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The Protest Years: The Official History of ASIO, 1963-1975 (HB) by John Blaxland
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Official History of ASIO Ser.
By 1963, Robert Menzies had been prime minister for thirteen years, Australia had its first troops in Vietnam, and change was in the air. There would soon be street protests over women's rights, Aboriginal land rights and the Vietnam War, and unprecedented student activism. With the Cold War lingering, ...Show more
The Rise of Corporate Feminism - Women in the American Office, 1960-1990 by Allison Elias
$57.95 AUD
Category: Business & Economics | Series: Columbia Studies in the History of U. S. Capitalism Ser.
From the 1960s through the 1990s, the most common job for women in the United States was clerical work. Even as college-educated women obtained greater opportunities for career advancement, occupational segregation by gender remained entrenched. How did feminism in corporate America come to represent th ...Show more
The Secret of the Black Bushranger (Secret History #3) by Jackie French
$15.00 AUD
Category: Kids | Series: The\Secret History Ser.
The third in a series that explores our secret history By the 1790s orphaned Barney Bean finally has his own farm in the early NSW colony. All his dreams are coming true But now we are to learn of Barney's biggest secret yet: how he helped Australia's first bushranger escape. Was Black Caesar a wronge ...Show more
The Secret of the Youngest Rebel (The Secret Histories, Book 5) by Jackie French
$15.99 AUD
Category: Y.A Fiction | Series: The\Secret History Ser.
'HIGHLY RECOMMENDED FOR ALL READERS' - ReadPlus on Barney and the Secret of the Whales The whisper in the darkness is: rebellion! (Or: death or liberty!) Frog is an orphan, a pickpocket, starving on the streets of Parramatta in 1804. But when the tall, commanding Irish rebel Mr Cunningham talks of freed ...Show more
The Social Life of Books - Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home by Abigail Williams
$45.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas | Series: The\Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History Ser.
Abigail Williams provides a fresh and fascinating history of the evolution of reading into a popular social activity and essential component of domestic life in the mid-eighteenth century. Book jacket.
The Spectre of War: International Communism and the Origins of World War II by Jonathan Haslam
$55.00 AUD
Category: European | Series: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics Ser.
A bold new history showing that the fear of Communism was a major factor in the outbreak of World War II The Spectre of War looks at a subject we thought we knew—the roots of the Second World War—and upends our assumptions with a masterful new interpretation. Looking beyond traditional explanations base ...Show more
The Spy Catchers: The Official History of ASIO, 1949-1963 by David Horner
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Official History of ASIO Ser.
For the first time, ASIO has opened its archives to an independent historian. With unfettered access to the records, David Horner tells the real story of Australia's domestic intelligence organization, from shaky beginnings to the expulsion of Ivan Skripov in 1963. From the start, ASIO's mission was to ...Show more
The Story of the Malakand Field Force by Winston Churchill
$19.95 AUD
Category: War | Series: Dover Military History, Weapons, Armor Ser.
Winston Churchill was the legendary Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Churchill also served as an officer in the British Army and he was the first person to be named an honorary citizen of the United States of America. Churchill was also a well-respected writer and his efforts were rewarded by winni ...Show more
The Third Reich at War, 1939-1945 by Richard J. Evans
$35.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\History of the Third Reich Ser.
The final volume in Richard J. Evans's masterly trilogy on the history of Nazi Germany traces the rise and fall of German military might, the mobilization of a "people's community" to serve a war of conquest, and Hitler's campaign of racial subjugation and genocideAlready hailed as "a masterpiece" (Will ...Show more
The Viceroy's Daughters: The Lives of the Curzon Sisters by Anne De Courcy
$23.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Women in History Ser.
The Viceroy's Daughters is the riveting chronicle of the dazzling lives of three remarkable sisters -- aristocratic, rich, spirited and willful-born when the wealth and privilege of the British upper classes were at their zenith. Irene (born 1896), Cynthia (born 1898) and Alexandra (born 1904) were the ...Show more
The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist - Three Lives in an Age of Empire by Kate Fullagar
$66.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History Ser.
A portrait of empire through the biographies of a Native American, a Pacific Islander, and the British artist who painted them bothThree interconnected eighteenth-century lives offer a fresh account of the British Empire and its intrusion into Indigenous societies. This engaging history brings together ...Show more
Tudors - The History of England: Volume II by Peter Ackroyd
$23.00 AUD
Category: European | Series: The\History of England Ser.
Rich in detail and atmosphere and told in vivid prose, Tudors recounts the transformation of England from a settled Catholic country to a Protestant superpower. It is the story of Henry VIII's cataclysmic break with Rome, and his relentless pursuit of both the perfect wife and the perfect heir; of how t ...Show more