Australian and New Zealand Voices of the First World War by SCOTT FORBES (comp)
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
The First World War was an unprecedented conflict that reshaped the global political landscape and modern attitudes to warfare, valour and patriotism. And for the fledgling nations of Australia and New Zealand it was yet more: the cauldron in which their identities were forged, the international stage o ...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
The Norton Anthology of World Religions - Islam by Jack Miles
$42.95 AUD
Category: History
The Norton Anthology of World Religions offers a beautifully designed library of more than 1,000 primary texts, accompanied by headnotes, annotations, glossaries, maps, illustrations, chronologies, and a dazzling general introduction by Pulitzer Prize winner Jack Miles. This collection "will unsettle so ...Show more
Where History Happened: The Hidden Past of Australia's Towns and Places by Peter Spearritt
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Where History Happened' reveals the hidden past of some of Australia's most intriguing towns and places, from mining settlements and whaling stations to monuments and historic houses in our capital cities. The stories that emerge, of remote religious communities, isolated penal colonies, places of Indig ...Show more
Horse Soldiers by Doug Stanton
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
In this riveting account, journalist Stanton recreates the miseries and triumphs of specially trained mounted U.S. soldiers, deployed in the war-ravaged Afghanistan mountains to fight alongside the Northern Alliance against the Taliban. Tall Premium Edition.
The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
In the summer of 1967, not long after the Six Day War, three young Palestinian men ventured into the town of Ramla in Israel. They were cousins, on a pilgrimage to see their childhood homes, from which they and their families had been driven out nearly twenty years earlier. One cousin had the door slamm ...Show more
The Big Book of Australian History (PB) by Peter Macinnis
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Did you know that, in 1934, the ABC developed `synthetic¿ cricket, in which radio broadcasters gave a ball-by-ball description of the game, using sound effects to simulate the sound of bat on ball and the applause of the crowd? The Big Book of Australian History features stunning images from the collect ...Show more
The Year 1000 - When Explorers Connected the World - and Globalization Began by Valerie Hansen
$39.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
From celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen, a groundbreaking work of history showing that bold explorations and daring trade missions connected all of the world's great societies for the first time at the end of the first millennium. In history, myth often abides. It was long assumed that the centuri ...Show more
Civilization: A History of the World in 1000 Objects by DK
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
Discover how humans created their world from the objects they left behind - from the US Constitution to the first iPhone - in DK's latest history book. From the beginning of human history, the one thing that has defined us is our talent for making things, from basic technology and everyday objects, suc ...Show more
Don't Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Recent years have seen the conversation around black hair reach tipping point, yet detractors still proclaim 'it's only hair!' when it never is. This book is about why black hair matters and how it can be viewed as a blueprint for decolonisation. The author takes us from pre-colonial Africa, through the ...Show more
The Expendables: How the middle class got screwed by globalisation by Jeff Rubin
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A provocative, far-reaching account of how the middle class got stuck with the bill for globalisation, and how the blowback — from Brexit to Trump to populist Europe — will change the developed world. Real wages have not risen much for decades. Union membership has collapsed. Full-time employment is be ...Show more
Breaker Morant by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
The epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet - murderer or hero? Most Australians have heard of the Boer War of 1899 to 1902 and of Harry 'Breaker' Morant, a figure who rivals Ned Kelly as an archetypal Australian folk hero. Born in England and emigrating to Qu ...Show more