Search Results: HISTORY / Social History from Barbara Bilson Books

Ithaca NY: Cornell University, 1985. Very good copy of this third printing (neat underlining on about 30 pages out of 220, otherwise fine). . Soft Cover.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000. Fine in fine dust jacket. 326 pages including notes and index. A thorough and nonjudgemental history of how American women of all races and classes have cared for ill family members from pre-Civil War days to beginning of WWII, including information from slave narratives. Shows how the family carers' relations with doctors have changed. Author's inscription to two friends is written on the pastedown and is signed with only her first name. . Inscribed by author. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Ballantine Books, 1976. First Ballantine Books Edition, dated March 1976. First edition thus with the error in ISBN number. Very good+ (a few foxing or soil spots on side page edges, light edgewear around spine. 155 pages. Large format soft cover with wonderful black and white photographs of the people and places of the area; folk-style drawings and etchings by Leonard Sussman; stories and other writings by author Bob Minnick. . 1st Edition thus. Soft Cover. Illus. by Photographs by Roger Minnick, drawings & etchings by Leonard Sussman.

New York: Brentano's , 1928. Very good (somewhat soiled or sunned especially on spine, edgeworn at top and bottom of spine), without dust jacket. Decorated covers (see scans) . Extensive index and table of contents. Written in Shaw's very readable combination of insight, wit, and self-assurance--you can't accuse Shaw of being unsure of himself. 495 pages.. 1st American edition. Hard Cover.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1958. Very good+ (slight sunning to top and bottom of spine, lightly tanned page edges) in very good dust jacket (edgewear, especially at top and bottom of spine; still a good-looking jacket, now in Brodart protective cover). Part of the Mainstream of America Series edited by Lewis Gannett. 355 pages, including index and bibliography. Covers period from late slavery to the years of Brown v. Board of Education. Focuses on the individuals involved in great movements like the abolitionist struggles and the Civil War and school integration rather than just the events themselves. Covers "contemporary" Black leaders, including Thurgood Marshall when he was with the NAACP (and we learn that the original spelling of his name was Thoroughgood).. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research Press, 1987. Explores the connection between gender relations, values, and religion in American culture. Contributions from several feminist scholars covering subjects as diverse as contemporary goddess theology, gender in Afro-Christian worship, and class, race, gender and religion in Louisa May Alcott's writings. As new in as new dust jacket.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research Press, 1987. Explores the connection between gender relations, values, and religion in American culture. Contributions from several feminist scholars covering subjects as diverse as contemporary goddess theology, gender in Afro-Christian worship, and class, race, gender and religion in Louisa May Alcott's writings. Very good+ (light spotting of page edges) in off-centered dust jacket.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

England: Wishart & Co., 1932. Interesting collection of World War I newspaper articles. A small press paper cover publication, bound with heavy paper wraps but missing the blue wraps that originally came with it. Very good text and binding, but the wraps themselves are heavily edgeworn. 44 pages with 56 selections from wartime newspapers. The scan in our listing shows two such excerpts (numbers 21 and 22) and give an idea of the kind of journalism Hamish Miles selected: these two show little awareness of what the men fighting that war experienced. . Soft Cover.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. Fine in fine dust jacket. 221 pages including extensive bibliography, notes, and index. Inscribed and signed by Al-Ali on the first free endpaper. See scan of back of dust jacket for description of contents, including excerpt from Cynthia Enloe's foreword. . Inscribed and Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by Photographs.