Mauritius: On the Spice Route 1598-1810 by Denis Piat
$45.00 AUD
Category: General History
This is a gloriously illustrated and fascinating history of Mauritius - heart of the 'Spice Route' for over 200 years. This is the engrossing story of Mauritius, the exotic Indian Ocean island port of call at the heart of the fabled 'Spice Route'. Although first discovered and visited by the Arabs and t ...Show more
Inventing Africa: History, Archaeology and Ideas by Robin Derricourt
$29.95 AUD
Category: General History
Inventing Africa is a critical account of narratives which have selectively interpreted and misinterpreted the continent's deep past. Writers have created alluring images of lost cities, vast prehistoric migrations and golden ages of past civilisations. Debates continue on the African origins of humank ...Show more
Vikings - Raids, Culture Legacy by Marjolein Stern
$34.99 AUD
Category: General History | Reading Level: very good
The impact of the Vikings is impossible to overstate. A people apparently condemned to a marginal existence in the remote wastes of Dark Age northern Europe, they burst onto an unsuspecting continent with extraordinary consequences. Initially they were pirates and raiders of astounding ferocity. In a ma ...Show more
Making Journeys: Archaeologies Of M by Gibson, Catriona
$120.00 AUD
Category: General History
The Women of the Cousins' War: The Duchess, the Queen and the King's Mother by Philippa Gregory
$36.00 AUD
Category: General History
Elizabeth Woodville, The White Queen (2009), Margaret Beaufort, The Red Queen (2010), and Jacquetta, Lady Rivers, The Rivers Woman (2011) are the subjects of the first three novels in Philippa Gregory's Cousins' War series, and of the three biographical essays in this book. Philippa Gregory and two hist ...Show more
Of the People, by the People - A New History of Democracy by Roger Osborne
$45.00 AUD
Category: General History | Reading Level: good
'Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time'. Churchill had more reason than most to rue the power of democracy, having been thrown out of office after leading Britain to victory in 1945. Democracy, when viewed from above, has alway ...Show more
History Of Food by TOUSSAINT
$76.95 AUD
Category: General History
The story of cuisine and the social history of eating is a fascinating one, and Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat covers all its aspects in this definitive history. She looks at the transition from a vegetable - to an increasingly meat-based diet, as well as at the relationship between people and what they eat ...Show more
A Short History of the World by H.G. Wells
$19.95 AUD
Category: General History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
An attempt to synthesize what is known of the immensity of world history, in a form that can be grasped by the layman. Well's view of "the great adventure of mankind" is presented in the same format as when it was first published in 1922.
Kenya: A History Since Independence by Charles Hornsby
$52.99 AUD
Category: General History
Since independence in 1963, Kenya has survived nearly five decades as a functioning nation-state, with regular elections, its borders intact and without experiencing war or military rule. However, Kenya's independence has always been circumscribed by its failure to transcend its colonial past; its gover ...Show more
Stalin : The Court of the Red Tsar (Ex-library) by Simon Sebag Montefiore
$65.00 AUD
Category: General History
The remarkable untold story of the men and women who sustained Stalin in power in the Soviet Union for nearly 30 yearsThere have been many biographies of Stalin, but the court that surrounded him is untravelled ground. Simon Sebag Montefiore, acclaimed biographer of Catherine the Great's lover, prime mi ...Show more
The Civil War: An Illustrated History by Kelly Knauer
$39.99 AUD
Category: General History
Join the editors of TIME to observe the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War in a richly illustrated chronicle of the confl ict that changed America. It's an immense subject-a battle between freedom and slavery, waged across the breadth of the still-expanding nation over a period of four years-and TIME ha ...Show more