SOCIAL HISTORY
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CORNWALL AND ITS PEOPLE
Written by A.K. Hamilton Jenkin; Arthur Quiller-Couch.
Stock no. 1831634
Published by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd..
1946.
Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Comprising Cornish Seafarers, Cornwall and the Cornish, Cornish Homes and Customs. Introduction by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and illustrations. xvi and 487 pages including index. Reprint. Minor spotting to front board. A few minor foxspots present, mainly to prelims and text block. Else contents clean. Dustwrapper is grubby with a few tiny chips, top corner of front flap has been torn away.
THE EDWARDIANS
Written by Roy Hattersley.
Stock no. 1331401
Published by Little Brown.
1st
2004.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Red boards, gilt title to spine. 520 pages. B/w photos. ISBN: 0316725374. Spine bumped. Book leans to one side a little. Textblock is slightly grubby. Dustwrapper is slightly grubby and edge rubbed.
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- EDWARDIAN
- SOCIAL HISTORY
SCOTTISH LIFE AND SOCIETY: A COMPENDIUM OF SCOTTISH ETHNOLOGY VOLUME 3: SCOTLAND'S BUILDINGS
Written by Geoffrey Stell; John Shaw; Susan Storrier.
Stock no. 1831468
Published by Tuckwell Press.
1st
2003.
Nearly fine condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
Architectural structures of Scotland and their historical context are discussed in this wide-ranging historical work. A variety of structures, from castles to community buildings, are considered in relation to their involvement and impact on the surrounding communities. Black cloth boards, silver title to spine. B/w photos. Edited by Geoffrey Stell et al. xxxii and 761 pages including index. ISBN: 186232123X. Pictorial dustwrapper is heavily sunned/faded to front panel and spine, some fading to rear panel, light creasing. Book itself is clean.
- Categorised in:
- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- SCOTLAND
- SOCIAL HISTORY
- HISTORY
- BUILDINGS
- ARCHITECTURE
ENGLISH MEN AND MANNERS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (A GALAXY BOOK)
Written by A.S. Turberville.
Stock no. 1831464
Published by Oxford University Press.
1961.
Almost very good condition.
This vivid portrait of an exuberant era peopled by forceful and colorful personalities is a social and political history of the eighteenth century that is a happy blend of information and entertaining illustrations. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w illustrations. xxiii and 539 pages. Second printing of this edition. Covers are a little grubby, creasing to rear cover. Reading wear vertically to spine. Joints pulled but binding still tight. Text block is browned and grubby. Contents clean.
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- HISTORY (VICTORIAN)
- SOCIAL HISTORY
- POLITICS
FRANCE: FIN DE SIECLE
Written by Eugen Weber.
Stock no. 1831412
Published by Belknap Press.
1st
1986.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
In Eugen Weber's France, Fin de Siècle, statesmen and treaties are set aside in favor of the stuff of everyday existence. We learn about bathing, smells, sanitation, domestic quarrels, underwear, sexuality and the bicycle as they evolved during the last two decades of the nineteenth century… Terracotta cloth spine with gilt title on blue to spine, beige cloth boards. B/w illustrations. x and 294 pages including index. ISBN: 0674318129. Boards clean. Light foxing to text block. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Else contents clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine and a little grubby to rear panel which also has a barcode label stuck over last three lines of writing.
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (EUROPEAN)
- HISTORY (FRENCH)
- SOCIAL HISTORY
THE DISCOVERY OF MANKIND: ATLANTIC ENCOUNTERS IN THE AGE OF COLUMBUS
Written by David Abulafia.
Stock no. 1831326
Published by Yale University Press.
2008.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Book Club Edition. Emphasizing contact between peoples rather than the discovery of lands, and using archaeological findings as well as eyewitness accounts, David Abulafia explores the social lives of the New World inhabitants, the motivations and tensions of the first transactions with Europeans, and the swift transmutation of wonder to vicious exploitation. Lucid, readable, and scrupulously researched, this is a work of humane engagement with a period in which a tragically violent standard was set for European conquest across the world. Dark grey paper boards, silver title to spine. A few b/w plates. xxvi and 379 pages including index. ISBN: 9780300125825. Light concave reading crease to spine. Slight lean to spine. Text block grubby. Contents clean. Pictorial dustswrapper is lightly edge-worn and scuffed.
