The Disarmament Illusion: The Movement for a Limitation of Armaments to 1907

  • New York: The Macmillan Company, 1942
By Merze Tate; Bernice Brown Cronkhite [fwd.]
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1942. Very Good. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1942. First Edition. Octavo; 398pp. Red cloth boards stamped in gilt; no dust jacket. Mild scuffing and bumping to boards; binding sound; sparse but regular pencil markings and annotations; bookseller ticket to front pastedown (Gerard A. Haagens: Books from Everywhere, 597 Fifth Ave, NY); a Very Good and sound copy.

First book published by Tate, a pioneer in the field of International Relations, the first African-American woman to attend Oxford, and one of the first women to join the Department of History at Howard University. This work centers on the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 as well as Tsar Nicholas II's shocking "Rescript for Peace" of 1898. No copies in retail at the time of this writing.

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