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An epic, award-winning account of Pakeha-Maori relations immediately following Captain Cook's voyages to New Zealand.
'Vivid, convincing and utterly memorable.'
-Michael King, North & ...
This book describes ten different government archives of cuneiform tablets from Assyria, using them to analyze the social and economic character of the Middle Assyrian ...
Who are we? What is it about our species that sets us apart from every other living creature, past and present, on this planet? These ...
The first Westerner to meet Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Communist leaders in 1936, Edgar Snow came away with the first authorised account of Mao ...
Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, America had long been involved in a shadow war. Winston Churchill, England's beleaguered new Prime Minister, pleaded ...
A vivid, heartbreaking portrait of the fate that so many African countries suffered after independence.
The dictator who grew so rich on his country's ...
Who was Jesus
Historical sources portray a person who was complex, multi-layered, and often contradictory to the tidy portrait that much of modern Christianity paints ...
Where do you draw the line? In the context of geopolitics, much hinges on the answer to that question. For thousands of years, it has ...
A riveting account of the last eighteen months of Tsar Nicholas II's life and reign from one of our finest historians of Russia.
In ...
Selected as a Book of the Year by the New York Times, Times Literary Supplement and The Times. Despite his status as the most despised ...
Winner of the HWA Crown for Best Work of Historical Non-Fiction 2018
Times Book of the Year 2018
Less than forty years after the golden ...
What can be found in the Vatican's Secret Archive? How many books did Charles Darwin's library aboard the Beagle hold? Which library is ...
Joseph Stalin was a monster. He sacrificed his friends and allies in pursuit of power, murdered thousands with sadistic brutality to maintain it and callously ...