History of Norway by John A Yilek
$42.50 AUD
Category: History
Based on exhaustive research, History of Norway is a clear, informative and entertaining description of Norway's history from the earliest cultures of the Stone Age to today's oil and gas economy. Along the way, there are fascinating stories of Vikings, the Sami, kings and queens, farmers and fishermen, ...Show more
History of Australia in 100 Objects by Toby Creswell
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
The history of Australia comes to life in the stories of individual Australians and their possessions. From a slouch hat to a dress hand-sewn during the Depression, from Captain Cook's globe to Mabo's map, from Henry Lawson's pen to Cathy Freeman's running suit, each of these objects captures something ...Show more
The Europeans in Australia: A History: Volume Two - Democracy by Alan Atkinson
$49.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Europeans in Australia Ser.
The second of three volumes of the landmark, award-winning series The Europeans in Australia gives an account of early settlement by Britain. Volume Two, Democracy, takes the story from around 1815 to the early 1870s. By exploring the nineteenth-century communications revolution Atkinson casts new light ...Show more
So Great a Prince: England in 1509 by Lauren Johnson
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
The King is dead: long live the King. In 1509, Henry VII was succeeded by his son Henry VIII, second monarch of the house of Tudor. But this is not the familiar Tudor world of Protestantism and playwrights. Decades before the Reformation, ancient traditions persist: boy bishops, pilgrimage, Corpus Chris ...Show more
Survivor: A Portrait of the Survivors of the Holocaust by Harry Borden
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Over the course of five years, acclaimed photographer Harry Borden has travelled the globe photographing survivors of the Holocaust. The people featured vary in age, gender and nationality, but are all tied together by their experience and survival of one of the darkest moments in human history. Each ph ...Show more
Masada by Esther Hanan; Hanan Eshel
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
The bulk of construction at Masada, of which one sees today, was carried out by King Herod who ruled from 37 to 4 BCE. Barely two generations later, in 73 or 74 CE, Flavius Silva, provincial governor of Judea and the commander of the Tenth Roman Legion, attacked and destroyed most of the structures on M ...Show more
Breakdown: Shell Shock on the Somme by Taylor Downing
$59.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Age of Legends
Paralysis. Stuttering. The 'shakes'. Inability to stand or walk. Temporary blindness or deafness. When strange symptoms like these began appearing in men at Casualty Clearing Stations in 1915, a debate began in army and medical circles as to what it was, what had caused it and what could be done to cur ...Show more
Imperial Triumph - The Roman World from Hadrian to Constantine AD 138-363 by Michael Kulikowski
$59.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The Profile History of the Ancient World
Imperial Triumph presents the history of Rome at the height of its imperial power. Beginning with the reign of Hadrian in Rome and ending with the death of Julian the Apostate on campaign in Persia, it offers an intimate account of the twists and often deadly turns of imperial politics in which successi ...Show more
A History of Ancient Egypt: Volume 2: From the Great Pyramid to the Fall of the Middle Kingdom by John Romer
$69.99 AUD
Category: History
This definitive, multi-volume history of the world's first known state reveals that much of what we have been taught about Ancient Egypt is the product of narrow-minded visions of the past Drawing on a lifetime of research, John Romer chronicles the history of Ancient Egypt from the building of the Grea ...Show more
The Holy Roman Empire A Thousand Years of Europe's History by Peter H. Wilson
$75.00 AUD
Category: History
A great, sprawling, ancient and unique entity, the Holy Roman Empire, from its founding by Charlemagne to its destruction by Napoleon a millennium later, formed the heart of Europe. It was a great engine for inventions and ideas, it was the origin of many modern European states, from Germany to the Czec ...Show more
Karl Marx by Gareth Stedman Jones
$79.99 AUD
Category: History
'A deeply original and illuminating account of Marx's journey through the intellectual history of the nineteenth century...a profound reappraisal and a gripping read' Christopher Clark 'Rich and deeply researched' John Gray As the nineteenth century unfolded, its inhabitants had to come to terms with an ...Show more
The Skull of Alum Bheg - The Life and Death of a Rebel Of 1857 by Kim Wagner
$70.00 AUD
Category: History
In 1963, a human skull was discovered in a pub in Kent in south-east England. A brief handwritten note stuck inside the cavity revealed it to be that of Alum Bheg, an Indian soldier in British service who was executed during the aftermath of the 1857 Uprising, or The Indian Mutiny as historians of an ea ...Show more