Illustrated Dictionary of Bible Manners and Customs
New York: Philosophical Library, Inc, 1967. J. de Vries. First Edition. Hardcover. More
Anthrolopology
Marriage and Love in England 1300-1840
New York: Basil Blackwell, 1987. Second Printing. Trade Paperback. Contents I THE MALTHUSIAN MARRIAGE SYSTEM 1 Charles Darwin and Thomas Malthus 2 The importance of Malthusian marriage 3 The Malthusian marriage system and its origins II THE VALUE OF CHILDREN 4 The benefits and..... More
Protestants: The Radicals Who Made the Modern World
London: William Collins, 2017. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Five hundred years ago a stubborn German monk challenged the Pope with a radical vision of what Christianity could be. The revolution he set in motion toppled governments, upended social norms and transformed millions of people’s understanding of their relationship..... More
In Defence of Sociology (Essays, Interpretations & Rejoinders)
Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1996. First Trade Paperback Edition. Paperback. Is there a future for sociology? To many, sociology seems to have lost its way. Born of the ideas of Auguste Comte in the nineteenth century, sociology established itself as 'the science of modernity', linked to a progressive view of..... More
Seeds, Spades, Hearths and Herds: The Domestication of Animals and Foodstuffs
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The M.I.T. Press, 1972. Second Edition, Third Printing. Paperback. Some of the author premises regarding domestication of animals and foodstuffs: agriculture did not originate from a shortage of food; domestication is found in areas of marked diversity in plants or animals; primitive cultivators could not establish themselves in..... More
Maya: The Riddle and Rediscovery of a Lost Civilization
New York: The Viking Press, 1985. Third Revised Edition. Hardcover. This edition is published in conjunction with the exhibition Maya: Treasures of an Ancient Civilization organized by the Albuquerque Museum. More
Manchu Archival Materials
Taipei, Taiwan: Linking Publishing, Co., 1988. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Collection of essays by Professor Ch'en Chieh-hsien of National Taiwan University concerning the study of Ch'ing archival material. More
A Taste for Comfort and Status: A Bourgeois Family in Eighteenth-Century France
Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000. First Edition. Softcover. “For any scholar examining the economic and financial viability of the family unit, or the degree to which family members related as a working and economic unit as well as an intimate one, this book not only offers a very important..... More
Visions of the Past
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1983. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Illustrated with 8 pages of color photos, 127 b/w photos and 5 maps. More
The Naked Ape
London: Triad/Grafton Books, 1989. Reprint. Paperback. More
Return to Laughter
New York: Anchor Books Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1964. Paperback. More
Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error
New York: Vintage Books, 1979. Paperback. French historians, drawing on their subject’s traditional close links with geography, got increasingly interested in the middle years ofMontaillou the twentieth century in how historical events related to their physical context. One of the leading exponents of this approach was Fernand Braudel, who produced..... More
Peasants
New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1966. First Edition, Sixteenth Printing. Softcover. Part of the Foundations of Modern Anthropology Series. This book explores different approaches to peasant studies; the origins of peasantry; major agricultural adaptations; social organizations; aspects of religion and ideology; peasant movements; the peasant's relation to markets and non-peasant..... More
Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
New York: The Free Press, 2010. Hardcover. More
Civilization and Capitalism: The Structures of Everyday Life (Volume I)
London: Collins/Fontana Press, 1981. First U.K. Paperback Edition. Softcover. From Kirkus (Jan. 1, 1981): The Braudel craze set off in 1972 by the English translation of his great work The Mediterranean has abated a bit, but it is likely to flourish again with the appearance in English of his..... More
A Study in Naxi Pictography (纳西象形文字谱)
云南: 云南人民出版社, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Rare edition. Signed by author. Also includes a personal letter written by the author. More
Japan: A Short Cultural History (Revised Edition)
Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 2007. Reprint. Paperback. From a Japan Times book review, Sept. 27, 2014: If there’s room in your life for just one general history of Japan, let this be the one. In the hands of a master, history becomes art. British scholar-diplomat Sir George Bailey Sansom (1883-1965)..... More
Village in Vietnam
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967. First Edition (presumed), Sixth Printing. Hardcover. From the jacket blurb: The product of a long observation in the field (the research was sponsored by the Michigan State University Vietnam Advisory Group), this is the first full treatment of Vietnamese culture to be published..... More
Asian Drama: An Inquiry Into the Poverty of Nations, Vol. III (A Twentieth Century Fund Study)
Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1968. First Trade Paperback Edition. Paperback. More
Chinese Footbinding: The History of a Curious Erotic Custom
Southern Materials Center Inc. (Taipei) / Bell Publishing Company (New York), 1967. Mary Jane Harley (jacket and endpaper designs). Hardcover. This is a Taiwanese reprint although it is unclear whether it is an authorized reprinted or a pirated edition. From jacket flap: This is the first complete history in..... More
Portrait of a Community: Society, Culture, and the Structures of Kinship in the Mulan River Valley (Fujian) from the Late Tang through the Song
Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Portrait of a Community: Society, Culture, and the Structures of Kinship in the Mulan River Valley (Fujian) from the Late Tang Through the Song is a study of emerging kinship structures in a central coastal Fujian province from the 9th..... More
A History of Scotland
Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1977. John McConnell (cover design). Reprint. Paperback. A Pelican Original. A history that is equally entertaining and enlightening, illustrating all of the changes of power and intricacies that are necessary to understand the interrelation between England and Scotland and the Highland and Lowland populations..... More
Britain in Pictures: Early Britain
London: William Collins, 1945. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. More
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive
London: Allen Lane, 2005. First Edition (presumed), Sixth Printing. Hardcover. In Jared Diamond’s follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization Environmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population..... More
Lord and Peasant in Russia From the Ninth to the Nineteenth Century
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1971. First Paperback Edition, Second Printing. Softcover. To understand Russian history without understanding serfdom — the peasant-lord relationship that shaped Russia for centuries — is impossible. Still, before Jerome Blum, no scholar had tackled the subject in depth. Monumental in scope and pathbreaking in its analysis, Lord and..... More
