Ten Caesars - Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine by Barry Strauss
29.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Bestselling classical historian Barry Strauss delivers "an exceptionally accessible history of the Roman Empire...much of Ten Caesars reads like a script for Game of Thrones" (The Wall Street Journal)--a summation of three and a half centuries of the Roman Empire as seen through the lives of ten of the ...Show more
A House Through Time - TV Tie-In by David Olusoga; Melanie Backe-Hansen
44.99 AUD
Category: History
A tie-in to the acclaimed BBC television series.In recent years house histories have become the new frontier of popular, participatory history. People, many of whom have already embarked upon that great adventure of genealogical research, and who have encountered their ancestors in the archives and unco ...Show more
Maoism: A Global History by Julia Lovell
24.99 AUD
Category: History
"Revelatory and instructive . . . [a] beautifully written and accessible book" --The Times (London). For decades, the West has dismissed Maoism as an outdated historical and political phenomenon. Since the 1980s, China seems to have abandoned the utopian turmoil of Mao's revolution in favour of authorit ...Show more
War for Eternity - The Rise of the Far Right and the Return of Traditionalism by Benjamin Teitelbaum
39.99 AUD
Category: History
Steve Bannon in the United States. Olavo de Carvalho in Brazil. Aleksandr Dugin in Russia. Gabor Vona in Hungary. All rising to power in the past decade. All affiliated with an obscure philosophical movement called Traditionalism. Since the early 20th century, Traditionalism has defined itself against m ...Show more
The French Revolution, 1789-1799 by Peter McPhee
46.95 AUD
Category: History
This book provides a succinct yet up-to-date and challenging approach to the French Revolution of 1789-1799 and its consequences. Peter McPhee provides an accessible and reliable overview and one which deliberately introduces students to central debates among historians. The book has two main aims. One ...Show more
More: The 10,000-Year Rise of the World Economy by Philip Coggan
34.99 AUD
Category: History
More tracks the development of the world economy, starting with the first obsidian blades that made their way from what is now Turkey to the Iran-Iraq border 7000 years before Christ, and ending with the Sino-American trade war that we are in right now. Taking history in great strides, More illustrates ...Show more
And in the Vienna Woods the Trees Remain - The Heartbreaking True Story of a Family Torn Apart by War by Elisabeth Åsbrink; Saskia Vogel (Translator)
47.99 AUD
Category: History
Winner of the August Prize, the story of the complicated long-distance relationship between a Jewish child and his forlorn Viennese parents after he was sent to Sweden in 1939, and the unexpected friendship the boy developed with the future founder of IKEA, a Nazi activist.Otto Ullmann, a Jewish boy, wa ...Show more
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library by Edward Wilson-Lee
24.99 AUD
Category: History
The fascinating history of Christopher Columbus's illegitimate son Hernando, guardian of his father's flame, courtier, bibliophile and catalogue supreme, whose travels took him to the heart of 16th-century Europe' Honor Clerk, Spectator, Books of the Year This is the scarcely believable - and wholly tru ...Show more
Victors' Justice - From Nuremberg to Baghdad by Danilo Zolo; M. W. Weir (Translator)
29.99 AUD
Category: History
Victors' Justice is a potent and articulate polemic against the manipulation of international penal law by the West, combining historical detail, juridical precision and philosophical analysis. Zolo's key thesis is that contemporary international law functions as a two-track system- a made-to-measure la ...Show more
The British Are Coming: the War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson
27.99 AUD
Category: History
‘To say that Atkinson can tell a story is like saying Sinatra can sing … A powerful new voice has been added to the dialogue about [America's] origins as a people and a nation. It is difficult to imagine any reader putting this beguiling book down without a smile and a tear.' New York Times In June 1773 ...Show more
All Against All The Winter Of 1933 by Paul Jankowski
49.99 AUD
Category: History
During a single winter, between November 1932 and April 1933, so much went wrong: Hitler came to power; Japan invaded Jehol and left the league of Nations; Mussolini looked towards Africa; Roosevelt was elected; France changed governments three times; and the victors of 1918 fell out acrimoniously over ...Show more
The Awful Truth: My Adventures with Australia's Most Notorious Tabloid by Adrian Tame
32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
Before Fake News, there was the real Fake News. There was Truth. Hailed as 'a fearless exposer of folly, vice and crime' when it first hit the streets in the 1890s, Truth was later condemned by a High Court Judge as 'a wretched little paper, reeking of filth, injurious to the health of house servants a ...Show more