‎Rajs Jake‎
‎America‎

‎America Rising: Power and Political Economy in the First Nation‎

‎New Brunswick (NJ), Transaction Publishers, 2009. First edition. Octavo, 235 x 160 mm, (xiii) 265 pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. "The United States became a great power in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and a superpower during World War II without quite knowing it. Few Americans fully appreciate the fact today. How many people know that in recent years we have had 250,000 troops in 700 bases around the world? Consider our recent history of military operations in the Caribbean, East Asia, the Far East, Middle East, Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Balkans. In America Rising, David Felix attempts to explain how and why America became a superpower by examining the political and economic factors that have driven its ascendance and their relationship throughout history. Felix begins with the dawn of America, showing how America amassed wealth and political power from the start through wars, assertions of economic might, and the creation of a cultural and philosophical base. The nation began with a political order, derived from our British origins, which enabled our pragmatic culture to take advantage of the vast wealth of a near-virgin continent. Political and economic freedom were paired, authority yielding to both freedoms. Our farmers and businessmen were dreamers, manufacturing realities out of those dreams. Felix's account then makes a point of neoclassical economics as an anvil on which to hammer out a sharper sense of the content of our existence. This book, which demonstrates the author's zest for historical analysis and great story-telling ability, points to the central fact of a rising America--the intensely energizing interaction between polity and economy. The United States is the greatest power in world history, but the rise of another great power, China, is beginning to be increasingly apparent. One trusts that, drawing upon its deep resources, America will remember its history and traditions and continue as a superpower." (Front and back flap)‎

‎Minute scuffing on the DJ, parts underlined in pencil, aside from that like new. Pages are crisp and clean, no yellowing/foxing, not ex-library. ‎

‎America's Parks‎

‎, Harry N. Abrams, 2006 Hardcover, 384 pages, ENG, 375 x 290 x 35 mm, dustjacket (is okay) book itself is as New !, FULL-PAGE photographs in fabulous colours of this giant country !. ISBN 9780810930841.‎

‎Moving from the cascading waters of Niagara Falls to the massive volcanoes of Hawaii, renowned nature photographer Philippe Bourseiller takes readers on a captivating visual journey through 67 of the most magnificent natural sites in North America. The product of an entire year spent coursing the length and breadth of the United States, America's Parks captures the amazing diversity and ecological richness of some of our most important natural wildlife areas. Bourseiller's free-ranging camera captures more than 200 breathtaking aerial and terrestrial images of wild America, from Mount St. Helens to the ice fields of Alaska, while essays from three prominent environmental journalists place the sites in historical, scientific, and sociological context. The result is a sumptuous panorama of unrivalled beauty that argues eloquently for environmental protection. Moving from the cascading waters of Niagara Falls to the massive volcanoes of Hawaii, renowned nature photographer Philippe Bourseiller takes readers on a captivating visual journey through 67 of the most magnificent natural sites in North America. The product of an entire year spent coursing the length and breadth of the United States, America's Parks captures the amazing diversity and ecological richness of some of our most important natural wildlife areas. Bourseiller's free-ranging camera captures more than 200 breathtaking aerial and terrestrial images of wild America, from Mount St. Helens to the ice fields of Alaska, while essays from three prominent environmental journalists place the sites in historical, scientific, and sociological context. The result is a sumptuous panorama of unrivalled beauty that argues eloquently for environmental protection.‎

‎Joel Sternfeld : Sweet Earth - Experimental Utopias in America‎

‎, Steidl Publishers, 2006 Hardcover, 136 pages, ENG, 345 x 280 x 20 mm, dustjacket, in Perfect condition, full page coloured photographs , Large format. ISBN 9783865211248.‎

‎As laissez-faire market forces sweep the globe and the earth's future seems endangered, the dream of living in concert with nature and with one another is increasingly essential. A common human longing throughout history, the utopian community ideal has taken root firmly in America over the past 200 years. In "Sweet Earth: Experimental Utopias in America," Joel Sternfeld looks at 60 representative historic or present American utopias. Neither a conventional history nor a conventional book of photography, "Sweet Earth" brings together what might otherwise seem disparate, individualized social phenomena and makes visible the community of communities. This tradition of thinking has ancient, universal precedents. When Thomas More wrote "Utopia" in 1516, he gave a name to an idea that had included the "Epic of Gilgamesh," Plato's "Republic" and the Old Testament's and he started an argument. Francis Bacon (who believed in utopia through science) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (utopia through nature) soon joined the debate, but it was the harsh changes in daily life engendered by the factory systems of the early Industrial Revolution that brought an urgency to the discussion, as seen in the writings of David Owens, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. While the early social theorists were largely European, it was in the fluid environment of young America that true utopian communities were built and utopian experimentation flourished. In the years between 1810 and 1850, hundreds of secular and religious societies bravely tried to build a "perfect" life for their members. In the twentieth century, experimentation began again, reaching a fever pitch in the turbulent days of the Vietnam War. Some of the late-1960s communes still survive and continue to flourish. The 1990s and the early years of the new millennium have become yet another hotbed of social experimentation. The co-housing movement is sweeping America with at least 70 communities fully completed and occupied and numerous others planned. At the same time, the rapid global expansion of sustainable communities known as ecovillages has been widely adopted in America. This book by one of America's foremost artists includes a photograph of each community and is accompanied by brief text that summarizes the most salient aspects of the history or organization. A book that functions both as art, as well as a hopeful guide to alternative ways of life.‎

