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Making Peoples: A History of the New Zealanders From Polynesian by James Belich
47.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: Very Good
A new paperback reprint of this best-selling and ground-breaking history. When first published in 1996 Making Peoples was hailed as redefining New Zealand history. It was undoubtedly the most important work of New Zealand history since Keith Sinclair's classic A History of New Zealand. Making Peoples co ...Show more
New Zealand Wars and the Victorian Interpretation of Racial Conflict by Belich James
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ 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
Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Angloworld by James Belich
65.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: Very Good
second hand. Why does so much of the world speak English? Replenishing the Earth gives a new answer to that question, uncovering a 'settler revolution' that took place from the early nineteenth century that led to the explosive settlement of the American West and its forgotten twin, the British West, c ...Show more
The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe by James Belich
70.00 NZD
Category: History
A groundbreaking history of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the modern age. In 1346, a catastrophic plague beset Europe and its neighbours. The Black Death was a human tragedy that abruptly halved entire populations and caused untold suffering ...Show more
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