The Art of Philosophy: Visual Thinking in Europe from the Renaissance to the Early Enlightenment by susanna berger
117.00 AUD
Category: History
Delving into the intersections between artistic images and philosophical knowledge in Europe from the late sixteenth to the early eighteenth centuries, The Art of Philosophy shows that the making and study of visual art functioned as important methods of philosophical thinking and instruction. From fro ...Show more
The Mongols and the Islamic World: From Conquest to Conversion by Professor Peter Jackson
66.00 AUD
Category: History
An epic historical consideration of the Mongol conquest of Western Asia and the spread of Islam during the years of non-Muslim rule The Mongol conquest of the Islamic world began in the early thirteenth century when Genghis Khan and his warriors overran Central Asia and devastated much of Iran. Distingu ...Show more
All the Kremlin's Men by Mikhail Zygar
39.99 AUD
Category: History
"Charting the transformation of Vladimir Putin from a passionate fan of the West and a liberal reformer into a hurt and introverted outcast, All the Kremlin's Men is a historical detective story, full of intrigue and conspiracy. This is the story of the political battles that have taken place in the cou ...Show more
Kokoda: That Bloody Track by Hugh Dolan
9.95 AUD
Category: History
The battles along the Kokoda Track were a shared misery for all who took part. For Australian men and women who were shipped to Port Moresby it was the last line of defence before the Australian mainland was invaded by an implacable and faceless enemy. Helped by the local men of the New Guinea highlands ...Show more
Twilight of History by Shlomo Sand
39.99 AUD
Category: History
Drawing on his four decades as a professional historian, Shlomo Sand interrogates the academic discipline of history, whose origin lay in the need for a national ideology. In the last few decades, traditional history has begun to fragment, yet only to give rise to a new role of historians as priests of ...Show more
Hedge Britannia: A Curious History of a British Obsession by Hugh Barker
19.99 AUD
Category: History
Hedge enthusiast Hugh Barker journeyed across Britain to explore its remarkable variety of gardens and hedgerows. He discovered how hedges are among our most ancient monuments, met hedge laying champions and topiary fanatics, and saw the lengths to which some people will go just to annoy the neighbo ...Show more
City on a Grid - How New York Became New York by Gerard Koeppel
24.99 AUD
Category: History
"The best account to date of [how] an odd amalgamation of democracy and capitalism got written into New York's physical DNA."--New York Times "Intriguing...breezy and highly readable." --Wall Street Journal "[An] expert investigation into what made the city special."--Publishers Weekly "A fun, fascinati ...Show more
The Traitors: A True Story of Blood, Betrayal and Deceit by Josh Ireland
32.99 AUD
Category: History
'An epic tale of love, dishonour, bravery, cowardice, betrayal and high-treason. Beautifully written. A stunning debut' Damien Lewis Playboy. Fascist. Strongman. Thief. Traitors. September 1939. For years now Britain has been rudderless, divided and grievously unequal. Successive governments have flound ...Show more
Egypt: Lost Civilizations by Christina Riggs
37.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Lost civilizations
From ancient Rome to the present day, ancient Egypt has been a source of fascin--ation and inspiration in many other cultures. But why? Christina Riggs introduces the history, art and religion of Egypt from its earliest dynasties to its final fall to Rome - and explores the influence ancient Egypt has h ...Show more
Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation by Peter Marshall
69.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
A sumptuously written people's history and a major retelling and reinterpretation of the story of the English Reformation Centuries on, what the Reformation was and what it accomplished remain deeply contentious. Peter Marshall's sweeping new history-the first major overview for general readers in a gen ...Show more
Quartered Safe Out Here by George MacDonald Fraser
20.99 AUD
Category: History
'There is no doubt that [Quartered Safe Out Here] is one of the great personal memoirs of the Second World War' John Keegan Life and death in Nine Section, a small group of hard-bitten and (to modern eyes) possibly eccentric Cumbrian borderers with whom the author, then nineteen, served in the last grea ...Show more
Cold War Games by Harry Blutstein
32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
Cold War Games shows vividly how the USSR and US exploited the Melbourne Olympic Games for propaganda, turning athletic fields, swimming pools and other sporting venues into battlefields in which each fought for supremacy.The 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games have become known as the 'friendly games', but Ea ...Show more