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5961 Bardon, Jonathan A HISTORY OF ULSTER ireland irish county history
Black Staff Press England, 1992, reptd 1996 Near Fine trade paperback,
large thick book. 914 pages, index, maps, notes, select bibliography.
Contents include Early Ulster 7000 bc - ad 800; Viking raids & Norman
invasion 800-1300; Province Beyond the Pale 1300-1558; Elizabethan
Conquest 1558-1603; Plantation of Ulster 1603-1685; King Williams War
& Peace 1685-1750; Prosperity, Revolution & Reaction 1750-1800;
Progress & Poverty 1800-1850; Imperial Bastion 1850-1900; Ulster
Crisis 1890-1920; Partitioned Province early yrs 1920-39; Wartime
Ulster 1939-45; Quiet yrs 1945-63; O'neill Era 1963-72; Direct Rule
1972-92. Massive engrossing readable history of Ireland's county,
social political economic, United Irish & Orangeism, Act of Union,
emigration & Great Famine, Sinn Fein, linen & ships, more! $25.00
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5531 Baring-Gould, S STRANGE SURVIVALS some chapters in history of man
Methuen & Co London, 1892, 3rd edition 1905 Good+, clean inside; front
hinge starting and backstrip worn. 287 pages, illustrated with
drawings, plates. Contents include On Foundations; On Gables; Ovens;
Beds; Striking a Light; Umbrellas; Dolls; Revivals; Broadside ballads;
Riddles; THe Gallows; Holes; Raising the hat. Baring-Gould examines
rites, superstitions, art & architecture, festivals, songs & ballads,
symbolism of the wheel, etc. as he examines English and world
folkways. $9.50
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5679 Barker, Anthony CAPTAIN CHARLES STUART Anglo-American
Abolitionist Louisiana State University Press 1986 appears 1st edition
Fine in Fine dustjacket & glassine. 328 pages, index, extensive source
bibliographies. Biography of influential British antislavery
campaigner. Contents include Most Trying Times; Sacred Pursuit
discovered; American Issues in Britain; Agent of American & British
Anti-Slavery Society; American Affiliations; Apostle of the Negroes;
West Indian Commentaries; World Convention; Wrath of Capt. Stuart;
Sense of Betrayal; For & Against Broad Street; Antislavery Alienation
& Famine Relief; Retirement, Marriage, Isolation; Terrible Orthodoxy.
$22.50
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5107 Boyce, D George Nineteenth-Century Ireland, Search for Stability
Barnes & Noble 1991. Fine in Fine dustjacket. 345 pages, index,
references, bibliography. Published at $69. 19th century Ireland began
& ended in armed revolt, from the bloody insurrections of 1798 to the
great War, the Ulster Rebellion & the armed uprisi of nationalist
Ireland; explores the imperial structures, the ethnic, religious &
national differences in Ireland, the effects of the Great Famine, much
more $30.00
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5783 Braudel, Fernand CIVILIZATION & CAPITALISM 15th - 18th cent. 3
vol Harper & Row 1981, 1982, 1984 stated 1st U.S. edition 3 volumes,
Very Good to VG+; vols 1 & 2 lack jackets; vol 1 some cover stains not
affecting boards. Each volume 600 to 700 pages, index, notes, maps &
illustrations throughout. Civilization & Capitalism 15th - 18th
century. Vol I The Structure of Everyday Life, the Limits of the
Possible; Vol II - Wheels of Commerce; Vol III Perspective of the
World. Massive scholarly yet readable work. Social & economic history
of the world from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution.
$75.00
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5083 Briggs, Asa A Social History of England Viking Press, NY 1983.
