Storia moderna

On Our Own. Americans in the Sixties.

MILLER, DOUGLAS T. · 1996 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Lexington: D.C.Heath and Company, 1996. 0669247774. "Through massive civil-rights and antiwar movements; struggles for the rights of women, gays, Native Americans, Hispanics; and concern for the environment, a generation emerged into maturity and took responsibility for reshap...

Caribbean Freedom. Economy and Society from Emancipation to the Present.

BECKLES, HILARY AND SHEPHERD, VERENE. · 1996 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

London: James Currey, 1996. 0852557116. "This reader of nearly sixty articles covers major events in the Caribbean struggle for freedom.. Calling attention to the variety of post-slavery experiences in the Spanish, Dutch, English and French Caribbean..Among the areas covered a...

White Over Black. American Attitudes Toward the Negro 1550-1812.

JORDAN, WINTHROP D. · 2000 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

Chapel Hill: University of California Press, 2000. 0807845507. Winner of 1969 Francis Parkman Prize (Society of American Historians) and Winner ofthe 1969 Bancroft Prize (Columbia University). "This study attempts to answer a simple question: What were the attitudes of white m...

The Flowers And Gardens Of Japan. Painted By Ella Du Cane, Described By Florence Du Cane .

DU CANE, FLORENCE LOUISA (C.1870-1955) . · 1908 · Chilton Books

£100.00 (€119.88 | $132.14 | ¥21,103)

London: Published By Adam & Charles Black, Soho Square, MCMVIII. (1908) . 0. Publisher's illustrated green cloth binding, with only light wear. 8vo. 9.0" x 6.75" x 2.0" . pp. x./pp.249 / [3pp.] / pp.8 - Adverts. Plus 50 coloured plates as called for, all with captioned tissue ...

French Electoral Systems Elections Since 1789. (3rd edition).

COLE, ALISTAIR AND CAMPBELL, PETER. · 1989 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.39 | $15.86 | ¥2,532)

Aldershot: Gower Publishing, 1989. 0566056968. 3rd edition. "Cole and Campbell show how France's rulers have traditionally regarded electoral systems as less than sacrosanct, to be changed at will to suit their own transient electoral interest." Pp.xii/202. Blue cloth, dustwra...

Coalbrookdale 1709-1959.

RAISTRICK, DR. · 1959 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Ashford: The Invicta Press, 1959. Publsihed by The Coalbrookdale Company to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of the Coalbrookdale Ironfoundry. Pp30, map too end. Yellow card covers. VG.

The Worshipful Company of Solicitors of the City of London. A Commentary on the Company's Surviving Records.

STEELE, ARNOLD F. · 1966 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London: The Worshipful Company of Solicitors of the City of London, nd. (c.1966). "A perusal of these records has proved of great interest to me, and it seemed desirable that there should ben existence some kind of commentary on them which would be of interest to future genera...

The Library Of Entertaining Knowledge. Pompeii. [2 Volumes ] .

CLARKE, WILLIAM 1800-1838. · 1831 · Chilton Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London: Charles Knight : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green ; Oliver & Boyd ; Atkinson & Co. ; Wakeman ; Willmer ; Baines & Co. 1831-1832 . 0. A very good two volume set in matching half calf bindings. 12mo. 6.25" x 4.0" x 0.75". Brown leather spine and corners over marbled bo...

Delamere Forest in Later Mediaeval Times.

HUSAIN, B.M.C. · 1955 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Liverpool: The Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 1955. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, Vol.107, 1955. Pp.23-39, creasing and small marginal tear to pp.25/26. Grey wraps, rusting to staples. Good.

Providence in Early Modern England.

WALSHAM, ALEXANDRA. · 2001 · Chilton Books

£68.00 (€81.52 | $89.85 | ¥14,350)

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. 0198208871. An extensive study of the sixteenth and seventeenth century belief that God actively intervened in human affairs to punish, reward, warn, try and chastise. "Explores a range of dramatic events and puzzling phenomena in which c...