‎[ Recueil d'articles et tirés-à-part de critique historique et politique, et compte-rendus divers par le Comte Adolphe de Circourt ] Bibliographie ; Recension de : Histoire des Etats-Unis par George Bancroft ; Recension de : Les Etats-Unis d'Amérique par Frédéric de Raumer ; Les Origines de la République des Etats-Unis ; Recension de : Une Nouvelle Vie de Jefferson ; Recension de : Demeures d'hommes d'Etat américains. Homes of American Statesmen ; Recension de : Les Demeures des Auteurs et des Hommes d'Etat de l'Amérique. Homes of American Authors. Homes of American Statesmen ; Recension de : Memoirs of the war in the Southern Department of the United States ; Recension de : Pioneers of France in the North World, France and England in North America ; Recension de : The Jesuits in North America in the seventeenth Century, by Parkman ; Recension de : France and England in North America. Part Third ; Recension de : L'Ancie Régime au Canada. The Old Regime in Canada, by Francis Parkman ; Recension de : Madame Swetchine, sa Vie et ses Oeuvres, par le Comte de Falloux ; Article : Le Chancelier Pasquier ; Notice historique du Général Vicomte Talon ; Lord Elgin. In Memoriam ; Recension de : Leaves from the Journal of our life in the Highlands, from 1848 to 1861 ; Recension de : Les annales de la Cathédrale de Saint-Paul de Londres. Annals of Saint-Paul's cathedral ; Recension de : Canterbury. Mémoires historiques de Canterbury ; Recension de : L'Abbaye de Westminster. Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey ; Recension de : Oestreich und Preussen gegenüber der franzosischen Revolution par Huffer ; La Politique des Puissances allemandes pendant les Guerres de la Révolution française ; Recension de : Past and Present Policy, etc. De la Conduite tenue autrefois et maintenant par l'Angleterre au sujet de l'Irlande.‎

‎1 vol. in-8 reliure de l'époque demi-basane verte, tomaison marquée : "6 - Critique, Histoire" : Bibliographie, pp. 469-474 ; Recension de : Histoire des Etats-Unis par George Bancroft, Imprimerie de Ferdinand Ramboz, Genève, 1846, 45 pp. puis Tiré de la Bib. Univ. de Genève, 20 , 28 et 28 pp. ; Recension de : Les Etats-Unis d'Amérique par Frédéric de Raumer, Die Vereignigten Staaten von Nord-America, Tiré de la Bibliothèque Universelle de Genève, 62 pp. ; Les Origines de la République des Etats-Unis ; Recension de : Une Nouvelle Vie de Jefferson, s.n., pp. 238-245 ; Recension de : Demeures d'hommes d'Etat américains. Homes of American Statesmen, 35 pp. ; Recension de : Les Demeures des Auteurs et des Hommes d'Etat de l'Amérique. Homes of American Authors. Homes of American Statesmen, Tiré de la Bibliothèque Universelle de Genève, 36 pp. ; Recension de : Memoirs of the war in the Southern Department of the United States ; Recension de : Pioneers of France in the North World, France and England in North America, pp. 347-368 ; Recension de : The Jesuits in North America in the seventeenth Century, by Parkman, pp. 152-155 ; Recension de : France and England in North America. Part Third, Annales des Voyages, mai 1870 pp.141-164 ; Recension de : L'Ancien Régime au Canada. The Old Regime in Canada, by Francis Parkman, RQH, 1876, pp. 617-623 ; Recension de : Madame Swetchine, sa Vie et ses Oeuvres, par le Comte de Falloux, Tiré de la Bibliothèque Universelle de Genève, décembre 1860, 36 pp. ; Article : Le Chancelier Pasquier, pp. 612-618 ; Notice historique du Général Vicomte Talon ; Lord Elgin. In Memoriam ; Recension de : Leaves from the Journal of our life in the Highlands, from 1848 to 1861 ; Recension de : Les annales de la Cathédrale de Saint-Paul de Londres. Annals of Saint-Paul's cathedral, Au Bureau de la Revue Britannique, Paris, 1869, 40 pp. ; Recension de : Canterbury. Mémoires historiques de Canterbury, 39 pp. ; Recension de : L'Abbaye de Westminster. Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey, 46 pp. ; Recension de : Oestreich und Preussen gegenüber der franzosischen Revolution par Huffer ; La Politique des Puissances allemandes pendant les Guerres de la Révolution française ; Recension de : Past and Present Policy, etc. De la Conduite tenue autrefois et maintenant par l'Angleterre au sujet de l'Irlande, Tiré de la Bibliothèque Universelle de Genève, 13 pp.‎

