West Papua and Indonesia Since Suharto by Peter King
$39.95 AUD
Category: History
In the 1950s the Dutch promised the people of West Papua (the western half of New Guinea) self-determination and eventual independence. But in 1963 Indonesia took control of the territory with the blessing of the US, the UN and Australia. In a tragic clash between two very different cultures over the ne ...Show more
Brunelleschi's Dome : The Story of the Great Cathedral in Florence by Ross King
$28.00 AUD
Category: History
Even in an age of soaring skyscrapers and cavernous sports stadiums, the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, with its immense, terracotta-tiled cupola, still retains a rare power to astonish. Yet the elegance of the building belies the tremendous labour, technical ingenuity and bitter person ...Show more
BLOOD AND SOIL ??? by KIERNAN Benedict
$50.00 AUD
Category: History
For thirty years Benedict Kiernan has been deeply involved in the study of genocide and crimes against humanity. He has played a key role in unearthing confidential documentation of the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge. His writings have transformed our understanding not only of twentieth-century ...Show more
The Penguin Atlas of World History - Volume II : From the French Revolution to the Present (updated 2003) by Hermann Kinder
$25.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Reference Bks.
With its its companion volume this comprises The Penguin Atlas of World History, and juxtaposes maps with a detailed and wide-ranging chronological summary of the main cultural, scientific, religious, economic and political events of the period, skilfully clarifying complex historical situations.
The Penguin Atlas of World History From Prehistory to the Eve of the French Revolution Vol 1 :From Prehistory to the Eve of the French Revolution : Vol 1. From Prehistory to the Eve of the French Revolution by Hermann Kinder
$25.00 AUD
Category: History
Juxtaposes maps with a detailed and wide-ranging chronological summary of the main cultural, scientific, religious, economic and political events of the period.
The Great Partition by Yasmin Khan
$54.95 AUD
Category: History
The partition of India in 1947 promised its people both political and religious freedom - through the liberation of India from British rule, and the creation of the Muslim state of Pakistan. In reality the geographical divide effected an even greater schism of the population, benefiting the few at the e ...Show more
Prisoner of the Vatican by David I Kertzer
$21.95 AUD
Category: History
Draws on previously unknown documents from the Vatican archives to detail a late-nineteenth-century plot on the part of Pope Pius IX and his successor, Leo XIII, to block the unification of Italy and to seize control of Rome and the Papal States, in a colorful history marked by such key individuals as t ...Show more
The Great Partition by Yasmin Khan
$22.95 AUD
Category: History
The partition of India in 1947 promised its people both political and religious freedom - through the liberation of India from British rule, and the creation of the Muslim state of Pakistan. In reality the geographical divide effected an even greater schism of the population, benefiting the few at the e ...Show more
Hitler, 1936-1945: Nemesis by Ian Kershaw
$29.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Allen Lane History Ser.
Following the enormous success of "Hitler: Hubris" this book triumphantly completes one of the great modern biographies. No figure in twentieth century history more clearly demands a close biographical understanding than Adolf Hitler; and no period is more important than the Second World War. Beginning ...Show more
Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution by Ian Kershaw
$77.95 AUD
Category: History
This book is the culmination of more than three decades of meticulous historiographic research on Nazi Germany by one of the period's most distinguished historians. The volume brings together the most important and influential aspects of Ian Kershaw's research on the Holocaust for the first time. The wr ...Show more
Making Friends with Hitler : Lord Londonderry and Britain's road to war by Ian Kershaw
$27.95 AUD
Category: History
Britain, as the most powerful of the European victors of World War One, had a unique responsibility to maintain the peace in the aftermath of the Treaty of Versailles. The outbreak of a second, even more catastrophic war in 1939 has therefore always raised painful questions about Britain's failure to de ...Show more
Hitler by Ian Kershaw
$65.00 AUD
Category: History
Now at last in a single, abridged volume - the definitive life. When the two volumes of Ian Kershaw's biography of "Hitler, Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris" and "Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis" were published, they were immediately greeted around the world as the essential works on perhaps the most malign figure ev ...Show more