Anzac Mascots: All Creatures Great and Small of World War I by Nigel Allsopp
$35.00 NZD
Category: History
‘The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.’ – Mahatma Gandhi Animals have the power to change people’s lives. They can be loving, loyal companions that will never judge. In World War I, many Australian and New Zealand units – army, naval and air ...Show more
Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire by Nandini Das
$38.99 NZD
Category: History
A profound and ground-breaking new history of one of the most important encounters in the history of colonialism- the British arrival in India in the early seventeenth century. 'A sparkling gem of a book. Beautifully written and masterfully researched, this has the makings of a classic' Peter Frankopan ...Show more
Mother Tongue The Surprising History of Women's Words by Jenni Nuttall
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
An enlightening linguistic journey through a thousand years of feminist language--and what we can learn from the vivid vocabulary English once had for women's bodies, experiences, and sexualitySo many of the words we use to articulate the experiences women share feel awkward or alien. Medical terms are ...Show more
A War of Empires - Japan, India, Burma and Britain: 1941-45 by Robert Lyman
$34.99 NZD
Category: History
Drawing on over 30 years of ground-breaking research, best-selling author Robert Lyman expertly re-examines the so-called 'Forgotten War' in Burma, revealing it to be a ferocious clash of competing visions of empire, which would irrevocably change the future of both Britain and the Indian subcontinent f ...Show more
The War of the Windsors: The Inside Story of Charles, Andrew and the Rivalry That Has Defined the Royal Family by Nigel Cawthorne
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
Telling the story of their lives from children to modern day, this new book will look at the fraught relationship (and fiery rivalry) between King Charles and Prince Andrew.
Britain at Bay - The Epic Story of the Second World War: 1938-1941 by Alan Allport
$55.00 NZD
Category: History
Power. Glory. Death. Courage. How well do we know the story of the Second World War?
In the Reign of King John - A Year in the Life of Plantagenet England by Dan Jones
$55.00 NZD
Category: History
A vivid and richly illustrated portrait of English society in the penultimate year of the reign of a king with the worst reputation of any in our history. 1215 is chiefly remembered for King John attaching his seal to Magna Carta in a quiet Thames-side water-meadow - a milestone in the history of libert ...Show more
Classical Mythology A to Z: An Encyclopedia of Gods & Goddesses, Heroes & Heroines, Nymphs, Spirits, Monsters, and Places by Annette Giesecke
$49.99 NZD
Category: History
An encyclopedic A-to-Z guide, this beautifully designed and illustrated volume offers hundreds of rich and fascinating definitions of 700 major and minor characters, creatures, and places of classical mythology. Classical Mythology A-to-Z is a comprehensive and engrossing guide to Greek and Roman mythol ...Show more
The Vagabonds - The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's Ten-Year Road Trip by Jeff Guinn
$35.00 NZD
Category: History
A "fascinating slice of rarely considered American history" (Booklist)--the story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison--whose annual summer sojourns introduced the road trip to our culture and made the automobile an essential part of modern life. In 1914 Henry Ford and naturalist John Burroughs visited Thom ...Show more
The Colonizer and the Colonized by Albert Memmi
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
In this classic study of European colonialism, Albert Memmi examines the psychological effects of colonial ideology and system on both the coloniser and those colonised.
The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen Warfare, Constitutions and the Making of the Modern World by Linda Colley
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
Starting not with the United States, but with the Corsican constitution of 1755, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen moves through every continent, disrupting accepted narratives. Both monarchs and radicals play a role, from Catherine the Great of Russia, with her remarkable Nakaz, to Sierra Leone's James Af ...Show more
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World - and Globalization Began by Valerie Hansen
$26.00 NZD
Category: History
When did globalization begin? Most observers have settled on 1492, the year Columbus discovered America. But as celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen shows, it was the year 1000, when for the first time new trade routes linked the entire globe, so an object could in theory circumnavigate the world. T ...Show more