French Connection - Australia's Quest to Become a Cosmopolitan Nation by Alexis Bergantz
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The French have long been part of the Australian story. From talented gold fields photographer Antoine Fauchery and infighting in the upper echelons of Melbourne society as to who should run Alliance Française to the Playoust family whose Australian-born sons enlisted with the French army in the First W ...Show more
Forgotten War by Henry Reynolds
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Australia is dotted with memorials to soldiers who fought in wars overseas, but there are no official commemorations of the battles fought on Australian soil between Aborigines and white colonists. Delving into why it is more controversial to talk about the frontier war now than it was 100 years ago, Fo ...Show more
Sexplosion From Andy Warhol to a Clockwork Orange-- How a Generation of Pop Rebels Broke All the Taboos by Robert Hofler
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
After the sexual revolution came the sexual explosion. The six years between 1968 and 1973 saw more sexual taboos challenged than ever before, and likely ever since. Film, literature, theater and music simultaneously broke through barriers previously unimagined, giving birth to what we still consider to ...Show more
Imagine That - Music by Michael Sells
$12.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Imagine That
The US Army could have caused the collapse of rock and roll, and the mayor of New York very nearly transformed Woodstock into a musical riot. Imagine that...The legacy of music is a precarious one. Might Jimi Hendrix and Jeff Beck still be alive today if it wasn't for rock's favourite designer? Would Et ...Show more
50 Strategies That Changed History by Daniel Smith
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
How did David, the future king of Israel, plot his assault against the seemingly invincible Philistine warrior Goliath? What strategic thinking lay behind the military triumphs of Alexander the Great or Napoleon Bonaparte? When revolutionaries organized to bring about the downfall of the autocratic Russ ...Show more
Australians (Volume 3): Flappers to Vietnam by Thomas Keneally
$35.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Australians
'A loving history of the Australian people' - Sydney Morning Herald..'.displays historical literacy, and plenty of humanity, empathy and compassion, all qualities rare in our public culture to be cherished when we find them.' - Weekend Australian. As in the two previous volumes of Australians, Thomas Ke ...Show more
Queens of the Conquest by Alison Weir
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year The story of England's medieval queens is vivid and stirring, packed with tragedy, high drama and even comedy. It is a chronicle of love, murder, war and betrayal, filled with passion, intrigue and sorrow, peopled by a cast of heroines, villains, stateswomen and lover ...Show more
The Edge of the World - How the North Sea Made Us Who We are by Michael Pye
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Featured in New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2015 Michael Pye's The Edge of the World 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. 'An utterly beguiling journey into the dar ...Show more
Dear Prime Minister Letters to Robert Menzies, 1949–1966 by Martyn Lyons
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
‘I am sir [sure] you will act as human bean’, wrote one distressed pensioner to Prime Minister Robert Menzies in 1953, pleading for assistance.Robert Menzies received 22,000 letters during his 1949-1966 record-breaking second term as Australian Prime Minister. From war veterans, widows and political lea ...Show more
The Face of Britain: The Nation Through its Portraits by Simon Schama
$69.99 AUD
Category: History
Simon Schama brings Britain to life through its portraits, as seen in the five-part BBC series The Face of Britain and the major National Portrait Gallery exhibition Churchill and his painter locked in a struggle of stares and glares; Gainsborough watching his daughters run after a butterfly; a black Ot ...Show more
Aboriginal Australians by Muecke S & S
$17.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: New Horizons S.
In the 18th century, as European colonization proceeded apace, one continent remained to be discovered, the mythical Terra Australis incognita. This, the largest island-continent, had been inhabited for over 60,000 years by the Aborigines, who were described by the first explorers as the 'miserablest pe ...Show more
The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn: The Most Happy by Eric Ives
$34.95 AUD
Category: History
This definitive biography of Anne Boleyn establishes her as a figure of considerable importance and influence in her own right. It is a full biography of Anne Boleyn, based on the latest scholarly research. It focusses on Anne's life and legacy and establishes Anne as a figure of considerable importance ...Show more