Imperial Twilight - The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age by Stephen R. Platt
$55.00 NZD
Category: History
When Britain launched its first war on China in 1839, pushed into hostilities by profiteering drug merchants and free-trade interests, it sealed the fate of what had long been seen as the most prosperous and powerful empire in Asia, if not the world. Corruption, popular unrest and dwindling finances ha ...Show more
City of Light The Reinvention of Paris by Rupert Christiansen
$40.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
In 1853 the French emperor Louis Napoleon inaugurated a vast and ambitious programme of public works, directed by Georges-Eugène Haussmann, the prefect of the Seine. Haussmann's renovation of Paris would transform the old medieval city of squalid slums and disease-ridden alleyways into a 'City of Light' ...Show more
Women Who Changed the World - Over 100 of the Most Remarkable Women of the Last 100 Years by BOUNTY
$34.99 NZD
Category: History
The 20th century began with a sense of great optimism after centuries of oppression. It was to be one of the most violent and tumultuous in world history, and paved the way for many people to seize opportunities and make a difference. It has also been the most progressive, tipping into the 21st century ...Show more
History's Greatest Deceptions and the People Who Planned Them by Eric Chaline
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
A light-hearted look at fifty of the greatest and grandest fakes, frauds and forgeries the world has seen. According to the Bible, human history began with the first big lie (the Serpent's deception of Eve), closely followed by the second (Eve's deception of Adam). And, as you peruse the fifty entries l ...Show more
Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves: How the Victorians Collected the World by Jacqueline Yallop
$75.00 NZD
Category: History
Blood and Guts: Dispatches from the Whale Wars by Sam Vincent
$37.00 NZD
Category: History
I pull on my balaclava and step onto the bridge wing. It's loud outside: I can hear the rumbles of nine vessels' engines and the hiss of ten water cannons ... Suddenly the bridge is full of refugees from the upper deck. They are blocking my view out the back windows, but their faces - afraid, excited, a ...Show more
Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe by Simon Winder
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
For centuries much of Europe was in the hands of the very peculiar Habsburg family. An unstable mixture of wizards, obsessives, melancholics, bores, musicians and warriors, they saw off - through luck, guile and sheer mulishness - any number of rivals, until finally packing up in 1918. From their princi ...Show more
Henry VIII by John Guy
$26.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Monarchs
Charismatic, insatiable and cruel, Henry VIII was, as John Guy shows, a king who became mesmerized by his own legend - and in the process destroyed and remade England. Said to be a 'pillager of the commonwealth', this most instantly recognizable of kings remains a figure of extreme contradictions: magni ...Show more
The Templars - History and Myth - From Solomon's Temple to the Freemasons - A Guide to Templar History Culture & Locations by Michael Haag
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
Arguably one of the most provocative, puzzling, and misunderstood organizations of medieval times, the legendary Knights Templar have always been shrouded in a veil of mystery, while inspiring popular culture from Indiana Jones to Dan Brown. In The Templars, author Michael Haag offers a definitive histo ...Show more
I See You Made an Effort: Compliments, Indignities and Survival Stories from the Edge of 50 by Annabelle Gurwitch
$26.00 NZD
Category: History
Actor and humourist Annabelle Gurwitch returns with this New York Times bestseller, a wickedly funny book of essays about the indignities faced by femmes d'un certain age. Whether she is falling in lust at the Genius Bar, coping with her best friend's assisted suicide or navigating the extensive and tre ...Show more
Steel: From Mine to Mill, the Metal That Made America by Brooke C. Stoddard
$59.99 NZD
Category: History
Steel provides the backbone for modern civilization - read all about its history, journey, and place in the world. What is steel? How does it work? Why has it been so important? Who are the people who make it? How do they make it? Steel: From Mine to Mill, the Metal that Made America answers these quest ...Show more
Ottoman Odyssey - Travels Through a Lost Empire by Alev Scott
$37.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
The author's odyssey began when she looked beyond Turkey's borders for contemporary traces of the Ottoman Empire. Their 800 years of rule ended a century ago--and yet, travelling through twelve countries from Kosovo to Greece to Palestine, she uncovers a legacy that's vital and relevant; where medieval ...Show more