Search Results: History / General from Infinity Books Japan

US: ABC Books, 2008. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

US: Knopf Doubleday Publishing G., 1990. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Erica Hobsbawm discusses the evolution of European economics, politics, art s, sciences, and cultural life from the height of the industrial revolution to the First World War. Hobsbawm combines vast erudition with a graceful p rose style to re-create the epoch that laid the basis for the twentieth cen tury. Editorial Reviews "Its sheer power and eloquence will make this book a classic." --Neal, Asch erson, Sunday Observer (London) "It is Mr. Hobsbawm's achievement both to have captured the exuberance of a n age, and to have shown how and why that world was coming to an end. . . . He not only captures the age of empire he also illuminates the course of t he twentieth century." --Kennedy, The Economist (London) "A virtuoso performance. . . . Few, if any, present practitioners of the hi storian's… Read More

US: The Lilliput Press Ltd, 1998. Very Good. This text, derived from the manuscript in the National Library of Ireland, describes Roger Casement's journey into the South American rainforests to i nvestigate atrocities against tribal people of the north-west Amazon. It fo llows Casement's transition from observer to anti-imperial revolutionary an d Irish patriot, leading to his execution by the British in August 1916 aft er the failure of the Easter Rising.

US: Brécourt Academic, 1998. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Mesopotamia is credited with the invention of writing and of agriculture, and so is seen as the cradle of civilisation . The dazzling quality of the art of the Sumerians, Akkadian. Hittite, Assyrian and Persian empires speaks to the present about the culture and belief systems of these peoples. The text covers the origins of the cities and empires concerned, their view of the gods and the evolution of writing, including a special feature on the epic of Gilgamesh.

US: Wiley-Blackwell, 2001. Paperback. Very Good. The terrible story of African slavery in the British colonies of the West I ndies and North America is told with clarity and compassion in this classic history.

US: Simon & Schuster, 1979. Hardcover. Good/Good. Text and more than 300 photographs trace the evolution of war photography f rom the 1840s to the present, with an explanation of the changing role of t he photographer and an introduction to the men and women who developed this art form.

US: Oxford University Press, 2003. Paperback. Very Good. Savage and bloodthirsty, or civilized and peaceable? The Celts have long be en a subject of enormous fascination, speculation, and misunderstanding. Fr om the ancient Romans to the present day, their real nature has been obscur ed by a tangled web of preconceived ideas and stereotypes. Barry Cunliffe seeks to reveal this fascinating people for the first time, using an impressive range of evidence, and exploring subjects such as trade, migration, and the evolution of Celtic traditions. Along the way, he exposes the way in which society's needs have shaped our visions of the Celts, and examines such colorful characters as St. Patrick, Cu Chulainn, and Boudica.

US: Granta Books, 1991. Paperback. Good. Simon Schama, the author of The Embarrassment of Riches and Citizens, sets out to tell the history of two certainties, of two deaths. In discussing th e speculations surrounding them, he finds himself involved in a history he cannot classify - the unpredictable history of stories.

US: Oxford University Press Aust, 1991. Paperback. Very Good. Since its first publication in two volumes between 1918-1923, The Decline o f the West has ranked as one of the most widely read and most talked about books of our time. In all its various editions, it has sold nearly 100,000 copies. A twentieth-century Cassandra, Oswald Spengler thoroughly probed th e origin and "fate" of our civilization, and the result can be (and has bee n) read as a prophesy of the Nazi regime. His challenging views have led to harsh criticism over the years, but the knowledge and eloquence that went into his sweeping study of Western culture have kept The Decline of the Wes t alive. As the face of Germany and Europe as a whole continues to change e ach day, The Decline of the West cannot be ignored. The abridgment, prepared by the German scholar Helmut Werner, with the bles sing of the Spengler estate, consists of selections from the original (tran slated into English by Charles Francis Atkinson) linked by… Read More

US: Oxford University Press, USA, 1991. Paperback. Good. Since its first publication in two volumes between 1918-1923, The Decline o f the West has ranked as one of the most widely read and most talked about books of our time. In all its various editions, it has sold nearly 100,000 copies. A twentieth-century Cassandra, Oswald Spengler thoroughly probed th e origin and "fate" of our civilization, and the result can be (and has bee n) read as a prophesy of the Nazi regime. His challenging views have led to harsh criticism over the years, but the knowledge and eloquence that went into his sweeping study of Western culture have kept The Decline of the Wes t alive. As the face of Germany and Europe as a whole continues to change e ach day, The Decline of the West cannot be ignored. The abridgment, prepared by the German scholar Helmut Werner, with the bles sing of the Spengler estate, consists of selections from the original (tran slated into English by Charles Francis Atkinson) linked by explanatory… Read More

