History & Politics from Classic Books and Ephemera

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1992. Paperback. Near Fine. Louisiana Paperback Edition. xi, [3], 450 p.; 23 cm. Paperback with portrait of the author on the front cover. Inscribed by the author on the half title page to Temple University history professor Ken Kusmer, dated 30 Nov. 1993. In Near Fine Condition: 2… Read more about this item

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Paperback. Near Fine. x, [4], 262 p.: illustrations; 24 cm. Paperback. "In the first book to focus on African American attitudes toward Japan and China, Marc Gallicchio examines the rise and fall of black internationalism in the first half of the twentieth century. . . . Black internationalism… Read more about this item

New York & London: Garland Publishing, 1990. Hardcover. Fine. xxxix, [3], 928 p.: illustrations; 26 cm. Hardback with spine and cover titles and cover illustrations. Black endpapers. Garland Reference Library of the Social Sciences, 502. Includes explanations of frequently used acronyms, terms, movements, and people, as well as an index of names and a… Read more about this item

Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1988. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. xviii, 233, [3] p.: tables; 24 cm. Blue cloth with silver spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Jesse Jackson was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 (the second African American, after Shirley Chisholm, to run a national campaign for… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Paperback. Near Fine. xiii, [1], 298 p.; 23 cm. Paperback. Contains interviews with: Jared Taylor, Reno Wolfe, Michael Levin, Don Black, David Duke, Michael H. Hart, Dan Gayman, Matthew Hale, Lisa Turner, and William Pierce. In Near Fine Condition: year of publication written on first page before title page; otherwise,… Read more about this item

New York: Derby & Jackson, 1859. Hardcover. Very Good -. Vol. 3 only: viii, [2], 364 p., engraved frontispiece showing the parsonage house, Willston, Wiltshire; 19 cm. Contemporary half calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled leather labels in second and fourth compartments with title and volume number. Marbled paper over boards; all… Read more about this item

Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1992. Paperback. Near Fine. xi, [1], 231, [7] p.: illustrations, tables; 23 cm. Paperback. Part of the series The Working Class in American History, and the series Women in American History. The author examines labor organizing activities of the collar laundresses in Troy, N.Y., from 1864 to 1886.… Read more about this item

London / New York: J. M. Dent & Sons; E. P. Dutton & Co, 1941. Hardcover. Fine. xv, [1], 304 p.; 18 cm. Orange cloth with gilt spine title; series emblem blind-stamped on front cover. Decorated endpapers. This is no. 608 of Everyman's Library. The Introduction is by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Contents: Proem… Read more about this item

New York: Hill and Wang, 2004. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. xv, [1], 315 p.: illustrations; 24 cm. Black cloth spine with gilt spine title; yellow paper over boards. Illustrated dust jacket. Stated First Edition. "Scientist, revolutionary, abolitionist: that is the Benjamin Franklin we know and celebrate. To this description, David Waldstreicher shows we… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Temple University, 1991. Paperback. Near Fine. xvii, [1], 330 p.; 23 cm. Paperback. Part of the publisher's series Asian American History and Culture. "Challenging the prevailing view of Hawaii as a mythical 'racial paradise,' Gary Okihiro presents this history of a systematic anti-Japanese movement in the islands from the time migrant workers were brought… Read more about this item

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. Paperback. Near Fine. xiii, [3], 335 p.: illustrations; 24 cm. Paperback. Former owner's name on half title page. "In the 1930s and 1940s, a loose alliance of blacks and whites, individuals and organizations, came together to offer a potent alternative to southern conservative politics. Days of… Read more about this item

New York: Vintage Books, Random House, 1976. Paperback. Very Good. xxviii, 664 p.: illustrations, tables, genealogical tables; 23 cm. Paperback. A groundbreaking work, in which "quantitative records, from the U. S. Census, slave plantation journal books and the like are intermixed with qualitative materials, such as letters slaves wrote each other, testimony given to Government commissions,… Read more about this item

Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1987. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. xiii, [3], 286 p.: tables, maps, illustrations; 24 cm. Grey cloth with black spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Part of the publisher's Blacks in the Diaspora series and Midwestern History and Cultural series. The author presents the history of the Black community of Evansville,… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. [2], xxi, 246, [2] p.; 22 cm. Black cloth spine with gilt spine title; green paper over boards. Illustrated dust jacket. The author "shows how capitalism fundamentally influenced the way slavery developed and functioned in the United States." -- dust jacket. Book is in… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993. Hardcover. Near Fine/fine. xiii, [3], 272 p.: tables, illustrations; 24 cm. Dark brown cover with gilt spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Former owner's name on front free endpaper. Book is in Near Fine Condition: top page edges slightly soiled; former owner's name on front free endpaper; otherwise, clean and… Read more about this item

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good +. xvi, [2], 310 p.: illustrations; 26 cm. Grey cloth with black spine title. A "richly illustrated exploration of the American era of gear-and-girder technology. From the 1890s to the 1920s machines and structures shaped by this technology emerged in many forms, from… Read more about this item

New York: Hill and Wang, 2009. Hardcover. Very Good/fine. [10], 195 p.; 22 cm. Yellow cover with black spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. "By tracing slavery from before the revolution, through the Constitution's framing, and into the public debate that followed, Waldstreicher rigorously shows that slavery was not only actively discussed behind the closed and… Read more about this item

New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2005. Paperback. Very Good. First papercover edition. xiv, 390 p.; 24 cm. Paperback. Essays by Stephen Cornell, Douglas Hartmann, Victoria Hattam, John Higham, Joe W. Trotter, Gerald Jaynes, Erika Lee, Kenneth Prewitt, David Roediger, James Barrett, José Itzigsohn, Jen Le Espiritu, Richard Alba, Nancy Denton, Joel Perlmann, Mary C. Waters,… Read more about this item

Westport, Conn: Praeger, 2001. Hardcover. Fine. xxiii, [1], 439, [1] p.: tables, charts; 24 cm. Dark green cloth with gilt-on-black spine and cover titles. Includes bibliography and index. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. In Fine Condition: clean and tight.

Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2008. Paperback. Fine. xiv, 312 p.; 23 cm. Paperback. The author asserts that the attacks on the Black residents of East St. Louis, Illinois, on July 2 and 3, 1917, were a pogrom -- "an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group -- orchestrated by certain businessmen intent on preventing black… Read more about this item