Thomas Wentworth Higginson is little known today, but during his own lifetime his remarkable activism put him at the very heart of the pivotal social movements reshaping America for the nineteenth century and beyond. Born in Cambridge, he was a fervent abolitionist, running guns to anti-slavery settlers and financing John Brown's raid. During ...
Over a centry ago, a precursor to the International Court of Justice, usually called the World Court, was created. The US had an important role in founding the Court, and a US citizen - Andrew Carnegie - funded the Peace Palace, the building in which the World Court still convenes. However, in 1985, during the second Reagan-Bush administration, ...
In this book, Howard N. Meyer traces the World Court back to The Hague Conference of 1899 and shows its development through World War I, the League of Nations, World War II, and the Cold War, all the way up to the contemporary challenges of East Timor and Kosovo. More recently, Meyer distinguishes between the nation-state oriented work of the ...
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Collier
Date Published: 1966
Description: Good. Ex lib in excellent condition. DJ is VG with mylar cover. Binding is tight and square. Text is clean and bright. We recommend PRIORITY MAIL for even faster delivery! Careful packaging and fast shipping. read more
Edition: First printing
Binding: Decorative Cloth
Publisher: Collier-MacMillan,
Date Published: 1966.
Description: Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, xi + 244 pages, beige cloth. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper ljust sightly yellowed. A very good, clean, neat dust jacket with light shelf wear, and with the original price. read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Tan Cloth
Publisher: Collier Books
Date Published: 1966
Description: Good in Good jacket. Ex-Library. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, corners are lightly bumped and rubbed, lightly shelf worn, ex-library with the usual library markings, overall a clean used first Collier Books edition (stated)! Dj is nicely preserved in a brand new protective mylar plastic cover! 244 historical pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations! "On April 16, 1861, a citizens' meeting was held at the courthouse in Galena, Illinois. ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Collier Books
Date Published: 1966
Description: Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. Text is clean. Spine rolled. Cover shows light wear. Front free endpaper wrinkled from spine roll. Dust jacket shows light edgewear, small tear to head of spine.; America in the Making; 244 pages. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A. : Collier Books, 1966, First Edition
Description: Octavo, hardcover, fine in fine dj in mylar. 244 pp. America in the Making series. 242pg. This is the story of a nation's aspirations as revealed in the ersonality of one of its great leaders who wrote, at the end of his life: "we are on the eve of a new era where there is going to be harmony between Federal and Confederate...."Let us have Peace. " read more
Edition: First printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Norton, (
Date Published: 1967. )
Description: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a very good dust jacket (fading to the spine of the dj. ) Hardcover first edition-A comprehensive and sympathetic biography. Although the title focuses on Higginson's role as commander of the freed slaves who formed 1st South Carolina Volunteers for the Federal Forces during the Civil War (his classic 1870 account "Army Life in a Black Regiment" which recounted his experiences as colonel of the First South Carolina Volunteers, ... read more
Edition: First paperback edition thus, with new introduction by Howard N.
Binding: Inscribed by Howard N. Meyer to author Mary McCarthy on the
Publisher: Collier Books
Date Published: 1962
Description: A near fine copy. [AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY]. HIGGINSON, Thomas Wentworth. ARMY LIFE IN A BLACK REGIMENT. With a New Introduction by Howard N. Meyer. Meyer [first published in cloth in 1870]. 8vo, printed wrappers, 287 pages. An important Civil War history of a black regiment during the Civil War, written by its commander, noted author Thomas Wentworth Higginson. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co, Inc.
Date Published: 1967
Description: Good + No Jacket. 8vo. 346pp. Has light wear. Covers lightly rubbed and soiled. Spine sunned. Stain on FFE. Internally Clean. Lang: English. Vols: 1, Wt: 2lbs. read more
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