The Cleopatras by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Cleopatra: lover, seductress, and Egypt's greatest queen. A woman more myth than history, immortalized in poetry, drama, music, art, and film. She captivated Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, the two greatest Romans of the day, and died in a blaze of glory, with an asp clasped to her breast - or so the leg ...Show more
The Cold War: A World History by Odd Arne Westad
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
As Germany and then Japan surrendered in 1945 there was a tremendous hope that a new and much better world could be created from the moral and physical ruins of the conflict. Instead, the combination of the huge power of the USA and USSR and the near-total collapse of most of their rivals created a uniq ...Show more
The Colour of Time - A New History of the World, 1850-1960 by Marina Amaral; Dan Jones
$45.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: New History of the World 1850 - 1960 | Reading Level: very good
The top five Sunday Timesbestseller. 'Breathtaking'Daily Mail. 'Astonishing'Sun. 'Shimmering'Spectator. 'Extraordinary'Daily Telegraph. The Colour of Time spans more than a hundred years of world history from the reign of Queen Victoria and the US Civil War to the Cuban Missile Crisis and beginning of t ...Show more
The Colour of Time: a New History of the World, 1850-1960 by Dan Jones; Marina Amaral
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
The Colour of Timespans more than a hundred years of world history from the reign of Queen Victoria and the US Civil War to the Cuban Missile Crisis and beginning of the Space Age. It charts the rise and fall of empires, the achievements of science, industry and the arts, the tragedies of war and the po ...Show more
The Commando: The life and death of Cameron Baird, VC, MG by Ben Mckelvey
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
On 22 June 2013, Corporal Cameron Baird was a 2nd Commando Regiment Special Forces soldier when he led his platoon into a known Taliban stronghold to back-up another Australian unit under heavy fire. In the prolonged firefight, Cameron was mortally wounded. In 2014, Cameron's bravery and courage under ...Show more
The Contamination of the Earth: A History of Pollutions in the Industrial Age by François Jarrige; Thomas Le Roux; Janice Egan (Translator); Michael Egan (Translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: History for a Sustainable Future Ser.
The trajectories of pollution in global capitalism, from the toxic waste of early tanneries to the poisonous effects of pesticides in the twentieth century Through the centuries, the march of economic progress has been accompanied by the spread of industrial pollution. As our capacities for production ...Show more
The Convict Valley: The Bloody Struggle on Australia's Early Frontier by Mark Dunn
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
In 1790, five convicts escaped Sydney by boat and were swept ashore near present day Newcastle. They were taken in by the Worimi people, given Aboriginal names and started families. Thus began a long and at times dramatic series of encounters between Aboriginals and convicts in the second settlement in ...Show more
The Covent Garden Ladies by Hallie Rubenhold
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
*By the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of THE FIVE* 'A fascinating expose of the seamy side of eighteenth century life' MAIL ON SUNDAY'Rubenhold's pages practically reek with smelly, pox-ridden Georgian Soho' GUARDIAN In 1757, a down-and-out Irish poet, the head waiter at the Shakespear's Head ...Show more
The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World by Catherine Nixey
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
A bold new history of the rise of Christianity, showing how its radical followers ravaged vast swathes of classical culture, plunging the world into an era of dogma and intellectual darkness In Harran, the locals refused to convert. They were dismembered, their limbs hung along the town's main street. ...Show more
The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts and Harrimans - A Story of Love and War by Catherine Katz
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The brilliant untold story of three daughters of diplomacy: Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen Harriman, glamorous, fascinating young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference with Stalin in the waning days of World War II. With victory close at hand, the Yalta confer ...Show more
The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad and the Globalizing World by Maya Jasanoff
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Martin's Pick "Enlightening, compassionate, superb" --John Le Carre A visionary exploration of the life and times of Joseph Conrad, his turbulent age of globalization and our own, from one of the most exciting young historians writing today Migration, terrorism, the tensions between global capitalism ...Show more
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber, David Wengrow
$65.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
A breathtakingly ambitious retelling of the earliest human societies offers a new understanding of world history. For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrifi ...Show more