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Making Peoples - A History of the New Zealanders from Polynesian Settlement to the End of the Nineteenth Century by James Belich
$42.50 NZD
Category: NZ Social & Cultural History | Reading Level: very good
This volume, the first in a two-volume work, looks at the history of New Zealand covering the period from the Polynesian settlement to the end of the 19th century.
Making Peoples: A History of the New Zealanders to 1900 by James Belich
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Social & Cultural History | Reading Level: very good
Award winning account of late 18th century New Zealand colonial clash of cultures. Along with its companion volume Paradise Reforged, this book has been hailed as redefining New Zealand history. It is undoubtedly the most important work of New Zealand history since Keith Sinclair's classic The History o ...Show more
Paradise Reforged - A History of the New Zealanders from the 1880s to the year 2000 by James Belich
$60.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
This book is the companion to James Belich's acclaimed Making Peoples, which was hailed as a turning point in the writing of New Zealand history. Paradise Reforged picks up where Making Peoples left off, taking the story of the New Zealanders from the 1880s to the end of the twentieth century. It begins ...Show more
The New Zealand Wars and The Victorian Interpretation of Racial Conflict by James Belich
$20.00 NZD
Category: General NZ Military 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
The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe by James Belich
$69.99 NZD
Category: World 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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