Power and the People - Lessons for Today from the Birthplace of Democracy by Alev Scott; Andronike Makris
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
DEMOCRACY WAS BORN IN ATHENS. FROM ITS FOUNDING MYTHS TO ITS GOLDEN AGE AND ITS CHAOTIC DOWNFALL, IT'S RICH WITH LESSONS FOR OUR OWN TIMES. Why did vital civic engagement and fair debate descend into populism and paralysis? Can we compare the demagogue Cleon to President Trump, the Athenian Empire to m ...Show more
The Art of Time Travel: Historians and their Craft by Tom Griffiths
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
In this landmark, critically acclaimed book, eminent historian and award-winning author Tom Griffiths explores the craft of history. Through portraits of fourteen historians, including Inga Clendinnen, Judith Wright, Geoffrey Blainey and Henry Reynolds, he traces how a body of work is formed out of a l ...Show more
Making of Australia by David Hill
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
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
Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic - Abacus 40th edition by Tom Holland
$14.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Abacus 40th Anniversary
The Roman Republic was the most remarkable state in history. What began as a small community of peasants camped among marshes and hills ended up ruling the known world. Rubicon paints a vivid portrait of the Republic at the climax of its greatness - the same greatness which would herald the catastrophe ...Show more
The Edge of the World: How the North Sea Made Us Who We are by Michael Pye
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
The Edge of the World by Michael Pye is an epic adventure: from the Vikings to the Enlightenment, from barbaric outpost to global centre, it tells the amazing story of northern Europe's transformation by sea. "Elegant writing and extraordinary scholarship ...miraculous". (Hugh Aldersey-Williams, author ...Show more
Civil War - The History of England Volume 3 by Peter Ackroyd
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The History of England | Reading Level: very good
In Civil War, Peter Ackroyd continues his dazzling account of England's history, beginning with the progress south of the Scottish king, James VI, who on the death of Elizabeth I became the first Stuart king of England, and ends with the deposition and flight into exile of his grandson, James II. The St ...Show more
Fragrant - The Secret Life of Scent by Mandy Aftel
$40.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Mandy Aftel is widely acclaimed as a trailblazer in natural perfumery. Over two decades of sourcing the finest aromatic ingredients from all over the world and creating artisanal fragrances, she has been an evangelist for the transformative power of scent. In Fragrant, through five major players in the ...Show more
ANZAC to Amiens: War Popular Penguins by C. E. W. Bean
$9.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: War Popular Penguins
The First World War was the blooding of the young Australian nation. Five years after Australia's overwhelming response to Britain's declaration of war, nearly a fifth of the 330,000 Australians who served overseas lay dead. Charles Bean witnessed it all. Appointed official war correspondent with the Au ...Show more
The Story of Australia's People - Volume 2 by Geoffrey Blainey
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
An accomplishment of both great sweep and impressive detail, Geoffrey Blainey's ambitious account of this country, The Story of Australia's People: The Rise and Rise of a New Australia, takes us from the gold rush to the present day. It marks the culmination of a lifelong study by one of Australia's mos ...Show more
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel
$69.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
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
Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire by Roger Crowley
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition of Vasco da Gama to India and beat the Spanish to the spice kingdoms of the East - then set ...Show more
Looking for Rose Paterson: How family bush life nurtured Banjo the poet by Jennifer Gall
$44.99 AUD
Category: History
Rose was the mother of famous Australian poet Banjo Paterson (known as Barty as a boy) and, yet, very little has been written about her. As wife of pastoral station manager Andrew Bogle Paterson, Rose's married life was lived under straitened financial circumstances, something that a woman of her class ...Show more