Flat Earth : The History of an Infamous Idea by Christine Garwood
27.99 NZD
34.00 (17% off)
Category: History
Contrary to popular belief, fostered in countless school classrooms the world over, Christopher Columbus did not discover that the world was round. The idea of the world as a sphere had been widely accepted in scientific, philosophical and even religious circles from as early as the fourth century bc. B ...Show more
The Discovery of France by Graham Robb
59.99 NZD
Category: History
It's easy to reduce France to the sum of its parts: weekend breaks amid the culture of Paris or summer holidays basking in the sunshine of the south; accounts of the Revolution - Madame Defarge knitting beside the guillotine - and Napoleon's battle at Waterloo (mis)remembered from school history lessons ...Show more
The Sale of the Late King's Goods : Charles I and his art collection by Jerry Brotton
28.00 NZD
29.99 (6% off)
Category: History
Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton's colourful and critically acclaimed book explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I's art collection. Following a remarkable and unpre ...Show more
Thermopylae - The Battle that Changed the World by Paul Cartledge
27.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
'Go tell the Spartans, Passerby, That here, obedient to their laws, we lie'. Thus did the poet Simonides remember the three hundred elite Spartan warriors who, led by their king, Leonidas, faced the vast, inrushing Persian army at the 'hot gates' of Thermopylae and fought to the death for an ideal deare ...Show more
Mozart's Women : His family, his friends, his music by Jane Glover
26.99 NZD
29.99 (10% off)
Category: History
Mozart was fascinated, amused, aroused, hurt, and betrayed by women. He loved and respected them, composed for them, performed with them. This unique biography looks at his interaction with each, starting with his family (his mother, Maria Anna and beloved and talented sister, Nannerl), and his marriage ...Show more
India After Gandhi : The History of the World's Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha
29.99 NZD
Category: History
Born against a background of privation and civil war, divided along lines of caste, class, language and religion, independent India emerged, somehow, as a united and democratic country. Ramachandra Guha's hugely acclaimed book tells the full story - the pain and the struggle, the humiliations and the gl ...Show more
1789 by David Andress
47.99 NZD
49.99 (4% off)
Category: History
In 1789 the world stood at the threshold of the modern age. While the French Revolution and the election of George Washington seemed to herald a new global order, Britain stood shocked at the new world unfolding before her. Two documents were drafted which would change the very meanings of citizens and ...Show more
Aristocrats: Power, Grace and Decadence. Britain's Great Ruling Classes from 1066 to the present by Lawrence James
77.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
For nine hundred years the British aristocracy has considered itself ideally qualified to rule others, make laws and guide the fortunes of the nation. Tracing the history of this remarkable supremacy, ARISTOCRATS is a story of wars, intrigue, chicanery and extremes of both selflessness and greed. James ...Show more
Passionate Minds : The Great Enligtenment Love Affair by David Bodanis
34.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Emilie du Chatelet was one of the greatest thinkers of the 18th century, a woman whose work was of vital use to Einstein and who, until now, has been largely ignored by history. Fiercely intellectual and passionate, Emilie's relationship with Voltaire was as radical as her thinking; only after swordfigh ...Show more
Borrowed Time by Roy Hattersley
70.00 NZD
Category: History
Called an uneasy peace, the twenty years between the wars were a time of turmoil - Britain saw a general strike and the worst economic crisis in its history, armed rebellion in Ireland and open revolt in India, a Prime Minister's resignation and the King's abdication. Crisis followed crisis until Britai ...Show more
The War for All the Oceans by Roy Adkins and Lesley Adkins
65.00 NZD
Category: History
The period 1798 to 1815 - the Napoleonic Wars - has just about everything that you could wish for in a book on naval history - large fleet actions such as the Battle of the Nile and Copenhagen; many duels between pairs or small groups of ships, such as the Shannon and Chesapeake; combined operations lik ...Show more
Endgame 1945 by David Stafford
65.00 NZD
Category: History
Wars do not end when the fighting stops. While Hitler and Goebbels took their lives in the bunker under ruined Berlin, Mussolini was hanged in Milan and Himmler fled Germany, men and women everywhere faced the prospect of rebuilding peace. In this remarkable account of the days and months after Victory ...Show more