1787: The Lost Chapters of Australia's Beginnings by Nick Brodie
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
For over 200 years Australia's official history has focused on English colonisation and 'discovery', with tales of British explorers and first generation white Australians navigating the vast and unfriendly land. But what of the millennia before the English claimed Australia as their own and wrote the h ...Show more
Beautiful Balts: From Displaced Persons to New Australians by Jayne Persian
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
170,000 Displaced Persons arrived in Australia between 1947 and 1952 - the first non-Anglo-Celtic mass migrants. Australia's first immigration minister, Arthur Calwell, scoured post-war Europe for refugees, Displaced Persons he characterised as 'Beautiful Balts'. Amid the hierarchies of the White Austra ...Show more
The Penguin History of Latin America by Edwin Williamson
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Now fully updated to 2009, this acclaimed history of Latin America tells its turbulent story from Columbus to Chavez. Beginning with the Spanish and Portugese conquests of the New World, it takes in centuries of upheaval, revolution and modernization up to the present day, looking in detail at Argentina ...Show more
Time Travel Handbook: From Pompeii to Woodstock by David Goldblatt
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Have you ever wondered what you might need to wear if you were setting off back in time to be at the execution of Charles I? Or what might have been the best vantage point to watch the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and still survive? Or how you might get your point across at the trial of Greek philosopher ...Show more
Flinders: The Man Who Mapped Australia by Rob Mundle
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Matthew Flinders is a towering figure in Australian history the first to chart our coastline and the leading champion for naming the country Australia. In 1801 he was made commander of the expedition of his life the first close circumnavigation of Terra Australis. Famous for his meticulous charts and su ...Show more
Still Counting the Dead: Survivors of Sri Lanka's Hidden War by Frances Harrison
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The tropical island of Sri Lanka is a paradise for tourists, but in 2009 it became a hell for its Tamil minority, as decades of civil war between the Tamil Tiger guerrillas and the government reached its bloody climax. Caught in the crossfire were hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren, doctors, farmer ...Show more
Chronicles of the Ancient World by John Haywood
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Sumeria, c.3500 BC, witnessed the birth of the world's very first city by the rich and fertile banks of the Uruk. Over the next four millennia, the social and cultural landscape would change beyond recognition as many of history's most important kingdoms and cities took root. Interweaving Mesopotamian, ...Show more
The Making of Australia: From a Tiny Struggling Convict Settlement to the Remarkable Nation it is Today by David Hill
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
This is the story of how a struggling convict settlement grew into six dynamic colonies and then the remarkable nation of Australia. Told through the key figures who helped build it into the thriving nation it is today, David Hill once again offers up Australian history at its most entertaining and acce ...Show more
Little Book of Big History by Ian D. Crofton
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
From the Big Bang to the future of our planet, The Little Book of Big History divides history into manageable but comprehensive time frames, encompassing the cosmos, the stars, life and everything in between. Big History is the attempt to understand and condense the entire story of the cosmos, from the ...Show more
1946: the Making of the Modern World by Victor Sebestyen
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
With the end of the Second World War, a new world was born. The peace agreements that brought the conflict to an end implemented decisions that not only shaped the second half of the twentieth century, but continue to affect our world today and impact on its future. In 1946 the Cold War began, the state ...Show more
The End of the Cold War by Robert Service
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
The Cold War had seemed like a permanent fixture in global politics, and until its denouement, no Western or Soviet politician foresaw that the stand-off between the two superpowers - after decades of struggle over every aspect of security, politics, economics and ideas - would end in their lifetimes. E ...Show more
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: good
Winner of the British Book Awards History Book of the Year Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize This thrilling biography of Stalin and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme power transforms our understanding of Stalin as Soviet dictator, Marxist leader and Russian tsar. Based on ...Show more