Queens of Jerusalem - The Women Who Dared to Rule by Katherine Pangonis
$10.00 AUD
$34.99 (71% off)
Category: History
Debut by an exciting young narrative historian - a revisionist history of Medieval Palestine In 1187 Saladin's armies besieged the holy city of Jerusalem. He had previously annihilated Jerusalem's army at the battle of Hattin, and behind the city's high walls a last-ditch defence was being led by an unl ...Show more
Empire of Democracy by Simon Reid-Henry
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Half a century ago, at the height of the Cold War and amidst a world economic crisis, the Western democracies were forced to undergo a profound transformation. Against what some saw as a full-scale "crisis of democracy" - with race riots, anti-Vietnam marches and a wave of worker discontent sowing crisi ...Show more
The Great Journeys in History by Robin Hanbury-Tenison
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan, David Livingstone, Amelia Earhart, Neil Armstrong: these are some of the greatest travellers of all time. This book chronicles their stories and many more, describing epic voyages of discovery from the extraordinary migrations out of Africa by our earliest ancestors to th ...Show more
Pandemic Century - A History of Contagion From The Spanish Flu To Covid 19 by Mark Honigsbaum
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year The most timely and informative history book you will read this year, tracing a century of pandemics, with a new chapter on COVID-19. Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disea ...Show more
Unlocking the World : Port Cities and Globalisation in the Age of Steam, 1830-1930 by John Darwin
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Steam power transformed our world, initiating the complex, resource-devouring industrial system the consequences of which we live with today. It revolutionized work and production, but also the ease and cost of movement over land and water. The result was to throw open vast areas of the world to the ram ...Show more
The Far Land by Brandon Presser
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
A thrilling tale of power, obsession and betrayal at the edge of the world. In 1808, an American merchant ship happened upon an uncharted island in the South Pacific and unwittingly solved the biggest nautical mystery of the era: the whereabouts of a band of fugitives who, after seizing their vessel, ha ...Show more
Northern Mythology: Tales From Norse, Sámi, Finnish & Baltic Traditions by Tim Rayborn
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Discover the complex mythology of the legendary Nordic people who inspired Hollywood films, epic novels, and more. Beautiful goddesses, fierce warriors, formidable beasts, and Ragnarok itself--these magical tales have enthralled audiences for centuries. This classic collection of tales offers fascina ...Show more
100 Symbols that Changed the World by Colin Salter
$32.95 AUD
Category: History
100 Symbols That Changed The World looks at the genesis and adoption of the world’s most recognizable symbols. Universal symbols have been used as a form of communication from the Bronze Age, when the dynasties of ancient Egypt began the evolution of the thousand characters used in Egyptian hieroglyphic ...Show more
History Day by Day by Peter Furtado
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
History Day by Day presents an original perspective on over two millennia of human history through 366 quotations, one for each day of the year, including leap years. Each quotation, tied to the anniversary of a significant historical event, captures that moment with the immediacy of an eyewitness or th ...Show more
History of Britain and Ireland by DK
$42.99 AUD
Category: History
Combining over 700 photographs, maps, and artworks with accessible text, the History of Britain and Irelandis an invaluable resource for families, students, and anyone seeking to learn more about the fascinating story of the England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Spanning six distinct periods of British ...Show more
Crusaders: An Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands (HB) by Dan Jones
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
Dan Jones, best-selling chronicler of the Middle Ages, turns his attention to the history of the Crusades - the sequence of religious wars fought between the late eleventh century and late medieval periods, in which armies from European Christian states attempted to wrest the Holy Land from Islamic rule ...Show more
From Dawn to Decadence by Jacques Barzun
$42.99 AUD
Category: History
Showcases the triumphs and defeats of five hundred years of Western cultural history, highlighting the contributions of women and arguing that decadance is required in order to spark creativity in the next era.