The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East by Nicholas Morton
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'Brain-stretching . . . pulsating . . . irresistable' The Sunday Times'Deeply researched and elegantly written - essential reading' Dan Jones'Erudite, often thrilling and much-needed' Daily TelegraphHow the Mongol invasions of the Near East reshaped the balance of world power in the Middle Ages.For cent ...Show more
War And An Irish Town by Mccann Eamonn
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
War and an Irish Town is Eamonn McCann's classic account of growing up Catholic in a Northern Irish ghetto.
Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire by Eckart Frahm
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
At its height in 660 BCE, the kingdom of Assyria stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. It was the first empire the world had ever seen. Here, historian Eckart Frahm tells the epic story of Assyria and its formative role in global history. Assyria's wide-ranging conquests have long be ...Show more
China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower by Frank Dikotter
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'A revolutionary book' Sunday Times ... 'A pulsating account' Peter Frankopan .... *A SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR* How did the People's Republic of China transform from a backwater economy in the 1970s into the world superpower of today? Drawing on hundreds of previously unseen archiv ...Show more
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire by Caroline Elkins
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
**Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2022**'This book is dynamite' - ROBERT GILDEA, author of Empires of the MindA searing, landmark study of the British Empire that lays bare its pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century.Sprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and cl ...Show more
The Palace by Gareth Russell
$52.99 AUD
Category: History
'If a house could gossip, this is the book that Hampton Court would whisper. An enjoyable and readable stroll through 500 years of Hampton Court history: royal residents, common visitors, thieves, invaders and ghosts' PHILIPPA GREGORYFor centuries, Hampton Court has been a place of power, scandal and in ...Show more
Metropolitain: An Ode to the Paris Metro by Andrew Martin
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Andrew Martin has been described as 'the laureate of railways', having written many books with railway themes. But Andrew has always been obsessed with the Paris Metro, hence Metropolitain: An Ode to the Paris Metro, the first English history of the Metro for the general reader.Metropolitain is as styli ...Show more
Ukraine The Forging of a Nation by Yaroslav Hrytsak
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
UKRAINE The Forging of a Nation offers readers a chance to understand more about Ukraine's remarkable past, examining the crucial moments of Ukrainian and global history of the past 1000 years. In this compelling history, learn how the emergence of medieval states, the discovery of America, the industr ...Show more
Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes by Tariq Ali
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The modern Churchill cult is out of control, closing down historical debate and encouraging support for twenty-first-century wars. The man has become a household god for many, preserving an antiquated vision of Britain. In this coruscating portrait, Tariq Ali audits Churchill's crimes -both globally and ...Show more
Economics in Perspective - A Critical History by John Kenneth Galbraith; Richard Parker (Foreword by)
$44.99 AUD
Category: History
In Economics in Perspective, renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith presents a compelling and accessible history of economic ideas, from Aristotle through the twentieth century. Examining theories of the past that have a continuing modern resonance, he shows that economics is not a timeless, objectiv ...Show more
Berlin: Life and Loss in the City That Shaped The Century by Sinclair McKay
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The Sunday Times-bestselling author of Dresden returns with a monumental biography of the city that defined the twentieth century - Berlin 'I loved this book . . . apposite and wise . . . To anyone who knows Berlin a little and is fascinated by it, but would like to understand it better, this is a wond ...Show more
Budapest: Between East and West by Victor Sebestyen
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR From the critically acclaimed historian Victor Sebestyen, the enthralling account of historical and cultural events that defined Budapest, a unique city on the fault line between East and West in the heart of Europe. Victor Sebestyen has written a sweeping, colorf ...Show more