Wars of the Roses by Lewis Matthew
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
In the second half of the fifteenth century, for over thirty years, civil war tore England apart. However, its roots were deeper and its thorns were felt for longer than this time frame suggests.The Wars of the Roses were not a coherent period of continual warfare. There were distinct episodes of confli ...Show more
America Before: the Key to Earth's Lost Civilisation by Graham Hancock
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Until very recently there was almost universal agreement amongst scientists that human beings first entered the Americas from Siberia around 13,000 years ago by walking into Alaska across the Bering landbridge. Over the next two thousand years their descendants supposedly spread out through Central and ...Show more
The Light of Italy - The Life and Times of Federico Da Montefeltre, Duke of Urbino by Jane Stevenson
$64.26 AUD
Category: History
'Painstakingly researched and yet unfailingly readable' Ross King 'An insight into one of Renaissance Italy's most glamorous courts' Catherine Fletcher 'In a narrative matching her book's sumptious illustrations, Jane Stevenson celebrates Urbino as an essential place of pilgrimage for all lovers of Ital ...Show more
Pomegranate: A Global History by Damien Stone
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Edible
Juicy, crunchy, tart: with its multitude of seeds and juice akin to blood, it's not hard to see why the pomegranate has so appealed to the imagination. After being held in high esteem in the rituals of the polytheistic religions of the ancient world, the pomegranate came to be revered in Christianity, I ...Show more
Henry VIII: The Decline and Fall of a Tyrant by Robert Hutchinson
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
The Tudors retained only a precarious grip on the crown of England, founded on a title that was both tenuous and legally flimsy. This left them preoccupied by two major obsessions: the necessity for a crop of lusty male heirs to continue their bloodline, and the elimination of threats from those who had ...Show more
Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492-1900 by Simon Schama
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 BY THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, MAIL ON SUNDAY AND OBSERVER Belonging is a magnificent cultural history abundantly alive with energy, character and colour. From the Jews' expulsion from Spain in 1492 it tells the stories not just of ...Show more
Rome and Italy: The History of Rome from Its Foundation by Titus Livy
$27.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Classics Ser.
Books VI-X of Livy's monumental work trace Rome's fortunes from its near collapse after defeat by the Gauls in 386 bc to its emergence, in a matter of decades, as the premier power in Italy, having conquered the city-state of Samnium in 293 bc. In this fascinating history, events are described not simpl ...Show more
The Way It Was - Life in Elizabeth's Britain, 1952-1979 by Matthew Engel
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
A wonderfully witty and illuminating social history of post-war Britain, by the author of Engel's England and Eleven Minutes Late.
How to Hide an Empire - A Short History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'Wry, readable and often astonishing ... nimbly combines breadth and sweep with fine-grained attention to detail. The result is a provocative and absorbing history of the United States' NEW YORK TIMES For a country that has always denied having dreams of empire, the United States owns a lot of overseas ...Show more
Big History: Our Incredible Journey, from Big Bang to Now by DK
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Compact edition of the first fully integrated visual reference on Big History for general readers Discover how we got to where we are, in this multidisciplinary approach to 13.8 billion years of human and cosmic history With the Big Bang as its starting point, Big History places humans in the context of ...Show more
The Making Of The Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
With a new Introduction by the author, the twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning epic about how the atomic bomb came to be. In rich, human, political, and scientific detail, here is the complete story of the nuclear bomb. Few great discoveries have evolved so swiftly-or h ...Show more
Quirky History: Maritime Moments Most History Books Forgot by JOHN QUIRK
$44.99 AUD
Category: History
John Quirk loves history, drawing and boats and these three elements come together in this attractive and entertaining book. He has sought out obscure episodes or familiar events from the past and written engagingly about them, illustrated with his excellent colour cartoons. Where possible he relates th ...Show more