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Anderson, Perry. Considerations on Western Marxism. Verso, 1979. PB. Like new. $7.00
Ashton, Thomas Southcliffe. Iron and Steel in the Industrial Revolution, 3rd ed. Manchester UP, 1963. HC, very good, no dj. $25.00
Austin, Mary S. Philip Freneau, The Poet of the Revolution: His Life and Times. Hardcover, ex-library copy w/usual markings & pocket; else excellent condition with tight binding & bright clean pages. Very scarce. $20.00
Auvergne, Edmund B. d'. Godoy: The Queen's Favourite. Boston; Badger/Gorham Press, n.d. (ca. 1900). 330 pp. Hardcover, red cloth, wear & tear to binding consistent with age, a little loose, else good, page block clean. No dj. OP; $25.00
Bainton, Ronald H., & Horizon Magazine eds. The Horizon History of Christianity. NY; American Heritage/Harper & Row, 1964. 432 pp. Lavishly illustrated in color & b/w. Oversize hardcover, very good w/fair dj. OP; $12.00*
Barber, William J. A History of Economic Thought. Penguin, 1967. Pocket pb, fair. $2.00
Bezucha, Robert J. ed. Modern European Social History. D.C. Heath, 1972. (12 essays by various authors.) HC, very good, no dj. $10.00
Blumin, Stuart M. The Emergence of the Middle Class: Social Experience in the American City, 1760-1850. Cambridge UP, 1989. PB, very good+. $20.00
Boswell, James; Frederick A. Pottle, ed. Boswell in Holland, 1763-1764. NY; Yale UP/McGraw-Hill, 1952. 433 pp. Part of the Yale UP series "The Private Papers of James Boswell." Explanatory footnotes. Hardcover, very good w/shabby dj. OP; $15.00
Bourne, Henry Eldridge. The Revolutionary Period in Europe, 1763-1815. NY; Century, 1914. 494 pp. Emphasis is on France and French influence. With bibliography & 8 maps. hardcover, slight fraying to cloth at head of spine, occasional pencil underlining & marginalia, else very good, no dj. OP; $12.00
Brandi, Karl. The Emperor Charles V: The Growth and Destiny of a Man and of a World-Empire. London: Jonathan Cape, 1960 reprint of 1939 original. 655 pp. Biography of the Holy Roman Emperor (1500-1558). Scarce. Hardcover, good, no dj. OP; $30.00
Braun, Rudolf. Industrialisation and Everyday Life. transl. Sarah Hanbury Tenison. Cambridge UP, 1990. HC, like new. $20.00
Breunig, Charles. The Age of Revolution and Reaction, 1789-1850. 1st edition. NY; Norton, 1970. Illustrations, extensive bibliography. Trade paperback, near mint. $8.00
Breunig, Charles. The Age of Revolution and Reaction, 1789-1850. 2nd edition. NY; Norton, 1977. 304 pp. Illustrations, extensive bibliography. Trade paperback, near mint. $10.00
Chambers, J.D., & G.E. Mingay. The Agricultural Revolution, 1750-1880. Batsford, 1966. PB, good. $8.00
Chandler, Alfred; Thomas K. McCraw, ed. The Essential Alfred Chandler: Essays Toward a Historical Theory of Big Business. Harvard Business School Press, 1988. Large trade paperback, very good+. Scarce. $35.00
Clarkson, L.A., ed. The Industrial Revolution: A Compendium. Contents: Chapman, S.D.: The Cotton Industry in the Industrial Revolution, 2nd edn.; Payne, P.L.: British Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth Century, 2nd edn.; Clarkson, L.A.: Proto-Industrialization: The First Phase of Industrialization?; Turner, Michael: Enclosures in Britain, 1750-1830. HC, like new. $25.00
Connelly, William Elsey. Quantrill & The Border Wars. Reprint of 1909 edition. Hardcover, very good+ w/vg dj.
