Treasures of Leonardo Da Vinci by Matthew Landrus
79.99 NZD
Category: History
Born in 1452, Leonardo da Vinci is probably one of the world's best-known artists. This beautifully illustrated project looks at the major events in his life. Packed with information about his style of painting and drawing as well as his work as a civil and military engineer, it combines chapters on Leo ...Show more
Paris Under Water: How the City of Light Survived the Great Flood of 1910 by Jeffrey H. Jackson
64.99 NZD
Category: History
In the winter of 1910, however, the river that brought life to Paris quickly became a force of destruction. Torrential rainfall saturated the soil, and faulty engineering created a perfect storm of conditions that soon drowned Parisian streets, homes, businesses, and museums. The city seemed to have lo ...Show more
Madness in the Family by Catharine Coleborne
175.00 NZD
Category: History
Madness in the Family is the first comparative study of families and insanity: a trans-colonial study of the relationships between European families and public colonial hospitals for the insane in Australia and New Zealand between 1860 and 1914. It explores issues such as how colonial families coped wi ...Show more
The Holy Roman Empire 1495-1806 by Peter H. Wilson
46.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Studies in European History
Description: The Holy Roman Empire has always caused tremendous confusion for students of European history, and this book sets out to provide a clear account of this remarkable organisation - comparable in many ways only to the modern European Union - and its profound impact during its three centuries o ...Show more
India After Gandhi : The history of the world's largest democracy by Ramachandra Guha
78.00 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. The story of its making has never been told before. Now, in this remarkable book, we have an epic account of the world ...Show more
Literature of Scotland by Roderick Watson
62.99 NZD
Category: History
This companion volume to "The Literature of Scotland: The Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century" examines the writing of the twentieth century - arguably, the richest ever period in Scottish literary history. From "The House with the Green Shutters" to "Trainspotting" and far beyond, this text provides ...Show more
The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn by Alison Weir
42.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The imprisonment and execution of Queen Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife, in May 1536 was unprecedented in the annals of English history. It was sensational in its day, and has exerted endless fascination over the minds of historians, novelists, dramatists, poets, artists and film-makers ever since ...Show more
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
69.99 NZD
Category: History
In the middle of Europe, in the middle of the twentieth century, the Nazi and Soviet regimes starved, shot and gassed fourteen million people in a zone of death between Berlin and Moscow. These were the bloodlands - today's Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, western Russia and the eastern Baltic coast. In a twel ...Show more
The Man Who Ate His Boots: Sir John Franklin and the Tragic History of the Northwest Passage by Anthony Brandt
56.99 NZD
Category: History
Dozens of mission set out for the Arctic during the first half of the nineteenth century; all ended in failure and many in disaster, as men found themselves starving to death in the freezing wilderness, sometimes with nothing left to eat but their companions' remains. Anthony Brandt traces the complete ...Show more
Sway by Zachary Lazar
35.00 NZD
Category: History
By the end of the sixties, 'the decade itself knows that it can never return, that it has only this one chance to live up to its own extremes,' as Zachary Lazar writes in his extraordinary new novel. Three dramatic and emblematic stories intertwine in "Sway" - the early days of the Rolling Stones, inclu ...Show more
Holy Warriors - A Modern History of the Crusades by Jonathan Phillips
64.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
When George Bush inaugurated the War on Terror in 2001, he referred to it as a crusade. A medieval Crusade could be defined thus: a holy war initiated by the Pope on God's behalf in which the participants took the cross and received remission for their sins. The First Crusade, launched in 1095, ushered ...Show more
Big Oyster: New York in the World - A Molluscular History by Mark Kurlansky
36.99 NZD
39.99 (7% off)
Category: History
When Peter Minuit bought Manhattan for $24 in 1626 - his first New York real estate killing - he showed his shrewdness by also buying the oyster beds off tiny, nearby Oyster Island, renamed Ellis Island in 1770.From the Minuit purchase until centuries of pollution finally destroyed the beds in the 1920s ...Show more