[Washington: National Geographic Society, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

Oxford ; Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2000. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. "Manuel Castells concludes the Information Age trilogy by considering the i ntersection of the global network society and factional project identities. As always, the scope of Castell's argument is far-ranging. Among the subje cts addressed are the collapse of the Soviet Union; the potential emergence of the Asian Pacific as the next region of major world power; and the rapi dly increasing growth of a "Fourth World"--A series of "black holes of info rmational capitalism" (areas that have been cut off from the flow of wealth and information in the global economy) that refuses to confine itself to n ational borders--as likely to appear in the American inner city as it is in sub-Saharan Africa. He also raises the specter of a "global criminal econo my," a dark counterpart to transnational… Read More

Japan: Nakanishi Printing Co. Ltd, 2010. Paperback. Near Fine.

GREAT BRITAIN: Sphere, 1972. Very Good.

Tokyo, Japan: University of Tokyo Press, 1985. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. The spine remains undamaged.

US: Ebury Press, 2003. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. A fascinating history of World War I in the words of the men who were there -- "an extraordinary and immensely moving book." --Stephen Fry In 1960, the Imperial War Museum began a momentous and important task. A te am of academics, archivists and volunteers set about tracing WWI veterans a nd interviewing them at length in order to record the experiences of ordina ry individuals in war. The IWM aural archive has become the most important archive of its kind in the world. Authors have occasionally been granted ac cess to the vaults, but digesting the thousands of hours of footage is a mo numental task. Now, forty years on, the Imperial War Museum has at last given author Max Arthur and his team of researchers unlimited access to the complete WWI tapes. These are the forgotten voices of an entire generation of… Read More

US: Arcade Publishing, 2002. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. A respected historian and author of Napoleon III and Eugenie provides an in -depth history of freemasonry, exploring the inner workings of the powerful secret society, refuting many of the myths about the order, and shedding n ew light on the contributions of the freemasons to world history. Reprint. 12,500 first printing. About the Author Jasper Ridleyís many works include Napoleon III and Eugenie, Garibaldi, and Mussolini. He lives and works in London.

London: Constable and Robinson, 2003. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A tight clean copy, protected in a new brodart wrapper, no inscriptions or markings throughout, not an ex-lib or price clipped. To the layman, the Freemasons are a mysterious brotherhood. This text follows the development of Freemasonry from the operative working masons of the Middle Ages to the gentlemen masons of the eighteenth century.'.

US: Bantam, 2009. Paperback. Good. In this fascinating and meticulously researched book, bestselling historian Arthur Herman sheds new light on two of the most universally recognizable icons of the twentieth century, and reveals how their forty-year rivalry se aled the fate of India and the British Empire. They were born worlds apart: Winston Churchill to Britain's most glamorous aristocratic family, Mohandas Gandhi to a pious middle-class household in a provincial town in India. Yet Arthur Herman reveals how their lives and ca reers became intertwined as the twentieth century unfolded. Both men would go on to lead their nations through harrowing trials and two world wars-and become locked in a fierce contest of wills that would decide the fate of c ountries, continents, and ultimately an empire. Gandhi & Churchill reveals how both men were more alike than different, and yet became bitter enemies over the future of India, a land of 250 million people with 147 languages and dialects and 15 distinct… Read More

US: Penguin Publishing Group, 2015. Paperback. Good. A majestic narrative reckoning with the forces that have shaped the nature and destiny of the world's governing institutions The story of global cooperation is a tale of dreamers goading us to find common cause in remedying humanity's worst problems. But international institutions are also tools for the powers that be to advance their own interests. Mark Mazower's Governing the World tells the epic, two-hundred-year story of that inevitable tension-the unstable and often surprising alchemy between ideas and power. From the rubble of the Napoleonic empire in the nineteenth century through the birth of the League of Nations and the United Nations in the twentieth century to the dominance of global finance at the turn of the millennium, Mazower masterfully explores the current era of international life as Western dominance wanes and a new global balance of powers emerges.