Lord Leycester's Hospital Warwick.

ANON. · 1967 · Chilton Books

£12.50 (€14.99 | $16.52 | ¥2,638)

Warwick: nd. (c.1967). Slim guide booklet. Pp.8, 5 black & white illustrations. White card covers, brown marks to rear cover. Plus 4 colour postcards (publisher Walter Scott) loosely enclosed. G+.

The Catholic Laity in Elizabethan England 1558-1603.

TRIMBLE, WILLIAM R. · 1964 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1964. 1st edition. "Mr Trimble shows that Elizabeth permitted a measured toleration, avoiding interference with freedom of conscience. Although freedom of worship was legally forbidden, compulsory adheren...

Death, Religion and the Family in England 1480-1750.

HOULBROOKE, RALPH. · 1998 · Chilton Books

£38.00 (€45.56 | $50.21 | ¥8,019)

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. 0198217617. Oxford Studies in Social History series. "Examines the effects of religious change on the English 'way of death' between 1480 and 1750..(Houlbrooke) discusses relatively neglected aspects of the subject, such as the death-bed, will ma...

The Church of Saint Mary Beddgelert.

JONES, REV. H.A. AND LISTER, G.A. · 1949 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Banbury: Cheney & Sons, 1949. A guide to the Church of St Mary, Beddgelert, built on the site of an old Augustinian Priory, in Snowdonia, Gwynedd, Wales. Pp.16, 4 black & white photos, small owner's name to title page. Grey patterned card. VG.

Ripon Liberty. Law and Order over tthe Last 300 Years.

CHADWICK, ANTHONY.. · 1986 · Chilton Books

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

Ripon: Ripon Museum Trust, 1986. A short history of law and order in Yorkshire. Contennts innccludes: The Court House; ThheLLiibertyy; The Justices of the Liberty; Borough versus Liberty: 1832; The Old Quarter Sessions; Law in Ripon; Sentencing; The Police; The Clerks; The Pet...

Newport History. Bulletin of the Newport Historical Society. Vol.56, Part 2. Spring 1983. Number 190.

NEWPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY. · 1983 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Newport, Rhode Island: Newport Historical Society, 1983. Contents includes: A New Look at How Rochambeau Quartered His Army in Newport (1780-1781) by Alan and Mary Simpson; Samuel Seabury, First American Bishop by George Woodbridge; List of New Members of the Society. Paginati...

Isandlwana.

LABAND, JOHN AND MATHEWS, JEFF. · 1992 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Pietermaritzburg: Centaur Publications, 1992. 0947472398. First edition. "On 22 January 1879 a Zulu army outmanoeuvred the invading British, killing almost all the defenders of their camp under the baleful shadow of Isandlwana Mountain..This book is based on extensive archival...

A Century of Village Nonconformity at Bluntisham, Hunts. 1787 to 1887.

DIXON, ROBERT WALKER. · 1887 · Chilton Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

London: Saml. Harris & Co, 1887. 1st edition. With Introductory Sketches of Religious Life in the 17th and 18th Centuries. The village of Bluntisham-cum-Earith, in Huntingdonshire, is situated on the left bank of the river Ouse, on the borders of the Cambridgeshire Fens. Pp.vi...

Churches, Chapels and the Parish Communities of Lincolnshire 1660-1900.

AMBLER, R.W. · 2000 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Lincoln: The History of Lincolnshire Committee, 2000. 0902668188. A History of Lincolnshire Volume IX. "The development of Protestant dissent, and Evangelical Revival, with the rise of Methodism, all challenged old structures. The Church of England was transformed through inst...

Guide to the Historical Manuscripts in the National Archives of Rhodesia.

BAXTER, T.W. AND BURKE, E.E. · 1970 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

Salisbury: National Archives of Rhodesia, 1970. 1st edition. "This guide describes the various record groups, numbering over 800, highlights outstanding documents and provides a biographical sketch or introductory note to each person or body that created or owned the papers." ...