Very Good+ in VG+ dustjacket; priceclipped. 320 pages, index; color &
b&w photos throughout. Clean copy of this study of English social
history from prehistoric times to 1980's; literature & art, politics,
social change; industrialization, loss of empire, wars, peaceful
struggles $15.00
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5665 Bryan & Murphy THE WINDSOR STORY Edward VIII & Mrs. Simpson
William Morrow & Company NY 1979 Very Good hardcover in Good+
dustjacket & glassine. 639 pages, index, illustrated with 65
photographs. Authoritative, entertaining dual biography of Edward VIII
and the American woman for whom he sacrificed the crown of England &
its Empire. $13.50
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5503 Cahalan, James M MODERN IRISH LITERATURE & CULTURE a chronology
GK Hall & Co, Macmillan Publishing 1993 1st edition Near Fine in Near
Fine dustjacket and glassine. 374 pages, index, secondary works cited,
map. First booklength chronology of its kind, identifies,explains &
interrelates events in Irish literature & culture since 1600. Arranged
by topical categories, connects developments in drama, fiction,
poetry, prose nonfiction to related historical & political events &
parallel advances in architecture, art, film & music. Biographical
sketches of recurrent figures also. $18.00
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5005 Cammack, Diana The Rand at War 1899-1902 Univ California Press;
James Currey, London, 1990. Perspectives on South Africa Series, #44.
The Witwatersrand & the Anglo-Boer War. 240 pages, bibliography,
index, maps, 44 b & w illustrations. Traces in detail the developments
in Johannesburg on the eve of the war, the flight of the Uitlanders, &
the ambivalent Afriakaner attitude to the mining industry; social
history of the Rand, the working people Boer, Black & Uitlander
$18.50
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5809 Colomb, PH Vice Admiral NAVAL WARFARE 2 volumes Naval Institute
Press Anapolis MD 1990 Reprint of original edition of 1891-99.
Classics of Sea Power series. NAVAL WARFARE Its Principles and
Practice Historically Treated. 2 volumes, Fine condition hardcovers
with reading ribbons. 589 pages in 2 volumes, index, maps, drawings.
Beautiful set! Contents include Nature of Naval War; Struggle for
Command of the Sea; Differentiation of Naval force; Attempts to Gain
Command; Attacks on Territory from the Sea; Spanish-American War; much
more. Indepth analyses by the Vice Admiral of many classic sea
battles, strategies, characters & ships. From the introduction - 'For
all its faults Colomb's Naval Warfare is a significant contribution to
the study of war at sea & the objectives, efficacy & limitations of
sea power.' Classic. $45.00
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5642 Curry, Jane L BLACK BOOK OF POLISH CENSORSHIP Rand Corporation,
Random House, Vintage Books 1984 Very Good hardcover, exlib copy with
usual stamps. 451 pages, index, bibliographical references. Translated
& edited by Jane Curry. Rules & Guidelines used by Polish censors
under Soviet rule; smuggled out of Poland by a censor who was
defecting to the West. Contents include World of the Censors; Polish
Media & Mechanics of Censorship; The Documents - Polish politics;
Rewriting world politics; Making Social Problems nonproblems;
Censoring Economics; Rewriting Religion; Censoring History; Culture.
More - Church-state relations; Rewriting World War II; Orchestrating
Political Events; The 2 Germanies; Modulating Western News; Living
Standards, Family, education etc; Guarding & Remaking Film Images;
Environmental Pollution, crime, etc. $9.00
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5493 Cusack, Mary Frances ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF IRELAND A.D. 400 to
1800 Bracken Books London (Random House) 1868, reprinted 1995, 1996
Near Fine softbound, thick book. 671 pages, index, illustrated. Slight
edgewear to stiff covers, otherwise clean and sound copy. Originally
published in 1868. Illustrated by Henry Doyle. Condenses 3,000 years
of Irish history into a readable comprehensive analysis of literary,
religious and political narrative. Especially illustrative of the land
and tenancy questions. From Celtic manuscripts to the plunder of the
monasteries, battle of Dundalk to domestic life in the 1800's, Irish
harp as emblem of the country to statistics of the American population
of Irish emigrants, much more. Reprinted edition of a classic of Irish
history. $18.00
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5507 Czarnecki, Joseph P LAST TRACES - Lost Art of Auschwitz w/Chaim
Potok Atheneum NY 1989 1st edition Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket
and glassine. 175 pages, notes. Text & black and white photographs
explore the world of the artists of Auschwitz concentration camp.
Contents include Introduction by Chaim Potok; Lost Art of Auschwitz;
Bearing Witness; Art to Order; Black Humor; Fantasies; Lovers; Heroes;
Marking Time; Epitaphs; Last Words; note on photography. Drawings,
paintings, graffiti presents for the first time the expressions of the
prisoners themselves, left on the very walls of their prison. $29.00
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