Europe East and West by Norman Davies
$50.00 AUD
Category: History
Collected here for the first time are some of the numerous essays and lectures by Norman Davies, author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed "Europe, The Isles and Rising '44." Spanning more than fifteen years of his remarkable career, this highly accessible collection addresses many of the issue ...Show more
My Israel Question by Antony Loewenstein
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
The undeclared war in the Middle East is the abiding conflict of our era, with little apparent hope of resolution despite years of peace talks. On one side of the conflict, in the face of suicide bombings and international criticism over its military aggression, Israel asserts the right of the Jewish st ...Show more
Advance Australia...Where? by Hugh Mackay
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
"What will the next generation of children be like? Why have we lost interest in politics? Why are our houses getting bigger while our households are shrinking? How serious is the surge of interest in 'values' and 'spirituality'? Is multiculturalism dead? Has our egalitarian ideal collapsed under the we ...Show more
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