New York: Philosophical Library, Inc, 1967. J. de Vries. First Edition. Hardcover. More

Tokyo, Japan: University of Tokyo Press, 2001. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Rare. With promotional band on dust jacket. Historical demography is the study of patterns and changes in a society's population before the collection of data through modern censuses. For Japan, data on family size and structure, fertility and infant..... More

Hong Kong: Societa Dante Alighieri di Hong Kong, 2013. Margot Errante (photographs). First Edition (presumed), First Printing. Hardcover. Italians were actively involved in the European presence on the China coast in the earliest days of the sixteenth century, almost five hundred years ago. Throughout the intervening five centuries, Italians have..... More

Tokyo, Japan: Tuttle Publishing, 2012. First Printing. Trade Paperback. Koreans have a unique character and personality that sets them apart from all other Asians. And although Korean attitudes and behavior may be influenced by the modern world, the Korean mindset is still very much shaped by ancient culture and traditions..... More

Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1971. Fourteenth Printing. Paperback. Carl Stephenson (1886–1954) at the time of his death was regarded as one of America's foremost medieval scholars. He was a student of Charles Gross and Charles Homer Haskins at Harvard University (graduated 1914), later studied with Henri Pirenne at..... More

London: Oxford University Press, 1974. Emil Antonucci (cover design). Reprint. Trade Paperback. A Galaxy Book. No. GB 7 About the author Charles Norris Cochrane (August 21, 1889 – November 23, 1945) was a Canadian historian and philosopher who taught at the University of Toronto. He is known for..... More

Cambridge, UK: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd, 1960. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. More

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. First Printing. Trade Paperback. Rare. This book brings together ninety extracts of Western non-fiction about China, many of which have been out of print for centuries. Authors include Marco Polo, Adam Smith, Somerset Maugham, Pearl Buck, and Sheryl WuDunn. Topics covered include female infanticide, secular..... More

Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press, 1978. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Rare. Contents include standards and rules for marriage during Han times; divorce under traditional Chinese law; family property in traditional China; results of field investigation on ancestral sacrifice in Manchuria; partition of family property in villages in southern Taiwan..... More

New York: Anchor Books Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1964. Paperback. More

New York: Anchor Books, 1972. Chin-Yee Lai (cover design). Reprint. Softcover. First published in 1972, The Foxfire Book was a surprise bestseller that brought Appalachia’s philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers. Whether you wanted to hunt game, bake the old-fashioned way, or learn the art of..... More

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

Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1999. First Printing. Trade Paperback. With the originality and energy that have marked his earlier works, Eric Wolf now explores the historical relationship of ideas, power, and culture. Responding to anthropology's long reliance on a concept of culture that takes little account of power..... More