London and the Seventeenth Century - The Making of the World's Greatest City by Margarette Lincoln
$51.95 AUD
Category: European
The first comprehensive history of seventeenth-century London, told through the lives of those who experienced it The Gunpowder Plot, the Civil Wars, Charles I's execution, the Plague, the Great Fire, the Restoration, and then the Glorious Revolution: the seventeenth century was one of the most momentou ...Show more
The Fall of Robespierre - 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris by Colin Jones
$56.95 AUD
Category: European
The day of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. At 12.00 midnight, Maximilien Robespierre, the most prominent member of the Committee of Public Safety which had for more than a year directed the Reign of Terror, was plan ...Show more
The Spectre of War: International Communism and the Origins of World War II by Jonathan Haslam
$55.00 AUD
Category: European | Series: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics Ser.
A bold new history showing that the fear of Communism was a major factor in the outbreak of World War II The Spectre of War looks at a subject we thought we knew—the roots of the Second World War—and upends our assumptions with a masterful new interpretation. Looking beyond traditional explanations base ...Show more
Norse America - The Story of a Founding Myth by Gordon Campbell
$45.00 AUD
Category: American
The story of the Vikings in North America as both fact and fiction, from the westward expansion of the Norse across the North Atlantic in the tenth and eleventh centuries to the myths and fabrications about their presence there that have developed in recent centuries. Tracking the saga of the Norse acro ...Show more
Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War by Howard W. French
$57.95 AUD
Category: History
In a sweeping narrative that traverses 600 years, one that eloquently weaves precise historical detail with poignant personal reportage, Pulitzer Prize finalist Howard W. French retells the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the economic ascendancy of Europe, the anchoring of democ ...Show more
Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad by Michela Wrong
$32.00 AUD
Category: Political
Synopsis coming soon.......
Modi's India - Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy by Christophe Jaffrelot; Cynthia Schoch (Translator)
$63.00 AUD
Category: Political
A riveting account of how a popularly elected leader has steered the world's largest democracy toward authoritarianism and intolerance Over the past two decades, thanks to Narendra Modi, Hindu nationalism has been coupled with a form of national-populism that has ensured its success at the polls, first ...Show more
The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy and the Displacement of American Power by Rush Doshi
$50.00 AUD
Category: Political | Series: Bridging the Gap Ser.
For more than a century, no US adversary or coalition of adversaries - not Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, or the Soviet Union - has ever reached sixty percent of US GDP. China is the sole exception, and it is fast emerging into a global superpower that could rival, if not eclipse, the UnitedStates. What ...Show more
Devil-Land: England Under Siege, 1588-1688 by Clare Jackson
$75.00 AUD
Category: British
A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR'A big historical advance. Ours, it turns out, is a very un-insular "Island Story". And its 17th-century chapter will never look quite the same again' John Adamson, Sunday TimesA ground-breaking portrait of the most turbulent century in English historyAmong foreign observ ...Show more
The Age of Unpeace - How Globalisation Sows the Seeds of Conflict by Mark Leonard
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
In the three decades since the end of the Cold War, global leaders have been integrating the world's economy, transport and communications, breaking down borders in the hope that it would make war impossible. In doing so, they have unwittingly created a formidable arsenal of weapons for new kinds of con ...Show more
The Resilient Society by Markus Brunnermeier
$50.00 AUD
Category: Political
People in a resilient society are able to bounce back from shocks, such as pandemics and economic crises. The Resilient Society, by Princeton University economist Markus Brunnermeier, describes how individuals, institutions, and nations can successfully navigate a dynamic, globalized economy filled with ...Show more