The Horde - How the Mongols Changed the World by Marie Favereau
$34.95 AUD
Category: History
Cundill Prize FinalistA Financial Times Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the YearA Five Books Book of the Year "Outstanding, original, and revolutionary. Favereau subjects the Mongols to a much-needed re-evaluation, showing how they were able not only to conquer but to control a vast empire. A re ...Show more
The Human Past by Chris Scarre
$80.00 AUD
Category: History
Here is a new, fourth edition of this authoritative introductory survey of world prehistory, spanning the past 3,000,000 years and written by a team of twenty-four expert authors. This edition has been radically updated to be more thematic and accessible: chapters are connected by new key themes boxes ( ...Show more
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance by Rashid I. Khalidi
$40.00 AUD
Category: History
'Riveting and original ... a work enriched by solid scholarship, vivid personal experience, and acute appreciation of the concerns and aspirations of the contending parties in this deeply unequal conflict ' Noam Chomsky The twentieth century for Palestine and the Palestinians has been a century of denia ...Show more
The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, A Philosophy, A Warning by Justin E. H. Smith
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Princeton ANZ Paperbacks Ser.
An original deep history of the internet that tells the story of the centuries-old utopian dreams behind it — and explains why they have died today.Many think of the internet as an unprecedented and overwhelmingly positive achievement of modern human technology. But is it? In The Internet Is Not What Yo ...Show more
The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past by Keith Windschuttle
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
According to Keith Windschuttle, history today is in the clutches of literary and social theorists who have little respect for or training in the discipline. He believes that they deny the existence of truth and substitute radically chic theorising for real knowledge about the past. The result is revolu ...Show more
The Last Night on the Titanic - Unsinkable Drinking, Dining, and Style by Veronica Hinke (Contribution by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
The Last Night on the Titanic demystifies life in all three classes aboard the world's most beloved ocean liner. Learn why the Titanic still captures the heart of people everywhere even 110 years later. Sailing-and making; history-on the cusp of Prohibition, the Titanic defined drinking and dining style ...Show more
The Library : A Catalogue of Wonders by Stuart Kells
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
"Excellent . . . Tracks the history of that greatest of all cultural institutions." --The Washington Post Libraries are much more than mere collections of volumes. The best are magical, fabled places whose fame has become part of the cultural wealth they are designed to preserve. Some still exist to ...Show more
The Makers of Rome by Plutarch
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Nine biographies that illuminate the careers, personalities and military campaigns of some of Rome's greatest statesmen The lives of the statesmen featured in this collection span the earliest days of the Republic to the establishment of the Empire. Selected from Plutarch's Roman Lives, they include pro ...Show more
The Making of Oliver Cromwell by Ronald Hutton
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
The first volume in a pioneering account of Oliver Cromwell--providing a major new interpretation of one of the greatest figures in historyOliver Cromwell (1599-1658)--the only English commoner to become the overall head of state--is one of the great figures of history, but his character was very comple ...Show more
The Normans - Power, Conquest and Culture in 11th Century Europe by Judith A. Green
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
A bold new history of the rise and expansion of the Norman Dynasty across Europe from Byzantium to England In the eleventh century the climate was improving, population was growing, and people were on the move. The Norman dynasty ranged across Europe, led by men who achieved lasting fame, such as Wi ...Show more
The People's Republic of Amnesi; a Tiananmen Revisited by Louisa Lim
$26.95 AUD
Category: History
"One of the best analyses of the impact of Tiananmen throughout China in the years since 1989." --The New York Times Book Review On June 4, 1989, People's Liberation Army soldiers opened fire on unarmed civilians in Beijing, killing untold hundreds of people. A quarter-century later, this defining even ...Show more
The Premonitions Bureau by Sam Knight
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Premonitions are impossible. But they come true all the time.You think of a forgotten friend. Out of the blue, they call.But what if you knew that something terrible was going to happen? A sudden flash, the words CHARING CROSS. Four days later, a packed express train comes off the rails outside the stat ...Show more