The Shortest History of India by John Zubrzycki
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
An illuminating and concise telling of the 5000 years of turbulent history that led India from the ruins of ancient civilisations to emerging global superpowerOne of the oldest civilisations and the largest democracy in the world, India is an amalgam of customs, races, castes, languages and spiritual be ...Show more
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber, David Wengrow
$75.00 NZD
Category: History
A breathtakingly ambitious retelling of the earliest human societies offers a new understanding of world history. For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrifi ...Show more
The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris by Marc Petitjean; Adriana Hunter (Translator)
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
In 1939, after her divorce from Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo travelled from the US to France - the beginning of a unique period of her life. Now, for the first time, this previously overlooked part of her story is brought to light in exquisite detail. Marc Petitjean takes the reader to Paris, where Kahlo s ...Show more
No Wider War - A History of the Vietnam War Volume 2: 1965-75 by Sergio Miller
$50.00 NZD
Category: History
No Wider War is the second volume of a two-part, exploration of America's involvement in Indochina from the end of World War II to the Fall of Saigon. Following on from the first volume, In Good Faith, which told the story from the Japanese surrender in 1945 through America's involvement in the French I ...Show more
Capitalism and Slavery by Eric Williams
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
'It's often said that books are compulsory reading, but this book really is compulsory. You cannot understand slavery, or British Empire, without it' Sathnam Sanghera Arguing that the slave trade was at the heart of Britain's economic progress, Eric Williams's landmark 1944 study revealed the connection ...Show more
Peaky Blinders: The Real Story: The true history of Birmingham's most notorious gangs by Carl Chinn
$24.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Peaky Blinders Ser.
A fascinating insight into the true story behind Birmingham's most notorious gang, The Peaky Blinders.
The Ship Asunder: A Maritime History in Eleven Vessels by Tom Nancollas
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
A sharply poignant history of British seafaring, from the Bronze Age to the present day If Britain's maritime history were embodied in a single ship, she would have a prehistoric prow, a mast plucked from a Victorian steamship, the hull of a modest fishing vessel, the propeller of an ocean liner and an ...Show more
Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
$43.00 NZD
Category: History
For centuries, Ferdinand Magellan has been celebrated as a hero- a noble adventurer who circumnavigated the globe in an extraordinary feat of human bravery; a paragon of daring and chivalry. Now, renowned historian Felipe Fern indez-Armesto draws on extensive and meticulous research to conduct a dazzli ...Show more
Notes from Deep Time - A Journey Through Our Past and Future Worlds by Helen Gordon
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
The story of the Earth is written into our landscape: it's there in the curves of hills, the colours of stone, surprising eruptions of vegetation. Wanting a fresh perspective on her own life, the writer Helen Gordon set out to read that epic narrative. Her odyssey takes her from the secret fossils of ...Show more
The Stasi Poetry Circle by Philip Oltermann
$37.00 NZD
Category: History
The extraordinary true story of the Stasi's poetry club: Stasiland and The Lives of Others crossed with Dead Poets Society.'A magnificent book . . . at once touching, exquisite, devastating and extraordinary.'PHILIPPE SANDS, author of East West Street and The Ratline'A vivid, funny, and imperturbable po ...Show more
A Short History Of The World According To Sheep by Sally Coulthard
$25.00 NZD
Category: History
'This book deserves a place in your bookcase next to Harari's Sapiens. It's every bit as fascinating and is surely destined to be just as successful' Julian Norton From the plains of ancient Mesopotamia to the vast sheep farms of modern-day Australia, sheep have been central to the human story. Since ou ...Show more
The Barn : The Lives, Landscape and Lost Ways of an Old Yorkshire Farm by Sally Coulthard
$43.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
The astonishing, socio-historic uncovering of a vanished agricultural way of life by best-selling nature writer Sally Coulthard. Dominating the farmyard of the house where Sally Coulthard and her husband live in the gentle Howardian Hills of North Yorkshire is a large, stone-built barn. When Sally disc ...Show more