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Slight marking to rear of cover, otherwise as new condition. Used
64p. Text framed within a typographic border. Bookplate. Endpapers have some smoke damage. Small 8vo. Original full cloth backed pictorial boards of soldier kneeling by flag. First edition. Very scarce. WWI 9
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 145 pages of text, followed by section of 50 b&w plates. Small tears and creases to dust jacket.
Two Parts: pp. 185; 187-362. Profusely illustrated with lovely full page color photographs. Two Hundred and Sixty-Four plates. Some age staining especially on fly leaves. Folio. Original full cloth bindings, worn with some loss at extremities. Stamped label "Compliments of James J. Walker, Senator 12th District". Penciled ownership of Richard Parsons. ** James J. Walker (1881-1946) was the New York City politician known as Jimmy Walker. He entered politics after graduating from New York Law School, becoming a member of the Assembly (1909) and then of the State Senate (1914). Backed by Gov. Alfred E. Smith and Tammany Hall, he was elected mayor of New York, and served from 1925 to 1932. A popular figure known for his charm and wit but particularly for his enthusiastic participation in the high life typical of the era, he made improvements in sanitation, hospitals, and subways. He resigned in 1932 after being charged with corruption. Hardbound. Excellent twentieth century study of New York State wild flowers, with an interesting association to a colorful politician. PLANTS W129
Two Parts: pp. 185; 187-362. Profusely illustrated with lovely full page color photographs. Two Hundred and Sixty-Four plates. Folio. Original full cloth bindings, gold lettered spine. Hardbound. Excellent set. PLANTS. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W129
208 pages including footnotes and black and white photographs. Backbreaking work for slave wages in labour camps - that was the government's response to thousands of young men looking for jobs in the Dirty Thirties. This historical account tells the little-known story of the jobless who drifted across the country during the Depression and were drawn into the work camps - offered poor food, mass shelter, and a few pennies a day in exchange for doney work on major government projects. Records the desperation, disillusionment, and rebellion of these welfare inmates, and the repressive shameful way in which the politicians and government authorities tried to keep the situation under control. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
9 leaves. Text printed only on rectos. Photograph of the boiler room of the banana ship "Metapan". 8vo. Lacks front wrap. First page stained. Very scarce piece on the role of diesel engines at war. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! WWI 10
165p. + Plus frontis and photo portraits. Lacks one illustration. Childish crayoning on endpapers. 8vo. Original full green cloth binding, decorated and lettered in gold. Slightly worn. WWI 2
Fine English Paperback. Pbo. 4to. (29 x 24 cm). In English and Turkish. 177, [1] p., color ills. Exhibition catalog on history of insurance in the Ottoman Empire. What hurts the purse, hurts the soul. Insurance in the Ottoman Empire with documents from the Collection of David M. Kohen.= Mal canin yongasidir. David M. Kohen Koleksiyonundan belgelerle Osmanli Imparatorlugu'nda sigortacilik.
New English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English. 180 p. Contents: "Preface 1. Turco-Armenian controversy and conspiracy theories Conspiracy Theories on the Adana Incident: Prototypes - Rehashed Theories: The Armenian Version - Rehashed Theories: The Turkish Version - A Disputable Document: the "Report" of Agop Babikyan - A Disputable Documents: The Memoirs of Mehmed Asaf. 2. The Adana province during the nineteenth century The Land of Derebeys - The 'Reform Division' and the Beginning of the Centralized Administration - Cotton Export and the Development of Agrarian Economy - Massive Colonization during the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century - Land Accumulation - Emergence of New Local Bosses: The Aghas - The Plight of Muslim Peasants - A Multi-Ethnic Society and the Ethnic Division of Labour - Turco-Armenian Relations 3. The Young Turk revolution and its impact on the Adana province CUP Takeover of Power and its Weakness - Ambivalent Charac-ters of the CUP Adana Branch - The New Provincial Government - Anti-CUP Sentiment among the Muslims - Struggle between the Pro- and Anti-Cevad blocks - Muslim-Armenian Tensions after the Revolution - The Smuggling of fire arms - Armenian cultural activities and their side-effects. 4. A hidden agenda: Demographic warfare and land disputes Armenian Nationalism and the Muslim reaction - Demographic dimension - Rising tension in communal relations - Repeated dispute over the Taylan Çiftligi - New Demographic Pressure after the Young Turk Revolution - Dispute over the Armenian land ownership after the Revolution - The repercussions of the land dispute over Armeno-Muslim relations. 5. The April incidents in Adana The Hovannes Affair and the Excitement of the Muslim Population - The Outbreak of Hostilities - Defence of the Armenians - Muslim Mob - How the Provincial Government Reacted - The End of the Initial Hostilities and an Interlude - The Second Incident. 6. Riots and massacres in the countryside The Hamidiye Incident - The Tarsus Inferno - The Attack of Kozoluk - The Disturbance in the Cebel-i Bereket - The retreat of the Hasanbeyli Armenians - The siege of Dörtyol - The Kozan Prefecture. 7. The aftermath The Casualties - The Relief and Recon-struction Works - A Farewell to Conspiracy Theories. Bibliography". ARMENIANS Politic history II. Mesrutiyet Ottoman politic history Adana 1909.
