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MUTINY AT THE MARGINS: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE INDIAN UPRISING OF 1857, VOLUME 6: Perception, Narration and Reinvention: THE PEDAGOGY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE INDIAN UPRISING.
New Delhi: Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd, 2014. 8vo., pp.xxx, 217, black hardback, gilt, light indentation to top edge of front board, very slight creasing at head of spine, a very good, clean copy in very good dust-jacket.
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NARRATIVES OF ENLIGHTENMENT.
Cosmopolitan History from Voltaire to Gibbon.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 8vo., pp. xii,249, paperback,; very minor rubbing to wrappers, a clean very good copy indeed.
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NEGRO. An Anthology.
New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co, 1970. Reprint, third impression, 4to., pp.xxxii,464, hardcover, gilt and black lettering, b/w frontispiece, b/w illustrations accompany the text throughout; paste-action (toning) to paste-down endpapers, foxing to edges and very lightly to prelims, corners bumped, an otherwise very good copy in an unclipped dust-jacket, which has 2.5cm closed tear to front upper margin, creasing and rubbing to extremities and a few light surface scratches to rear - now in a protective cover.
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NEW SMYRNA: An Eighteenth Century Greek Odyssey.
Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1966. 8vo.,pp. xii,207, turquoise cloth, silver lettering, b/w illustrations and maps, b/w map to frontispiece, pictorial endpapers; light foxing to edges, otherwise very good, in a good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is rubbed to extremities with wear to corners and head and foot of spine, with a small piece missing to rear lower margin, sunning to spine and lightly foxed and marked to extremities.
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ON THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY AS A CATAGORY OF ASIAN HISTORY: Van Leur in Retrospect.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998. 8vo., pp. 313, green hardcover, gilt, b/w tables; a very good, clean copy. No dust-jacket.
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ORIENTALISM, EROTICISM AND MODERN VISUALITY IN GLOBAL CULTURES.
London and New York: Routledge, 2018. 8vo., pp.xv,234, paperback, b/w illustrations; small light ink bulletpoints to ‘Works Cited’ section of text, otherwise internally clean, very light surface scratches to wrappers, else a very good copy indeed.
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ORIENTALISM REVISITED:
Art, Land and Voyage.
London/New York: Routledge, 2013. 8vo., pp.xxv,288, paperback, b/w illustrations; a fine, fresh copy, with just slight rubbing to head of spine.
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PUBLIC HEALTH IN BRITISH INDIA.
Anglo-Indian Preventative Medicine, 1859-1914.
Cambridge University Press, 1994. 8vo., pp.xviii,324, paperback, b/w figures; very good indeed.
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ROMANTIC REPRESENTATIONS OF BRITISH INDIA.
London: Routledge, 2012. 8vo.,pp. xii,290, paperback, b/w illustrations; a near-fine copy.
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SLAVERY AND THE CULTURES OF ABOLITION.
Essays marking the Bicentennial of the British Abolition Act of 1807.
Woodbridge: D.S. Brewer, 2007. 8vo.,pp. viii,227, hardcover, gilt lettering, b/w illustrations; a fine copy, in a fine unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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SLAVERY IN THE CIRCUIT OF SUGAR.
Martinique and the World Economy 1830-1848.
Baltimore and London: The John Hopkins University Press, 1990. 8vo., pp.xv,353, charcoal cloth lettered in silver; near-fine, in vg+ unclipped dust-jacket.
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SOCIAL HISTORY OF SCIENCE IN COLONIAL INDIA.
India: Oxford University Press, 2007. 8vo., pp.xl,395, pictorial hardcover; a very good copy indeed, in a vg unclipped dust-jacket, which is sunned to the spine.
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THE BERNARD COHN OMNIBUS. AN ANTHROPOLOGIST AMONG THE HISTORIANS AND OTHER ESSAYS; COLONIALISM AND ITS FORMS OF KNOWLEDGE: The British in India; INDIA: The Social Anthropology of a Civilization.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 8vo.,pp. xxiv,682; xii,189; xiii,164, pictorial hardcover; toning to edges of text block with light toning to margins, rubbing to extremities, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed to extremities.
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THE BLACK DEATH AND MEN OF LEARNING.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1931. First edition, 8vo., pp.x,210, red cloth, gilt, publisher’s device in gilt to front board; ownership bookplate to front paste down endpaper and contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, internally clean, rubbing and light marking to cloth, else a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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THE BRAHMO SAMAJ AND THE SHAPING OF THE MODERN INDIAN MIND.
Princeton University Press. 8vo., pp.xxiii,399, purple cloth, gilt; small ownership autograph to title verso, a very good copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which is rubbed and lightly chipped to extremities, with a couple of small closed tears to extremities, and with sunning to spine, else very good and now in a protective cover.
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THE BRITISH IN BENGAL 1756-1773. A society in transition seen through the biography of a rebel: William Bolts (1739-1808).
Paris: Les Indies Savantes, 2002. 8vo., pp. 305, pictorial hardcover, gilt, with b/w fold out map to the rear; slight damp staining to spine, o/w a very good copy in a vg unclipped dust-jacket, with very slight creases to headband and in the adhesive covering (production defect).
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THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF IRELAND.
Volume I; 600-1550.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 8vo., pp.xxxv,648, hardcover, gilt, 32 b/w illustrations, 15 b/w maps, 5 b/w figures; ownership plate to front paste-down endpaper, foot of spine very slightly bumped, otherwise a fine copy, in a very good unclipped dust jacket.
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THE CHIA-TING LOYALISTS.
Confucian Leadership and Social Change in Seventeenth-Century China. Yale Historical Publications, Miscellany, 126.
New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 1981. 8vo., pp.xix,389, cloth-backed hardcover, front board lettered in gilt; a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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THE CULTURE OF THE SEVEN YEARS' WAR.
Empire, Identity, and the Arts in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World.
Toronto: University Press, 2014. 8v0., pp.x,347, grey cloth lettered in silver, colour plates and b/w illustrations; a fresh and near-fine copy, in vg+ unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE CURSE OF HAM.
Race and Slavery in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Princeton/Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003. 8vo., pp.xv448, black cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece; pencil underlining and light annotation (largely to first two chapters only; pp.9-48), otherwise fine, in fine unclipped dust-jacket, with price/barcode sticker to rear.
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