The Work of History: Writing for Stuart Macintyre by Peter Beilharz, Sian Supski
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Stuart Macintyre was an eminent figure within the world of Australian history scholarship for 45 years. This collection of essays and responses revisits and extends this extraordinary life of achievement and engagement. Leading scholars write here of Macintyre's contribution to understanding radicalism ...Show more
The World of Late Antiquity AD 150-750 by Peter Brwon
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Library of European Civilization Ser.
This remarkable study in social and cultural change explains how and why the Late Antique world, between c.150 and c.750 A.D., came to differ from 'Classical civilization'. These centuries, as the author demonstrates, were the era in which the most deep-rooted of ancient institutions disappeared for all ...Show more
The World of the Crusades by Christopher Tyerman
$34.95 AUD
Category: History
A lively reimagining of how the distant medieval world of war functioned, drawing on the objects used and made by crusaders Throughout the Middle Ages crusading was justified by religious ideology, but the resulting military campaigns were fueled by concrete objectives: land, resources, power, reputatio ...Show more
The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Myth of the Lost Cause by Sarah Churchwell
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Category: History
Gone With the Wind, the myth of the Lost Cause and what they can tell us about American history and culture today - from Walter Scott and Ladies Fair, to fiery crosses, lynching and the Capitol insurrection. Margaret Mitchell's epic novel, Gone With the Wind, became an overnight bestseller when it was ...Show more
Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece by Paul Cartledge
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
'An incisive, inspiring and vitally illuminating account of a city which changed the ancient world and which deserves to be remembered by the modern. A masterful book written by a master historian.' - Bettany Hughes, bestselling author of Istanbul and Helen of TroyContinuously inhabited for five millenn ...Show more
Traitor King: The Duke and Duchess of Windsor in Exile by Andrew Lownie
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
The explosive new book by the bestselling author of The Mountbattens. Traitor King, by Sunday Times bestselling author Andrew Lownie, looks at the years following the abdication of Edward VIII when the former king was kept in exile, feuding with his family over status for his wife, Wallis Simpson, and d ...Show more
Unconventional Women The story of the last Blessed Sacrament Sisters in Australia by Sarah Gilbert
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
The lives of the women who joined a closed convent in Melbourne in a time of great upheaval In the 1950s and 60s, six young women left their families to join a strictly enclosed order of nuns in Melbourne. They could leave the convent only for medical appointments and rarely received visitors, who the ...Show more
Venus and Aphrodite by Bettany Hughes
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Through ancient art, evocative myth, exciting archaeological revelations and philosophical explorations Bettany Hughes shows why this immortal goddess endures through to the twenty-first century, and what her journey through time reveals about what matters to us as humans.Charting Venus's origins in pow ...Show more
Vera Deakin and the Red Cross by Carole Woods
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
This is a biography of Vera Deakin, daughter of the Prime Minister Alfred Deakin, focussing on her work with the Australian Red Cross. At the outbreak of war she gave up her musical studies to initiate the Wounded and Missing Inquiry Bureau of the Red Cross in Cairo and later in London. After the War s ...Show more
Viking Women: Life and Lore by Lisa Hannett
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Let's travel in time together, a thousand or so years back, and meet Viking women in their hearth-lit world.How did these medieval viragoes live, love and die? How can we encounter them as flesh-and-blood beings with fears and feelings - not just as names in sagas or runes carved into stone? In this gro ...Show more
WORD HORD Daily Life in Old English by Hana Videen
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
An entertaining and illuminating collection of weird, wonderful and downright baffling words from the origins of English. Old English is the language we think we know until we actually see it. Used in England over a thousand years ago, it is rich with words that haven't changed (word), others that are u ...Show more
War and Punishment by Mikhail Zygar
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
As soon as the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine began, prominent independent Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar took action. He circulated a petition that was signed first by hundreds of his cultural and journalistic contacts and then by thousands of others. That brave act led to a new law in Russia crimi ...Show more