Signed by Author on title page. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 128pp. A history of Westfield, the genesis of Chautauqua County in southwestern New York State from 1802 onwards. Vey well illustrated with caprioned images. Tucked in is an A3 reprint from The Westfield Republican with legends and stories of the early days of Westfield.
New English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (23 x 16.5 cm). 96 p. Color and b/w ills. In English. Western classical music in the Ottoman Empire. Prep. by Aysegül Atmaca. Photography: Suat Alkan. Ottomans' First Contacts With Western Classical Music. Western Classical Music In Ottoman Literature. Ottoman Dynasty And Western Classical Music. Muzika-yi Humayun (Orchestra of the Palace). European Musicians In Turkey. Vedat Kosal (Biography).
144 pages. Features: State of the Art - Utah; American Woman Artists; Intimate Observations - Walter Matia; Tradition and Innovation - Native American Pottery; Greatest Photographs of the American West; and more. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
62 pages. Features: Around the corner and out of the way - some forgotten places with hidden treasures; Handcrafted Jewelry not that tough to do; locating collection sites; The mysteries of Hollister Peak; Hunting gemstones in New York - quartz, chrysoberyls, tourmaline, and diamonds; A bottle collector's heaven - Washington State; Trash and the treasure hunter; valuable dime found with low-priced detector; Don't give up - a story to encourage you; Mine hopping in Idaho; West Tennessee relic hunting - all civil war camps have not been worked out; Whiskey Run - a Pennsylvania ghost town; Time out to put on a hunt; Coin hunting in the world's greatest gold camp. Average wear. Book
62 pages. Features: Seeking out that elusive gold; Napa Valley's abandoned wineries - virgin coinshooting territory; The treasures of Fort Teran; Research, then search the ghost train lines; Barnyard bonanzas; Treasure stories - fact or fiction; national archives can be used by all; Bottle collecting for the gun enthusiast; Down came the school and up came the coins; Build your own research library; Quarry treasures; Coinshooting - a state of mind; Why not collect crystals?; The Old Campsite; Prospecting for gold in a coyote hole - how they did it in the old days. Above-average wear. Book
Volume appartenente alla Collana:"Nuova Cultura dei servizi sociali", a cura della Fondazione Emanuela Zancan. Scritti di B. Dente, G.Giorgi, V. Onida, e. Ranci Ortigiosa, P. Saraceno, A. Tosi. Brossura con copertina in cartoncino flessibile, titoli al piatto e al dorso. Lievi segni del tempo e d'usura; leggera abrasione alle cerniere e alle cuffie, bordo leggermente sciupato, tagli ben preservati. All'interno la legatura è ben salda, le pagine lievemente brunite ai margini, integre, prive di segni particolari e perfettamente fruibili. Numero di pagine 222. USATO
New English Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English. 400 p. Wealth distribution, social stratification and material culture in an Ottoman metropolis: Thessaloniki according to the probate inventories of the Muslim court, (1761-1770). Contents: Preface Part 1: The Sources and the Historico-Institutional Setting 1. Introduction to the Ottoman City 2. Thessaloniki, a City of Ottoman Pluralism 3. The Sources. Historical Value and Methodological Issues 4. The Kadi and the Islamic Law of Succession 5. Familial Realities 6. Urban Wealth Distribution. Some Introductory Observations. Part 2: The Estate Assets 7. The Movable Articles 8. The Productive Capital 9. The Human Resources 10. The Fiscal Capital.; Part 3: The People 11. Askeris, Christians, Women and Villagers. 12. Entrepreneurs and their Strategies 13. Concluding Remarks Bibliography Charts Index.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full gray cloth boards. Tears on worn, price-clipped dust jacket. Map endpapers. 192 pages. Eighty-eight sketches of dramatic moments in the pre-territorial days of Washington State, illustrated by Parker McAllister.
