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A Concise History of Australia by Stuart Macintyre
37.95 NZD
45.95 (17% off)
Category: No Category | Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
Australia is the last continent to be settled by Europeans, but it also sustains a people and a culture tens of thousands of years old. For much of the past 200 years the newcomers have sought to replace the old with the new. This book tells how they imposed themselves on the land, and brought technolog ...Show more
A Concise History of Austria by Steven Beller
60.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
For a small, prosperous country in the middle of Europe, modern Austria has a very large and complex history, extending far beyond its current borders. Today's Austrians have a problematic relationship with that history, whether with the multi-national history of the Habsburg Monarchy, or with the time ...Show more
A Concise History of Canada by Margaret Conrad
43.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
Margaret Conrad's history of Canada begins with a challenge to its readers. What is Canada? What makes up this diverse, complex and often contested nation-state? What was its founding moment? And who are its people? Drawing on her many years of experience as a scholar, writer and teacher of Canadian his ...Show more
A Concise History of Finland by David Kirby
72.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
Few countries in Europe have undergone such rapid social, political and economic changes as Finland has during the last fifty years. David Kirby here sets out the fascinating history of this northern country, for centuries on the east-west divide of Europe, a country not blessed by nature, most of whos ...Show more
A Concise History of Hungary by Miklos Molnar
76.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
This book offers a comprehensive thousand-year history of the land, people, society, culture and economy of Hungary, from its nebulous origins in the Ural Mountains to the 1988 elections. It tells above all the thrilling story of a people who became a great power in the region and then fought against--a ...Show more
A Concise History of New Zealand by Philippa Mein Smith
37.95 NZD
56.95 (33% off)
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Series: Cambridge Concise Histories | Reading Level: very good
New Zealand was the last major landmass, other than Antarctica, to be settled by humans. In this new account of New Zealand’s history, Philippa Mein Smith considers this rugged and dynamic land from its break from Gondwana 80 million years ago to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Mein Smith hig ...Show more
A Concise History of Switzerland by Clive H. Church
57.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
Despite its position at the heart of Europe and its quintessentially European nature, Switzerland's history is often overlooked within the English-speaking world. This comprehensive and engaging history of Switzerland traces the historical and cultural development of this fascinating but neglected Europ ...Show more
A Concise History of Wales by Geraint H. Jenkins
60.95 NZD
Category: History | Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
Based on the most recent historical research and current debates about Wales and Welshness, this volume offers the most up-to-date, authoritative and accessible account of the period from Neanderthal times to the opening of the Senedd, the new home of the National Assembly for Wales, in 2006. Within a r ...Show more
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