Communities of Women - Historical Perspectives by Barbara Brookes (ed.); Dorothy Page (ed.)
$15.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The sense of belonging to a community is fundamental, but it is not tied to a locality; it exists in the mind. Communities can be vast -empires, nations, a huge religious community -or small isolated groups. What distinguishes them is the style in which they are imagined. This book explores communities ...Show more
Art of the Florida Seminole and Miccosukee Indians by Dorothy Downs
$16.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
"A superbly readable piece of cultural history. . . . Downs proves that graphics and narrative can be intertwined in an entertaining and informative historical presentation. . . . Delightful and intellectually enriching."--Southern Historian "Excellent. . . . Well-documented with both historical and an ...Show more
The Invention of Tradition by Eric Hobsbawm (ed.); Terence Ranger (ed.)
$12.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Past and Present Publications | Reading Level: very good
e most stimulating history book which has come my way this year? History Today
World Order - Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History by Henry Kissinger
$12.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
In World Order, Henry Kissinger - one of the leading practitioners of world diplomacy and author of On China - makes his monumental investigation into the 'tectonic plates' of global history and state relations. World Order is the summation of Henry Kissinger's thinking about history, strategy and state ...Show more
Beyond the Pale - White Women, Racism and History by Vron Ware
$14.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Questions for Feminism | Reading Level: good-very good
A pioneering study of the political connections between black and white women which dissects the different meanings of femininity and womanhood and fries to overcome the moralism that so often infuses anti-racism.
Weaving Identities - Construction of Dress and Self in a Highland Guatemala Town by Carol Hendrickson
$14.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
Traje, the brightly colored traditional dress of the highland Maya, is the principal visual expression of indigenous identity in Guatemala today. Whether worn in beauty pageants, made for religious celebrations, or sold in tourist markets, traje is more than "mere cloth"--it plays an active role in the ...Show more
Decolonizing Methodologies - Research and Indigenous Peoples by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
$20.00 NZD
Category: Maori | Reading Level: very good
This essential volume explores intersections of imperialism and research – specifically, the ways in which imperialism is embedded in disciplines of knowledge and tradition as 'regimes of truth'. Concepts such as 'discovery' and 'claiming' are discussed and an argument presented that the decolonisation ...Show more
Quicksands - Foundational histories in Australia and Aotearos New Zealand by Klaus Neumann (ed.); Nicholas Thomas (ed.); Hilary Ericksen (ed.)
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: good-very good
Locomotives of Australia 1850s-2007 by Leon Oberg
$25.00 NZD
Category: railway | Reading Level: very good
The first edition of this book appeared as a 272 page work three decades ago, its main aim being to provide a potted examination of the multiplicity of steam, diesel and electric locomotives that have graced this country from 1854. Since this first humble appearance, the book has grown in content, photo ...Show more
Jenny Diski - The Sixties by Jenny Diski
$12.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
This is Jenny Diski at her essayistic best in a highly personal and entertaining exploration of the twentieth century's most colourful decade. Many books have been written on the Sixties: tributes to music and fashion, sex, drugs and revolution. In "The Sixties", Jenny Diski breaks the mould, wryly dism ...Show more