376 pages including index and illustrations in colour and black and white. Includes 1134 species of wildflowers most commonly found in the state of Washington and adjacent areas of Oregon, Idaho, and British Columbia. Average wear to exterior. Conents clean and unmarked. Tight and square. Solid copy. Book
160p. Profusely illustrated. Folio. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket. Nice copy WWI 12
New English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English. 216 p. Contents: 1. 'Guillaume Postel on temporary marriage', in Sabine Prätor (ed.), Frauen, Bilder und Gelehrte: Studien zu Gesellschaft und Künsten im Osmanischen Reich, Istanbul: Simurg Historia (2002), 179-183. 2. 'The cultivation of wasteland in Hanafi and Ottoman law', Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientarum Hungaricae, 61 (2008), 102-112. 3. 'Women as outsiders: the inheritance of agricultural land in the Ottoman Empire.', in Jutta Gisela Sperling and Shona Kelly Wray (eds.), Women, Property and Law in the Wider Mediterranean, New York: Routledge (2010), 256-269 4. 'The law of the land' in Christine Woodhead (ed.), The Ottoman World, London: Routledge, (2011), 41-56. 5. 'Fiqht for beginners: an Anatolian text on jihad', in Studies in Islamic and Middle Eastern Texts and Traditions in Memory of Norman Calder, in G.R. Hawting, J.A. Mojaddedi and A Samely (eds.), Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement 12, Oxford University Press (2000), 137-148. 6. 'The Caliphate' in Colin Imber, Ebu's-Su'ud: The Islamic Legal Tradition, Chapter IV, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University (1997), 98-111. 7. 'Four Letters of Ebu's-Su'ud', Arab Historical Review for Ottoman Studies, 15-16 (1997), 177-183. 8. 'Die Thronbesteigungen der osmanischen Sultane. Die Entwicklung einer Zeremonie', in Marion Steinicke and Stefan Weinfurter (eds.), Investitur- und Krönungsrituale, Cologne: Böhlau (2005), 291-304. 9. 'The Crusade of Varna: what motivated the crusaders?' in Matthew Dimmock and Andrew Hadfield (eds.), Religions of the Book: Christian Perceptions, 1400-1660, Basingstoke: Palgrave (2008), 45-65 10. 'Ibrahim Peçevi on war: a note on the European 'military revolution'', in Keiko Kiyotaki, Rhoads Murphey and Colin Imber (eds.), Frontiers of Ottoman Studies vol. 2, London: I.B.Tauris, 2005, 7-22. 11. 'The battle of Sufiyan, 1605: a symptom of Ottoman military decline?' in Prof. Mehmet Ipsirli Armagani, forthcoming. 12. 'Before the Kapudan Pashas: sea power and the emergence of the Ottoman Empire', in Elizabeth Zachariadou (ed.), The Kapudan Pasha: his office and his domain, Rethymnon: Crete University Press (2002), 49-59. 13. 'The origin of the Janissaries', in Jan Schmidt (ed.), Journal of Turkish Studies, 26/II (2002), 15-19 14. ''An illiberal descent': Kemalism and Ottoman Law', Eurasian Studies, IV.2 (2005 [2007]), 215-243. 15. 'What does ghazi actually mean?'in Çigdem Balim and Colin Imber (eds.) The Balance of Truth: Essays in Honour of Professor Geoffrey Lewis, Istanbul: Isis Press (2000), 165-178. OTTOMANIA History of law Historiography.
12 pages. "Not to be Published - the information given in this publication is not to be communicated, either directly, to the Press or to any person not holding an official position in His Majesty's Forces." - from front cover. Reprinted in Canada August, 1943. Contents: Mediterranean Journey - The Secretary of State for War Goes to Africa; Mine Kampf - an account of the Polish (electric) mine detector - this article illustrates the very close link between the war-worker and the man in the Services. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
350p. + Plus frontis and full page illustrations. Inked ownership of Elra C. Palmer, President of Washington Citizens' Association. Later penciled commentaries and underlinings. 8vo. Original full green cloth binding, gold lettered. Some dust spotting. With insert of the North Washington Citizens' Association meeting. Scarce and interesting. WWI 2
New English Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English. [xLiii], 331 p. War, epidemics and medicine in the late Ottoman Empire, (1912-1918). The Ottoman Empire spent its last century with wars coming one after another and as a consequence had to suffer many physical as well as demographic casualties. With a significant decrease in the population, one of the main factors that had kept the Empire up disappeared and therefore the 600 year-old Empire collapsed at the end of the First World War. This study focuses on the period of Balkan Wars and the First World War, which affected the political history of the 20th century deeply and caused the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, and examines the concerned period in terms of the epidemic diseases. Taking into account that wars are important contributors in the emergence of epidemic diseases, I have attempted to evaluate the destruction caused by the epidemic diseases during the war years and effects of these diseases on the results of the wars in a historical framework.
New New English Original bdg. Dust wrapper. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English. [xxxix], [1], 884 p., ills. War & nationalism: The Balkan Wars, 1912-1913, and their sociopolitical implications. War and Nationalism presents thorough up-to-date scholarship on the often misunderstood and neglected Balkan Wars of 1912 to 1913, which contributed to the outbreak of World War I. The essays contain critical inquiries into the diverse and interconnected processes of social, economic, and political exchange that escalated into conflict. The wars represented a pivotal moment that had a long-lasting impact on the regional state system and fundamentally transformed the beleaguered Ottoman Empire in the process. This interdisciplinary volume stands as a critique of the standard discourse regarding the Balkan Wars and effectively questions many of the assumptions of prevailing modern nation-state histories, which have long privileged the ethno-religious dimensions present in the Balkans. The authors go to great lengths in demonstrating the fluidity of social, geographical, and cultural boundaries before 1912 and call into question the "nationalist watershed" notion that was artificially imposed by manipulative historiography and political machinations following the end of fighting in 1913. War and Nationalism will be of interest to scholars looking to enrich their own understanding of an overshadowed historical event and will serve as a valuable contribution to courses on Ottoman and European history.
