Fifty Ships that Changed the Course of History by Ian Graham
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
From the Stone Age to the present day, no technology has had a more profound impact on mankind than watercraft. Boats and ships made possible the settlement and conquest of new worlds. They determined the victors of history-changing wars and aided the spread of new philosophies, technologies, and religi ...Show more
Photos That Changed the World by Peter Stepan
$35.99 AUD
Category: History
Now available in an updated and revised edition, "Photos that Changed the World" gathers together images of pivotal moments in world history in one stunning volume. In lavish two-page spreads, this book presents nearly one hundred of history s most memorable photographs from the Wright Brothers first fl ...Show more
Seafurrers by Philippa Sandall
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
While the many extraordinary exploits of the seafarers who mapped the world have been well documented, those of their indispensable pest controllers, shipmates, and mascots haven't - until now. In Seafurrers, Bart the seafaring feline provides us with a cat's-eye view of maritime history - starting in t ...Show more
Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table by Ellen Wayland-Smith
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Description: Amidst the religious fervor of the Second Great Awakening, John Humphrey Noyes, a spirited but socially awkward young man, attracted a group of devoted followers with his fiery sermons about creating Jesus' millennial kingdom here on earth. Noyes and his followers built a large communal hou ...Show more
The Debatable Land - The Lost World Between Scotland and England by Graham Robb
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
'A book worth reading' Andrew Marr, Sunday TimesThe Debatable Land was an independent territory which used to exist between Scotland and England. At the height of its notoriety, it was the bloodiest region in Great Britain, fought over by Henry VIII, Elizabeth I and James V. After the Union of the Crown ...Show more
Blood and Soil - A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur by Ben Kiernan; B. Kiernan
$59.95 AUD
Category: History
For thirty years Ben 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 Camb ...Show more
The Catholics: The Church and its People in Britain and Ireland, from the Reformation to the Present Day by Roy Hattersley
$62.99 AUD
Category: History
"The story of Catholicism in Britain from the Reformation to the present day, from a master of popular history - 'a first-class storyteller'". (The Times). Throughout the three hundred years that followed the Act of Supremacy - which, by making Henry VIII head of the Church, confirmed in law the breach ...Show more
The Russian Roots of Nazism - White Émigrés and the Making of National Socialism, 1917-1945 by Michael Kellogg
$72.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: New Studies in European History Ser.
This book examines the overlooked topic of the influence of anti-Bolshevik, anti-Semitic Russian exiles on Nazism. White migrs contributed politically, financially, militarily, and ideologically to National Socialism. This work refutes the notion that Nazism developed as a peculiarly German phenomenon: ...Show more
Victoria The Christmas Special : Comfort and Joy DVD by Loach Jim
$19.95 AUD
Category: History
The Celts by Alice Roberts
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
'Informed, impeccably researched and written' Neil Oliver The Celts are one of the world's most mysterious ancient people. In this compelling account, Alice Roberts takes us on a journey across Europe, uncovering the truth about this engimatic tribe: their origins, their treasure and their enduring leg ...Show more
Reading the Rocks: How Victorian Geologists Discovered the Secret of Life by Brenda Maddox
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
A rich and exuberant group biography of the first geologists, the people who were first to excavate from the layers of the world its buried history. These first geologists were made up primarily, and inevitably, of gentlemen with the necessary wealth to support their interests, yet boosting their number ...Show more
A Brief History of the Private Life of Elizabeth II, Updated Edition by Michael Paterson
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Brief Histories Ser.
Elizabeth II is the longest-reigning British monarch. A personally quiet, modest and dutiful person, she is far better-informed about the lives of her subjects than they often realize. She has known every Prime Minister since Winston Churchill and every American President since Eisenhower. Yet what of t ...Show more