Elizabeth. The Exhibition at the National Maritime Museum by David Starkey
$30.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
With contributions from experts on Tudor history, this catalogue focuses on Elizabeth's court, her relationship with the City of London, the importance of Elizabeth's maritime adventurers, burgeoning maritime enterprise and the beginnings of an overseas empire.
Illustrated London by Peter Ackroyd
$25.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
A magnificent pictorial history of London, to tie in with Peter Ackroyd's TV series (BBC) based on his bestselling London: A BiographyLavish, large format picture book about London, with Peter Ackroyd's inimitable text and captions. Divided into three parts:Fire and Destiny London as metropolis; maps an ...Show more
Tartans by Brian Wilton
$20.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
Worn by everyone from rock stars to the Royal Family, tartan is an internationally recognised fabric and symbol of Scottishness. Now, in this comprehensive, fascinating and beautifully illustrated book, Brian Wilton traces tartan back to its roots, looking at how and where the various clan tartans began ...Show more
The Victorian Vision: Inventing New Britain by John M MacKenzie (ed.)
$25.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
The Victorians were a people of visions. Their visions were partly inspired by the immense social problems they inherited from their predecessors and, additionally, created for themselves. They were also influenced by the intellectual ferment of their age; by the political turmoil of Europe; by the tech ...Show more
Home Front. The Best of Good Housekeeping 1939-1945 by Braithwaite
$14.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
Africa: A Companion to the PBS Series by JOHN READER
$30.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Combines photography and text to capture the diverse landscapes, wildlife, and peoples of Africa, from the Sahara of northern Africa to the Southern Veld, from Kilimanjaro to the Niger River.
Oxford Encyclopedia of World History
$20.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
With over 4,000 entries, arranged in a clear A-Z format, Encyclopedia of World History provides an unparalleled breadth and depth of information on events, figures, and concepts from prehistory right up to the present day. From the megaliths and menhirs at Carnac and the mound-builders of the Mississipp ...Show more
Transatlantic Slavery - Against Human Dignity by Anthony Tibble (Editor)
$16.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Accompanying the opening of Transatlantic Slavery: Against Human Dignity, a new gallery at Merseyside Maritime Museum, this volume describes the objects in the gallery and includes essays by curators and staff. Topics discussed include women in slavery and the rise of Atlantic empires.
A Promise to Remember - The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors by Michael Berenbaum
$16.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
A PROMISE TO REMEMBER is a concise and accessible history of the Holocaust presented in an interactive format that includes graphics, detailed sidebars, an audio CD and removable facsimiles of documents from the period. Michael Berenbaum, bestselling author and former director of the US Holocaust Memori ...Show more
Histories of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina by William Byrd
$12.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
A masterpiece of American prose and history, here is an early 18th-century account of surveying expedition. Official, printed account by Byrd on facing pages with private manuscript of secret-history, telling scandals, bawdy exploits of commissioners among Indians, settlers. Map, reproduction of manuscr ...Show more
Unmeltable Ethnics - Politics and Culture in American Life by Michael Novak (Introduction by)
$15.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
This new, enlarged edition of an influential book--originally published in 1972 as The Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnics--extends the author's wise and generous view of ethnicity. Its aim "is to raise consciousness about a crucial part of the American experience: to involve each reader in self-inquiry. Who ...Show more