Illustrated History of New Zealand (expanded 3rd edition) by Matthew Wright
$59.95 AUD
Category: History
In this third, revised and expanded edition of Illustrated History, noted historian Matthew Wright brings New Zealand's turbulent and exciting past to life, tracing our journey from the arrival of Polynesians to discovery by Europe, exploring New Zealand's dramatic colonial past, the impacts of the worl ...Show more
Kiwis on Harleys by Lockyer, George
$54.95 AUD
Category: History
Get your motor running, head out on the highway and join author George Lockyer as he once again travels the length and breadth of our beautiful islands. This time he tracks down and interviews 27 Harley-Davidson enthusiasts from all walks of life. In his relaxed style, he attempts to find out the reason ...Show more
Why the Industrial Revolution Happened in Britain by University of Jeremy (Professor of History Black
$68.95 AUD
Category: History
Britain's key importance in world history was a product of its constitution and its empire, but both, in turn, were sustained and supported by Britain's role in achieving the first Industrial Revolution. In part this was a matter of coal and steam but far more was involved. Alongside the 'push' factors ...Show more
Auckland - The Twentieth-Century Story by Paul Moon
$49.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: good-very good
Auckland: The Twentieth-Century Story journeys through the mosaic of cultures and lifestyles, anxieties and hopes, disasters and triumphs, virtues and vices that led to the transformation of New Zealand's largest city between 1900 and 2000.
Blood & Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand by Jared Davidson
$54.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: 1st
'Picture, for a minute, every artwork of colonial New Zealand you can think of. Now add a chain gang. Hard labour men guarded by other men with guns. Men moving heavy metal. Men picking at the earth. Over and over again. This was the reality of nineteenth-century New Zealand.' Forced labour haunts the ...Show more
Secret History: State Surveillance in New Zealand 1900 -1958 by Richard S. Hill; Steven Loveridge
$87.95 AUD
Category: History
The first volume in a history of spies and spying in New Zealand.In 1900, a handful of New Zealand police detectives watched out for spies, seditionists and others who might pose a threat to state and society. The Police Force remained the primary instrument of such human intelligence in New Zealand unt ...Show more
Pharaoh's Treasure, The: The Origins of Paper and the Rise of Western Civilization by John Gaudet
$34.95 AUD
Category: History
For our entire history, humans have always searched for new ways to share information. This innate compulsion led to the origin of writing on the rock walls of caves and coffin lids or carving on tablets. But it was with the advent of papyrus paper when the ability to record and transmit information exp ...Show more
Widows of the Ice - The Women That Scott's Antarctic Expedition Left Behind by Anne Fletcher
$32.95 AUD
Category: History
As Captain Scott lay freezing and starving to death on his return journey from the South Pole, he wrote with a stub of pencil his final words: 'For God's sake look after our people.' Uppermost in his mind were the three women who would now be widows: Kathleen, his own bohemian artist wife; Oriana, the d ...Show more
Fishing the Tongariro by Grant Henderson
$59.95 AUD
Category: History
Since the 1900s the fly fisher’s mecca that is the Tongariro River has lured people from all over the world to cast a line on its wide waters. Author Grant Henderson tells the river’s angling story – tracing the rise of the Tongariro River’s popularity as a fishing destination, the creation of the trout ...Show more
The Illustrated Witness to World War II - A History of the Greatest Conflict the World Has Known with Eyewitness Accounts by Karen Farrington
$35.95 AUD
Category: History
The Second World War was the most immense human conflict the world has ever known. This is a comprehensive account of the history of the Second World War, with expert commentary on its political and economic causes.
Illustrated History of Kings and Queens of Britain - A Visual Encyclopedia of Every King and Queen of Britain, from Saxon Times Through the Tudors and Stuarts to Today by Charles Phillips
$44.95 AUD
Category: History
The most comprehensive visual encyclopedia of every king and queen of Britain, from Saxon times through the Tudors and Stuarts to today. In this beautifully illustrated and fully updated edition, Charles Phillips charts the complete history of the royal families of Britain. Beginning in the earliest tim ...Show more
Squatters Grab, The by Wal Walker
$36.95 AUD
Category: History
Millions of Australians who will vote in the upcoming referendum have little knowledge of the history of our relations with the traditional owners. In 1968, Bill Stanner, in his Boyer Lecture, questioned the great australian silence, the cult of forgetfulness practiced on a national scale. Fifty-fi ...Show more