A Brief History of China by Jonathan Clements
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
A comprehensive, yet entertaining look at China's history through a modern lens. For millennia, China was the largest and richest nation on earth. Two centuries ago, however, its economy sank into a depression from which it had not fully recovered--until now. China's modern resurgence as the world' ...Show more
The Anarchy - The Rise and Fall of the East India Company (H/B) by William Dalrymple
$37.99 AUD
Category: History
In August 1765 the East India Company defeated and captured the young Mughal emperor and forced him to set up in his richest provinces a new government run by English traders who collected taxes through means of a vast and ruthless private army. The creation of this new government marked the moment that ...Show more
James Cook: Master Mariner Navigator and Cartographer, the Man Behind the Myth by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable names in Australian history - an almost mythic figure who is often discussed, celebrated, reviled and debated. But who was the real James Cook? This Yorkshire farm boy would go on to become the foremost mariner, navigator and cartographer of his era, an ...Show more
Histories of the Unexpected: The Romans by Sam Willis; James Daybell
$19.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Histories of the Unexpected Ser.
In this new series of short books under the Histories of the Unexpected brand, Sam Willis and James Daybell take on some of greatest historical subjects but in an entirely unexpected way.
Great State: China and the World by Timothy Brook
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
China is one of the oldest states in the world. It achieved its approximate current borders with the Ascendancy of the Yuan dynasty in the 13th century, and despite the passing of one Imperial dynasty to the next, it has maintained them for the eight centuries since. Even the European colonial powers at ...Show more
George Washington Wilson - Artist and Photographer (1823-93) by Roger Taylor
$60.00 AUD
Category: History
The Maker of Swans by Paraic O'Donnell
$23.99 AUD
Category: History
'Compulsive reading ...rich, strange, beautiful' Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk 'A strange, new and captivating look at a magical realm ...Lavishly entertaining' Independent 'Enthralling ...a literary feast' Stylist The world had forgotten Mr Crowe and his mysterious gifts. Until he killed th ...Show more
Uplink-Downlink - A History of the Deep Space Network, 1957-1997 by Douglas J. Mudgway
$51.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\NASA History Ser.
From the very beginning of its association with NASA in 1958, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory UPL) received its fair share of public recognition for its successes and failures in pursuing the exploration of deep space. It started with the Explorers, the first American satellites to orbit Earth. Later ther ...Show more
Small Island: 12 Maps That Explain the History of Britain by Philip Parker
$39.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: New History of Britain Ser.
A fascinating analysis of a dozen maps from critical points in British history over the last two thousand years, from the Celtic period when 'Britain' was just a patchwork of tribal kingdoms, to a century ago when the whole of Ireland, India, Australia, much of Africa, Asia and the Americas were marked ...Show more
Wings of Gold - The Story of Australian Pilots and Observers Who Trained with the UnitedStates Navy 1966-1968 by Jack McCaffrie and Jed Hart Trevor Rieck
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Flying from an aircraft carrier is one of the most difficult things to do in all of aviation. This is the story of a group of young Australians who joined the Royal Australian Navy to take up that challenge in the mid-1960s. Their story is unique because, unlike those who went before them and those who ...Show more
Difficult Women - A History of Feminism in 11 Fights by Helen Lewis
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
Well-behaved women don't make history: difficult women do. Helen Lewis argues that feminism's success is down to complicated, contradictory, imperfect women, who fought each other as well as fighting for equal rights. Too many of these pioneers have been whitewashed or forgotten in our modern search f ...Show more
H.M. Bark Endeavour Updated Edition by Ray Parkin
$100.00 AUD
Category: History
Here, in one accessible volume, is Ray Parkin's highly acclaimed and multi-award winning study of Captain James Cook's Endeavour. This incomparable book is a unique account of a great journey-Endeavour's voyage up the east coast of Australia in 1770-and a remarkable re-creation of the experience of bein ...Show more