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY GENERAL
- EXPLORATION
- ARCHAEOLOGY
- SOCIAL HISTORY
CITIES & PEOPLE: A SOCIAL AND ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY
Written by Mark Girouard.
Stock no. 1831225
Published by Yale University Press.
1st
1985.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
In an inimitable feat of social history, Girouard analyzes how the development of fashionable society, the increase in trade, the growth of population, and the widening of power of the nation state influenced seventeenth- and eighteenth-century cities, and how the Industrial Revolution affected cities of the nineteenth century. Large format. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour double-spread title page and colour & b/w illustrations throughout. vii and 397 pages including index. ISBN: 0300035020. Lower edge of boards lightly knocked (very minor). Corner bumped. Boards a little stained (faint). Top edge of text block a little grubby. A few minor foxspots to prelims else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper has a 2" split to lower front corners and a few marks. Musty odour present.
- Categorised in:
- ARCHITECTURE
- HISTORY
- HISTORY GENERAL
- TOPOGRAPHY (FOREIGN)
- TRAVEL
- SOCIAL HISTORY
CARE AND TREATMENT OF THE MENTALLY ILL IN NORTH WALES 1800-2000
Written by Pamela Michael.
Stock no. 1330970
Published by University Of Wales Press.
1st
2003.
Slightly better than very good condition.
The first detailed history of an asylum in Wales and an important contribution to the sociology of mental illness. Cardwraps. 252 pages including index. Some b/w photos. ISBN: 9780708317402. Slight rubbing to cover edges. A few foxspots to textblock.
- Categorised in:
- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- WALES
- DENBIGHSHIRE
- SOCIAL HISTORY
- MENTAL HEALTH
THE DIARY OF A VILLAGE SHOPKEEPER 1754-1765
Written by Thomas Turner; David Vaisey.
Illustrated by Miriam Macgregor.
Stock no. 1830694
Published by Folio Society.
1st thus
1998.
Nearly fine condition.
Edited by David Vaisey. Blue cloth spine with burgundy title block and gilt title, marbled paper boards. B/w engravings. Top edge red. xxxix and 443 pages. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is very lightly scuffed.
- Categorised in:
- FOLIO SOCIETY
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- BIOGRAPHY
- DIARY
- RETAIL
- SOCIAL HISTORY
THE ENGLISH URBAN RENAISSANCE: CULTURE AND SOCIETY IN THE PROVINCIAL TOWN 1660-1770
Written by Peter Borsay.
Stock no. 1830523
Published by The Clarendon Press.
2002.
Slightly better than very good condition.
In the century after the Restoration of 1660, English provincial towns experienced a cultural renaissance. This book offers a guide to the transformation of the urban landscape and the remarkable expansion in the provision of fashionable public leisure. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w illustrations. xxii and 416 pages including index. Printed by Lightning Source UK Ltd. ISBN: 0198202555. Reprint. A lovely copy with a sweet odour present.
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- SOCIAL HISTORY
THE LIVING THEATRE OF MEDIEVAL ART
Written by Henry Kraus.
Stock no. 1830488
Published by Indiana University Press.
1st
1967.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
From the foreword: Whether working from a single monument to its ramifications in the relevant social context, or from major social themes to their documentation in works of art, he has traced the broad picture of living circumstances and problems in the Middle Ages, to create a vivid documentary picture of the period and its art. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine, blind title to front board. B/w illustrations. xxi and 248 pages. Small foxspots to top edge of text block. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is rubbed at corners, creased and worn to top rear edge.
- Categorised in:
- ART
- HISTORY (MEDIEVAL)
- SOCIAL HISTORY
RACE RELATIONS IN THE PORTUGUESE COLONIAL EMPIRE 1415-1825
Written by C.R. Boxer.
Stock no. 1327779
Published by Oxford University Press.
1st
1963.
Slightly better than very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
Blue cloth, gilt title to spine. 136 pages. Spine slightly bumped. Neat writing to rear free-endpaper (list of further titles to read). Dustwrapper is damp stained to edges of front panel.
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (EUROPEAN)
- PORTUGAL
- SOCIAL HISTORY