We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958 by Fintan O'Toole
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The #1 Irish Times bestseller. WINNER of the An Post Irish Book Awards. 'A clear-eyed, myth-dispelling masterpiece' Marian Keyes 'Sweeping, authoritative and profoundly intelligent' Colm Tóibín, Guardian 'With the pace and twists of an enthralling novel and the edge of a fine sword' Diarmaid Ferriter ...Show more
Women and Whitlam: Revisiting the revolution by ARROW, MICHELLE
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
The Whitlam government transformed Australia. And yet the scope and scale of the reforms for Australian women are often overlooked.The Whitlam government of 1972–75 appointed a women’s advisor to national government — a world first — and reopened the equal pay case. It extended the minimum wage for wome ...Show more
A History of Delusions: The Glass King, a Substitute Husband and a Walking Corpse by Victoria Shepherd
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'Fascinating and compassionate' Horatio Clare The King of France thinking he was made of glass was terrified he might shatter -and he wasn't alone. After the Emperor met his end at Waterloo, an epidemic of Napoleons piled into France's asylums. Throughout the nineteenth century, dozens of middle-aged ...Show more
A History of Women in 101 Objects: A walk through female history by Annabelle Hirsch
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
The way we remember the past today remains dishearteningly patriarchal: a place where women have always been oppressed by men, from ancient times to the present day. A History of Women in 101 Objects tells a new story of female history, revealing the evolution of the role women have played in society th ...Show more
A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women by Emma Southon
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Here's how the history of the Roman Empire usually goes... We kick off with Romulus murdering his brother, go on to Brutus overthrowing Tarquin, bounce through an appallingly tedious list of battles and generals and consuls, before emerging into the political stab-fest of the late Republic. After 'Et tu ...Show more
A Nasty Little War: The Western Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution by Anna Reid
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
In the closing months of WW1, with the world exhausted and depleted by a long a brutal war, fifteen nations cobbled together an army of nearly 200,000 men and embarked on one of the most extraordinary and ambitious military ventures of the twentieth century. The Intervention in Russia's civil war was sp ...Show more
Affluence Without Abundance - The Disappearing World of the Bushmen by James Suzman
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
'Insightful' YUVAL NOAH HARARI'Fascinating' SUNDAY TIMES'Elegant and absorbing' FINANCIAL TIMES'Profoundly moving' IRISH TIMESWhat can we learn from the Bushmen? If the success of a civilisation is measured by its endurance over time, then the Bushmen of the Kalahari are by far the most successful in hu ...Show more
Alexandria: The City that Changed the World by Islam Issa
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
A city drawn in sand. Inspired by the tales of Homer and his own ambitions of empire, Alexander the Great sketched the idea of a city onto the sparsely populated Egyptian coastline. He did not live to see Alexandria built, but his vision of a sparkling metropolis that celebrated learning and diversity w ...Show more
Apollo and Thelma by Jon Faine
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
In Apollo and Thelma, broadcaster and lawyer Jon Faine shares a yarn that has enthralled him for forty years, taking him from Melbourne’s depression-era slums to the isolation of the outback. Apollo and Thelma have been a constant in Jon Faine’s life for decades. As a young lawyer, he was captivated b ...Show more
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
At Day's Close: A History of Nighttime by A. Roger Ekirch
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
A fascinating and colourful social history of the nighttime.'A wonderful revelation of a vanished age of darkness' SPECTATOR'Fascinating' SUNDAY TIMES'A splendid book ... great entertainment' Sir Patrick Moore'A triumph of social history. Almost every page contains something to surprise the reader ... o ...Show more
Atoms and Ashes: From Bikini Atoll to Fukushima by Serhii Plokhy
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
Baillie-Gifford award-winner Serhii Plokhy's illuminating exploration of the atomic age through the history of six nuclear disastersIn 2011, a 43-foot-high tsunami crashed into a nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan. In the following days, explosions would rip buildings apart, three reactors would go ...Show more