The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance by Paul Strathern
29.99 NZD
Category: History
"A dazzling history of the modest family which rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe, The Medici is a remarkably modern story of power, money and ambition. Against the background of an age which saw the rebirth of ancient and classical learning - of humanism which penetrated and explored the ...Show more
The Pankhursts : The History of one Radical Family by Martin Pugh
25.00 NZD
33.00 (24% off)
Category: History
The suffragettes outraged Victorian society, yet behind the protests, arrests and hunger strikes, the personal lives of Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters were just as dramatic. Martin Pugh reveals the full story of this unique family: Emmeline, the domineering mother; Christabel, the favourite daught ...Show more
The American Future: A History from the Founding Fathers to Barack Obama by Simon Schama
33.00 NZD
Category: History
In November 2008, the United States elected a new President. But the collapse of twenty years of Republican conservativism means the country is already conducting an intense self-examination about the trajectory of its history; how it came to find itself in multiple crises and how an America that began ...Show more
Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang; Jon Halliday
30.00 NZD
Category: History
"Jung Chang's Wild Swanswas an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking biography of Mao Tse-tung. Based on a decade of research, ...Show more
The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession by Andrea Wulf
30.00 NZD
Category: History
One January morning in 1734, cloth merchant Peter Collinson hurried down to the docks at London's Custom House to collect cargo just arrived from John Bartram in the American colonies. But it was not bales of cotton that awaited him, but plants and seeds.Over the next forty years, Bartram would send hun ...Show more
Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed An Empire & Forged Our Age by Arthur Herman
33.00 NZD
Category: History
Mohandas Gandhi and Winston Churchill: India's moral leader and Great Britain's greatest Prime Minister. Born five years and seven thousand miles apart, they became embodiments of the nations they led. Both became living icons, idolized and admired around the world. Today, they remain enduring models of ...Show more
Our Times: The Age of Elizabeth II by A.N. Wilson
30.00 NZD
Category: History
When Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in 1953, many proclaimed the start of a new Elizabethan Age. Few had any inkling, however, of the stupendous changes that would take place over the next 50 years, in Britain and around the world. In "Our Times", A.N. Wilson takes the reader on an exhilarating journey ...Show more
After The Victorians - The World our Parents Knew by A. N. Wilson
35.00 NZD
Category: History
When this book begins, in the reign of Edward VII, Great Britain commands the mightiest empire the world has ever seen. By the time it ends, with the Coronation of Elizabeth II, Britain has emerged victorious from a world war, but ruined as a world power. How did Britain's power and influence decline? T ...Show more
Thames: Sacred River by Peter Ackroyd
48.00 NZD
Category: History
Just as Peter Ackroyd's bestselling London is the biography of the city, "Thames: Sacred River" is the biography of the river, from sea to source. Exploring its history from prehistoric times to the present day, the reader is drawn into an extraordinary world, learning about the fishes that swam in the ...Show more
Venice : Pure City by Peter Ackroyd
30.00 NZD
Category: History
In this sumptuous vision of Venice, Peter Ackroyd turns his unparalleled skill at evoking place from London and the River Thames, to Italy and the city of myth, mystery and beauty, set like a jewel in its glistening lagoon. His account is at once romantic and packed with facts, conjuring up the atmosphe ...Show more
London - The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
48.00 NZD
Category: History
Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of the city. For him it is an organism with its own laws of growth and change, so this book is a biography rather than a history. Ackroyd reveals the dozens of ways in w ...Show more
I Never Knew That About England by Christopher Winn
64.99 NZD
Category: History
This delightful guide to England, organised county by county, is now published in lavishly illustrated format. Alongside the charming black and white drawings of the original edition now sit gorgeous colour photographs of rolling hills, famous monuments and hidden treasures, plus quirky posters from a b ...Show more