White Russians, Red Peril: A Cold War History of Migration to Australia by Sheila Fitzpatrick
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A gripping account of the paths that led postwar Russian migrants to Australia - and what they found when they arrived.More than 20,000 ethnic Russians migrated to Australia after the Second World War - yet we know very little about their experiences. Some came via China, others from refugee camps in E ...Show more
Under Full Sail by Rob Mundle
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
July 1852. It had been six weeks since the 932 passengers and sixty-man crew aboard the clipper Marco Polo had left England bound for Melbourne. They had just crossed the northern latitude of the Roaring Forties, some 350 nautical miles south of the Cape of Good Hope. Suddenly a fearsome Southern Ocean ...Show more
Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, 75th Anniversary Illustrated Edition by Edith Hamilton
$16.99 AUD
Category: History
For decades readers have chosen this book above all others to discover the thrilling, enchanting and fascinating world of Western mythology. From Odysseus's adventure filled journey to the Norse god Odin's effort to postpone the final day of doom, Edith Hamilton's classic collection not only retells the ...Show more
The Routledge History of Witchcraft by Johannes Dillinger (Editor)
$92.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Routledge Histories Ser.
The Routledge History of Witchcraft is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of the belief in witches from antiquity to the present day, providing both an introduction to the subject of witchcraft and an overview of the on-going debates. This extensive collection covers the entire breadth of the ...Show more
Shackleton: How the Captain of the newly discovered Endurance saved his crew in the Antarctic by Ranulph Fiennes
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The enthralling life, endurance and incredible leadership of Sir Ernest Shackleton, told by the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes.To write about Hell, it helps if you have been there. In 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton's attempt to traverse the Antarctic was cut short when his ship, Endu ...Show more
The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire, 1918-1922 by Ryan Gingeras
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
A new, groundbreaking history of the fall of the Ottoman empire, published to coincide with its centenary In the autumn of 1918, revolution spread across Europe. One by one, grand imperial houses collapsed, allowing new republics to take their place. The fall of the Ottoman Empire is usually understood ...Show more
The Currency of Politics: The Political Theory of Money from Aristotle to Keynes by Stefan Eich
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
Money in the history of political thought, from ancient Greece to the Great Inflation of the 1970s In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, critical attention has shifted from the economy to the most fundamental feature of all market economies--money. Yet despite the centrality of political struggl ...Show more
Mysteries of the Far North - The Secret History of the Vikings in Greenland and North America by Jacques Privat; Claude Lecouteux (Foreword by)
$56.99 AUD
Category: History
Presents evidence of early Norse settlement in Greenland and North America* Explores in depth how Greenland and its surroundings were inhabited for nearly 5 centuries by two Nordic colonies, Vestri-bygd and Eystri-bygd* Shares extensive evidence from the still-living indigenous oral tradition of the Far ...Show more
Knockout: Great Australian Boxing Stories by Grantlee Kieza
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A no-holds-barred collection of Australian boxing yarns, from the bare-knuckle fighting of old to the modern greats ... The winners, the losers and the legends Boxing has given Australian sport some of our most inspiring champions and some of our most captivating tales. Stories of underdogs overcoming a ...Show more
Dictatorland - The Men Who Stole Africa by Paul Kenyon
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
One dictator grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop that he built a 35-story-high basilica in the jungles of the Ivory Coast. One austere, incorruptible leader shut Eritrea off from the world in a permanent state of war and conscripted every adult into the armed forces. The Libyan army officer who aut ...Show more
A Political History of the World: Three Thousand Years of War and Peace by Jonathan Holslag
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Pelican Bks.
A three-thousand year history of the world that examines the causes of war and the search for peace In three thousand years of history, China has spent at least eleven centuries at war. The Roman Empire was in conflict during at least 50 per cent of its lifetime. Since 1776, the United States has spent ...Show more
Churchill and Orwell by Thomas E. Ricks
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
Today, as liberty and truth are increasingly challenged, the figures of Churchill and Orwell loom large. Exemplars of Britishness, they preserved individual freedom and democracy for the world through their far-sighted vision and inspired action, and cast a long shadow across our culture and politics. I ...Show more