Crossing the Lines - The story of three homosexual New Zealand soldiers in world war II by Brent Coutts
$50.00 NZD
Category: History
In Crossing the Lines, Brent Coutts brings to light the previously untold history of New Zealand homosexual soldiers in World War II, drawing on the experiences of ordinary men who lived through extraordinary times. At the centre of the story are New Zealand soldiers Harold Robinson, Ralph Dyer and Doug ...Show more
Not in Narrow Seas: The economic history of Aotearoa New Zealand by Brian Easton
$60.00 NZD
Category: History
Not in Narrow Seas is a major contribution to the history of Aotearoa New Zealand. It covers everything from the traditional gift-based Māori economy to the Ardern government's attempt to deal with the economic challenges of global warming, and is the first economic history to underline the central role ...Show more
Soldiers, Scouts and Spies by Cliff Simons
$55.00 NZD
Category: History
As interest in the New Zealand Wars grows, Soldiers, Scouts and Spies offers a unique insight into the major campaigns fought between 1845 and 1864 by British troops, their militia and Maori allies, and Maori iwi and coalitions. It was a time of rapid technological change. Maori were quick to adopt west ...Show more
The Borgias: Power and Fortune by Paul Strathern
$28.00 NZD
Category: History
The glorious and infamous history of the Borgia family--a world of saints, corrupt popes, and depraved princes and poisoners--set against the golden age of the Italian Renaissance.The Borgia family have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice and vicious cruelty--all ...Show more
Sealand - The True Story of the World's Most Stubborn Micronation by Dylan Taylor-Lehman
$38.00 NZD
Category: History
The raucous, stranger-than-fiction tale of Sealand - the tiny island nation off the Suffolk coast. In 1967, retired army major and self-made millionaire Paddy Roy Bates inaugurated himself ruler of the Principality of Sealand on a World War II Maunsell Sea Fort near Felixstowe - and began the peculiar s ...Show more
The Regency Revolution - Jane Austen, Napoleon, Lord Byron and the Making of the Modern World by Robert Morrison
$25.00 NZD
Category: History
'Superb' The Economist'Elegant, entertaining and frequently surprising' New York TimesThe fascinating story of the Regency period in Britain - an immensely colourful and chaotic decade that marked the emergence of the modern world.The Regency began on 5 February 1811 when the Prince of Wales replaced hi ...Show more
The Great Imperial Hangover - How Empires Have Shaped the World by Samir Puri
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
'An excellent read.' -- Robert D. Kaplan. For the first time in millennia we live without formal empires. But that doesn't mean we don't feel their presence rumbling through history. The Great Imperial Hangover examines how the world's imperial legacies are still shaping the thorniest issues we face tod ...Show more
Sicily - Island of Beauty and Conflict by Jeremy Dummett
$43.00 NZD
Category: History
This book delves into the fascinating and diverse history and culture of Sicily. With settlers from early tribes to the Greeks and Romans, through the Arabs, Normans, French, Spanish and finally Italians, the island's culture has been changed dramatically by each of the foreign powers. In this book, Je ...Show more
The Burmese Labyrinth by Carlos Sardina Galache
$43.00 NZD
Category: History
A Nation in Perpetual Conflict with Itself In 2011, Burma embarked on a democratic transition that promised to distance the country from the legacy of a brutal military regime. Four years later, the first free election in decades saw a landslide victory for the party of celebrated Nobel Prize-winner Aun ...Show more
Salmon: A Fish by Mark Kurlansky
$43.00 NZD
Category: History
Most of what we do on land ends up impacting the ocean, but never is that clearer than when we look at salmon. Centuries of our greatest assaults on nature, from overfishing to dams, from hatcheries to fish farms, from industrial pollution to the ravages of climate change, can be seen in their harrowing ...Show more
Infamy: The Crimes of Ancient Rome by Jerry Toner
$28.00 NZD
Category: History
A journey to the dark side of Roman nature - like Horrible Histories for grown-ups.
Double Lives - A History of Working Motherhood by Helen McCarthy
$33.00 NZD
Category: History
A groundbreaking history of mothers who worked for pay that will change the way we think about gender, work and equality in modern Britain. In Britain today, three-quarters of mothers are in employment and paid work is an unremarkable feature of women's lives after childbirth. Yet a century ago, workin ...Show more