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The Ancient Shore by Shirley Hazzard
$34.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Chicago History of American Civilization Ser.
Born in Australia, Shirley Hazzard first moved to Naples as a young woman in the 1950s to take up a job with the United Nations. It was the beginning of a long love affair with the city. The Ancient Shore collects the best of Hazzard?s writings on Naples, along with a classic New Yorker essay by her ...Show more
The Arthur Rackham Treasury by Arthur Rackham (Illustrator); Jeff A. Menges (Editor)
$18.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Fine Art, History of Art Ser.
This stunning treasury features full-page plates of the finest works by the famed English artist, Arthur Rackham (1867-1939). A leading figure in the early twentieth century's Golden Age of Illustration, Rackham interpreted scenes from such diverse material as fairy tales, Wagnerian opera, and Shakespea ...Show more
The Battlefield of Imperishable Memory: Passchendaele and the ANZAC Legend by Matthew Haultain-Gall
$35.00 AUD
Category: War | Series: Australian History Ser.
The Ypres salient 'was the favourite battle ground of the devil and his minions' wrote one returned serviceman after the First World War. Few who fought in the infamous third battle of Ypres – now known as Passchendaele – in 1917 would have disagreed. All five of the Australian Imperial Force's (AIF) in ...Show more
The East India Company, 1600-1858 - A Short History with Documents by Ian J. Barrow
$27.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Passages: Key Moments in History Ser.
In existence for 258 years, the English East India Company ran a complex, highly integrated global trading network. It supplied the tea for the Boston Tea Party, the cotton textiles used to purchase slaves in Africa, and the opium for China's nineteenth-century addiction. In India it expanded from a few ...Show more
The Emperor's Grace: Untold Stories of the Australians Enslaved in Japan during World War II by Mark Baker
$35.00 AUD
Category: War | Series: Australian History Ser.
The Emperor's Grace is the story of the men of "C" Force – the first contingent of Australian, British and Dutch POWs shipped from Singapore to Japan in November 1942 – who worked in the Kawasaki Shipyard in Kobe before the American firebombing campaign razed the city, and then the infamous Fukuoka coal ...Show more
The Fate of Rome by Kyle Harper
$38.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Princeton History of the Ancient World Ser.
How climate change and disease helped to bring down the Roman Empire Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first book to examine the catastrophic role that climate change and infectious diseases ...Show more
The Fountain of Public Prosperity: Evangelical Christians in Australian History 1740-1914 by Stuart Piggin; Robert D. Linder
$49.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Australian History Ser.
The official religion brought to Australia with the First Fleet was Evangelical Christianity, the 'vital religion' then shaping public policy through William Wilberforce and his fellow evangelicals. That it has shaped Australian history ever since, making a substantial contribution to the public prosper ...Show more
The Great Encounter of China and the West, 1500 1800 by D. E. Mungello; David E. Mungello
$70.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Critical Issues in World and International History Ser.
A fourth edition of this book is now available. In the twenty-first century, China has emerged as the leading challenger to U.S. global dominance. China is often seen as a sleeping giant, emerging out of backwardness toward modernization. However, this vast country is not newly awakening, but rather ret ...Show more
The Great Fire of Rome - Life and Death in the Ancient City by Joseph J. Walsh
$40.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Witness to Ancient History Ser.
Peril was everywhere in ancient Rome, but the Great Fire of 64 CE was unlike anything the city had ever experienced. No building, no neighborhood, no person was safe from conflagration. When the fire finally subsided--after burning for nine days straight--vast swaths of Rome were in ruins. The greatest ...Show more
The Little Book of Insects: A Kid's Guide to the Creepy and Crawly by Forrest Everett
$25.00 AUD
Category: Information Books | Series: Little Library of Natural History Ser.
Age range 8 to 12Discover the incredible world of insects in one compact book! The Little Book of Insects, part of My Little Library of Natural History, introduces kids to dozens of earth's most fascinating creepy crawlies with details about their habitats, diets, lifespans, and more. Gorgeous vintage i ...Show more
The Origins of the Second World War by A.J.P. Taylor
$24.95 AUD
Category: War | Series: Penguin History Ser.
One of the most popular and controversial historians of the twentieth century, who made his subject accessible to millions, A.J.P. Taylor caused a storm of outrage with this scandalous bestseller. Debunking what were accepted truths about the Second World War, he argued provocatively that Hitler did not ...Show more
The Persistence of the Old Regime - Europe to the Great War by Arno J. Mayer
$60.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Verso World History Ser.
In this classic work which analyzes the context in which thirty years of war and revolution wracked the European continent, the great historian Arno Mayer emphasizes the backwardness of the European economies and their political subjugation by aristocratic elites and their allies. Mayer turns upside dow ...Show more