Pacific Exploration: Voyages of Discovery from Captain Cook to Charles Darwin by Nigel Rigby; Pieter van der Merwe; Glyn Williams
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
Captain Cook is generally acknowledged as the first great European scientific explorer. Despite his ordinary roots, he rose through the ranks to become a remarkable officer. On May 27, 1768, Cook, then just a Royal Naval lieutenant, took command of HM bark Endeavour. Its voyage of exploration to the Pac ...Show more
On This Day in History by Dan Snow
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
On which day was history's shortest war waged and won (in roughly 40 minutes)? How was Napoleon bested by a group of rabbits in 1807? Why did a dispute about beer in an Oxford pub lead to over 100 deaths and 470 years of penance? Why in 1752 did Britain go to bed on 2nd September and wake up on the 14th ...Show more
1001 Days That Shaped the World by Peter Furtado (General Editor)
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
A comprehensive guide to those extraordinary moments that defined human history, written by respected figures from the fields of science, history, and journalism.
The Snowy: A History by Siobhán McHugh
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The Snowy - A History tells the extraordinary story of the mostly migrant workforce who built one of the world's engineering marvels. This classic, prize-winning account of the remarkable Snowy Scheme is available again for the 70th anniversary of this epic nation-building project. The Snowy Scheme was ...Show more
Dominion: A History of England Volume V by Peter Ackroyd
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\History of England Ser.
The penultimate volume of Peter Ackroyd's masterful History of England series, Dominion begins in 1815 as national glory following the Battle of Waterloo gives way to post-war depression, spanning the last years of the Regency to the death of Queen Victoria in January 1901.In it, Ackroyd takes us from t ...Show more
How to Be a Dictator - The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century by Frank Dikötter
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine, a sweeping and timely study of twentieth-century dictators and the development of the modern cult of personality. No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffic ...Show more
The Pig - A Natural History by Richard Lutwyche
$39.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: A\Natural History Ser.
Beautifully designed and illustrated, this edition provides a snout-to-tail natural history of this important species, from the prehistoric "hell pig" to today's placid porker, covering the pig's evolution and domestication, anatomy and biology, behavior, role in human life and culture, and breeds.
Machiavelli: His Life and Times by Alexander Lee
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
'A wonderfully assured and utterly riveting biography that captures not only the much-maligned Machiavelli, but also the spirit of his time and place. A monumental achievement.' - Jessie Childs, author of God's Traitors. 'A notorious fiend', 'generally odious', 'he seems hideous, and so he is.' Thanks ...Show more
British India, White Australia - Overseas Indians, Intercolonial Relations and the Empire, 1901-1947 by Kama Maclean
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
The Colonial Kangaroo Hunt by Ken Gelder
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
From the arrival of Captain James Cook in 1770 to classic children's tale Dot and the Kangaroo, Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver examine hunting narratives in novels, visual art and memoirs to discover how the kangaroo became a favourite quarry, a relished food source, an object of scientific fascination, ...Show more
Biting the Clouds: A Badtjala Perspective on the Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act 1897 by Fiona Foley
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The power of history written down can be both lethal and deceptive, and that has long-lasting effects, both for those writing and those being written about.In this groundbreaking work of Indigenous scholarship, nationally renowned visual artist Fiona Foley addresses the inherent silences, errors and inj ...Show more
Great Sites of the Ancient World by Paul G. Bahn
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
From deserts to hidden corners of busy cities, quiet mountain tops to caves submerged deep underground, this book is a spectacular tour of human history. Archaeological sites tell a story spanning thousands of years, and the ones in this book range from the well-known to hidden gems, handpicked for thei ...Show more