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Churchill - The Statesman As Artist by David Cannadine
$55.00 NZD
Category: Art and Photography
Across almost 50 years, Winston Churchill produced more than 500 paintings. His subjects included his family homes at Blenheim and Chartwell, evocative coastal scenes on the French Riviera, and many sun-drenched depictions of Marrakesh in Morocco, as well as still life pictures and an extraordinarily re ...Show more
George V by David Cannadine
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Monarchs
For a man with such conventional tastes and views, George V had a revolutionary impact. Almost despite himself he marked a decisive break with his flamboyant predecessor Edward VII, inventing the modern monarchy, with its emphasis on frequent public appearances, family values and duty. George V was an e ...Show more
Mellon: An American Life by Professor David Cannadine
$80.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Bringing a towering, controversial figure to life, this landmark work by preeminent historian David Cannadine offers the first biography of Andrew Mellon, the American colossus who bestrode the worlds of industry, government, and philanthropy as no one had ever quite done before.
Ornamentalism - How the British saw their empire by David Cannadine
$27.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The British Empire has generally been seen as a racist empire. The British rulers were motivated not by race but by class - they loathed Indians or Africans no more or less than they loathed the great majority of Englishmen. This book is suitable for those wishing to understand how the British Empire re ...Show more
The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy (Revised edition 1992) by David Cannadine
$35.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
At the outset of the 1870s, the British aristocracy could rightly consider themselves the most fortunate people on earth: they held the lion's share of land, wealth and power in the world's greatest empire. By the end of the 1930s they had lost not only a generation of sons in the First World War, but a ...Show more
The Queen: 70 Glorious Years by David Cannadine
$55.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This official souvenir publication celebrates the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest-serving monarch. In February 2022, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will mark seventy years as monarch with a celebration known as the Platinum Jubilee. This official publication honors the Quee ...Show more
The Undivided Past: History Beyond Our Differences by David Cannadine
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
David Cannadine's impassioned, controversial plea for us to recognise the importance of both equality and history. Great works of history have so often had at their heart a wish to sift people in ways that have been profoundly damaging and provided intellectual justification for terrible political decis ...Show more
Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800-1906 by Mr David Cannadine
$75.00 NZD
Category: History
'This is stupendous. The British nineteenth century, in all its complexity, all its horror, all its energy, all its hopes is laid bare. This is the definitive history , and will remain so for generations' A.N. WilsonTo live in nineteenth-century Britain was to experience an astonishing series of changes ...Show more
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