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The Beginnings of Rome - Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars c.1000-264 BC by T J Cornell
$85.95 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Routledge History of the Ancient World | Reading Level: very good
The beginnings of Rome are now being revealed by an ever-increasing body of archaeological evidence, much of it unearthed since the 1970s. This new material has made it possible to trace the development of Rome from its beginnings as an Iron Age village to the major state which became a Mediterranean po ...Show more
The Colour of Time - A New History of the World, 1850-1960 by Marina Amaral; Dan Jones
$49.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: New History of the World 1850 - 1960 | Reading Level: very good
The top five Sunday Timesbestseller. 'Breathtaking'Daily Mail. 'Astonishing'Sun. 'Shimmering'Spectator. 'Extraordinary'Daily Telegraph. The Colour of Time spans more than a hundred years of world history from the reign of Queen Victoria and the US Civil War to the Cuban Missile Crisis and beginning of t ...Show more
The Fate of Rome by Kyle Harper
$39.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: The\Princeton History of the Ancient World Ser. | Reading Level: very good
How climate change and disease helped to bring down the Roman Empire Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first book to examine the catastrophic role that climate change and infectious diseases ...Show more
The Great Leveler : Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century' by Walter Scheidel
$88.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World | Reading Level: near fine
Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that inequality never dies peacefully. Inequality ...Show more
The Last Century 1900-2000 by John Farndon
$20.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: History of the World | Reading Level: Grade 04-06
Step back into our most recent past and see how the modern world arrived. The century 'took off' with the Wright Brothers' historic flight, then swing between two devastating world wars and people's revolutions around the globe. Discover how...the Russian Revolution overthrew the tsarsthe Cold War split ...Show more
The Origin of Empire Rome from the Republic to Hadrian (264 BC - AD 138) by David Potter
$27.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: The\Profile History of the Ancient World Ser.
Capturing the pivotal moment when Rome transformed from a republic to a world empire, spanning over three hundred action-packed years. In 264 BC, a Roman army was poised to cross from southern Italy into Sicily. They couldn't know that this crossing would be Rome's first step on its journey from local ...Show more
The Oxford Children's History of the World: the ancient world by Neil Grant
$25.95 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Oxford children's history of the world | Reading Level: 8+
Where were the first cities built? How was the Roman Empire created, and destroyed? This work answers these questions and is useful for children aged 8+. It is illustrated in colour. It contains a Timeline showing comparisons between the world's regions; and an illustrated Who's Who that highlights the ...Show more
The Oxford Children's History of the World: the early modern world by Neil Grant
$25.95 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Oxford children's history of the world | Reading Level: From 8 To 99
What was the Renaissance? How did Tudor monarchs make themselves powerful? How big was the Ottoman Empire? This work answers these questions and is useful for children aged 8+. Illustrated in colour, it contains a Timeline showing comparisons between the world's regions; and an illustrated Who's Who tha ...Show more
The Rise and Fall of American Growth The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War by Robert J. Gordon
$109.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, home appliances, motor vehicles, air travel, air conditioning, and television transformed households and w ...Show more
The Second World War: Closing the Ring: Volume V by Winston Churchill
$59.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: History of the Second World war
CLOSING THE RING covers the decisive 12 months between June 1943 and June 1944. Command of the seas had returned to Allied hands, the U-boats were mastered and the Luftwaffe beaten. These achievements made possible the 'closing of the ring' which was to extinguish Axis resistance and eventually end the ...Show more
The Second World War: Triumph and Tragedy: Volume VI by Winston Churchill
$59.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: History of the Second World war
Concluding Sir Winston Churchill's narrative of the Second World War, TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY spans the period from the D-Day landings of June 1944 to the surrender of all Allied enemies 14 months later. In this period, Nazi Germany was crushed, partitioned and occupied; Soviet Russia established herself in ...Show more
The Second World War: the Grand Alliance: Volume III by Winston Churchill
$59.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: History of the Second World war
Dealing with war on a giant scale, THE GRAND ALLIANCE focuses on events as Britain, after fighting a desperate battle alone, was joined in the struggle against the enemy by Soviet Russia and the United Sates. Hitler's invasion of Russia brought to an end a period of almost exactly a year during which Br ...Show more