A Little History of the World by E. H. Gombrich
25.99 NZD
Category: World History | Series: Little Histories | Reading Level: very good
In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, twenty-six-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks, and Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser was published in Vienna to imme ...Show more
A Little History of Literature by John Sutherland
25.99 NZD
Category: World History | Series: Little Histories Ser.
This 'little history' takes on a very big subject: the glorious span of literature from Greek myth to graphic novels, from The Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter. John Sutherland is perfectly suited to the task. He has researched, taught, and written on virtually every area of literature, and his infecti ...Show more
Lost Realms: Histories of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings by Thomas Williams
28.99 NZD
Category: World History
'A beautiful, beautiful book . . . archaeology is changing so much about the way we view the so-called Dark Ages … [Williams] is just brilliant at bringing them to light' Rory Stewart on The Rest is Politics From the bestselling author of Viking Britain, a new epic history of our forgotten past. This is ...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
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by Bettany Hughes
38.00 NZD
Category: World History
Their names still echo down the ages: The Great Pyramid at Giza. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. The Temple of Artemis. The statue of Zeus at Olympia. The mausoleum of Halikarnassos. The Colossus at Rhodes. The Lighthouse of Alexandria. The Seven Wonders of the World were staggeringly audacious impositi ...Show more
Viking Britain - An Exploration by Thomas Williams
26.99 NZD
Category: World History
A new narrative history of the Viking Age, interwoven with exploration of the physical remains and landscapes that the Vikings fashioned and walked: their rune-stones and ship burials, settlements and battlefields. To many, the word 'Viking' brings to mind red scenes of rape and pillage, of marauders f ...Show more
Star Style: Interiors of Martyn Lawrence Bullard by Martyn Lawrence Bullard; Douglas Friedman (Photographer); Cher (Foreword by); Ellen Pompeo (Afterword by)
145.00 NZD
Category: World History
Martyn Lawrence Bullard, the designer to the stars, takes you inside celebrity homes in this new collection of sensational, eclectic interiors, with a foreword by CherMartyn Lawrence Bullard's broad-ranging, sophisticated yet eclectic style is sought the world over and has won him unrivaled acclaim amon ...Show more
Kings And Queens by Iain Dale
39.99 NZD
Category: World History
'We all know about Queen Victoria, Edward VIII and Queen Elizabeth II, but how much do we really know about other monarchs? Yes, we know William the Conqueror beat King Harold at the Battle of Hastings. We know George III was mad, but what else do we know about his 60 year long reign? We know Henry VIII ...Show more
Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern by Mary Beard
44.99 NZD
Category: World History | Series: The\A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts Ser.
What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book — against a background of today’s 'sculpture wars' — Mary Beard tells the story of how for more than two millennia portraits of the rich, powerful, and fam ...Show more
Empires of the Steppes: The Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilisation by Kenneth W. Harl
39.99 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: near fine
The barbarian nomads of the Eurasian steppes have played a decisive role in world history, but their achievements have gone largely unnoticed. These nomadic tribes have produced some of the world’s greatest conquerors: Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan and Tamerlane, among others. And, as Kenneth W. Harl ill ...Show more
The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China - A History of Conflict by Lawrence James
39.99 NZD
Category: World History
Napoleon warned 'Let China sleep; when she wakes, she will shake the world'. Lawrence James's magisterial history analyses the relationship between Britain and China between the beginning of the Opium Wars in 1839 and the transfer of power in Hong Kong in 1997.THE LION AND THE DRAGON reveals the part t ...Show more
A Small Town in Ukraine - The place we came from, the place we went back to by Bernard Wasserstein
40.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
The revelatory history of Krakowiec - 'a little place you've never heard of ' - through which we see life in Eastern Europe as never before.Decades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where his family originated- Krakowiec (Krah- ...Show more