‎Recueil original d'articles (souvent en tirés-à-part originaux) du Comte Adolphe de Circourt. Le salon d'Anastasie de Circourt et de son mari le Comte Adolphe de Circourt fut l'un des plus célèbres du XIXe siècle. Comme l'écrit Sainte-Beuve, "aucune prévention, aucun préjugé n’arrêtait cette personne, si pieuse d’ailleurs et si ferme dans ses croyances, dès qu’elle sentait qu’elle avait affaire à un esprit de valeur et à un homme de talent". Correspondant de Tocqueville, le Comte collabora à de nombreuses revues (Revue Britannique, Revue Contemporaine, Revue Britannique, etc...). Etat très satisfaisant (mq. de papier au second plat, ex-libris Bibliothèque des Bruyères, très bon état par ailleurs) pour cet recueil établi par l'auteur, le Comte de Circourt et provenant de sa bibliothèque des Bruyères, à La Celle-Saint-Cloud.‎

‎VIAGGI DALLA CHINA ALLA COSTA NORD-OVEST D'AMERICA, FATTI NEGLI ANNI 1788 E 1789.‎

‎Prima traduzione italiana arricchita di note istoriche-scientifiche di vedute, marine, ritratti, carta geografica, ecc. a spese di Giovacchino Pagani, Firenze, 1796. In-16 gr. (mm. 188x130), 4 volumi, mz. pelle coeva, fregi e titolo oro al dorso (restauri), pp. X,264; XV,212; X,238; (4),VIII,276; molto ben illustrati da 22 tavole incise in rame fuori testo fra cui: una (più volte ripiegata.) Carta del Mar Pacifico del Nord che comprende la costa Nord-Est d'Asia e la costa Nord-Ouest d'America, riconosciute nel 1778 e 1779 dal Cap. Cook e più particolarmente ancora nel 1788 e 89 dal Capitano Gio. Meares - 7 portolani - 10 belle vedute (3 ripiegate) - ritratti di indigeni, ecc. Vi sono pure contenuti un Vocabolario geografico delle città, isole, ecc. accennate nei viaggi di Meares e un Piccolo vocabolario di marina. "Prima edizione italiana" di questa importante opera del navigatore inglese John Meares (1756 ca.-1809).Oltre ai viaggi dalla Cina all'America nel 1788 e 1789, che formano la parte più importante dell'opera, il Capitano Meares descrive anche il viaggio effettuato col vascello "Nootka" da Calcutta alla Costa Nord-Ovest d'America, negli anni 1786-87, inclusa l'esplorazione della regione intorno alla Baia del Principe Guglielmo (Alaska). Quest'opera, con le sue interessanti illustrazioni e i numerosi documenti storici, è di grande importanza anche per lo studio dei primi commerci di pellicce che ebbero origine lungo la costa del Nord-Ovest e del grave conflitto che scoppiò fra Inglesi e Spagnoli a questo riguardo. Cfr. The Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages,1126 con dettagliata descriz. della prima ediz. inglese del 1790: .. This important narrative.., gives a very full account of the Indian nations of Northwest America, describing their villages, languages, manners, and customs. It also contains a separate account of the voyage of the "Iphigenia Nubiana", commanded by Captain William Douglas, which visited the Sandwich Islands as well as Nootka Sound. Seguìrono quindi una edizione francese (Parigi 1794) e una italiana (Firenze, 1796).La ns. copia manca del ritratto dell'A. ma contiene 2 tavole in più rispetto agli esemplari posseduti dalle biblioteche italiane (cfr. ICCU).Pagine ingiallite per la qualità della carta altrimenti ben conservato, con barbe.‎