Century Security, Signed (5 results)

Condition: Very Good. Signed Copy . Inscribed by author on half title page.

Condition: Fair. Signed Copy . Good dust jacket. Signed by author on bookplate on front endpage. Dampstained.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: fair. First Printing. 24 cm, 263 pages. Illus., DJ somewhat soiled and frayed, small tear at bottom edge front DJ. Presentation copy inscribed and signed by author. Introduction by Senator Daniel Moynihan.

70 illustrations & maps, 658pp, including one folding, glossary of non-geographic terms, currencies, measures and commodities; List of place names and geographic terms, bibliography, index. Hardback in dustjacket. "Admiral Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge, a Director in the Rotterdam chamber of the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) for three decades during the early 17th century, set sail from the Dutch Republic in 1605. He launched an attack on Portuguese Melaka in 1606 and signed landmark treaties with the rulers of Johor (1606) and Ternate (1607). After his return to the Netherlands in the autumn of 1608 he wrote a series of epistolary reports and memoranda that were carefully studied by leading policy makers in the Republic, among them the renowned jurist Hugo Grotius, and Johan van Oldenbarnevelt. These materials contributed to the formulation of early VOC policy for the Southeast Asian region in the period 1605?20, and they yield candid insights into key issues of trade, security and the diplomacy of regional polities and their relations with Spain and Portugal. Here translated into English for the first time, and presented with 70 illustrations and maps from the period, this collection of treaties, reports and excerpts from Matelieff's travelogue will be of great interest to students of Southeast Asian and early colonial history and of the history of international law." (Publisher's description).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. xv, [1], 250, [4] pages. Illustrations. Map. Tables. List of Abbreviations. Note on orthography and terminology. Appendix: Note on oral sources. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Inscribed by the author on the fep. Inscription reads To John and Eleanor Love from Betsy December 1993. DJ has some small dings and minor wear and soiling. This is part of the African Studies Series 78. The author, a noted historian, was with Michigan State University when she authored this authoritative and seminal work. The BaSotho kingdom emerged and consolidated in the dramatic and dangerous environment of nineteenth-century South Africa. Elizabeth Eldredge provides a rich description of local agriculture, iron-working and craft industries, bringing out the resourceful responses of the BaSotho to the challenges of drought and famine, and explaining the dynamics of the competition for land. During the colonial period, regional economic integration increasingly influenced local production, land use and internal politics, and drew the BaSotho into the regional migrant labor system. Throughout these turbulent years, the overriding interest of the BaSotho was the pursuit of security. Dr. Eldredge analyzes the epic struggle which bound together rich and poor, chiefs and commoners, and men and women in a largely successful effort to sustain this fragile and innovative society in the face of political threats and environmental challenges.