Maylunas, Andrei and Mironenko, Sergei.
A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra. Their Own Story
(Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2nd impression, 1996).
Heavy book. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good+ in dustwrapper. 516pp. Order No. NSBK-A8520
Keywords: 0297815202, Tsarism, Tsarist, Russian, Russia, royalty, royalty, monarchy, monarchs, Nicholas I, history, Tsarina, Alexandra, Russian Revolution, repression, reform, revolutionaries, reaction
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Dittmer, Lowell.
China Under Reform:
(Westview Press, 1994).
Politics in Asia and the Pacific: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Paperback. Very good. xii + 228pp. Order No. NSBK-A6992
Keywords: 0813311209, international, politics, political, economics, economy, China, Chinese, Lowell Dittmer, history, twentieth century, 20th, communism, communists, CCP, revolutions, revolutionary
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Black, Clementina.
A New Way of Housekeeping:
(W. Collins, 1st edition, 1918).
Rare first edition copy of this ground-breaking work. For the collector. Women employed in housekeeping; changes in domestic standards; why not be servantless?; the distaste for domestic service; labour-making houses; domestic federations; reconstructed domestic service; the motor as emancipator; waste of labour; women who do domestic work without aptitude or satisfaction; service of women needed by the country. Clementina Black urges a reorganisation of household duties, in order to free women from domestic drudgery. In her utopian vision of 'co-operative housekeeping', women would be released from the wasted effort of housework and made available for the labour market, which was now so very depleted of men after the Great War. She criticises the 'stupidity' of 'labour-making houses', and questions the continuing validity of the employment of domestic servants in the modern age. Her solution is to propose the formation of 'domestic federations'. These would represent committees of householders who would collectively manage their domestic arrangements in a centre 'fitted up with store places, kitchens, dining-rooms, offices, and lodgings for a nucleus of resident servants'. Hardback. Original cloth covered in small dark and white blotches, corners worn and spine split, text firm. A good working copy only. 132pp. Order No. NSBK-C4960
Keywords: Great War, First World War, World War I, social history, class, middle classes, middle class, domesticity, servants, domestic servants, maid, maids, housemaids, housekeeping, Clementina Black, labour-making houses, homes, houses, domestic service, twentieth century, interwar, inter-war, inter war, Homes for Heroes, housing, domestic standards, etiquette, women, domestic work, labour, working women, women's history, chores, co-operative housekeeping, domestic federations, cooperative housekeeping, co-operatives, co-operation, cooperation, Women's Industrial Council, labour-saving, labour market, labor, labour shortage, housework, utopianism, utopian, stored with antiquarian
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Allen, G.C.
Japan's Economic Expansion:
(OUP, rpt., 1969).
Hardback. Good+ in edgeworn dustwrapper. xi + 296pp. Order No. NSBK-A11957
Keywords: 0192149318, Japan, Japanese, Far East, Asian, Asia, economy, economics, economic, finances, financial, twentieth century, 20th, industrial, industries, demography, demographic, population, fisheries, fishery, textiles
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Upham, Martin.
Tempered - Not Quenched: The History of the ISTC, 1951-1997
(Lawrence and Wishart, 1997).
Paperback. Fine. viii + 295pp. Order No. NSBK-A11375
Keywords: 085315855X, ISTC, unions, trade unions, trade unionism, trade unionists, collective action, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Iron and Steel Trades Confederation, industrial, industrialisation, industrialization, industry, work, twentieth century, 20th
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Mortimer, James E and Ellis, Valerie A.
A Professional Union: The Evolution of the Institution of Professional Civil Servants
(George Allen and Unwin, 1980).
Hardback. Very good in chipped dustwrapper. ix + 450pp. Order No. NSBK-A8500
Keywords: 0043310761, professionals, civil servants, trade unions, trade unionism, trade unionists, Britain, British, England, English, history, class, Institution of Professional Civil Servants, white collar, IPCS, TUC, militants, pay, industrial relations, civil service, politics, sociology, twentieth century, 20th
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Symons, Julian.
The General Strike:
(Cresset Library, rpt, 1987).
Paperback. Spine and front cover lightly creased, otherwise good. xviii + 259pp. Order No. NSBK-A8882
Keywords: 0091729289, General Strike, Britain, British, history, England, English, nineteen twenties, unions, trade unions, trades unions, trade unionism, strikes, industrial action, 1920s, inter-war, interwar, inter war
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Black, Clementina.
A New Way of Housekeeping:
(Portrayer Publishers, 2004 facsimile of 1918 text).
Clementina Black (1854 - 1922) was a campaigner committed to improving the plight of working women. In this work of 1918, she urges a reorganisation of household duties, in order to free women from domestic drudgery. In her utopian vision of 'co-operative housekeeping', women would be released from the wasted effort of housework and made available for the labour market, which was now so very depleted of men after the Great War. She criticises the 'stupidity' of 'labour-making houses', and questions the continuing validity of the employment of domestic servants in the modern age. Her solution is to propose the formation of 'domestic federations'. These would represent committees of householders who would collectively manage their domestic arrangements in a centre 'fitted up with store places, kitchens, dining-rooms, offices, and lodgings for a nucleus of resident servants'. Examples of material included: women employed in housekeeping; changes in domestic standards; why not be servantless?; the distaste for domestic service; labour-making houses; domestic federations; reconstructed domestic service; the motor as emancipator; waste of labour; women who do domestic work without aptitude or satisfaction; service of women needed by the country. Paperback. New book, fine. x + 132pp. Order No. NSBK-C7548
Keywords: 0954476123, Great War, First World War, World War I, social history, class, middle classes, middle class, domesticity, servants, domestic servants, maid, maids, housemaids, housekeeping, Clementina Black, labour-making houses, homes, houses, domestic service, twentieth century, interwar, inter-war, inter war, Homes for Heroes, housing, domestic standards, etiquette, women, domestic work, labour, working women, women's history, chores, co-operative housekeeping, domestic federations, cooperative housekeeping, co-operatives, co-operation, cooperation, Women's Industrial Council, labour-saving, labour market, labor, labour shortage, housework, utopianism, utopian, Portrayer, Portrayer Publishers, Portrayer reprints, Portrayer facsimiles, new titles
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Daitch, Susan.
L.C:
(Virago, 1986).
Novel - about Lucienne Crozier, radical socialist & feminist at the time of the 1848 Revolution in France. Paperback. Edge worn, o/w good. 284pp. Order No. NSBK-C1782
Keywords: 0860687635, Lucienne Crozier, radical socialist, 1848 Revolution, french, france, women's history, socialism, feminism, socialists
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Perry, P.J.
British Agriculture 1875-1914:
(Methuen and Co, 1973).
Debates in Economic History. Paperback. Very good+. xliv + 180pp. Order No. NSBK-A10089
Keywords: 416759505, history, Britain, British, England, English, agriculture, agricultural, countryside, country, rural, farms, farming, landowners, farmers, industry, industrial, food, cereal, pastoral, economy, economics
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