Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate: Consuming the World by Yao-Fen You
$32.95 AUD
Category: History
Coffee, tea, and chocolate were all the rage in Enlightenment Europe. These fashionable beverages profoundly shaped modes of sociability and patterns of consumption, yet none of the plants required for their preparation was native to the continent: coffee was imported from the Levant, tea from Asia, and ...Show more
The Claimant by Paul Terry
$32.95 AUD
Category: History
The Claimant's story was one of intrigue, deception, betrayal and conflict. It sparked a class war, impugned a lady's honour and even delivered the crushing finale to a 900-year-old medieval curse. When he died at the end of a lifetime of notoriety, the Tichborne family allowed him to be buried in a ca ...Show more
The Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru by El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega; Harold V. Livermore (Translator); Karen Spalding (Intro and Notes by, Editor)
$31.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
This new abridgment of both volumes of Livermore's classic translation presents those selections that comprise Garcilaso's historical narrative. Karen Spalding's new Introduction and notes set Garcilaso in his intellectual, historical, and cultural contexts.
The Origins of the Irish by J.P. Mallory
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Written as an engrossing detective story by the leading authority, this is the first major account in nearly eighty years to deal with the core issues and multiple influences in the creation of the Irish people. Essential reading, with over 120 informative line drawings and maps, for anyone interested i ...Show more
First Freedom: A History of Free Speech by HARGREAVES ROBERT
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
This volume examines the history of free speech, from the execution of Socrates to the writings of Milton, Voltaire and Mill and the struggles of Paine, Wilkes and Cobbett. From its infancy in ancient Athens, Hargreaves offers pen-portraits of the champions of free speech, recounting the story through t ...Show more
Aboriginal Sydney - a Guide to Important Places of the Past and Present by Melinda Hinkson
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
Despite its bustling urban presence, Sydney has a rich and complex Aboriginal heritage. Hidden within its burgeoning city landscape lie layers of a vibrant culture and a turbulent history. But you need to know where to look. Aboriginal Sydney supplies the information. The popular first edition establish ...Show more
Conscription Conflict & the Great War by Robin Archer
$29.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Australian History
While the Great War raged, Australians were twice asked to vote on the question of military conscription for overseas service. The recourse to popular referendum on such an issue at such a time was without precedent anywhere in the world. The campaigns precipitated mass mobilisation, bitter argument, a ...Show more
How to Plan a Crusade: Reason and Religious War in the Middle Ages by Christopher Tyerman
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
In this highly original and enjoyable book, Christopher Tyerman focuses on the massive, all-encompassing and hugely costly business of actually preparing a crusade. The efforts of many thousands of men and women, who left their lands and families in Western Europe, and marched off to a highly uncertain ...Show more
Pocket Museum: Ancient Greece by David Michael Smith
$27.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Pocket Museum
Pocket Museum: Ancient Greece presents more than 200 objects currently housed in public collections around the world that offer both context and immediacy to the rich culture of Ancient Greece. From the bifacial hand tools of the Lower Palaeolithic to the Hellenistic Great Altar of Pergamon, the artifac ...Show more
Private Lives, Public History by Anna Clark
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
The past is consumed on a grand scale: popularised by television programs, enjoyed by reading groups, walking groups, historical societies and heritage tours, and supported by unprecedented digital access to archival records. Yet our history has also become the subject of heated political debate. In Pri ...Show more
The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall by Mary Elise Sarotte
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
On the night of November 9, 1989, massive crowds surged toward the Berlin Wall, drawn by an announcement that caught the world by surprise: East Germans could now move freely to the West. The Wall--infamous symbol of divided Cold War Europe--seemed to be falling. But the opening of the gates that night ...Show more
The Unwritten Order - Hitler's Role in the Final Solution by Peter Longerich
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The Holocaust differs from other genocides in recent history for one main reason: there is no other example in which a minority was annihilated systematically and as completely as possible on the orders of a head of state and through the apparatus of government. To reconstruct Hitler's central role in t ...Show more