The Golden Country: Australia's Changing Identity by Tim Watts
$33.00 AUD
Category: Political | Series: Australia's Changing Identity
John Howard was the unlikely reformer of Australian society. He loosened migration laws, massively boosting the population and making it less white. Simultaneously, his divisive rhetoric about national identity--a legacy of White Australia--hamstrung discussion of these huge changes. As the MP for a div ...Show more
The Secret World: A History of Intelligence by Christopher Andrew
$27.00 AUD
Category: History
'Almost every page includes a sizzling historical titbit ... captivating, insightful and masterly' (Edward Lucas, The Times) The history of espionage is far older than any of today's intelligence agencies, yet the long history of intelligence operations has been largely forgotten. The first mention of ...Show more
Japan Story: In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present by Christopher Harding
$25.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Japan Story is a fascinating, surprising account of Japan's culture, from the 'opening up' of the country in the mid 19th century to the present, through the eyes of people who always had their doubts about modernity - who greeted it not with the confidence and grasping ambition of Japan's familiar mode ...Show more
The Responsible Globalist: What Citizens of the World Can Learn From Nationalism, The by Hassan Damluji; Anon
$40.00 AUD
Category: History
Today, globalism has a bad reputation. 'Citizens of the world' are depicted as recklessly uninterested in how international economic networks can affect local communities. Meanwhile, nationalists are often derided as racists and bigots. But what if the two were not so far apart? What could globalists le ...Show more
Pills, Powder, and Smoke: Inside the bloody war on drugs by Antony Loewenstein
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
The War on Drugs has been official American policy since the 1970s, with the UK, Europe, and much of the world following suit. It is at best a failed policy, according to bestselling author Antony Loewenstein. Its direct results have included mass incarceration in the US, extreme violence in different p ...Show more
You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians Who Won the Vote and Inspired the World by Clare Wright
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Democracy Trilogy Ser.
For the ten years from 1902, when Australia's suffrage campaigners won the vote for white women, the world looked to this trailblazing young democracy for inspiration. Clare Wright's epic new history tells the story of that victory--and of Australia's role in the subsequent international struggle--throu ...Show more
A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle by Julian Jackson
$27.00 AUD
Category: History
Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize for History A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, SPECTATOR, FINANCIAL TIMES, TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Masterly ... awesome reading ... an outstanding biography' Max Hastings, Sunday Times In six weeks in the early summer of 1940, France was over-run by ...Show more
Islamic Empires: Fifteen Cities that Define a Civilisation by Justin Marozzi
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
Islamic civilization was once the envy of the world. From a succession of glittering, cosmopolitan capitals, Islamic empires lorded it over the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia and swathes of the Indian subcontinent, while Europe cowered feebly at the margins. For centuries the caliphate was both ...Show more
The Unsettling of Europe: The Great Migration, 1945 to the present by Peter Gatrell
$70.00 AUD
Category: History
A striking characteristic of modern Europe has been the extreme fluidity of its populations. Whether through war, state policy or a spontaneous personal decision, millions of people have been on the move. Whether trying to escape danger or to find a better life, whether moving from the countryside to th ...Show more
Hitler - Only the World Was Enough by Brendan Simms
$65.00 AUD
Category: History
A revelatory new biography of Adolf Hitler from the acclaimed historian Brendan Simms Adolf Hitler is one of the most studied men in history, and yet the most important things we think we know about him are wrong. As Brendan Simms's major new biography shows, Hitler's main preoccupation was not, as wid ...Show more
Small Island: 12 Maps That Explain the History of Britain by Philip Parker
$40.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: New History of Britain Ser.
A fascinating analysis of a dozen maps from critical points in British history over the last two thousand years, from the Celtic period when 'Britain' was just a patchwork of tribal kingdoms, to a century ago when the whole of Ireland, India, Australia, much of Africa, Asia and the Americas were marked ...Show more
How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Ece Temelkuran
$28.00 AUD
Category: History
An urgent call to action from one of Europe's most well-regarded political thinkers. How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship is a field guide to spotting the insidious patterns and mechanisms of the populist wave sweeping the globe - before it's too late. `It couldn't happen he ...Show more