A Short History of the World in 50 Books by Daniel Smith
$30.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: A\Short History of the World Ser.
The book has a unique status as an emblem of human culture and civilization. It is a vessel for sharing stories, dispersing knowledge, examining the nature of our extraordinary species and imagining what lies beyond our known world. Books ultimately provide an invaluable and comprehensive record of what ...Show more
Slave Empire - How Slavery Built Modern Britain by Padraic X. Scanlan
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
In intimate, human detail, Slave Empire shows how Britain's empire was built on sugar, tobacco and coffee plantations worked by enslaved African labourers and their descendants. With original research and synthesis of new scholarship, it explores two clashing visions of the British empire after emancipa ...Show more
Pharaohs of the Sun - How Egypt's Despots and Dreamers Drove the Rise and Fall of Tutankhamun's Dynasty by Guy de la Bedoyere
$38.00 NZD
Category: History
In 1922, a century ago, the most sensational archaeological discovery of all time was made. When Tutankhamun's tomb was found in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, the contents staggered the world and have done so ever since.Tutankhamun, so obscure he was almost forgotten after his rule, was one of the last k ...Show more
Before We Were Trans: A new history of gender by Kit Heyam
$38.00 NZD
Category: History
'A beautiful, brilliant, lively book that weaves together fascinating and moving examples with thoughtful analysis. Both heartfelt and rigorous, entertaining and scholarly, Before We Were Trans invites us to expand our sense of communities - past and present - in welcoming ways, rather than contracting ...Show more
Goose Green: The first crucial battle of the Falklands War by Mark Adkin
$28.00 NZD
Category: History
Reissued for the 40th anniversary of the Falklands conflictThe most in-depth and powerful account yet published of the first crucial clash of the Falklands war - told from both sides.'Thorough and exhaustive' Daily Telegraph'An excellent and fast paced narrative' Michael McCarthy, historical battlefield ...Show more
India - A History in Objects by Richard Blurton
$65.00 NZD
Category: History
An authoritative visualhistory of India, one of theworld's oldest and mostvibrant cultures, drawing onSouth Asian art and artifactsfrom prehistory to the present. India: A History in Objects presents a beautiful collection of material culture from South Asia and traces its history through a huge variet ...Show more
Great Battles of All Time by Black, Jeremy
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
Twenty-five militaryhistorians from around theworld describe the decisiveconflicts that shaped historyfrom the fifth century BCEto the present. Cannae and Agincourt, Waterloo and Gettysburg, Stalingrad and Midway, this compact volume collects the most influential battles and conflicts in history. Coveri ...Show more
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages by Dan Jones
$27.00 NZD
Category: History
Dan Jones's epic new history tells nothing less than the story of how the world we know today came to be built. The instant Sunday Times bestseller 'Simply the best popular history of the Middle Ages there is'Sunday Times 'An audacious, entertaining page-turner. Dan Jones covers a thousand years of hist ...Show more
Te Maiharoa and the Promised Land by Buddy Mikaere
$35.00 NZD
Category: History
In 1848, eight million hectares of land in Te Waipounamu - the South Island - was purportedly sold for just GBP2000. Hipa Te Maiharoa was a charismatic prophet who in the 1870s led his people in the fight against the injustice of this land deal by occupying the land they believed had not been sold. He ...Show more
New Zealand's Foreign Service - A History by Ian McGibbon (Editor)
$60.00 NZD
Category: History
Since 1943, during war, humanitarian and natural disasters and flashpoints of global tension, one government department has been charged with the critical role of representing New Zealand's interests overseas. In doing so, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (and its predecessors) has needed to re ...Show more
A History of St Joseph's Māori Girls College by Malcolm Mulholland; Sisters of our Lady of the Missions (New Zealand) Staff (Contribution by)
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
This is the first comprehensive history of St Joseph’s Māori Girls’ College, the second oldest Māori boarding school, which was started by Sisters of Our Lady of the Mission in 1868. For 152 years, the college has been dedicated to nurturing the aspirations of young Māori women. Their teachings are grou ...Show more
The Bookseller of Florence: Vespasiano da Bisticci and the Manuscripts that Illuminated the Renaissance by Ross King
$28.00 NZD
Category: History
A gripping story of ancient wisdom, new technology and 'the king of the world's booksellers', set in Renaissance Florence'A marvel of storytelling and a masterclass in the history of the book' WALL STREET JOURNALThe Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings - th ...Show more