Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power by Leah Redmond Chang
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and Mary, Queen of Scots - three queens exercising power in a world dominated by men. Sixteenth-century Europe - Renaissance masters paint the ceilings of Florentine churches, kings battle for control of the C ...Show more
Jerusalem: The Biography A History of the Middle East by Simon Sebag Montefiore
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
The story of Jerusalem is the story of the world. Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today's clash of civilisations. How did this small, remote town become the Holy City, the 'centre of the world ...Show more
The Passion of Private White by Don Watson
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
From the bestselling author of The Bush, the highly acclaimed story of a fifty-year relationship between a Vietnam veteran and an isolated clan in north-east Arnhem Land – a unique window into Australia’s deep past and precarious present, by one of our master storytellers. ‘How to sum up this story? It’ ...Show more
What Is History For? by Robert Gildea
$19.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: What Is It For? Ser.
"History", suggests Robert Gildea, "is a battlefield." Questions of power, rights, identity and nationhood always have an ancient and modern historical dimension and countries still go to war over their interpretation of history. Yet accounts of history are just as prone to fabrication as fake news, so ...Show more
Bad Gays: A Homosexual History by Huw Lemmey; Ben Miller
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
An unconventional history of homosexuality. We all remember Oscar Wilde, but who speaks for Bosie? What about those 'bad gays' whose unexemplary lives reveal more than we might expect? Many popular histories seek to establish homosexual heroes, pioneers, and martyrs but, as Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller ...Show more
Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind by Tom Holland
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
Christianity is the most enduring and influential legacy of the ancient world, and its emergence the single most transformative development in Western history. Even the increasing number in the West today who have abandoned the faith of their forebears, and dismiss all religion as pointless superstition ...Show more
Telling: Stories of Resilience from Nairm Marr Djambana by Nairm Marr Djambana Aboriginal Corporation
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
‘Our Songlines continue through our lived experiences. The strength, resilience, hope and love is heard and felt deeply within each of these stories. Our Elders share their culture and wisdom through their knowledge. We are forever grateful.’ — Kutcha Edwards The 12 short life stories in Telling are gr ...Show more
Battles that Changed History by DK
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
A visual journey through more than 3,000 years of combat, revisiting some of the biggest battles in historyFrom the fury of the Punic Wars to the onslaught of Operation Desert Storm, relive the most famous battles in history in this gripping guide.This military history book takes you on a journey throug ...Show more
The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: Sunday Times * Irish Times * Spectator * Financial Times * Telegraph * Aspects of History 'The history book you need if you want to understand modern Russia' ANNE APPLEBAUM'A magnificent, magisterial thousand year history of Russia . . . by one of the masters of Russian sch ...Show more
Embroidering Her Truth: Mary, Queen of Scots and the Language of Power by Clare Hunter
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
I felt that Mary was there, pulling at my sleeve, willing me to appreciate the artistry, wanting me to understand the dazzle of the material world that shaped her. At her execution Mary, Queen of Scots wore red. Widely known as the colour of strength and passion, it was in fact worn by Mary as the Cath ...Show more
24 Hours in Ancient Egypt: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There by Donald P. Ryan
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: 24 Hours in Ancient History Ser.
Spend 24 hours with the inhabitants of the most powerful kingdom in the ancient world.Ancient Egypt wasn't all pyramids, sphinxes and gold sarcophagi. For your average Egyptian, life was tough, and work was hard, conducted under the burning gaze of the sun god Ra.During the course of a day in the ancien ...Show more
Chess and Other Games Pieces from Islamic Lands by Deborah Freeman Fahid
$85.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Al-Sabah Collection/Dar Al-Athar Al-Islamiyyah Ser.
Among the many treasures of The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait, are hundreds of games pieces dating from the seventh to the nineteenth century CE. Intricately crafted in a rich variety of materials, including ivory, wood, ceramic, glass, jade, and agate, these tiny objects not only mark the evolution of fa ...Show more