Strangers Arrive - Emigres and the Arts in New Zealand 1930-1980 by Leonard Bell
$82.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
From the 1930s through the 1950s, a substantial number of forced migrants - refugees from Nazism, displaced people after World War II and escapees from Communist countries - arrived in New Zealand from Europe. Among them were an extraordinary group of artists and writers, photographers and architects wh ...Show more
Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, and Real Cool Cats: Pulp Fiction and Youth Culture, 1950 to 1980 by Iain McIntyre, Andrew Nette
$59.95 AUD
Category: New Releases
Girl Gangs, Biker Boys and Real Cool Cats is the first comprehensive account of how the rise of postwar youth culture was depicted in mass-market pulp fiction. As the young created new styles in music, fashion and culture, pulp fiction shadowed their every move, hyping and exploiting their behaviour, d ...Show more
Margaret Pole by Susan Higginbotham
$38.95 AUD
Category: History
Of the many executions ordered by Henry VIII, surely the most horrifying was that of sixty-seven-year-old Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, hacked to pieces on the scaffold by a blundering headsman. From the start, Margaret's life had been marred by tragedy and violence: her father, George, Duke of ...Show more
Mirror of Venus by Ferris Iain
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
Though images of women were ubiquitous in the Roman world, these were seldom intended to be taken simply at face value. The importance of marriage, motherhood and political stability was often conveyed to the Roman people through carefully constructed representations of the women of the ruling house. My ...Show more
Desire Heresy Anne Boleyn: Adultery by Licence Amy
$74.95 AUD
Category: History
Anne Boleyn, the femme fatale whose unconventional beauty inspired poets, and so entranced Henry VIII with her wit, allure and style that he was prepared to set aside his wife of over twenty years and risk his immortal soul. Her sister had already been the king's mistress, but the other Boleyn girl was ...Show more
Forgotten History by Duducu Jem
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
Not all history is recorded in school textbooks or cast into towering monuments that shape city skylines. Quite often the most intriguing (and most bizarre) bits are forgotten and fall away into obscurity. In this fascinating book, Jem Duducu shines light on the almost forgotten, wonderfully strange, an ...Show more
Leyland Tractors by Whitlam Johnathan
$44.95 AUD
Category: History
Leyland Tractors explores the story of the Leyland tractor, beginning with the orange Nuffield tractor of 1948, which was to influence the development of Leyland tractors in many key ways. The focus then shifts to the period from 1969 to 1982, when the name Leyland was used on the bonnet of a range of b ...Show more
Myths & Monuments of Ancient Egypt by Gahlin Lucia
$35.95 AUD
Category: History
This two-volume survey of ancient Egypt explores all the main sites, temples and tombs, and investigates how mythology and religion underpinned this great civilization. The first book affords an intriguing insight into the state religion of the Egyptians, their gods, goddesses and deified rulers, and th ...Show more
Dried Flower Arranging by Moore Terence
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
Moving far beyond the standard dried-flower display, this book presents a veritable harvest of innovative ideas. From the simplest lavender- and rosebud-filled terracotta pot to breathtaking structures of lichen, leaves and twigs, there are projects here to suit both every taste and every level of abi ...Show more
Saints and Stirrers by Troughton Geoffrey
$43.95 AUD
Category: History
New Zealanders, while generally peaceable and tolerant people, have never shied away from war. Even in the current era, Anzac Day is a major event here, and the haka is one of our most recognisable cultural exports. But throughout New Zealand's history there have also been frequent efforts to oppose war ...Show more
Risking Their Lives: New Zealand Abortion Stories 1900-1939 by Sparrow Margaret
$43.95 AUD
Category: History
Risking Their Lives is the third book in a series recording the history of abortion in New Zealand. It fills the gap between Abortion Then and Now: New Zealand Abortion Stories from 1940 to 1980 and Rough on Women: Abortion in 19th-Century New Zealand. Abortion has always been a fraught political issue ...Show more
New Zealand Wars and the Victorian Interpretation of Racial Conflict by Belich James
$43.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Revealing the enormous tactical and military skill of Maori, and the inability of 'Victorian interpretation' to acknowledge those qualities, Belich's account of the New Zealand Wars offered a very different picture from the one previously given in historical works. Maori, in Belich's view, won the North ...Show more