The Rise and Fall of Athens by Plutarch
$32.50 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Folio Society edition of selected Plutarch biographies of eight eminent Athenians from Solon to Lysander, translated with an introduction and commentary by Ian Scott-Kilvert.
The Fabrication of Aboriginal History: Volume One: Van Diemen's Land 1803-1847 by Keith Windschuttle
$150.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Autographed. First published in 2002, this is reprinted with corrections and revisions 2005. This is the first volume in a series that re-appraises the now widely accepted story about conflict between colonists and Aborigines in Australian history. Beginning in Tasmania, and eventually cove ...Show more
The Revolution : The Great Crisis of the English Monarchy 1685-1720 by Tim Harris
$18.50 NZD
Category: World History
Secondhand. To an extraordinary extent everyone in Britain still lives under the shadow of the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688. It was a massive, brutal and terrifying event, which completely changed the governments of England, Scotland and Ireland and which was only achieved through overwhelming violenc ...Show more
Return Via Rangoon by Philip Stibbe
$50.00 NZD
Category: World Military History
Philip Stibbe's moving account of training and fighting beyond the Chindwin in the Burmese jungle behind Japanese lines in 1943 has the strongest claim to be a classic. He describes the first Chindit expedition, led by Orde Wingate, Bernard Fergusson and Mike Calvert, then his capture; every Chindit agr ...Show more
Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022 by Frank Trentmann
$95.00 NZD
Category: World History
A startling new history of the people at the centre of Europe, from the Second World War to todayIn 1945, Germany lay in ruins, morally and materially. The German people stood condemned by history, responsible for a horrifying genocide and a war of extermination. But by 2015 Germany looked to many to be ...Show more
The Machine Age: An Idea, a History, a Warning by Robert Skidelsky
$65.00 NZD
Category: World History
A sweeping history of humanity's relationship with machines, showing how we got here and what happens next Faith in technological fixes for our problems is waning. Automation, which promised relief from toil, has reactivated the long-standing fear of job redundancy. Information technology, meant to lib ...Show more
Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History by Roy & Lesley Adkins
$35.00 NZD
Category: World History
Secondhand. For over three and a half years, from 1779 to 1783, the tiny territory of Gibraltar was besieged and blockaded, on land and at sea, by the overwhelming forces of Spain and France. It became the longest siege in British history, and the obsession with saving Gibraltar was blamed for the loss ...Show more
The Louvre: The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum by James Gardner
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History
Secondhand. A meticulously crafted, sparkling history of the legendary museum in Paris. Almost nine million people from all over the world flock to the Louvre in Paris every year to see its incomparable art collection. Yet few, if any, are aware of the remarkable history of that location and of the bu ...Show more
George III: America's Last King by Jeremy Black
$21.50 NZD
Category: World History | Series: English Monarchs Ser.
Secondhand. The first full new study of George III in thirty years The sixty-year reign of George III (1760-1820) witnessed and participated in some of the most critical events of modern world history: the ending of the Seven Years' War with France, the American War of Independence, the French Revo ...Show more
Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the Twenty-First Century by Orville Schell
$19.50 NZD
Category: World History
Secondhand. By now everyone knows the basic facts of China s rise to pre-eminence over the past three decades. But how did this erstwhile sleeping giant finally manage to arrive at its current phase of dynamic growth? How, after such a long and painful period of dynastic decline, intellectual upheaval ...Show more