Imperial Mud - The Fight for the Fens by James Boyce
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
A post-colonial history of the destruction of the Fens of eastern England. A population of proud indigenous people fight for generations to preserve their homelands against an expanding empire - an invasion justified as being necessary for 'progress'.After centuries of resistance, their culture and com ...Show more
A Cargo of Women: Susannah Watson and the Convicts of the Princess Royal by Babette Smith
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
Traces their stories, presenting us with a patchwork image of individual lives that are both rich and varied, and often poignantly tragic. We encounter their despair at being parted from their families, their experience of assigned service in the colony, their marriages, for good or bad, and their oppor ...Show more
Cursed Objects - Strange but True Stories of the World's Most Infamous Items by J. W. Ocker
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Beware . . . this book is cursed These strange but true stories of the world's most infamous items will appeal to true believers as well as history buffs, horror fans, and anyone who loves a good spine-tingling tale. They're lurking in museums, graveyards, and private homes. Their often tragic and alway ...Show more
Sorrow of the Earth by Eric Vuillard
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
Fascinating, brilliant and angry: the tale of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and the tragic fate of its Native American participants, from the winner of the 2017 Goncourt Prize - now in paperback
French Connection - Australia's Quest to Become a Cosmopolitan Nation by Alexis Bergantz
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The French have long been part of the Australian story. From talented gold fields photographer Antoine Fauchery and infighting in the upper echelons of Melbourne society as to who should run Alliance Française to the Playoust family whose Australian-born sons enlisted with the French army in the First W ...Show more
Scotland's Last Frontier - A Journey along the Highland Line by Alistair Moffat; James Naughtie (Other)
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
The Highland Line is the most profound internal boundary in Britain. First recognised by Agricola in the first century AD (parts of its most northerly portion mark the furthest north the Romans got) it divides the country both geologically and culturally, signalling the border between highland and lowla ...Show more
Land of Wondrous Cold: The Race to Discover Antarctica and Unlock the Secrets of Its Ice by Gillen D’Arcy Wood
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Princeton ANZ Paperbacks Ser.
A gripping history of the polar continent, from the great discoveries of the nineteenth century to modern scientific breakthroughsAntarctica, the ice kingdom hosting the South Pole, looms large in the human imagination. The secrets of this vast frozen desert have long tempted explorers, but its brutal c ...Show more
Nuclear Folly: A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Serhii Plokhy
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
The definitive history of the Cuban Missile Crisis from the bestselling author of Chernobyl - History of a Tragedy For more than four weeks in the autumn of 1962 the world teetered. The consequences of a misplaced step during the Cuban Missile Crisis could not have been more grave. Ash and cinder, fami ...Show more
Mistresses: Sex and Scandal at the Court of Charles II by Linda Porter
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
According to the great diarist, John Evelyn, Charles II was ‘addicted to women’, and throughout his long reign a great many succumbed to his charms. Clever, urbane and handsome, Charles presided over a hedonistic court, in which licence and licentiousness prevailed. <i>Mistresses </i>is the ...Show more
City of Light by Rupert Christiansen
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
A sparkling account of the nineteenth-century rebuilding of Paris as the most beautiful city in the world, as part of the stunning Landmark Library series. 'This really is an impressive book'Sebastian Faulks. 'Brisk, vivid and unexpectedly stirring ... No one writes as evocatively and entertainingly a ...Show more
A Life Electric: The Story of Nikola Tesla by Azadeh Westergaard
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
A lyrical biography of the eccentric engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla In the middle of a storm, as lightning flashed, a special boy was born. Nikola Tesla was destined to electrify and change the world forever. Before Tesla designed modern electricity, he was a young boy in Serbia from humble beginnin ...Show more
The Holy Roman Empire - A Short History by Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger; Yair Mintzker (Translator, Preface by)
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
From acclaimed historian Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, an incomparable introduction to this momentous period in the history of Europe The Holy Roman Empire emerged in the Middle Ages as a loosely integrated union of German states and city-states under the supreme rule of an emperor, and would endure u ...Show more