Skip to main content
Search Button
Danmark Kobo butik Gavekort Hjælp
Kobo Rakuten
Ønskeliste

Indkøbskurv

Du får VIP-behandling!

Vare(r) ikke tilgængelig til køb
Gennemgå din indkøbskurv. Du kan fjerne de(n) tilgængelige vare(r) nu, ellers fjerner vi det automatisk ved kassen.
varervare
varervare

Anbefalet til dig

Loading...


Heritage Bogserier

1 - 12 af 12 resultater
Skip side bar filters

  • The Career of Arthur Hamilton Gordon

    First Lord Stanmore 1829-1912

    af J.K. Chapman ...
    Serier serie Heritage
    This close examination of Sir Arthur Gordon's six governorships (New Brunswick, Trinidad, Mauritius, Fiji, New Zealand, and Ceylon) and his administration of the Western Pacific High Commission should help fill the need for a more accurate assessment of the role of the colonial governor in the governing process than the paucity of biographies of these governors has previously made possible. It ... Læs mere

    387,61 kr.

Personer, der læser dette, syntes også om...

  • A Short History of Australia

    af Manning Clark ...
    *On 26 January the convict transports moved into their new home as a handful of Aborigines on the shore set up a horrid howl and indicated by angry gestures with sticks and stones that the white man was not wanted.*More than a decade after his death, Manning Clark remains Australia's most eminent and controversial historian. A Short History of Australia, considered by many to be his greatest work, ... Læs mere

    149,36 kr.

  • The Great Irish Potato Famine

    af James S Donnelly Jr ...
    In the century before the great famine of the late 1840s, the Irish people, and the poor especially, became increasingly dependent on the potato for their food. So when potato blight struck, causing the tubers to rot in the ground, they suffered a grievous loss. Thus began a catastrophe in which approximately one million people lost their lives and many more left Ireland for North America, ... Læs mere

    187,38 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • William Wilberforce

    The Life of the Great Anti-Slave Trade Campaigner (Text Only)

    af William Hague ...
    William Hague has written the life of William Wilberforce who was both a staunch conservative and a tireless campaigner against the slave trade.Hague shows how Wilberforce, after his agonising conversion to evangelical Christianity, was able to lead a powerful tide of opinion, as MP for Hull, against the slave trade, a process which was to take up to half a century to be fully realised. Indeed, he ... Læs mere

    112,76 kr.

  • William Pitt the Younger

    A Biography

    af William Hague ...
    The award-winning biography of William Pitt the Younger by William Hague, the youngest leader of the Tory Party since Pitt himself.William Pitt the Younger was one of the most extraordinary figures in British history. Prime minister at the age of twenty-four, he went on to dominate British politics for two decades, presiding over such complex and treacherous national crises as the madness of King ... Læs mere

    153,32 kr.

  • A Short History of New Zealand

    af Gordon McLauchlan ...
    A new edition of the bestselling short history on New Zealand, updated to include the Helen Clark years, the rise of John Key, the Christchurch earthquakes and the 2011 Rugby World Cup! A lively and accessible history written by one of New Zealands most well-known commentators on matters past and present. Succinct and well referenced, this book is the most accessible introduction to New Zealand ... Læs mere

    78,52 kr.

  • The Great War for New Zealand

    Waikato 18002000

    af Vincent O'Malley ...
    A monumental new account of the defining conflict in New Zealand history. It was war in the Waikato in 186364 that shaped the nation in all kinds of ways: setting back Māori and Pākehā relations by several generations and allowing the government to begin to assert the kind of real control over the country that had eluded it since 1840.Spanning nearly two centuries from first contact through to ... Læs mere

    76,16 kr.

  • Western Australia: A History

    From its Discovery to the Inauguration of the Commonwealth

    af J.S. Battye ...
    WESTERN AUSTRALIA: Comes with an Active Table of Contents.    This history is full of vivid details of the hard life of the first explorers and pioneers.    It covers the period from 1600 to 1901. It has all the makings of an adventure story with epic shipping voyages, politics, starvation, searches for water and minerals, convicts, and hard work.  In most countries, the story of the European ... Læs mere

    17,88 kr.

  • The Making of Modern Ireland 1603-1923

    af J.C. Beckett ...
    'Technically this book is a masterly achievement: the collection, sorting, selecting and balancing of material has meant an immense amount of hard and highly skilful work. The presentation is not only learned but cool, objective, unimpassioned and yet almost always alive and compassionate as well . . . As a reference book alone it is immensely valuable . . . As an example of a humane, scholarly, ... Læs mere

    156,25 kr.

  • The Treaty of Waitangi

    af Claudia Orange ...
    Since its publication in 1987, Claudia Orange’s book has become the standard guide to one of the key documents in New Zealand history, selling over 40,000 copies.The complexities of the Treaty, which have done so much to shape New Zealand history for nearly 200 years, are thoughtfully explored as Orange examines the meanings the document has held for Māori and Pākehā.A new introduction brings it ... Læs mere

    76,16 kr.

  • The East India Company 1784 - 1834

    af C. H. Philips ...
    Originally published in 1940, this '.is the first detailed study and appraisal of the relations between the Court of Directors and the Board of Control during the fifty formative years after Pitt set up this government office to direct and control the Company's Indian administration. it was an extremely intricate system of dual government with checks and balances and interlocking factions and ... Læs mere

    81,25 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Adventurers And Exiles: The Great Scottish Exodus

    The Great Scottish Exodus

    af Margery Harper, Dr Marjory Harper ...
    'The Scots have always been a restless people', says leading Scottish historian Marjory Harper 'but in the nineteenth century their restlessness exploded into a sustained surge of emigration that carried Scotland almost to the top of a European league table of emigrant exporting countries.' This is the first book to provide a comprehensive account of that 'Great Exodus'. In many ways it challenges ... Læs mere

    84,99 kr.