Aboriginal Sydney - a Guide to Important Places of the Past and Present by Melinda Hinkson
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
Despite its bustling urban presence, Sydney has a rich and complex Aboriginal heritage. Hidden within its burgeoning city landscape lie layers of a vibrant culture and a turbulent history. But you need to know where to look. Aboriginal Sydney supplies the information. The popular first edition establish ...Show more
Conscription Conflict & the Great War by Robin Archer
$29.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Australian History
While the Great War raged, Australians were twice asked to vote on the question of military conscription for overseas service. The recourse to popular referendum on such an issue at such a time was without precedent anywhere in the world. The campaigns precipitated mass mobilisation, bitter argument, a ...Show more
How to Plan a Crusade: Reason and Religious War in the Middle Ages by Christopher Tyerman
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
In this highly original and enjoyable book, Christopher Tyerman focuses on the massive, all-encompassing and hugely costly business of actually preparing a crusade. The efforts of many thousands of men and women, who left their lands and families in Western Europe, and marched off to a highly uncertain ...Show more
Pocket Museum: Ancient Greece by David Michael Smith
$27.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Pocket Museum
Pocket Museum: Ancient Greece presents more than 200 objects currently housed in public collections around the world that offer both context and immediacy to the rich culture of Ancient Greece. From the bifacial hand tools of the Lower Palaeolithic to the Hellenistic Great Altar of Pergamon, the artifac ...Show more
Private Lives, Public History by Anna Clark
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
The past is consumed on a grand scale: popularised by television programs, enjoyed by reading groups, walking groups, historical societies and heritage tours, and supported by unprecedented digital access to archival records. Yet our history has also become the subject of heated political debate. In Pri ...Show more
The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall by Mary Elise Sarotte
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
On the night of November 9, 1989, massive crowds surged toward the Berlin Wall, drawn by an announcement that caught the world by surprise: East Germans could now move freely to the West. The Wall--infamous symbol of divided Cold War Europe--seemed to be falling. But the opening of the gates that night ...Show more
The Unwritten Order - Hitler's Role in the Final Solution by Peter Longerich
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The Holocaust differs from other genocides in recent history for one main reason: there is no other example in which a minority was annihilated systematically and as completely as possible on the orders of a head of state and through the apparatus of government. To reconstruct Hitler's central role in t ...Show more
Catherine the Great : Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
A reconstruction of the 18th-century empress's life that includes coverage of such topics as her efforts to engage Russia in the cultural life of Europe, her creation of the Hermitage and her numerous scandal-free romantic affairs.
From Here to Eternity - Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller The best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with "dignity." Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for the dead. ...Show more
Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World by Tim Whitmarsh
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
How new is atheism? In Battling the Gods, Tim Whitmarsh journeys into the ancient Mediterranean to recover the stories of those who first refused the divinities. Long before the Enlightenment sowed the seeds of disbelief in a deeply Christian Europe, atheism was a matter of serious public debate in the ...Show more
Jungle Survival Pocket Manual 1944 by Ruth ED. SHEPPARD
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
The Jungle Survival Pocket Manual brings together the official manuals and information that enabled the Allies to fight in Burma, Malaya, Thailand, Indochina, Singapore and the Pacific Islands and win the war. During the Second World War, British and American soldiers were sent to new and challenging th ...Show more
History - Why it Matters by Lynn Hunt
$21.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Companions to Linguistics Series (CLNZ) Ser.
We justify our actions in the present through our understanding of the past. But we live in a time when politicians lie brazenly about historical facts and meddle with the content of history books, while media differ wildly in their reporting of the same event. Frequently, new discoveries force us to re ...Show more