Civil War: The History of England Volume III by Peter Ackroyd
$39.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
In Civil War, Peter Ackroyd continues his dazzling account of England's history, beginning with the progress south of the Scottish king, James VI, who on the death of Elizabeth I became the first Stuart king of England, and ends with the deposition and flight into exile of his grandson, James II. The St ...Show more
Civilization: A History of the World in 1000 Objects by DK
$70.00 NZD
Category: History
Discover how humans created their world from the objects they left behind - from the US Constitution to the first iPhone - in DK's latest history book. From the beginning of human history, the one thing that has defined us is our talent for making things, from basic technology and everyday objects, suc ...Show more
Civilizations of Ancient Iraq by Benjamin R. Foster
$42.95 NZD
Category: History
In "Civilizations of Ancient Iraq", Benjamin and Karen Foster tell the fascinating story of ancient Mesopotamia from the earliest settlements ten thousand years ago to the Arab conquest in the seventh century. Accessible and concise, this is the most up-to-date and authoritative book on the subject. Wit ...Show more
Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
Cleopatra's palace shimmered with onyx and gold but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons. Stacy ...Show more
Colette's France - Her Life and Loves by Jane Gilmour
$49.99 NZD
Category: History
"French author Colette has a special place in French literary history, her life and writing novels Cheri, Gigli and the Claudine series spanned the renowned artistic period of Belle Epoque Paris, the art scene in the South of France and war time Paris. Her companions were all the great French writers, a ...Show more
Conquistadores - Searching for el Dorado, the Terrifying Spanish Conquest of the Aztec and Inca Empires Conquest of the Aztec and Inca Empires by John Pemberton
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
'Conquistadors' follows the Spanish explorers as they unleash their terrifying religious wrath upon the Inca and Aztec empires and explains how the conquest of the New World transformed the Old World forever.
Conquistadors A New History by Fernando Cervantes
$55.00 NZD
Category: History
The 'conquistadors', the early explorers and settlers of Spanish America, have become the stuff of legends and nightmares. In their own time, they were glorified as heroic adventurers, spreading Christian culture and building roads, cathedrals, palaces and cities which have endured to the present. Today ...Show more
Constantinople : The Last Great Siege, 1453 by Roger Crowley
$32.99 NZD
Category: History
In the spring of 1453, the Ottoman Turks advanced on Constantinople in pursuit of an ancient Islamic dream: capturing the thousand-year-old capital of Christian Byzantium. During the siege that followed, a small band of defenders, outnumbered ten to one, confronted the might of the Ottoman army in an ep ...Show more
Contested Ground : Te Whenua I Tohea - The Taranaki Wars 1860-1881 by Kelvin Day; Puke Ariki (Library and museum) Staff (Contribution by); TSB Community Trust Staff (Contribution by)
$60.00 NZD
Category: History
The first shots were fired on Wiremu Kingi's Te Kohia pa on 17 March 1860, marking the start of twenty-one years of direct conflict between Maori and Pakeha in the Taranaki region interspersed with periods of uneasy peace, culminating in the invasion of the Parihaka settlement on 5 November 1881. In Con ...Show more
Convicts: New Zealand's Hidden Past by Matthew Wright
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
New Zealand's Pakeha origin as a bolt-hole for convicts escaping Australia, a place where former convicts joined whaling and sealing gangs, and where sea captains thumbed their noses at the law, has been quietly forgotten. It has become a hidden part of our past, buried under the convenient fiction that ...Show more
Cook's Ark by Alison Sutherland
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
Cook's Ark is a fascinating account of the animals that sailed with Captain James Cook to the South Pacific, with particular reference to New Zealand. It offers a novel insight into an aspect of Cook's voyages rarely touched on by other authors: the menagerie that travelled in uncomfortably close proxim ...Show more