Crouzet, Francois, ed. Capital Formation in the Industrial Revolution. “Debates in Economic History.” Methuen, 1972. (7 essays.) PB, good. $6.00
Cumming, W.P., & Hugh Rankin. The Fate of a Nation: The American Revolution through contemporary eyes. London; Phaidon Press, 1975. 352 pp. Lavishly illustrated in b/w with a few color plates. Notes. Oversize Hardcover, very good w/fair dj. OP; $10.00
Dabney, Virginius, ed; introduction by Henry Steele Commager. The Patriots: The American Revolution: Generation of Genius. 50 brief portraits by various historians on major figures of the American Revolution. Many illustrations. Oversize hardcover, very good w/fair dj. $15.00
Davis, Ralph. The Rise of the Atlantic Economies. Cornell UP, 1973. PB, good. $10.00
Davis, Ralph. The Rise of the Atlantic Economies. Cornell UP, 1973. PB, a little highlighting on a few pages, else good. $7.00
De Vries, Jan. The Dutch Rural Economy in the Golden Age. Yale UP, 1974. HC. Like new book with shabby dj. $40.00
Deane, Phyllis. The First Industrial Revolution. Cambridge UP, 1969. PB, good. $7.00
Deutsch, Karl W., & Lewis J. Edinger et al. France, Germany and the Western Alliance: A study of elite attitudes on European integration and world politics. NY; Scribners, 1967. 324 pp. Trade paperback, good. OP; $15.00
Earle, Alice Morse. Child Life in Colonial Days. Williamstown, MA: Corner House Pubs, 1984, reprint of original 1899 ed. 418 pp. An in-depth examination of American childhood in the 17th and 18th centuries, with some illustrations. Hardcover, ex-library copy w/usual stamps, markings, pocket, etc; else good w/dj. OP; $12.00
Fiszman, Samuel, ed. Constitution and Reform in Eighteenth-Century Poland. Indiana UP, 1997. 562 pp. 22 essays, all in English. Brand new w/dj. In print at $49.95; $25.00
Gay, Peter. The Tender Passion. The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud: Vol. II. Oxford UP, 1986. 490 pp. Trade paperback, slight creasing to wraps, else very good. In print at $16.00; $7.00
Gershoy, Leo. From Despotism to Revolution, 1763-1789. NY; Harper Torch, 1963. "Rise of Modern Europe" series. 355 pp. Extensive notes & bibliography. Paperback, very good. OP; $6.00
Goetzmann, William H. New Lands, New Men: America and the Second Great Age of Discovery. NY; Viking, 1986. Global exploration in the 17th to 19th centuries. Extensive bibliographical notes. Hardcover, very good w/good dj. OP; $12.00
Goudsblom, Johan, & Eric Jones, Stephen Mennell. The Course of Human History. Economic Growth, Social Process, and Civilization. M.E. Sharpe, 1996. PB, like new. $9.00
Greenleaf, William, ed. American Economic Development since 1860. Harper Torchbooks, 1968. PB, good. $7.00
Harris, J.R. The British Iron Industry, 1700-1850. 1988. Economic History Society publications. paperback, very good. $7.00
Harrison, Joseph. The Spanish Economy: From the Civil War to the European Community. Economic History Society publications. paperback, very good. $7.00
Headrick, Daniel R. The Tentacles of Progress: Technology Transfer in the Age of Imperialism. Oxford UP, 1988. PB, like new. $10.00
Headrick, Daniel R. The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century. Oxford UP, 1981. PB, like new. $10.00
Heer, Friedrich. Europe, Mother of Revolutions. NY; Praeger, 1972. 369 pp. Hardcover, light wear to edges and corners, else good, no dj, text clean. OP; $8.00
Heilbroner, Robert. The Making of Economic Society. 2nd edn. Prentice-Hall, 1968. PB, very good. $8.00
Heywood, Colin. The Development of the French Economy, 1750-1914. Economic History Society publications. paperback, very good. $7.00
Hicks, John. A Theory of Economic History. Oxford UP, 1969. PB, very good. $6.00
Hobsbawm, Eric J. Industry and Empire. Penguin, 1969, reprint 1990. PB, good. $8.00
Johnson, Chalmers. Revolutionary Change. Little, Brown and Co., 1966. Paperback, stained wraps, else good. $9.00
Johnson, Paul. The Birth of the Modern: World Society, 1815-1830. HarperCollins, 1991. 1095 pp. Extensive footnotes. Trade paperback, very good. In print at $16.00; $9.00
Jones, Eric L. The European Miracle: Environments, Economies, and Geopolitics in the History of Europe and Asia. 2nd edn. Cambridge UP, 1967. PB, very good. $9.00
