Category: History
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The Scots of Montreal: A pictorial album
Price: $15.95
Publisher: Vehicule Press: 2005
Seller ID: 8-7Y002
ISBN: 1550651927
Condition: GOOD
"READING COPY. As new except for bottom corner stain on last 20 pages (does not affect readability). 156 indexed pages, with 100 illustrations, based on material in the McCord exhibition ""The Scots: Dyed-in-the-wool Montrealers"" beginning with the victories of the 78th Scottish Highlanders both on the Plains of Abraham and the gates of Montreal in 1760. 9.25x8x.4""" View more info
"The Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident: Lessons and Implications (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 365)"
Price: $6.95
Publisher: NY, New York Academy of Sciences: 1981
Seller ID: 03T028
ISBN: 0897661168
Condition: VERY GOOD
"Tight, bright, clean (tiny spot on exterior page edges); curl from corner bump which has also creased cover corners. Papers on: Background; Public Information and Communication; Societal Reaction to the Event - Public Reactions; Societal Reaction to the Event - Institutional Reactions; Major Lessons and Issues. 343 Indexed pages." View more info
"Memory Tour, Tour of the Year, Redding Elementary School 1999-2000"
By: Mrs. Kelly
Price: $18.95
Publisher: LifeTouch: 2000
Seller ID: 8-0Y015
Condition: FINE
"As new except for two ""Autograph"" pages full of autographs. Yearbook for the Class of 2000 at Redding Elementary school, Redding, Connecticut. Pages full of candid photos, a full page photo of the class of 2000 and full page photos of each classroom (Mrs. Brakeman's, Mrs. Devol's, Mr. Dion's, Mrs. Edward's, Mrs. Honey's, Ms. Price's and Mrs. Richard's). 8x10.5x.2"" (20.5x27x.3cm)" View more info
"CLIO:WCSU History Journal, Spring 2005: The Many Forms of Sexuality"
By: N/A
Price: $10.95
Publisher: "Danbury, CT", Western Connecticut State University: 2005
Seller ID: 95Y007
Condition: FINE
"As new. Articles include: """"Upon Entering the White House: Affairs and Sec Scandals through the Years"": ""Buying the Right to Privacy: Contraception in Connecticut, 1940-1970""; Charles and Di: A History in Attitudes""; ""An Inquiry into the Masculine Mentality""; ""the Oppression of Women in Christianity""; ""Black Women Abolitionists""; ""Walt Whitman and Homosexuality""; ""Woman and Nation in Four Indian Films of the 1990s""; and ""The Politics of S... View more info
Cahir Castle
By: N/A
Price: $14.95
Publisher: National Parks and Monuments Service:
Seller ID: 05H005
Condition: FINE
"As new - gift quality! History, architectural description, color photos and building maps of Cahir Castle and Cahir Abbey. Originally part of the O'Brien Kingdom; granted in 1185, as part of the Thomond territory to Theobold Walter; granted as Barony of Cahir in 1192 to Philip of Worcester; in 1375 to James, Earl of Ormond (head of the Butler family);1788, Butlers of Glengall became the heirs; 1816 became Viscount Caher and Earl of Glengall; 1840-1846 ""great building period"" with architect William Tinsley; 1858 passed to Charteris family; 1964 taken into state care as a ... View more info
"Saint Peter School (Danbury, Connecticut) - Celebrating 120 Years of Excellence in Catholic Education in Danbury, 1885 - 2005, Saint Peter School Reunion, November 19, 2005"
By: N/A
Price: $29.95
Publisher: "Danbury, CT", Saint Peter School Reunion Committee: 2005
Seller ID: 0NT024
Condition: FINE
As new - gift quality! Includes commemorative bookmark. Includes group class pictures from the Class of 1886 to the Class of 2005 (some years missing) + a few miscellaneous group photos + several essays on aspects of the school's history. 142 pages. View more info
"Saint Peter School (Danbury, Connecticut) - Celebrating 120 Years of Excellence in Catholic Education in Danbury, 1885 - 2005, Saint Peter School Reunion, November 19, 2005"
By: N/A
Price: $28.95
Publisher: "Danbury, CT", Saint Peter School Reunion Committee: 2005
