The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 by William Dalrymple
$30.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Vintage
In this evocative study of the fall of the Mughal Empire and the beginning of the Raj, award-winning historian William Dalrymple uses previously undiscovered sources to investigate a pivotal moment in history. The last Mughal emperor, Zafar, came to the throne when the political power of the Mughals was ...Show more
Inventing Human Rights: A History by Lynn Hunt
$22.95 AUD
Category: Political
Human rights is a concept that only came to the forefront during the eighteenth century. When the American Declaration of Independence declared "all men are created equal" and the French proclaimed the Declaration of the Rights of Man, they were bringing a new guarantee into the world. Professor Lynn Hu ...Show more
A Short History of the Twentieth Century by Geoffrey Blainey
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
Takes us on an incredible global journey through a tempestuous hundred years and brings to vivid life many of the events that marked the 20th century: two world wars, the rise and fall of communist states, the worst economic slump, the decline of European monarchies ane empires, the ascent of the first ...Show more
Paris: The Secret History by Andrew Hussey
$25.00 AUD
Category: History
Paris is the city of light and the city of darkness - a place of ceaseless revolution and reinvention that for two thousand years has drawn those with the highest ideals and the lowest morals to its teeming streets. In Andrew Hussey's wonderful book we encounter the myriad citizens whose stories have sh ...Show more
Somme: The Heroism and Horror of War by Martin Gilbert
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
The Battle of the Somme, fought between July and November 1916, was among the bloodiest conflicts of all time. The aim was to end the stalemate on the Western Front - the result was carnage. In a total of just over a hundred days of fighting, the death toll reached 310,459. Half the bodies were never ...Show more
The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by Antony Beevor
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
The civil war that tore Spain apart between 1936 and 1939 and attracted liberals and socialists from across the world to support the cause against Franco was one of the most hard-fought and bitterest conflicts of the 20th century: a war of atrocities and political genocide and a military testing ground ...Show more
Hellfire by FORBES Cameron
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
Details the individual stories of those caught up in history: the Hudscon bomber pilot attacking the Japanese invasion force on Day One; the prisoner of war who refused to be blindfolded for his execution and another who copied with misery and death by sketching plumbago flowers; and much more.
On The Wealth of Nations by P J O'Rourke
$24.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Ten Books That Changed the World S.
'The Wealth of Nations is, without doubt a 'book that changed the world.' But it has been taking its time. Two hundred and thirty one years after publication, Adam Smith's practical truths are only beginning to be absorbed in full. Although its contents didn't make people gasp, something about The Wealt ...Show more
Journey of The Magi by Paul William Roberts
$31.00 AUD
$36.00 (13% off)
Category: History
Who were the Magi and why did they travel hundreds of miles to worship a newborn child? These are mysteries that have endured and remained unsolved for centuries, in part because nativity accounts and descriptions of the Magi vary dramatically - from the Bible itself to the Arabic Nativity Gospel. Intri ...Show more
For Lust of Knowing : the Orientalists and their enemies by Robert Irwin
$26.95 AUD
Category: History
Robert Irwin's history of Orientalism leads from Ancient Greece to the present. He shows that, whether making philological comparisons between Arabic and Hebrew, cataloguing the coins of Fatimid Egypt or establishing the basic chronology of Harun al-Rashid's military campaigns against Byzantium, scholar ...Show more
Silencing Dissent: How the Australian Government is Controlling Public Opinion and Stifling Debate by Clive Hamilton
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
Silencing Dissent is a timely, disturbing and unnerving book' from the foreword by Robert Manne For over a decade, the Howard government has found ways to silence its critics, one by one. Like the proverbial frog in boiling water, Australians have become accustomed to repeated attacks on respected indiv ...Show more
A Very Short History of the World by Geoffrey Blainey
$27.95 AUD
$32.99 (15% off)
Category: History
"A Very Short History of the World" is the story of the world's people during the last four million years. It begins before human beings moved out of Africa to explore and settle the other continents. It is a story of the inhabited world being pulled apart, and of it coming together again in recent cent ...Show more