The Great War For New Zealand - Waikato 1800-2000 by Vincent O'Malley
$80.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
A monumental new account of the defining conflict in New Zealand history. It was war in the Waikato in 1863-64 that shaped the nation in all kinds of ways: setting back Maori and Pakeha relations by several generations and allowing the government to begin to assert the kind of real control over the coun ...Show more
The Great Wrong War - New Zealand Society in WWI by Stevan Eldred-Grigg
$57.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: good-very good
For New Zealand, World War One was wholly avoidable, wholly unnecessary - and almost wholly disastrous. Stevan Eldred-Grigg believes that the enormous cost of the war to our people was way too high - and that we still feel its effects, both socially and culturally, today. This is excellent narrative non ...Show more
The Healthy Country? - A history of life & death in New Zealand by Alistair Woodward; Tony Blakely
$50.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: good-very good
In this book, Alistair Woodward and Tony Blakely tell the extraordinary story of life and death in Aotearoa New Zealand from first Maori settlement to the 21st century. Did Maori or Europeans live longer 1769? How did Pakeha New Zealanders become the healthiest, most long lived people on the face of the ...Show more
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee - Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Chapter after chapter, it's like one shattered myth after another." - NPR"An informed, moving and kaleidoscopic portrait... Treuer's powerful book suggests the need for soul-searching about the meanings of American history and the stories we tell ourselves about this na ...Show more
The History of Mt Eden - The District and its People by Helen Laurenson (ed.)
$60.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The History of Mount Eden: the district and its people brings together a fascinating record of the men and women, the places, stories and events that have helped to shape the suburb from the earliest pre-history of its distinctive geological formation until the present day. The importance of this fertil ...Show more
The Home Front - New Zealand Society and the War Effort 1914-1919 by James Watson
$60.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Chp Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
The Great War is now typically regarded as senseless and futile, but most New Zealanders at the time considered it to be a war to preserve security and freedoms, to punish an aggressive enemy and to win a better world. Yet the war years proved a tumultuous time, and bitterness and animosities ran alongs ...Show more
The Horse in New Zealand: Attitude & Heart by Carolyn Mincham
$60.00 NZD
Category: History
Horses hold a special place in the hearts and minds of many New Zealanders. through historical and contemporary detail and anecdote, and utilising a wide range of old and new photographs and images, Carolyn Mincham tells the captivating story of the horse in New Zealand. she explores the cultural signif ...Show more
The Infiltrators - The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis by Norman Ohler
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
'An astonishing story... brilliantly told' - Antony BeevorSummertime, 1935. On a lake near Berlin, a young man is out sailing when he glimpses a woman reclining in the prow of a passing boat. Their eyes meet - and one of history's greatest conspiracies is born.Harro Schulze-Boysen had already shed blood ...Show more
The Infinite Game - How to live well together by Niki Harre
$30.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
n The Infinite Game, Niki Harre asks us to imagine our world anew. What if we are all part of a different type of game entirely - a game in which playing matters more than winning, a game that anyone can join at any time, a game in which rules evolve as new players turn up - an infinite game? Harre look ...Show more
The Irish Difference - The Story of Ireland's 400-Year Journey to Independence by Fergal Tobin
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
A fascinating and entertaining investigation into what makes Ireland so different from its neighbors, by a respected Irish historian. For hundreds of years, the islands and their constituent tribes that make up the British Isles have lived next door to each other in a manner that, over time, sugges ...Show more
The Katherine Mansfield Cookbook by Edited by Nicola Saker
$20.00 NZD
Category: History
A compilation of recipes gathered from Mansfield’s letters, journals and diaries as well as other recipes relating to her life and friendships. It contains a confection of quotes of Mansfield’s and beautiful design by Roger Joyce.
The King Is Dead by Suzannah Lipscomb
$25.00 NZD
Category: History
On 28 January 1547, the sickly and obese King Henry VIII died at Whitehall. Just hours before his passing, his last will and testament had been read, stamped, and sealed. The will confirmed the line of succession as Edward, Mary, and Elizabeth; and, following them, the Grey and Suffolk families. It also ...Show more