Katz, Michael B., & Michael J. Doucet & Mark J. Stern. The Social Organization of Early Industrial Capitalism. Harvard UP, 1982. HC, like new w/fair dj. $12.00
Kessler, Harry; Charles Kessler, trans. In the Twenties: The Diaries of Harry Kessler. NY; HRW, 1971. 535 pp. "The diaries of Harry Kessler . . . reveal a remarkable personality whose life, from the Berlin uprising in 1918 to his death in 1937, mirrors in a strangely fascinating way what was happening to Europe during the twenties and thirties. Kessler, the son of a German banker and an Irish beauty, was equally at home in the worlds of art, society, and politics. . . . Kessler has given us a brilliant full-length portrait of Germany and Europe between the two world wars." With extensive explanatory notes & index. Hardcover, name inked on flyleaf, else very good w/good dj. OP; $15.00
Laver, James. The Age of Illusion: Manners and Morals 1750-1848. NY; David McKay, 1972. 197 pp. Many illustrations, notes, extensive bibliography. Hardcover, very good w/shabby dj. OP; $17.00
Mantoux, Paul. The Industrial Revolution in the Eighteenth Century. Revised ed. Marjorie Vernon, transl. Harper Torchbooks, 1961. PB, cracked spine, fair. $3.00
McCombs, Don, & Fred L. Worth. World War II: Strange and Fascinating Facts. With 4139 entries about the people, the battles, and the events. NY; Greenwich House, 1983. 659 pp. An encyclopedic fact book. Hardcover, pages slightly browned, else very good, no dj. OP; $10.00
McDougall, Mary Lynn, ed. The Working Class in Modern Europe. D.C. Heath, 1975. PB, good. $7.00
McKeown, Thomas. The Modern Rise of Population. Academic Press, 1976. Extremely scarce. HC, very good+. $150.00
Milward, Alan S. War, Economy, and Society, 1939-1945. Univ. of Calif. Press, 1970. PB, like new. $9.00
Milward, Alan S., and S.B. Saul. The Economic Development of Continental Europe, 1780-1870. Allen and Unwin, 1973. PB, good. $10.00
Mokyr, Joel, ed. The Economics of the Industrial Revolution. Rowman and Littlefield, 1985. PB, light shelfwear, else like new. $9.00
Mokyr, Joel. The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress. Oxford Unversity Press, 1990. HC, like new. $20.00
Moraze, Charles. The Triumph of the Middle Classes: A Study of European Values in the Nineteenth Century. NY; World Publishing, 1966. 414 pp. Translation of Les Bourgeois Conquerants. Hardcover, ex-library copy w/usual markings, pocket, & dj pasted to inside of front cover; else very good, text clean, w/dj. OP; $14.00
Morgenstern, Oskar. On the Accuracy of Economic Observations. 2nd edn. Princeton UP, 1963. PB, very good. $12.00
Morris, R.J. Class and Class Consciousness in the Industrial Revolution, 1780-1850. 1979. Economic History Society publications. paperback, very good. $7.00
Musson, A.E., ed. Science, Technology, and Economic Growth in the Eighteenth Century. “Debates in Economic History.” (8 essays.) Methuen, 1972. PB, good. $7.00
Palmer, R.R. The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800. Two volumes complete. Princeton, 1964. 534 + 584 pp. Extensive notes. Hardcover, some edge and corner wear to cloth, else good, clean. No dust jackets. $25.00
Palmer, R.R. The Age of the Democratic Revolution: The Struggle: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800. Princeton, 1964. 584 pp. Companion volume to Palmer's "Age of the Democratic Revolution: The Challenge." Extensive notes. Hardcover, light soiling to page edges, else clean & tight, very good w/good dj. $9.00
Parker, William N. Europe, America, and the Wider World: Essays on the Economic History of Western Capitalism. Volumes 1 & 2. Cambridge UP, 1984. PB, like new. $30.00
Parker, William N., & Eric L Jones, eds. European Peasants and Their Markets. Princeton UP, 1975. HC, like new w/good dj. $25.00
Polanyi, Karl. The Great Transformation. Beacon Press, 1957. PB, fair. $4.00
Pollard, Sidney. Peaceful Conquest: The Industrialization of Europe, 1760-1970. Oxford UP, 1981. PB, very good. $12.00
Postan, M.M., & H.J. Habakkuk, general editors. The Cambridge Economic History of Europe, vols. 2-6 (vol 6 in 2 parts). Cambridge UP, 1952-1977. HC, all volumes very good; no dust jackets except for vol. 5. $250.00/set