Seller ID: 0NT025
Condition: FINE
As new - gift quality! Includes commemorative bookmark. Includes group class pictures from the Class of 1886 to the Class of 2005 (some years missing) + a few miscellaneous group photos + several essays on aspects of the school's history. 142 pages. View more info
1987 Remember When…A Nostalgic Look Back In Time
By: N/A
Price: $4.95
Publisher: Seek Publishing: (Undated)
Seller ID: 9NT010
Condition: VERY GOOD+
"As new except for small mark on back cover. 1987 - news, ads, prices, timeline, movies, music and sports. 24 page, staple bound, 8.25x4.25""(21x10.8cm)" View more info
The R.O.T.C. Manual: Infantry
By: N/A
Price: $10.95
Publisher: "Washington, DC", The National Service Publishing Company: 1932
Edition: (15th Edition-revised)
Seller ID: 75H010
Condition: GOOD-/None
"Reading Copy. Tight but falls open, yellowed pages, soiled exterior, owner's pencil notes on end papers, otherwise clean interior, tilted. Spine end worn through on bottom, missing on top. Cover corners worn through. A small puncture (pencil point?) on spine extends inside through @ 30 pages. No DJ. Illustrations show WWI uniforms and wire carts pulled by mules. A unique version of the status of Infantry training between the World Wars." View more info
United States Air Force Museum
By: N/A
Price: $11.50
Publisher: "Wright-Patterson AFB,OH", Air Force Museum Foundation: 1982
Seller ID: 76Y016
Condition: NEAR FINE
"As new except for faint edgewear and faint age soil to exterior. Photos, descriptions and specifications of the AirCraft and displays of the Museum, including the model plane collection." View more info
Defiance
By: Nechama Tec
Price: $7.45
Publisher: Oxford University Press:
Seller ID: 9780195376852
ISBN: 0195376854
Condition: very good
The prevailing image of European Jews during the Holocaust is one of helpless victims, but in fact many Jews struggled against the terrors of the Third Reich. In Defiance, Nechama Tec offers a riveting history of one such group, a forest community in western Belorussia that would number more than 1,200 Jews by 1944--the largest armed rescue operation of Jews by Jews in World War II. Tec reveals that this extraordinary community included both men and women, some with weapons, but mostly unarmed, ranging from infants to the elderly. She reconstructs for the first time the amazing details of ... View more info
"The Blue Book 1977...1978, Volume LV"
By: Phillips Academy
Price: $10.95
Publisher: "Andover, MA", Phillips Academy: 1977
Seller ID: 03M006
Condition: VERY GOOD
"Tight, slight fading to edges of blue cover, clean except for spots on 1st 2 pages, slight curl, writing on 1 page.. Handbook for incoming students with data specific to the 1977-78 school year. Academic Information, Rules & Regulations, complete staff lists, Heads of Undergraduate organizations, Sports captains and coaches. 88 pages, 6.5x4.5"" (16.5x11.4cm)" View more info
An Atlas of Middle Eastern Affairs
Price: $23.95
Publisher: NY, Praeger: 1964
Edition: (Revised edition)
Seller ID: 6-1T021
Condition: VERY GOOD+
"Tight, bright, clean interior, faintest age soil to exterior, faint curl. Appears unread. Light rubbing to cover corners. ""In the Middle East, perhaps more than anywhere else, politics depends on geography…In the past…fluid natural boundaries…permitted expansion of its native empires and its importance as a crossroads...Today...disproportionate and fabulous wealth in oil and strategic..."" location...are added factors of significance..."" 117 indexed pages. A snapshot of the time period (1964), with detailed factual data illustrated on facing page map for e... View more info
56 Entretiens sur l'Histoire de France Pour les cours elementaires
Price: $18.95
Publisher: "Paris, France", Editions Nouvelles pour l'Enseignement:
Seller ID: 1DP015
Condition: VERY GOOD+
