on America.. Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good. Trade Paperback.

New York: Nation Books, 2017. 271pp, index, bibliography, notesbw ills. Or boards in jacket. Near new. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. 176pp, index, bibliography, bw ills. Or card covers. Very slight edge wear. The facts about 15th century French heroine, Joan of Arc.. First Paperback. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Doubleday & Company, 1978. HEAVY. xvii, 746pp, notes, index, end-papers: the Romanovs. Fore-edge uncut. Upper-edge lightly foxed. Lower-edge speckled. Cloth-backed papered boards in worn dust-jacket which has insect damage and loss at the spine head and in a section (approx 85 x 15 mm) between the spine and the front panel. This account 'draws heaving on archival sources as well as only personal memoirs ... not only of political and diplomatic figures, but of artists, poets and journalists of the period'.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 4to.

Hamden, Ct.: Archon Books, 1966. viii, 298pp, index, bibliography, 10 bw ills and maps (inc one folding map). Or gold cloth in jacket. Jacket price clipped, small stain on front flap from removed price sticker, very slight rubbing/soiling to jacket, tiny tear (less than 1mm) at top front spine fold. Excellent example of this study of 17th century West Indies buccaneers originally published in 1910. The introduction deals with the Spanish Colonial System and The Freebooters of the 16th century. Chapters follow on the Beginnings of the Buccaneers; The Conquest of Jamaica; Tortuga 1655-1664; Porto Bello and Panama; The Government Suppresses the Buccaneers; The Buccaneers Turn Pirate followed by appendices.. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo.

Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 1999. xxv, 188 pages, chronology of events, biographies, glossary, index. Laminated boards, with a lightly bumped upper front corner. This work brings together in one volume the various topics that describe and analyze Castro's revolution. In the series Greenwood Press Guides to Historic Events of the Twentieth Century.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Near Fine. 8vo.

Kingswood, Surrey: The World's Work, 1962. x, 213 pp, 16 pp of b/w photo plates, bibliography, index. End-papers tanned. Or green cloth boards in lightly foxed and soiled, edge-worn dust jacket. The book is in two parts: Part One covers The Russian Church in History and Part Two looks as The Russian Church in Tradition and Life.. First UK Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo.

New York: Viking, 1967. 307pp, index, sources, notes, appendices, bw ills. Or cloth backed boards in jacket. Jacket price clipped, lightly rubbed, several short tears and chip from bottom of spine. The story of the New World's first crowned king, Christophe of Haiti. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press, 2005. HEAVY. 208pp, index, bibliography, num ills (most col), pictorial endpapers. Or blue cloth in jacket. Slightest of edge wear to jacket.. First Australian Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.