Hawaii under Army Rule - The real story of three years of martial law in a loyal American territory by J. Garner Anthony
$15.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good
The Ilse - First-Generation Korean Immigrants in Hawaii, 1903-1973 by Wayne Patterson
$20.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Series: Hawai'i Studies on Korea Ser. | Reading Level: very good
On January 13, 1903, the first Korean immigrants arrived in Hawai'i. Numbering a little more than a hundred individuals, this group represented the initial wave of organized Korean immigration to Hawai'i. Over the next two and a half years, nearly 7,500 Koreans would make the long journey eastward acros ...Show more
Smoothing the Ground - Essays on the Native American Oral Literature by Brian Swann (Editor)
$16.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: good-very good
Conquistadors by Michael Wood
$16.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
Following in the footsteps of the greatest Spanish adventurers, Michael Wood retraces the path of the conquistadors from Amazonia to Lake Titicaca, and from the deserts of North Mexico to the heights of Machu Picchu. As he travels the same routes as Hern
The Civil War - An Illustrated History by Geoffrey C. Ward; Ric Burns; Ken Burns
$16.00 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: good
The companion volume to the celebrated PBS television series, with a new preface to mark its twenty-fifth anniversary With more than 500 illustrations: rare Civil War photographs--many never before published--as well as paintings, lithographs, and maps reproduced in full color It was the greatest war in ...Show more
General Washington's Christmas Farewell - A Mount Vernon Homecoming 1783 by Stanley Weintraub
$12.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
One of America's greatest Christmas stories and also one of its very first -- from the period between the end of the Revolutionary War and the ratification of the Constitution -- was a creation of none other than George Washington. The story isn't just about Washington coming home for Christmas for the ...Show more
All Too Human - A Political Education by George Stephanopoulos
$14.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
All Too Human is a new-generation political memoir, written from the refreshing perspective of one who got his hands on the levers of awesome power at an early age. At thirty, the author was at Bill Clinton's side during the presidential campaign of 1992, & for the next five years he was rarely more ...Show more
Arctic Explorations - The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search f John Franklin 1853, 54,55 by Elisha Kent Kane; Chauncey Loomis (ed.); Contance Martin (ed.)
$15.00 NZD
Category: America | Series: The Lakeside Classics #94 | Reading Level: near fine
My Life East and West by William S Hart; Martin Ridge (ed.)
$15.00 NZD
Category: America | Series: The Lakeside Classics #92 | Reading Level: near fine
From Mexican Days to the Goldrush - Memoirs of James Wilson Marshall and Edward Gould Buffum Who Grew Up with California by Doyce B. Nunis (ed.)
$15.00 NZD
Category: America | Series: The Lakeside Classics #91 | Reading Level: near fine
Indian Women of Early Mexico by Susan Schroeder; Robert Haskett; Stephanie Wood
$16.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
This volume counters the stereotype that Indian women are without history. Neither silent nor invisible, women of early Mexico were active participants in society and critically influenced the direction history would take. This collection of essays by leading scholars in Mexican ethnohistory, edited by ...Show more
Kitchen Culture in America - Popular Representations of Food, Gender, and Race by Sherrie A. Inness (Editor)
$14.00 NZD
Category: Food | Reading Level: very good
How advertising and product packaging have kept women in the kitchen.