Sacred Causes : Religion and Politics from the European Dictators to al-Qaeda by Michael Burleigh
$25.00 AUD
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Category: History
Populated by many of the most iconic figures of the twentieth-century, Sacred Causes provides a brilliant examination of how religion has shaped twentieth-century Europe from the Great War until the modern-day 'War on Terror'. Beginning with the chaotic post-World War I landscape in which religious bel ...Show more
Paris After the Liberation : 1944-1949 (new edition) by Antony Beevor; Artemis Cooper
$30.00 AUD
Category: History
Post liberation Paris - an epoch charged with political and conflicting emotions. Liberation was greeted with joy but marked by recriminations and the trauma of purges. The feverish intellectual arguments of the young took place amidst the mundane reality of hunger and fuel shortages. This is a stunning ...Show more
Another Country by Rothwell Nicolas
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
Of desert journeys and encounters with mystics and artists, explorers and healers, Another Country is a portrait of people and places. It is also a literary achievement, a mesmerising, many-faceted journey into another Australia.
The Great War by Les Carlyon
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
The Great War is Les Carlyon's extraordinary account of the Anzacs on the Western Front from 1916 to 1918. It combines a brilliant overview of this immense conflict with telling detail, stories, letters and diaries that breathe life into those terrible battles of 90 years ago. In The Great War, Carlyon ...Show more
The World is Flat : The Globalized World in the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman
$26.95 AUD
Category: History
The beginning of the twenty-first century will be remembered, Friedman argues, not for military conflicts or political events, but for a whole new age of globalization - a 'flattening' of the world. The explosion of advanced technologies now means that suddenly knowledge pools and resources have connect ...Show more
Parliament Of Man: The Un The by Paul Kennedy
$26.95 AUD
Category: History
In the course of the twentieth century, states, which had defined themselves by their claims to sovereign independence, gradually came together to create international organizations to promote peace, devise an international code of law, encourage social development and foster prosperity. This book exami ...Show more
Europe East and West by Norman Davies
$50.00 AUD
Category: History
Collected here for the first time are some of the numerous essays and lectures by Norman Davies, author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed "Europe, The Isles and Rising '44." Spanning more than fifteen years of his remarkable career, this highly accessible collection addresses many of the issue ...Show more
My Israel Question by Antony Loewenstein
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
The undeclared war in the Middle East is the abiding conflict of our era, with little apparent hope of resolution despite years of peace talks. On one side of the conflict, in the face of suicide bombings and international criticism over its military aggression, Israel asserts the right of the Jewish st ...Show more
Advance Australia...Where? by Hugh Mackay
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
"What will the next generation of children be like? Why have we lost interest in politics? Why are our houses getting bigger while our households are shrinking? How serious is the surge of interest in 'values' and 'spirituality'? Is multiculturalism dead? Has our egalitarian ideal collapsed under the we ...Show more
Instructions for American Servicemen in Australia 1942 by THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS
$14.95 AUD
Category: History
Ochre And Rust - Artefacts and Encounters on Australian Frontiers by Philip Jones
$49.95 AUD
Category: History
Takes Aboriginal and colonial artefacts from their museum shelves, and traces their stories, revealing charge and nuanced moments of encounter in Australia's frontier history. Special Price A$24.00 valid 01/09/08-13/10/08 ALIA Conference 08
Elizabeth's Spymaster - Francis Walsingham and the Secret War That Saved England by Robert Hutchinson
$23.00 AUD
Category: History
Francis Walsingham was the first 'spymaster' in the modern sense. His methods anticipated those of MI5 and MI6 and even those of the KGB. He maintained a network of spies across Europe, including double-agents at the highest level in Rome and Spain - the sworn enemies of Queen Elizabeth and her Protesta ...Show more