History Books

BETWEEN WORLDS: Interpreters, Guides, and Survivors
by Frances karttunen. B&W photo section. Condition: UNREAD 1994 Rutgers University Press hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), assumed first printing. Content: This is an important and interesting book for historians, IMHO. The author describes the lives of 16 men and women who acted as guides and interpreters for explorers, missionaries, and anthropologists. Included are Dona Marina, who interpreted for Cortes; Sacajawea, who traveled with Lewis and Clark; and Charles Eastman, who was a Sioux physician at Wounded Knee. Karttunen provides succinct biographies of the selected individuals and a final chapter of her own analysis. Her primary focus is exploring how each interpreter lived on the margins of two societies. She is particularly sensitive to gender and ethnic issues but does not address the linguistics of the work that these interpreters did. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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EDWARD SAID AND THE WRITING OF HISTORY (Postmodern Encounters)
by Shelley Walia. Condition: NEW 2001 Icon books paperback, first printing. Content: "Edward Said's work has contributed substantially to contemporary debates on Orientalism, discourse analysis, dissident politics and postcolonialism. Having spent most of his life in exile from his homeland Palestine, he is acutely aware of the role that dominant ideologies play in cultural imperialism. Said argued that the study of the Orient became a recognised discipline at the very peak of nineteenth-century colonial expansion, creating a body of knowledge that imperialists could use as a means to gain power. This book examines the aim of Said's polemical writing in destablising unilateral historical accounts. It shows how his identification of the urgent need for 'subaltern' histories to be written and for the prevailing ones to be scrutinised for colonialist bias now offers intellectual support to decolonisation struggles throughout the world." Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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THE HISTORY OF PROSTITUTION
by George Ryley Scott. B&W illustrations. The Temptresses. . .by Hyppolyte (Cover art). Condition: NEW 1996 Senate (UK) Trade Paperback, first printing. Content: Originally printed in UK (1968) as "Ladies of Vice," this is a 1996 reprint. History of ancient, world, English, and American prostitution and government intervention. Questions welcome. [2 copies available]
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MAPS AND HISTORY: Constructing Images of the Past
by Jeremy Black. Color and B&W maps and illustrations. Condition: NEW 1997 Yale University Press hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first edition, first priting. Content: Historical atlases offer an understanding of the past which is invaluable to historians, not only because they convey a previous age's sense of space and distance but also because they reveal what historians and educators of those periods thought important to include or omit. This book - the first comprehensive and wide-ranging account of the historical atlas - explores the role, development and nature of this important reference tool and discusses its impact on the presentation of the past. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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THE MOST EVIL MEN AND WOMEN IN HISTORY
by Miranda Twiss. B&W era photos and illustrations. Condition: Pre-read 2002 Michael O'Mara Books (London)/Barnes & Noble hardcvoer & DJ (in mylar jacket), first printing. Content: A catalogue of horrific evil, from the first century AD to the present day Evil is a fact of life. We can see it, not only in the reigns of Stalin and Hitler, but also in everyday crimes like murder, rape and assault - quite apart from the millions of lives brutalized by political or religious oppression, poverty, disease and starvation. One factor unites the sixteen men and women featured in this book and the evil acts they committed - they all had unlimited power over the people whose lives they controlled. Their reigns a terror cover a time-span of nearly two thousand years, from the rule of Caligula over the Roman Empire starting in 37AD, to the genocide of educated Cambodians under Pol Pot during the 1980's. Motivated by power, religion, political belief, or by sadism and lust, and sometimes by insanity, they have become bywords for terror throughout the world. Evil monsters presented: Caligula, Nero, Attila the Hun, King JOhn, Torquemada, Prince Vlad Dracula, Francisco Pizarro, Bloody Mary 1, Ivan IV The Terrible, Elizabeth - Countess Bathory, Rasputin, Josef Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Ilse Koch, Pol Pot, and Idi Amin. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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THE WAY OF THE PIRATE: Who's Who in Davy Jones' Locker
by Robert Downie. Condition: UNREAD 2005 ibooks Trade Paperback, first printing. Originally published as Who's Who in Davy Jones' Locker. Content: An alphabetical listing of all the Pirates who sailed the seas and other related persons. Excellent reference book. Wonder if Captain Jack Sparrow is in here? Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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WILD WOMEN: Crusaders, Curmudgeons and Completely Corsetless Ladies in the Otherwise Virtuous Victorian Era
by Autumn Stephens. 50 B&W era photos of the "women." Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1998 Conari soft cover, no printing given. Light edgewear-shelfwear and an embossed seal lower front cover corner. Interior clean & tight. Content: A fascinating and sometimes humorous glimpse into the lives of 150 19th-century American women who refused to whittle themselves down to the Victorian model of proper womanhood. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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