Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed
64.00 NZD
Category: History
Many of us take it as a given that the Great Depression - the consequences of which reverberated for decades, crippling the future of an entire generation and setting the stage for WWII - resulted from a confluence of inexorable forces beyond any one person or government's control. In fact, as erudite e ...Show more
The Tin Ticket: The Heroic Journey of Australia's Convict Women by Deborah J. Swiss
37.00 NZD
Category: History
Historian Deborah J. Swiss tells the heartbreaking, horrifying, and ultimately triumphant story of the women exiled from the British Isles and forced into slavery and savagery-who created the most liberated society of their time. Agnes McMillan and Janet Houston were convicted for shoplifting. Bridget ...Show more
The Routledge Atlas of the Holocaust by Martin Gilbert
69.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Routledge Historical Atlases
The graphic history of the Nazi attempt to destroy the Jews of Europe during the Second World War is illustrated in this series of 333 detailed maps. The maps, and the text and photographs that accompany them, powerfully depict the fate of the Jews between 1933 and 1945, while also setting the chronolog ...Show more
FIFTY MAJOR THINKERS EDUCATION by PALMER
55.99 NZD
Category: History
In this unique work some of today's greatest educators present concise, accessible summaries of the great educators of the past. Covering a time-span from 500 BC to the early twentieth century the book includes profiles of: Augustine Dewey Erasmus Gandhi Kant Montessori Plato Rousseau Steiner Wo ...Show more
A Great and Noble Scheme by John Mack Faragher
39.99 NZD
Category: History
"Delves deeply and with rueful wisdom into a terrible crime perpetrated by European imperialists and American colonists." Publisher Marketing: "Altogether superb
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson
32.00 NZD
Category: History
In this "penetrating new analysis" (The "New York Times Book Review") Ira Katznelson fundamentally recasts our understanding of twentieth-century American history and demonstrates that all the key programmes passed during the New Deal and Fair Deal era of the 1930s and 1940s were created in a deeply dis ...Show more
Oak The Frame of Civilization by William Bryant Logan
25.99 NZD
Category: History
Professional arborist and award-winning nature writer, William Bryant Logan deftly relates the delightful history of the reciprocal relationship between humans and oak trees since time immemorial. From the ink of Bach's cantatas, to the wagon, the barrel and the sword, oak trees have been a constant pre ...Show more
Wordly Goods by Lisa Jardine
52.99 NZD
Category: History
The author argues that the creation of culture during the Renaissance was inextricably tied to the creation of wealth, and that the expansion of commerce spurred the expansion of thought. The book contends that while Europe's royalty and merchants competed with each other to acquire works of art, viciou ...Show more
A Pickpocket's Tale by Timothy J. Gilfoyle
59.99 NZD
Category: History
Meet George Appo, pickpocket, con man, mayor of underworld New York in the late nineteenth century. In Appo's world, child pickpockets swarmed the streets, addicts drifted in opium dens and swindlers worked the lucrative "green-goods" game. The child of Irish and Chinese immigrants, Appo rose as an exem ...Show more
Khrushchev's Cold War - The Inside Story of an American Adversary by Aleksandr Fursenko; Timothy Naftali
65.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Nikita Khrushchev was a leader who risked war to get peace during the most dangerous years of the twentieth century. In "Khrushchev's Cold War", Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali, authors of the Cuban missile crisis classic "One Hell of a Gamble", bring to life head-to-head confrontations between K ...Show more
Holy War by Karen Armstrong
12.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
In 1095 Pope Urban II summoned Christian warriors to take up the cross and reconquer the Holy Land. Thus began the holy wars that would focus the power of Europe against a common enemy and become the stuff of romantic legend. In reality the Crusades were a series of rabidly savage conflicts in the name ...Show more