Pross, Christian. Paying For the Past: The Struggle Over Reparations For Surviving Victims of the Nazi Terror. Johns Hopkins, 1998. 264 pp. Translated from German by Belinda Cooper. "Physician and historian Pross untangles the complicated history of reparations in West Germany, from 1947 into the 1970s. . . . [and] uncovers the inconsistencies, distortions, and veiled anti-Semitic attitudes in West Germany's official version of its reparations history." Extensive notes. Hardcover, new w/dj. In print at $34.95; $12.00
Reddy, William M. Money and Liberty in Modern Europe: A Critique of Historical Understanding. Cambridge UP, 1987. PB, very good+. $12.00
Reid, Alastair J. Social Classes and Social Relations in Britain, 1850-1914. 1982. Economic History Society publications. paperback, very good. $7.00
Roberts, J.M. Europe 1880-1945. London & NY; Longman, 1989, 2nd ed. 631 pp. Part of "A General History of Europe" series from Longman. Extensive bibliography. Trade paperback, near mint. $14.00
Rose, Michael E. The Relief of Poverty, 1834-1914. 2nd edn. 1986. Economic History Society publications. paperback, very good. $7.00
Ross, Ishbel. The Uncrowned Queen: Life of Lola Montez. NY; Harper & Row, 1972. 349 pp. Biography of the dancer and courtesan who cut a swathe through 19th-century Europe and America. Extensive notes & bibliography. Hardcover, ex-library copy w/usual stamps, markings, etc; binding a little loose, else good w/dj. OP; $9.00
Ryan, Mary P. Cradle of the Middle Class: The Family in Oneida County, New York, 1790-1865. Cambridge UP, 1981. PB, very good. $12.00
Schmitz, Christopher J. The Growth of Big Business in the United States and Western Europe, 1850-1939. 1993. Economic History Society publications. paperback, very good. $7.00
Schumpeter, Joseph. Imperialism and Social Classes. Meridian Books. Pocket paperback, fair, some underlining. $2.00
Shorter, Edward. Work and Community in the West. Harper Torchbooks, 1973. PB, fair. $4.00
Stearns, Peter N. 1848: the Revolutionary Tide in Europe. Norton, 1974. 278 pp. With extensive notes & bibliography. Trade paperback, wear to wraps, else good. $8.00
Stirling, Matthew W. Indians of the Americas: A Color-Illustrated Record. Washington, DC; National Geographic Society, 1955. 431 pp. A history and depiction of the Indians of North and South America, from prehistory to the present. Lavishly illustrated in color with photos and original paintings. Hardcover, very good w/tattered dj. OP; $15.00
Temin, Peter. Causal Factors in American Economic Growth in the Nineteenth Century. 1975. Economic History Society publications. paperback, very good. $7.00
Thernstrom, Stephan, & Richard Sennett, eds. Nineteenth-Century Cities: Essays in the New Urban History. Yale UP, 1969. Includes sssays on Carmaux, London; otherwise U.S. cities . PB, good. $8.00
Thompson, E.P. The Poverty of Theory and Other Essays. Monthly Review Press, 1978. PB, very good. $8.00
Trefousse, Hans L. Thaddeus Stevens: Nineteenth-Century Egalitarian. Chapel Hill; UNC Press, 1997. Traces his career from his early days as a Pennsylvania lawyer to his long tenure in the House of Representatives, which culminated in his involvement in the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment. Extensive notes & bibliography. Hardcover, ex-library copy w/usual stamps, markings, etc; else very good w/dj. OP; $20.00
Tribe, Keith. Genealogies of Capitalism. Humanities Press, 1981. HC, very good+. $25.00
Usher, Abbott P. A History of Mechanical Inventions, revised edn. Harvard UP, 1954. HC, good, no dj. $15.00
Van Der Wee, Herman. Prosperity and Upheaval: The World Economy, 1945-1980. Univ. of Calif. Press, 1983. PB, like new. $20.00
Ward, J.R. Poverty and Progress in the Caribbean, 1800-1960. 1985. Economic History Society publications. paperback, very good. $7.00
Weber, Max. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Scribner’s, 1958. PB, pages yellowed, else good. $7.00
Williams, Raymond. Culture and Society, 1780-1950. Harper Torchbooks, 1966. PB, good. $7.00
Wolf, Eric R. Europe and the People Without History. Univ. of California Press, 1982. HC, very good+. $15.00
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