The Russia Anxiety - And How History Can Resolve It by Mark B. Smith
$55.00 AUD
Category: European
Russia is an exceptional country, the biggest in the world. It is both European and exotic, powerful and weak, brilliant and flawed. Why are we so afraid of it? Time and again, we judge Russia by unique standards. We have usually assumed that it possesses higher levels of cunning, malevolence and bruta ...Show more
King of the World - The Life of Louis XIV by Philip Mansel
$70.00 AUD
Category: European
Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre, dominated his age. In the second half of the seventeenth century, he extended France's frontiers into the Netherlands and Germany, and established colonies in America, Africa and India. Louisiana, which once occupied a third of the territory of the present-day Unit ...Show more
The Anxious Triumph: The Making of Global Capitalism, 1880-1914 by Donald Sassoon
$60.00 AUD
Category: European
Capitalism has co-existed with many different kinds of states, from Victorian Britain to republican France and confederate Switzerland, from Fascist and Nazi regimes to post-war European democracies, from post-Meiji Japan to south-east Asian and Latin American dictatorships, communist China and even Rus ...Show more
Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation by Roderick Beaton
$69.99 AUD
Category: European
We think we know ancient Greece, the civilisation that shares the same name and gave us just about everything that defines 'western' culture today, in the arts, sciences, social sciences and politics. Yet, as Greece has been brought under repeated scrutiny during the financial crises that have convulsed ...Show more
Matilda - Empress, Queen, Warrior by Catherine Hanley
$45.00 AUD
Category: European
A life of Matilda-empress, skilled military leader, and one of the greatest figures of the English Middle Ages Matilda was a daughter, wife, and mother. But she was also empress, heir to the English crown-the first woman ever to hold the position-and an able military general. This new biography explores ...Show more
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
$45.00 AUD
Category: European
A shocking true story of murder, extreme politics and the deep scars left by 'the Troubles' in Ireland of the 1970s and the human consequences. A taut tale of murder, extreme politics, institutionalised violence and the deep scars left by such turmoil. In this powerful, scrupulously reported book, Patri ...Show more
The Sea Journal: Seafarers' Sketchbooks by Huw Lewis-Jones
$60.00 AUD
Category: European
The sea has been an endless source of fascination, at once both alluring and mysterious, a place of wonder and terror. The Sea Journal contains first-hand records by a great range of travellers of their encounters with strange creatures and new lands, full of dangers and delights, pleasures and perils. ...Show more
Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
Second hand. good condition. The forest primeval, the river of life, the sacred mount -- read Landscape and Memory to have these explained...'One of the most intelligent, original, stimulating, self-indulgent, perverse and irresistibly enjoyable books I have ever read. ' Philip ZieglerLandscape and Mem ...Show more
The Embarrassment of Riches by Simon Schama
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
A social and cultural investigation of how a modest collection of farming, fishing and shipping communities without shared language, religion or government transformed itself in the 17th century into the formidable empire of the Dutch Republic.
Patriots and Liberators by Simon Schama
$34.99 AUD
Category: European
A timely reissue of Simon Schama's landmark study of the Netherlands from 1780-1813, this is a tale of a once-powerful nation's desparate struggle to survive the treacheries and brutality of European war and politics. Between 1780 and 1813 the Dutch Republic - a country once rich enough to be called the ...Show more
The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family by Helen Rappaport
$25.00 AUD
Category: European
A work of investigative history that will completely change the way in which we see the Romanov story. Finally, here is the truth about the secret plans to rescue Russia's last imperial family. On 17 July 1918, the whole of the Russian Imperial Family was murdered. There were no miraculous escapes. The ...Show more
A History of Greece to 322 BC by N. G. L. Hammond
$109.95 AUD
Category: European
This new edition of a well-known history of ancient Greece presents a modern interpretation of Greek ideas, culture, and history. Although the book's primary focus is on the political and military history of the Greek states, the prehistoric period and the intellectual, social, and economic backgrounds ...Show more