Charting of the Oceans by Peter Whitfield
$49.99 NZD
Category: History
Mastery of the sea has been crucial in world history: the transition from the medieval to the modern world was marked by the emergence of ships from their European home waters out into the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans. Solving the problem of ocean navigation was an essential prelude to achieving ...Show more
Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens by Andrea Wulf
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
On two days in 1761 and 1769 hundreds of astronomers pointed their telescopes towards the skies to observe a rare astronomical event: the transit of Venus across the face of the sun. United by this momentous occasion, scientists from around the globe came together to answer the essential question: how c ...Show more
Chasing a Dream : The Exploration of the Imaginary Pacific by John Dunmore
$39.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
Early Europeans may have believed the world was flat, but by the Middle Ages there was widespread acceptance that it was, in fact, a globe. What remained a mystery, however, was what lay on the "other side". The belief in a vast southern continent went back centuries, and many expeditions set out to fin ...Show more
China Between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties by Mark Edward Lewis
$39.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: History of Imperial China S.
After the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third century CE, China divided along a north-south line. This title traces the changes that both underlay and resulted from this split in a period that saw the geographic redefinition of China, engagement with the outside world, significant changes to family ...Show more
China: Its History and Culture by W.Scott Morton
$36.99 NZD
Category: History
This is a revision of the long-successful, short, illustrated cultural history of China, from its beginnings to the present day, first published in 1980 and continuously in use over several editions in colleges and universities nationwide. A brilliant and concise study, it traces China's history and cul ...Show more
Chocolate Wars: From Cadbury to Kraft 200 Years of Sweet Success and Bitter Rivalry by Deborah Cadbury
$28.99 NZD
Category: History
In Chocolate Wars bestselling historian and award-winning documentary maker Deborah Cadbury takes a journey into her own family history to uncover the rivalries that have driven 250 years of chocolate empire-building. In the early nineteenth century Richard Tapper Cadbury sent his son, John, to London t ...Show more
Christendom Destroyed: Europe 1517-1648 by Mark Greengrass
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
Mark Greengrass' gripping, major, original account of Europe in an era of tumultuous change Sunday Times and Financial Times Books of the Year 2014. This addition to the landmark Penguin History of Europe series is a fascinating study of 16th and 17th century Europe and the fundamental changes which led ...Show more
Church of Spies - The Pope's Secret War Against Hitler by Mark Riebling
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
A radical reinterpretation of the wartime Pope. Born Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII is perhaps the most vilified and detested Pope in modern history. Pius XII and the Vatican are thought to have appeased Hitler and betrayed international Jewry by staying silent during the Holocaust. The accusation has f ...Show more
Churchill and Son by Josh Ireland
$37.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
The intimate, untold story of Winston Churchill's enduring yet volatile bond with his only son, Randolph "Fascinating... well-researched and well-written."--Andrew Roberts "Beautifully written... A triumph." - Damien Lewis "Fascinating, acute and touching."--Simon Sebag Montefiore We think we know Win ...Show more
Churchill's War in Words: His Finest Quotes, 1939-1945 by Jonathan Asbury
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
Churchill's War in Words transports the reader back to the storm-struck days of the Second World War. Focussing only on words used at the time, it reveals the way that Winston Churchill talked about the conflict in public and in private - and the way that he himself was viewed at the time by family, fri ...Show more
Cities of the Classical World: An Atlas and Gazetteer of 120 Centres of Ancient Civilization by Colin McEvedy
$38.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
From Alexandria to York, this unique illustrated guide shows us the great centres of classical civilization afresh. The book's key feature is 120 specially-drawn maps tracing each city's thoroughfares and defences, monuments and places of worship. Every map is to the same scale, allowing readers for the ...Show more
Citizen 865 - The Hunt for Hitler's Hidden Soldiers in America by Debbie Cenziper
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
**Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) Book Award Finalist**The gripping story of a team of Nazi hunters at the U.S. Department of Justice as they raced against time to expose members of a brutal SS killing force who disappeared in America after World War Two.In 1990, in a drafty basement archive i ...Show more