A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle That Shaped the Middle East by James Barr
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
In 1916, in the middle of the First World War, two men secretly agreed to divide the Middle East between them. Sir Mark Sykes was a visionary politician; Francois Georges-Picot a diplomat with a grudge. The deal they struck, which was designed to relieve tensions that threatened to engulf the Entente Co ...Show more
The House by the Lake by Thomas Harding
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'A passionate memoir.?Neil MacGregor'A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in, and lost, by five different families. A remarkable book.? ...Show more
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
THE BOLD RIDERS ; BEHIND AUSTRALIA S CORPORATE COLLAPSES by TREVOR SYKES
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
Universally acclaimed as the classic book on the 80s, now revised and brought fully up-to-date.
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
Southeast Asia: An Introductory History by Milton Osborne
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
The first edition of Southeast Asia: An introductory history was published in 1979 and immediately filled a need for travellers and students interested in a tantalisingly different part of the world. Subsequent editions (translated into Japanese, Khmer, Korean and Thai) have continued to document with g ...Show more
Error Australis by Ben Pobjie
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
We're obsessed with reality television these days yet we so often neglect the greatest reality of all: the reality of our nation, and how it came to be. In Error Australis, TV columnist, comedian and history buff Ben Pobjie recaps the history of Australia from its humble beginnings as a small patch of r ...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