Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
$39.99 AUD
Category: European
For centuries, Ferdinand Magellan has been celebrated as a hero- a noble adventurer who circumnavigated the globe in an extraordinary feat of human bravery; a paragon of daring and chivalry. Now, renowned historian Felipe Fern indez-Armesto draws on extensive and meticulous research to conduct a dazzli ...Show more
The Undercurrents: A Story of Berlin by Kirsty Bell
$33.00 AUD
Category: European
Humane, thought-provoking and moving, The Undercurrents is a hybrid literary portrait of a place that makes the case for radical close readings: of ourselves, our cities and our histories. The Undercurrents: A Story of Berlin is a dazzling work of biography, memoir, and cultural criticism told from a pr ...Show more
Accidental Gods - On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine by Anna Della Subin
$40.00 AUD
Category: European
A provocative history of race, empire and myth, told through the stories of men who have been worshipped as gods - from Columbus to Prince Philip. How does a man become a God?It can happen by accident, or by prophesy, or through an article found in an old magazine. It can be a means to absolute power, ...Show more
Nazi Billionaires - The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties by David de Jong
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
Packed with revelations, this history traces the corrupt, bloody money that was hoarded by Nazi families during and after the Second World War – and how that money has translated into wealth and power for well known companies and tycoons today. Three weeks after Hitler seized power in Germany he called ...Show more
Embroidering Her Truth - Mary, Queen of Scots and the Language of Power by Clare Hunter
$33.00 AUD
Category: European
I felt that Mary was there, pulling at my sleeve, willing me to appreciate the artistry, wanting me to understand the dazzle of the material world that shaped her.At her execution Mary, Queen of Scots wore red. Widely known as the colour of strength and passion, it was in fact worn by Mary as the Cathol ...Show more
France: An Adventure History by Graham Robb
$40.00 AUD
Category: European
This is a profoundly original and entertaining history of France, from the first century bc to the present day, based on countless new discoveries and thirty years of exploring France on foot, by bicycle and in the library. Beginning with the Roman army's first recorded encounter with the Gauls and endi ...Show more
New Rome: The Roman Empire in the East, AD 395 - 700 by Paul Stephenson
$50.00 AUD
Category: European | Series: The\Profile History of the Ancient World Ser.
Three hundred action-packed years of Roman history, encompassing the fall of Rome and the rise of a new empire in the East. Long before Rome fell to the Ostrogoths in AD 476, a new city had risen to take its place as the beating heart of a late antique empire, the glittering Constantinople: New Rome.In ...Show more
Salonica, City of Ghosts Christians, Muslims, and Jews, 1430-1950 by Mark Mazower
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
Salonica, located in northern Greece, was long a fascinating crossroads metropolis of different religions and ethnicities, where Egyptian merchants, Spanish Jews, Orthodox Greeks, Sufi dervishes, and Albanian brigands all rubbed shoulders. Tensions sometimes flared, but tolerance largely prevailed until ...Show more
Salonica, City of Ghosts : Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 by Mark Mazower
$28.00 AUD
Category: European
The history of a bewilderingly exotic city, rarely written about: five hundred years of clashing cultures and peoples, from the glories of Suleiman the Magnificent to its nadir under Nazi occupation. Salonica is the point where the wonders and horrors of the Orient and Europe have met over the centuries ...Show more
Medieval Ethiopian Kingship, Craft, and Diplomacy with Latin Europe by Verena Krebs
$200.00 AUD
Category: European
This book explores why Ethiopian kings pursued long-distance diplomatic contacts with Latin Europe in the late Middle Ages. It traces the history of more than a dozen embassies dispatched to the Latin West by the kings of Solomonic Ethiopia, a powerful Christian kingdom in the medieval Horn of Africa. D ...Show more
Lost Paradise: The Story of Granada by Elizabeth Drayson
$65.00 AUD
Category: European
Lost Paradise is a book about a unique and pivotal European city. Although there are a number of interesting biographies of major cities such as London, Rome, Istanbul, Jerusalem, and Barcelona, this is the first narrative history of the city of Granada for English-speaking readers, which celebrates and ...Show more
Britain Alone - The Path from Suez to Brexit by Philip Stephens
$40.00 AUD
Category: European
A magisterial and profoundly perceptive survey of Britain's post-war role on the global stage, from Suez to Brexit.'Admirably lucid and measured, as well as studded with sharp pen portraits of the key players, Britain Alone gives us the fullest long-run political and diplomatic narrative yet of Britain' ...Show more