Instructions for American Servicemen in Australia 1942 by THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS
$14.95 AUD
Category: History
Ochre And Rust - Artefacts and Encounters on Australian Frontiers by Philip Jones
$49.95 AUD
Category: History
Takes Aboriginal and colonial artefacts from their museum shelves, and traces their stories, revealing charge and nuanced moments of encounter in Australia's frontier history. Special Price A$24.00 valid 01/09/08-13/10/08 ALIA Conference 08
Elizabeth's Spymaster - Francis Walsingham and the Secret War That Saved England by Robert Hutchinson
$23.00 AUD
Category: History
Francis Walsingham was the first 'spymaster' in the modern sense. His methods anticipated those of MI5 and MI6 and even those of the KGB. He maintained a network of spies across Europe, including double-agents at the highest level in Rome and Spain - the sworn enemies of Queen Elizabeth and her Protesta ...Show more
Captain Cook by John Gascoigne
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
Dop June 2008, UK 304pp Captain James Cook was a supreme navigator and explorer. Gascoigne details what happened in Cook's voyages when he came across peoples with hugely different systems of thought, belief and culture.Born in North Yorkshire in 1728, when Cook entered the world of the peoples of the S ...Show more
The Assault on Reason: How the Politics of Blind Faith Subvert Wise Decision-Making by Al Gore
$32.95 AUD
Category: History
At the time George W. Bush ordered American forces to invade Iraq, 70 per cent of Americans believed Saddam Hussein was linked to 9/11. Voters in Ohio, when asked by pollsters to list what stuck in their minds about the campaign, most frequently named two Bush television ads that played to fears of terr ...Show more
The Middle Sea : A History of the Mediterranean by John Julius Norwich
$28.00 AUD
Category: History
The Mediterranean has nurtured three of the most dazzling civilisations of antiquity, witnessed the birth or growth of three of our greatest religions and links three of the world's six continents. To the peoples living around its periphery, it has served at various times as a cradle and a grave, a bond ...Show more
The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 by William Dalrymple
$30.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Vintage
In this evocative study of the fall of the Mughal Empire and the beginning of the Raj, award-winning historian William Dalrymple uses previously undiscovered sources to investigate a pivotal moment in history. The last Mughal emperor, Zafar, came to the throne when the political power of the Mughals was ...Show more
Inventing Human Rights: A History by Lynn Hunt
$22.95 AUD
Category: Political
Human rights is a concept that only came to the forefront during the eighteenth century. When the American Declaration of Independence declared "all men are created equal" and the French proclaimed the Declaration of the Rights of Man, they were bringing a new guarantee into the world. Professor Lynn Hu ...Show more
A Short History of the Twentieth Century by Geoffrey Blainey
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
Takes us on an incredible global journey through a tempestuous hundred years and brings to vivid life many of the events that marked the 20th century: two world wars, the rise and fall of communist states, the worst economic slump, the decline of European monarchies ane empires, the ascent of the first ...Show more
Paris: The Secret History by Andrew Hussey
$25.00 AUD
Category: History
Paris is the city of light and the city of darkness - a place of ceaseless revolution and reinvention that for two thousand years has drawn those with the highest ideals and the lowest morals to its teeming streets. In Andrew Hussey's wonderful book we encounter the myriad citizens whose stories have sh ...Show more
Somme: The Heroism and Horror of War by Martin Gilbert
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
The Battle of the Somme, fought between July and November 1916, was among the bloodiest conflicts of all time. The aim was to end the stalemate on the Western Front - the result was carnage. In a total of just over a hundred days of fighting, the death toll reached 310,459. Half the bodies were never ...Show more
The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by Antony Beevor
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
The civil war that tore Spain apart between 1936 and 1939 and attracted liberals and socialists from across the world to support the cause against Franco was one of the most hard-fought and bitterest conflicts of the 20th century: a war of atrocities and political genocide and a military testing ground ...Show more