Battle Lines - Australian Artists at War by Scott Bevan
$15.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
From World War II to Vietnam and two Gulf Wars artists have shaped how we see war, immortalising soldiers and battles and influencing how we see ourselves as Australians. The war artist has opened our eyes and perceptions to historic events that would otherwise have been censored, distorted of forgotten ...Show more
Early Modern Europe - An Oxford History by Euan Cameron (Editor)
$18.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
This extensively illustrated book offers a new kind of introduction to Europe between 1500 and 1800. It considers the evolving economy and society - the basic facts of life for the majority of Europe's people. It shows how the religious and intellectual unity of western culture fragmented and dissolved ...Show more
Captain James Cook in Atlantic Canada - The Adventurer and Map Maker's Formative Years by Jerry Lockett
$25.00 NZD
Category: Naval | Reading Level: very good
The skills, knowledge and experience that took Captain James Cook to the South Seas and around the world seemed to come out of nowhere. In fact, as author Jerry Lockett has discovered, their foundation was laid during the time he spent in Atlantic Canada. His experiences on Canada's east coast and the n ...Show more
The Trojan War - A New History by Barry Strauss
$12.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Reading Level: good
Democracy - A Life by Paul Cartledge
$25.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Democracy is either aspired to as a goal or cherished as a birthright by billions of people throughout the world today - and has been for over a century. But what does it mean? And how has its meaning changed since it was first coined in ancient Greece? Democracy: A Life is a biography of the concept, l ...Show more
Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
$25.00 NZD
Category: Military | Series: Pivotal Moments in American History Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within sight of Philadelphia. Yet, as David Hackett Fischer recounts in this riveting history, George Washingto ...Show more
Field of Battle - The Civil War Letters of Major Thomas J. Halsey by Thomas J Halsey; Karen M. Kostyal
$15.00 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
Justinian's Flea - Plague, Empire and the Birth of Europe by William Rosen
$16.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
In the middle of the sixth century, the world's smallest organism collided with the world's mightiest empire. With the death of twenty-five million people, the Roman Empire, under her last great emperor, Justinian, was decimated. Before Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that carries bubonic plague, was fin ...Show more
Famous Men of Ancient Rome - Lives of Julius Caesar, Nero, Marcus Aurelius and Others by John H Haaren; A B Poland
$8.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Reading Level: very good
This captivating book offers young readers a memorable and meaningful introduction to the famous leaders and great men of ancient Rome. Its biographical sketches are chronologically arranged, from 753 B.C., the estimated founding of Rome, to A. D. 476, the fall of the Western Empire. Readers can compare ...Show more
Gender, Domesticity, and the Age of Augustus - Inventing Private Life by Kristina Milnor
$18.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Series: Oxford Studies in Classical Literature and Gender Theory Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The age of Augustus has long been recognized as a time when the Roman state put a new emphasis on "traditional" feminine domestic ideals, yet at the same time gave real public prominence to certain women in their roles as wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters. Kristina Milnor takes up a series of texts ...Show more
Rome's Cultural Revolution by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
$96.95 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Reading Level: very good
The period of Rome's imperial expansion, the late Republic and early Empire, saw transformations of its society, culture and identity. Drawing equally on archaeological and literary evidence, this book offers an original and provocative interpretation of these changes. Moving from recent debates about c ...Show more