War Horses: Hoof Prints in Time by Jill Mather
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
This remarkable but true collection has been gleaned from a large variety of World War 1 sources. It records the role animals played in environments which were completely alien to them. For all the animals that served us so well, only a handful left their mark in history.
Gay Sydney: A History by Garry Wotherspoon
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
In this vivid book Wotherspoon traces the shifts that have occurred since then, including majority support for marriage equality and anti-discrimination legislation. He also ponders the parallel evaporation of a distinctly gay sensibility and the disappearance of once-packed gay bars that have now beco ...Show more
Empire of Things by Frank Trentmann
$69.99 AUD
Category: History
What we consume has become the defining feature of our lives: our economies live or die by spending, we are treated more as consumers than workers, and even public services are presented to us as products in a supermarket. In this monumental study, acclaimed historian Frank Trentmann unfolds the extraor ...Show more
Democracy - A Life by Paul Cartledge
$40.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Democracy is either aspired to as a goal or cherished as a birthright by billions of people throughout the world today - and has been for over a century. But what does it mean? And how has its meaning changed since it was first coined in ancient Greece? Democracy: A Life is a biography of the concept, l ...Show more
Abraham Lincoln (Pocket Giants) by Adam I. P. Smith
$17.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Pocket Giants
The President who 'freed' the slaves and held the Union together in the face of the slaveholding South's bid to create a separate Confederacy. The teller of ribald stories, and the author of the most sublime speeches in the English language. A clever, complex, secretive man who rose from frontier obscur ...Show more
Liberty or Death: The French Revolution by Peter McPhee
$57.95 AUD
Category: History
The French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed, and inspired for more than two centuries. It was a seismic event that radically transformed France and launched shock waves across the world. In this provocative new history, Peter McPhee draws on a lifetime's study of eighteenth-century France and Europe ...Show more
Rise of Islamic State ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution by Patrick Cockburn
$21.99 AUD
Category: History
Out of the failures of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring and Syria, a new threat emerges. While Al Qaeda is weakened, new jihadi movements, especially ISIS, are starting to emerge. In military operations in June 2014 they were far more successful than Al Qaeda ever were, taking territory that reache ...Show more
The Collapse of Rome: Marius, Sulla and the First Civil War by Gareth C. Sampson
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
By the early first century BC, the Roman Republic had already carved itself a massive empire and was easily the most powerful state in the Mediterranean. Roman armies had marched victoriously over enemies far and wide, but the Roman heartland was soon to feel the tramp of armies on campaign as the Repub ...Show more
Remembering 1916: The Easter Rising, the Somme and the Politics of Memory in Ireland by Richard S. Grayson
$58.95 AUD
Category: History
The year 1916 witnessed two events that would profoundly shape both politics and commemoration in Ireland over the course of the following century. Although the Easter Rising and the Battle of the Somme were important historical events in their own right, their significance also lay in how they came to ...Show more
The Sky Travellers: Journeys in New Guinea, 1938-39 by Bill Gammage
$39.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Miegunyah Press Ser.
"The extraordinary story of the world s last major exploration and experience of first-contact a 1938 39 Australian expedition of three thousand kilometres by foot, through the mountainous western highlands of Papua New Guinea. The pale skin of the strangers suggested that they were spirits sky people. ...Show more