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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 & ...
Incisive, humorous and heartbreaking oral histories of people living in formerly Communist countries holding fast to their former lives, from one of Poland's finest ...
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 ...
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 ...
The classic explanation of the craft of history and the vital worth of historians to civilization
In this volume, English historian Richard Evans offers a ...
An examination of some of the best and most influential calls of all time.
The Greatest Decisions...Ever! gathers together some of the most important ...
Many extraordinary female scientists, doctors, and engineers tasted independence and responsibility for the first time during the First World War. How did this happen? Patricia ...
UNDER THE KNIFE, surgeon Arnold Van de Laar uses his own experience and expertise to tell the witty history of the past, present and future ...
Geography is getting stranger. Out there fleets of new islands are under construction and eye-wateringly insane micro-nations are struggling into the light; unseen rivers are ...
Beneath Another Sky is Norman Davies's account of a global circumnavigation, of the places he visited and the history he found there, from Abu ...
What is a university? What is the University? How have universities evolved over the centuries? How might they change over the coming decades as the ...
In The Butchering Art, historian Lindsey Fitzharris recreates a critical turning point in the history of medicine, when Joseph Lister transformed surgery from a brutal ...
Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton's ...
In our modern day and age, when satellite imagery and GPS services like Google Maps, offer strikingly accurate images of the world, we can easily ...
Imagine performing surgery on a patient without anaesthetic, administering medicine that could kill or cure. Welcome to the world of the surgeon-apothecary... During the eighteenth ...
