24 Hours in Ancient Athens: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There by Philip Matyszak
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: 24 Hours in Ancient History Ser.
Spend 24 hours with the ancient Athenians. See the city through their eyes as it teeters on the edge of the fateful war that would end its golden age. Athens, 416 BC. A tenuous peace holds. The city-state's political and military might are feared throughout the ancient world; it pushes the boundarie ...Show more
A Short History Of The World According To Sheep by Sally Coulthard
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
'This book deserves a place in your bookcase next to Harari's Sapiens. It's every bit as fascinating and is surely destined to be just as successful' Julian Norton From the plains of ancient Mesopotamia to the vast sheep farms of modern-day Australia, sheep have been central to the human story. Since ou ...Show more
A Short History of the World in 50 Lies by Natasha Tidd
$27.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: A\Short History of the World Ser.
Taking readers on a global journey through human history, historian Natasha Tidd examines how lies can change the world around us, from Julius Caesar's deceptive PR machine to the cover ups that caused Chernobyl.From forgeries that created centuries worth of conflict and domination, such as The Donati ...Show more
A World Beneath the Sands: Adventurers and Archaeologists in the Golden Age of Egyptology by Toby Wilkinson
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
What could be more exciting, more exotic or more intrepid than digging in the sands of Egypt in the hope of discovering golden treasures from the age of the pharaohs? Our fascination with ancient Egypt goes back to the ancient Greeks. But the heyday of Egyptology was undoubtedly the nineteenth and early ...Show more
Alexander the Great - Epic and Legendary Leaders by Alexandra F. Morris (Introduction by); J. K. Jackson (Editor)
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\World's Greatest Myths and Legends Ser.
Alexander the Great died in 336 BCE, when he was only thirty two. His military campaigns had swept across Ancient Greece, through Asia Minor, Arabia, Persia, Egypt and North Africa to North West India, forging one of the largest empires in recorded history. He was undefeated in battle and is widely cons ...Show more
Alexandria: The Quest for the Lost City Beneath the Mountains by Edmund Richardson
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
'Full, extraordinary, heart-breaking ... utterly brilliant' - William Dalrymple 'Impressive ... Masson has at last found the intrepid biographer he has so long deserved' - John Keay For centuries the city of Alexandria Beneath the Mountains was a meeting point of East and West. Then it vanished. In 18 ...Show more
Ancient Rome in Fifty Monuments by Paul Roberts
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
Rome wasn't built in a day, but over several centuries and under many different emperors. This story of continual creation and renewal lies at the heart of Ancient Rome in Fifty Monuments. Rome's history has been explored by countless classicists, historians, poets, and authors, but rarely has its histo ...Show more
Antisemitism - A World History of Prejudice by Dan Cohn-Sherbok
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Antisemitism has featured in the history of Western civilization for over 3,000 years.Dan Cohn-Sherbok traces its origins and its manifestations, from political opposition to racial persecution to religious and philosophical justification for some of history's most outrageous acts. Against this backgrou ...Show more
Australia and the World by David Lee
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
AUSTRALIA AND THE WORLD is a highly accessible and informative work that explains Australia’s shifting place in a global context while detailing the many events, forces and relationships that have impacted upon it since Federation.
BRIEF HISTORY OF THE TUDOR AGE by RIDLEY JASPER
$21.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Brief Histories
From the arrival of Henry Tudor and his army, at Milford in 1485, to the death of the great Queen Elizabeth I in 1603, this was an astonishingly eventful and contradictory age. All the strands of Tudor life are gathered in a rich tapestry - London and the country, costumes, furniture and food, travel, m ...Show more
Blood and Iron - The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871-1918 by Katja Hoyer
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Before 1871, Germany was not yet a nation but simply an idea. Otto von Bismarck had a formidable task at hand. How would he bring thirty-nine individual states under the yoke of a single Kaiser? Once united, could the young European nation wield enough power to rival the empires of Britain and France - ...Show more