Northmen - The Viking Saga 793-1241 by John Haywood
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'Haywood's lucid explanations of the cultures of the Danes, Swedes, and Norwegians are vital to understanding the motivations for their movements' KIRKUS REVIEWS. The violent and predatory society of Dark Age Scandinavia left a unique impact on the history of medieval Europe. From their chill northern ...Show more
The Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses, and Historians by Cynthia C. Kelly, Richard Rhodes
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
On the seventy-fifth anniversary of the first atomic bomb, discover new reflections on the Manhattan Project from President Barack Obama, hibakusha (survivors), and the modern-day mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The creation of the atomic bomb during World War II, codenamed the Manhattan Project, was ...Show more
The Great Depression and the New Deal by Eric Rauchway
$22.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
The New Deal shaped our nation's politics for decades, and was seen by many as tantamount to the "American Way" itself. Now, in this superb compact history, Eric Rauchway offers an informed account of the New Deal and the Great Depression, illuminating its successes and failures.Rauchway first describes ...Show more
Philip And Alexander by Adrian Goldsworthy
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
A joint biography that investigates how, during their lifetimes, Philip and Alexander transformed Macedon from a weak kingdom into a globe-spanning empire. During his short life Alexander the Great carved out an empire stretching from the Balkans to Central India, re-drawing the map of the ancient worl ...Show more
Smells - A Cultural History of Odours in Early Modern Times by Robert Muchembled; Susan Pickford (Translator)
$36.95 AUD
Category: History
Why is our sense of smell so under-appreciated? We tend to think of smell as a vestigial remnant of our pre-human past, doomed to gradual extinction, and we go to great lengths to eliminate smells from our environment, suppressing body odour, bad breath and other smells. Living in a relatively odour-fre ...Show more
Wings over Water - The Story of the World's Greatest Air Race and the Birth of the Spitfire by Jonathan Glancey
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
The thrilling story of the Schneider Trophy, a series of glamorous air races that captivated both sides of the Atlantic and became a driver and celebration of speed and engineering prowess.
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee - Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Chapter after chapter, it's like one shattered myth after another." - NPR"An informed, moving and kaleidoscopic portrait... Treuer's powerful book suggests the need for soul-searching about the meanings of American history and the stories we tell ourselves about this na ...Show more
Sword and Scimitar - Fourteen Centuries of War Between Islam and the West by Raymond Ibrahim; Victor Davis Hanson (Foreword by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
A sweeping history of the often-violent conflict between Islam and the West, shedding a revealing light on current hostilities The West and Islam -- the sword and scimitar -- have clashed since the mid-seventh century, when, according to Muslim tradition, the Roman emperor rejected Prophet Muhammad's or ...Show more
History of World Trade in Maps by Philip Parker
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Trade is the lifeblood of nations. It has provided vital goods and wealth to countries and merchants from the ancient Egyptians who went in search of gold and ivory to their 21st-century equivalents trading high-tech electronic equipment from the Far East .In this beautiful book, more than 70 maps give ...Show more
The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination by Richard J. Evans
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
The renowned historian of the Third Reich takes on the conspiracy theories surrounding Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, in a vital history book for the 'post-truth' age The idea that nothing happens by chance in history, that nothing is quite what it seems to be at first sight, that everything is the result ...Show more
A Brief History of Money - 4000 Years of Markets, Currencies, Debt and Crisis by David Orrell
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
What do cacao beans, cowrie shells, paper cards, cigarettes and digital databases all have in common? At some time, they have been used as a form of money. Money is an essential aspect of everyday life and something that we usually take for granted until it all goes wrong. This book traces the role, gro ...Show more
Black Flags, Blue Waters - The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates by Eric Jay Dolin
$31.95 AUD
Category: History
Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the dramatic history of American piracy's "Golden Age"--spanning the late 1600s through to the early 1700s--when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond. Eric Jay Dolin illustrates how American colonists at first supported these outrageous pi ...Show more