Earthly Delights: A History of the Renaissance by Jonathan Jones
$65.00 NZD
Category: World History
This imaginative reframing of the Renaissance presents its history asthat of connections across Europe, where artists from the north andsouth were products of the brilliantly fertile mix of classical inspiration, observation, and self-consciousness that set European culture alight from the fifteenth to ...Show more
Empires of the Steppes: The Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilisation by Kenneth W. Harl
$39.99 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: near fine
The barbarian nomads of the Eurasian steppes have played a decisive role in world history, but their achievements have gone largely unnoticed. These nomadic tribes have produced some of the world’s greatest conquerors: Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan and Tamerlane, among others. And, as Kenneth W. Harl ill ...Show more
Endeavour: The ship and the attitude that changed the world by Peter Moore
$38.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: good-very good
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR' Christopher Hart, Sunday Times An inventive biography of one of the most famous ships of all time - an alluring combination of history, adventure and science The Enlightenment was an age of endeavours. Britain was consumed by the impulse for grand p ...Show more
Europe: The First 100 Million Years by Tim Flannery
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History
It is hard to overstate just how unusual Europe was towards the end of the age of the dinosaurs. It was a dynamic island arc whose individual landmasses were made up of diverse geological types, including ancient continental fragments, raised segments of oceanic crust, and land newly minted by volcanic ...Show more
Fake History - 101 Things That Never Happened by Jo Teeuwisse
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History
A funny, revealing, myth-busting guide to all the history you thought happened but never actually did, from historical expert Jo Teeuwisse. Fake news about the past is fake history. Did Hugo Boss design the Nazi uniforms? Did Vikings have horns on their helmets? Did Napoleon shoot the nose off the Sphi ...Show more
Feckin' History of Ireland - For Anyone Who Hasn't Been Paying Attention for the Last 30,000 Years by Colin Murphy; Donal O'Dea
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History | Series: The\Feckin' Collection
Here is everything you ever wanted to know about Irish history but were afraid to ask.
Femina - A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It by Janina Ramirez
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: near fine
'Part of the terror is to take back our own listening, to use our own voice, to see our own light.' The middle ages are seen as a bloodthirsty time of Vikings, saints and kings: a patriarchal society which oppressed and excluded women. But when we dig a little deeper into the truth, we can see that the ...Show more
Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World by Philip Matyszak
$45.00 NZD
Category: World History
An overview of the lost peoples and cultures who flourished and fought for survival alongside the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. Beyond the Greeks, Romans and Hebrews of the Classical and Biblical eras, a rich diversity of peoples helped lay the foundations of the modern world. Philip Matyszak brings to ...Show more
Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation by Roderick Beaton
$37.00 NZD
Category: World History
A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR We think we know ancient Greece, the civilisation that shares the same name and gave us just about everything that defines 'western' culture today, in the arts, sciences, social sciences and politics. Yet, as Greece has been brought under repeated scrutiny during the f ...Show more
History Year by Year: The Ultimate Visual Guide to the Events that Shaped the World by DK
$74.99 NZD
Category: World History
Discover the world's most significant events through a detailed, dynamic, book-long timeline of over 7 million years.When did Hannibal cross the Alps? What caused the war of Jenkins' Ear? Who was Rosa Parks? How did the Arab Spring unfold? Discover history's most decisive moments as and when they happen ...Show more
I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country by Elena Kostyuchenko
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History
Blending personal memoir with frontline reportage, this is an intimate and fearless portrait of contemporary Russia by one of Russia's most prominent independent journalists An unprecedented and intimate portrait of Russia, and fearless cri de coeur for journalism in opposition to the global authoritari ...Show more
I Used to Know That: History by Emma Marriott
$16.99 NZD
Category: World History | Series: I Used to Know That Ser.
If your response to a mention of the Wars of the Roses, the Sumerians or the Reformation is, 'Hmm, I've heard of that - what was that again?', then this is the book for you. This entertaining yet informative book travels back through time to fill in those embarrassing gaps in your knowledge, from the in ...Show more