24 Hours in Ancient Egypt: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There by Donald P. Ryan
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: 24 Hours in Ancient History Ser.
Spend 24 hours with the inhabitants of the most powerful kingdom in the ancient world.Ancient Egypt wasn't all pyramids, sphinxes and gold sarcophagi. For your average Egyptian, life was tough, and work was hard, conducted under the burning gaze of the sun god Ra.During the course of a day in the ancien ...Show more
Chess and Other Games Pieces from Islamic Lands by Deborah Freeman Fahid
$85.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Al-Sabah Collection/Dar Al-Athar Al-Islamiyyah Ser.
Among the many treasures of The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait, are hundreds of games pieces dating from the seventh to the nineteenth century CE. Intricately crafted in a rich variety of materials, including ivory, wood, ceramic, glass, jade, and agate, these tiny objects not only mark the evolution of fa ...Show more
British Railways in The 1960s - Southern Region by Geoff M. PLUMB
$80.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Geoff Plumb Collection
After the Second War, Britain's railways were rundown and worn out, requiring massive investment and modernization. The Big Four railway companies were nationalized from 1948, and the newly formed British Railways embarked on a program of building new Standard steam locomotives to replace older types. T ...Show more
Collecting for the Nation: The Australiana Fund by Jennifer Sanders
$79.99 AUD
Category: History
From ceramic cockatoos and hand-painted china to splendid silverware and historic paintings, Collecting for the Nation illustrates a broad sweep of Australian history and culture through the stories of the artworks in The Australiana Fund's unique collection. Written by Australia's most respected author ...Show more
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel
$69.99 AUD
Category: History
This is a book about why medieval manuscripts matter. Coming face to face with an important illuminated manuscript in the original is like meeting a very famous person. We may all pretend that a well-known celebrity is no different from anyone else, and yet there is an undeniable thrill in actually meet ...Show more
Endeavouring Banks : Exploring Collections from the Endeavour Voyage 1768-1771 by Neil Chambers (Editor)
$69.99 AUD
Category: History
When English naturalist Joseph Banks accompanied Captain Cook on his historic mission into the Pacific, he took with him a team of collectors and illustrators who returned with unprecedented collections of artefacts, specimens and drawings, opening up a whole world of knowledge as yet undiscovered by Eu ...Show more
Final Solution: The Fate of the Jews 1933-1949 by David Cesarani
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
The Holocaust has never been so widely commemorated, but our understanding of the accepted narrative has rarely, if ever, been questioned. David Cesarani's sweeping reappraisal challenges accepted explanations for the anti-Jewish politics of Nazi Germany and the inevitability of the 'Final Solution'. Th ...Show more
War and Peace in the Air - Aviation Century by Dan Patterson
$59.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Aviation Century Ser.
The closing volume of an internationally acclaimed series. "Any readers interested in the history of flying will treasure this series of] profusely illustrated books." - Booklist War and Peace in the Air, the final book in the acclaimed five-volume Aviation Century series, explores the influence of av ...Show more
M: Maxwell Knight, MI5's Greatest Spymaster by Henry Hemming
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
"Fascinating...Hemming has done a superb job". (Ben Macintyre, The Times, Book of the Week). Maxwell Knight was a paradox. A jazz obsessive and nature enthusiast (he is the author of the definitive work on how to look after a gorilla), he is seen today as one of MI5's greatest spymasters, a man who did ...Show more
Red AppleCommunism and McCarthyism in Cold War New York by Phillip Deery
$55.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Fordham University Press Ser.
From the late 1940s through the 1950s, McCarthyism disfigured the American political landscape. Under the altar of anticommunism, domestic Cold War crusaders undermined civil liberties, curtailed equality before the law, and tarnished the ideals of American democracy. In order to preserve freedom, they ...Show more
The Internationalists: And Their Plan to Outlaw War by Oona Hathaway
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
'Like The Clash of Civilizations and The End of History, this brilliant book lays out a vision that makes sense of the world today in the context of centuries of history. It will change the way you remember the 20th century and read the news in the 21st' Steven PinkerSince the end of the Second World ...Show more
Sunken Cities: Egypt's Lost Worlds by Franck Goddio
$55.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: British Museum Ser.
Beneath the waters of Abukir Bay, at the edge of the Nile Delta, lie the submerged remains of the ancient Egyptian cities Naukratis and Thonis-Heracleion, which sank over 1,000 years ago but were dramatically rediscovered in the 20th century and brought to the surface by marine archaeologists in the 199 ...Show more