Wars of the Interior by Joseph Zarate; Annie McDermott (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
A searing account of the struggle between the indigenous people of the Amazon and hungry global industries of gold, wood and oil.
Warships of the Napoleonic Era: Design, Development and Deployment by Robert Gardiner
$80.00 AUD
Category: History
Between 1793 and 1815 two decades of unrelenting naval warfare raised the sailing man of war to the zenith of its effectiveness as a weapon of war. Every significant sea power was involved in this conflict, and at some point virtually all of them were arrayed against Great Britain. A large number of ene ...Show more
Watching Out: Reflections on Justice and Injustice by Julian Burnside
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
When put to the test, most people have difficulty identifying what justice is, especially when there is tension between proper process and a desired result. Due process is inherent in our conception of justice. But bad process can yield the right result, just as good process can produce the wrong result ...Show more
Waterloo Station - A History of London's Busiest Terminus by Robert Lordan
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
London's Waterloo Station is Britain's biggest and busiest railway terminal and, at over 170 years old, has a rich and fascinating history to discover. This book takes an in-depth look at the terminal's past, covering all decades from the 1840s to the present day.With more than 160 archive and contempor ...Show more
Waterloo: the Truth at Last Why Napoleon Lost the Great Battle by Paul L. Dawson
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
During October 2016 Paul Dawson visited French archives in Paris to continue his research surrounding the events of the Napoleonic Wars. Some of the material he examined had never been accessed by researchers or historians before, the files involved having been sealed in 1816. These seals remained unbro ...Show more
We, Hominids: An anthropological detective story by Frank Westerman
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
A roving philosophical journey into what makes us human. In We, Hominids, one of Holland's greatest non-fiction writers hunts down answers to humanity's most fundamental questions- Who are we? What makes us different from animals? With an ancient skull as his starting point, he travels the globe, traci ...Show more
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevitch
$19.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Rory Stewart Winner of the Guardian First Book award, a first-hand account one of the defining outrages of modern history. All at once, as it seemed, something we could have only imagined was upon us - and we could still only imagine it. This is what fascinates me most in existen ...Show more
Weevils in the Flour: an Oral Record of the 1930s Depression in Australia: 20th Anniversary Edition by Wendy Lowenstein
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
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What Is History, Now? by Helen Carr; Suzannah Lipscomb
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Inspired by the influential text WHAT IS HISTORY? authored by Helen Carr's great-grandfather, E.H. Carr, and published on the 60th anniversary of that book, this is a groundbreaking new collection addressing the burning issue of how we interpret history today. What stories are told, and by whom, who sh ...Show more
What the Colonists Never Knew: A History of Aboriginal Sydney by Dennis Foley, Peter Read
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
What the Colonists Never Knew paints a vivid picture of what it was like to grow up Aboriginal in Sydney, alongside the colonists, from 1788 to the present.Dennis, the grandson ofClarice Malinda Lougher, the last practising matriarch of the Gai-mariagal clan, was immersed in cultural knowledge and lore ...Show more
Whatever Happened to Ned Kelly's Head? by Eamon Evans
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Who stole the priceless Picasso from the NGV? Was Errol Flynn a Nazi spy? Did an Australian kill the infamous Red Baron? If you think Australia's history is straightforward, you're dead wrong. This is a land of the strange, the spooky and the unexplained. From the eerie ball of light that stalked a terr ...Show more