A Little History of Religion by Richard Holloway
25.99 NZD
Category: World History | Series: Little Histories Ser.
In an era of hardening religious attitudes and explosive religious violence, this book offers a welcome antidote. Richard Holloway retells the entire history of religion - from the dawn of religious belief to the 21st century - with deepest respect and a keen commitment to accuracy. Writing for those w ...Show more
Scotland's Forgotten Past - A History of the Mislaid, Misplaced and Misunderstood by Alistair Moffat
21.99 NZD
Category: World History
A charming, lively and often amusing tour of 36 forgotten episodes and overlooked people and places of Scottish history.Scotland's history is full of famous kings, queens, saints and warriors. But what about its lesser-known places, people and events? In this collection of half-forgotten tales, Alistair ...Show more
An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Civilisation to Independence by Zeinab Badawi
40.00 NZD
Category: World History
Zeinab Badawi, award-winning broadcaster and President of SOAS, tells an epic story of the oldest inhabited continent in the world from an African perspective, for fans of William Dalrymple, David Olusoga and Peter Frankopan.*Selected as a book to look out for in 2024 by the Guardian* Everyone is origi ...Show more
Uncivilised: Ten Lies that Made the West by Subhadra Das
39.99 NZD
Category: World History
Some things are a given. The value of a good education. Time's progress. Death. Except most of the ideas that form Western Civilisation are just that - ideas. Taking cues from Greek philosophy and honed in the Enlightenment, certain notions about humanity and human society grew into the tenets we live b ...Show more
The Wager by David Grann
28.99 NZD
Category: World History
*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 BALLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION*'The beauty of The Wager unfurls like a great sail... one of the finest nonfiction books I've ever read' Guardian 'The greatest sea story ever told' Spectator'A cracking yarn... Grann's taste for desperate predicaments finds its fullest expre ...Show more
The Book Of Roads And Kingdoms by Richard Fidler
39.99 NZD
Category: World History
A lost imperial city, full of wonder and marvels. An empire that was the largest the world had ever seen, established with astonishing speed. A people obsessed with travel, knowledge and adventure. Winner of the Indie Book Awards 2023 Non Fiction Book of the Year Shortlisted for the BookPeople Non Fic ...Show more
Southeast Asia: An Introductory History by Milton Osborne
37.99 NZD
Category: World History
A lively and easy-to-read guide to Southeast Asian history written by one of the world's pre-eminent historians of the area. Southeast Asia: An introductory historywas first published in 1979 and immediately filled a need for travellers and students interested in one of the most dynamic and diverse regi ...Show more
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan: The Battle for Afghanistan by William Dalrymple
27.99 NZD
Category: World History
From William Dalrymple--award-winning historian, journalist and travel writer--a masterly retelling of what was perhaps the West's greatest imperial disaster in the East, and an important parable of neocolonial ambition, folly and hubris that has striking relevance to our own time.With access to newly d ...Show more
A Fever in the Heartland - The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan
95.00 NZD
Category: World History
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "With narrative elan, Egan gives us a riveting saga of how a predatory con man became one of the most powerful people in 1920s America, Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, with a plan to rule the country--and how a grisly murder of a woman brought him down. Compell ...Show more
Himalaya: Exploring the Roof of the World by John Keay
27.99 NZD
Category: World History
"Excellent ... packed with information and interesting anecdotes."--The Washington Post A groundbreaking new look at Himalaya and how climate change is re-casting one of the world's most unique geophysical, historical, environmental, and social regions. More rugged and elevated than any other zone on ea ...Show more
Smoke And Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh
37.99 NZD
Category: World History
When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels, The Ibis Trilogy, ten years ago, he was startled to find how the lives of the 19th century sailors and soldiers he wrote of were dictated not only by the currents of the Indian Ocean, but also by the precious commodity carried in e ...Show more