Florence under Siege - Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City by John Henderson
62.95 AUD
Category: History
Plague remains the paradigm against which reactions to many epidemics are often judged. Here, John Henderson examines how a major city fought, suffered, and survived the impact of plague. Going beyond traditional oppositions between rich and poor, this book provides a nuanced and more compassionate inte ...Show more
An Economic History of the English Garden by FLOUD RODERICK
24.99 AUD
Category: History
At least since the seventeenth century, most of the English population have been unable to stop making, improving and dreaming of gardens. Yet in all the thousands of books about them, this is the first to address seriously the question of how much gardens and gardening have cost, and to work out the pl ...Show more
Wars Without End: New Zealand's Land Wars - A Maori Perspective by Danny Keenan
34.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
From the earliest days of European settlement in New Zealand, Māori have struggled to hold on to their land. Tensions began early, arising from disputed land sales. When open conflict between Māori and Imperial forces broke out in the 1840s and 1860s, the struggles only intensified. For both sides, land ...Show more
Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe by Judith Herrin
49.99 AUD
Category: History
In 402 AD, after invading tribes broke through the Alpine frontiers of Italy and threatened the imperial government in Milan, the young Emperor Honorius made the momentous decision to move his capital to a small, easy defendable city in the Po estuary - Ravenna. From then until 751 AD, Ravenna was firs ...Show more
The Russia Anxiety: And How History Can Resolve It by Mark B. Smith
24.99 AUD
Category: History
Russia is an exceptional country, the biggest in the world. It is both European and exotic, powerful and weak, brilliant and flawed. Why are we so afraid of it? Time and again, we judge Russia by unique standards. We have usually assumed that it possesses higher levels of cunning, malevolence and bruta ...Show more
Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane by S. Frederick Starr
62.99 AUD
66.99 (5% off)
Category: History
In this sweeping and richly illustrated history, S. Frederick Starr tells the fascinating but largely unknown story of Central Asia's medieval enlightenment through the eventful lives and astonishing accomplishments of its greatest minds--remarkable figures who built a bridge to the modern world. Becaus ...Show more
Illuminations of Hildegard of Bingen by Fox Matthew
32.95 AUD
Category: History
An introduction to the life and work of Hildegard. - Reveals the life and teachings of one of the greatest female artists and intellectuals of the Western Mystical Tradition. - Contains 24 full-color illustrations by Hildegard of Bingen. - Includes commentary by Matthew Fox, author of Original Blessing ...Show more
The Good Son: A Story from the First World War, Told in Miniature by Pierre-Jacques Ober
34.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Miniature
A young WWI soldier's unauthorized visit home has dire consequences in a haunting story reimagined in miniature tableaux. About one hundred years ago, the whole world went to war. The war was supposed to last months. It lasted years. It is Christmastime, 1914, and World War I rages. A young French s ...Show more
Yasuke by Kelley Armstrong; Geoffrey Girard; Thomas Lockley
24.99 AUD
Category: History
WARRIOR. SAMURAI. LEGEND. The remarkable life of history's first foreign-born samurai, and his astonishing journey from Northeast Africa to the heights of Japanese society. The man who came to be known as Yasuke arrived in Japan in the 16th century, an indentured mercenary arriving upon one of the Por ...Show more
Checkpoint Charlie - The Cold War, the Berlin Wall and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth by Iain MacGregor
22.99 AUD
Category: History
'With a gripping narrative and vivid interviews with those on all sides whose lives were directly affected by that grim symbol of the East-West divide that poisoned Europe for almost half a century, [MacGregor] has made an important contribution to the history of our times' Jonathan Dimbleby 'Captures ...Show more
Empire of Democracy - The Remaking of the West since the Cold War, 1971-2017 by Simon Reid-Henry
27.99 AUD
Category: History
'Formidably ambitious... boldly attempts to paint a thematic portrait of the world's democracies and delivers an argument that leaders grounded these political structures on free-market economics... There is much to admire in Reid-Henry's book' Financial Times 'An impressive work, and a wonderful prime ...Show more
The Secret History of Soviet Russia's Police State by Martyn Whittock
22.99 AUD
Category: History
Citizens of the West have, for the most part, been told a very simplified story of the repressive 'totalitarian' state that was the USSR. In fact, it was sustained by more than just policing and force. No amount of revisionist history can erase the reality of millions controlled, imprisoned and killed, ...Show more