"Tight, bright, clean ans square. Has slight rubbing and creasing to covers with small chip on bottom spine edge and small smudge on bottom exterior page edges. Owner's name on first free page. Chronological topics from ""Des Hommer Prehistoriques dressent de Menhirs"" to ""Ministres de la Communaute debarquant a Orly"" each with 4 sections - 1. Observation dirigee; 2.Indications et Recit.: 3. Conclusion et Theme de Remuse; and 4. Documents complementaires. 231 pages" View more info
"The R .F. Griggs Company Investment Bankers - Waterbury, Connecticut 1903 - 1929"
Price: $34.95
Publisher: "Waterbury, CT", Heminway Press: 1929
Seller ID: 5-5T005
Condition: VERY GOOD-
"Tight, faintest age tanning of pages, clean, square. 1"" split of cloth covering on bottom back edge of spine. One coner of cover rubbed through. Forest green paper over board. Gilt lettering. History review of firm upon opening of new building at 50 Levenworth Street. Photos of new and old building (63 North Main) and of Robert Foote Griggs, , F.T. & R.W. Phillips, Alfred Hart, P.J. Skilton, E.N. Decker. 28 pages, 5-1/8x7-3/4""" View more info
India's Long Road to Independence: The Proudest Day
By: Read & Fisher
Price: $9.95
Publisher: NY, W.W.Norton: 1998
Seller ID: 7-NH023
ISBN: 0393318982
Condition: VERY GOOD
"As new except for faintest edgewear and age soil to cover edges only. 565 indexed, annotated pages including Bibliography and black and white photos. ""a valuable and fascinating political record of the turbulent birth of modern India and Pakistan."" 6x9.25x1""" View more info
A History of Russia
Price: $24.95
Publisher: "NY, NY", Oxford: 1993
Edition: (5th Edition
Seller ID: 6-NH002
ISBN: 0195074629
Condition: NEAR FINE
"As new except for slight tilt to spine and faint soil to exterior page edges. Red cloth with gilt lettering in crisp and clean dust jacket. 711 pages including bibliography, illustrated with maps and diagrams including a genealogical table of Russian rulers from the 1st century through the 20th. Narrative from B.C. to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and the events of 1992. " View more info
Heritage '76 - Ridgefield: A Place in Time
By: Ridgefield Bicentennial Commission
Price: $21.95
Publisher: "Ridgefield, CT", Ridgefield Centennial Commission: 1976
Seller ID: 4-8Y003
Condition: FINE
"As new - gift quality! Maroon padded, leatherette with gilt lettering. Series of illustrated essays on Ridgefield, Connecticut through the years with extensive list of sponsors and contemporary (1976) advertisements. Essays on the people who settled in Ridgefield from Chief Catoonah (Ramapoo), the first European immigrants who settled, the Italians, to the commuters." View more info
Torture: The Role of Ideology in the French-Algerian War
By: Rita Maran
Price: $69.95
Publisher: New York, Preager: 1989
Seller ID: 8-NH002
ISBN: 0275932486
Condition: VERY GOOD+
"As new but no dust jacket and pages, up to page 18, have a shallow crease in the margin. 214 indexed pages. 6.25x9.5x1"" (16x24x2.5cm) Examines ""la mission civilisatrice"" ideology that justified the routine use of torture during French-Algerian War (1954-1962) and points out that human rights violations traceable to ideology occur irrespective of a state's political system or tradition of rights. The book contrasts the routinization of torture with the contemporaneous global development of norms to assure human rights and abolish torture. Begins with a brief ... View more info
Early Modern Europe: A Book of Source Readings
Price: $9.95
Publisher: "Itasca, IL", "F. E, Peacock": 1973
Seller ID: 02H009
Condition: GOOD+
"Reading copy. Tight, bright, bright and clean interior, creased and age soiled exterior, square. 3 pages with highlighting and 4 with underlining. Contains original source readings in sections on: The Renaissance; The Reformation; Economic Life; Discovery and Colonization; Scientific Revolution; Beginnings of Economic Modernization; The French Revolution; Napoleon, conqueror and Conquered; & Politics (16th & 17th, 18th centuries). 470 pages, 9x6"" (22.9x15cm)." View more info