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  • A Carved Cloak for Tahu

    A History of Ngai Tahu Matawhaiti

    by Mere Whaanga ...
    Oral histories, legends, and accounts of contemporary life of a New Zealand Maori tribe are presented in this cultural that includes colonial histories of the Native Land Court and traditional histories from the Northern Hawke's Bay. ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Baby Farmers

    A chilling tale of missing babies, shameful secrets and murder in 19th century Australia

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    The most common murder victim in 19th century Australia was a baby, and the most common perpetrator was a woman. Annie Cossins pieces together the fascinating story of the most infamous legal trial in Australia to reveal an underworld of struggling mothers, unwanted babies, and a society that preferred to turn a blind eye.'The book's power stems from its devastating details; Cossins establishes a ... Read more

    $10.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Valley

    A story from the heart of the land

    by Michael McKernan ...
    'I had two paddocks to look after,' said Les Gilpin, 'one of 1800 acres, one of 1000 acres. My job was to keep the rabbits down.' Les left school when he turned fourteen and went to work as a rabbiter, living in a corrugated iron hut, on a remote corner of a property. This was Australia in 1945. Les stuck it out at the Back Hut, as his little home was called, for six years. His voice is the ... Read more

    $13.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Australian Desperadoes

    The Incredible Story of How Australian Gangsters Terrorised California

    by Terry Smyth ...
    The Coves – San Francisco's first organised-crime gang – were Australians: men and women with criminal careers in Australia who had come to the US, mostly illegally, during the gold rush. The Coves had come not to dig for gold but to unleash a crime wave the likes of which America had never seen. Robbery, murder, arson and extortion were the Coves' stock-in-trade, and it was said that the leader ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD

  • Anthology

    by Ian Wishart ...
    Selected extracts from Ian Wishart books ... Read more

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  • Viet Cong and NVA Tunnels and Fortifications of the Vietnam War

    by Gordon L. Rottman ...
    Series Book 48 - Fortress
    During the Vietnam War, the Viet Cong (VC) main forces and North Vietnamese Army (NVA) were forced to hide weapons and supplies underground and to dig protective shelters to counter massive US firepower.Their field works defended villages, hidden base camps, and fortified complexes, and took the form of trench systems, individual fighting positions, crew-served weapon positions, bunkers, caches, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Conquest

    How Societies Overwhelm Others

    by David Day ...
    In this bold, sweeping book, David Day surveys the ways in which one nation or society has supplanted another, and then sought to justify its occupation - for example, the English in Australia and North America, the Normans in England, the Spanish in Mexico, the Japanese in Korea, the Chinese in Tibet. Human history has been marked by territorial aggression and expanion, an endless cycle of ... Read more

    $24.79 CAD

  • The First Migration

    Māori Origins 3000BC AD1450

    by Atholl Anderson ...
    Series series BWB Texts
    Thousands of years ago migrants from South China began the journey that took their descendants through the Pacific to the southernmost islands of Polynesia. Atholl Anderson’s ground-breaking synthesis of research and tradition charts this epic journey of New Zealand’s first human inhabitants.Taken from the multi-award-winning Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History this Text weaves together ... Read more

    $4.02 CAD

  • The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895

    Perceptions, Power, and Primacy

    by S. C. M. Paine ...
    The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895 is a seminal event in world history, yet it has been virtually ignored in Western literature. In the East, the focus of Chinese foreign policy has been to undo its results whereas the focus of Japanese foreign policy has been to confirm them. Japan supplanted China as the dominant regional power, disrupting the traditional power balance and fracturing the ... Read more

    $38.39 CAD

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  • The Indian Ocean

    by Michael Pearson ...
    Series series Seas in History
    In this stimulating and authoritative overview, Michael Pearson reverses the traditional angle of maritime history and looks from the sea to its shores - its impact on the land through trade, naval power, travel and scientific exploration. This vast ocean, both connecting and separating nations, has shaped many countries' cultures and ideologies through the movement of goods, people, ideas and ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • Ancient Religions of the Austronesian World

    From Australasia to Taiwan

    by Julian Baldick ...
    Series series International Library of Ethnicity, Identity and Culture
    Austronesia is the vast oceanic region which stretches from Madagascar to Taiwan to New Zealand. Encompassing both scattered archipelagos and major landmasses, Austronesia - derived from the Latin australis,'southern',and Greek nesos,'island' - is used primarily as a linguistic term, designating a family of languages spoken by peoples with a shared heritage. Julian Baldick, a celebrated historian ... Read more

    $183.99 CAD

  • China and Maritime Europe, 1500–1800

    Trade, Settlement, Diplomacy, and Missions

    by John E. Wills, Jr, John Cranmer-Byng, Willard J. Peterson, Jr, John W. Witek ...
    China and Maritime Europe, 1500–1800 looks at early modern China in some of its most complicated and intriguing relations with a world of increasing global interconnection. New World silver, Chinese tea, Jesuit astronomers at the Chinese court, and merchants and marauders of all kinds play important roles here. Although pieces of these stories have been told before, these chapters provide the ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD