Midnight's Borders by Vijayan, Suchitra
$60.00 NZD
Category: History
The first true people's history of modern India, told through a seven-year, 9,000-mile journey along its many contested borders Sharing borders with six countries and spanning a geography that extends from Pakistan to Myanmar, India is the world's largest democracy and second most populous country. It i ...Show more
Stalin - Passage to Revolution by Ronald Grigor Suny
$70.00 NZD
Category: History
A spellbinding new biography of Stalin in his formative years This is the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin from his birth to the October Revolution of 1917, a panoramic and often chilling account of how an impoverished, idealistic youth from the provinces of tsarist Russia was transformed into a c ...Show more
Wanderers: A History of Women Walking by Kerri Andrews
$35.00 NZD
Category: History
This is a book about ten women over the past three hundred years who have found walking essential to their sense of themselves, as people and as writers. Wanderers traces their footsteps, from eighteenth-century parson's daughter Elizabeth Carter--who desired nothing more than to be taken for a vagab ...Show more
The Emperor's Feast by Jonathan Clements
$38.00 NZD
Category: History
From the humble takeaway in the middle of a tiny English village to the embarrassment of riches offered in a big-city Chinatown, Chinese food is everywhere to be found. But the meals on offer merely scratch the surface of a rich and dizzyingly varied culinary tradition, spread across 5,000 years of hist ...Show more
Memento Mori - What the Romans Can Tell Us about Old Age and Death by Peter Jones
$26.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Classic Civilisations
In this revealing and entertaining guide to how the Romans confronted their own mortality, Peter Jones shows us that all the problems associated with old age and death that so transfix us today were already dealt with by our ancient ancestors 2,000 years ago. Romans inhabited a world where people, knowi ...Show more
King and Emperor - A New Life of Charlemagne by Janet L. Nelson
$32.00 NZD
Category: History
Charles, king of the Franks, is one of the most remarkable figures ever to rule a European super-state. That is why he is so often called 'Charles the Great'- by the French 'Charlemagne', and by the Germans 'Karl der Grosse'. His strength of character was felt to be remarkable from early in his long rei ...Show more
Singapore - A Modern History by Michael D. Barr; Carl A. Trocki (Foreword by)
$41.00 NZD
Category: History
Singapore gained independence in 1965, a city-state in a world of nation-states. Yet its long and complex history reaches much farther back. Blending modernity and tradition, ideologies and ethnicities, a peculiar set of factors make Singapore what it is today. In this thematic study of the island natio ...Show more
The Merchant of Prato : Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City by Iris Origo
$30.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In 1870 an astonishing cache, containing some 150,000 letters and great numbers of business documents, came to light. Iris Origo drew on this material to paint, in detail, a picture of Italian domestic life on the eve of the Renaissance. Francesco di Marco Datini, the 14th-century Tuscan merchant who fo ...Show more
Partition Voices - Untold British Stories by Kavita Puri
$25.00 NZD
Category: History
'The most humane account of partition I've read ... We need a candid conversation about our past and this is an essential starting point' Nikesh Shukla, Observer' The book that opened my eyes more than anything else. Seminal work, beautifully told' Emily Maitlis The division of the Indian subcontinent ...Show more
The Brothers York: An English Tragedy by Thomas Penn
$26.00 NZD
Category: History
SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 BY THE GUARDIAN, DAILY MAIL, SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE 'A gripping, complex and sensational story, told with calm narrative command ... With insight and skill, Penn cuts through the thickets of history to find the heart of these heartless ...Show more
Himalaya: A Human History by Ed Douglas
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
For many years, the unique and astonishing geography of the Himalaya has attracted those in search of spiritual and literal elevation: pilgrims, adventurers, and mountaineers seeking to test themselves among the world's most spectacular and challenging peaks. But far from being wild and barren, the Him ...Show more
The Mistress of Paris: The 19th-Century Courtesan Who Built an Empire on a Secret by Catherine Hewitt
$24.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Valtesse de la Bigne
Valtesse de la Bigne was a celebrated nineteenth-century Parisian courtesan. She was painted by Manet and inspired Emile Zola, who immortalised her in his scandalous novel Nana. Her rumoured affairs with Napoleon III and the future Edward VII kept gossip columns full. But her glamourous existence hid a ...Show more