White Russians, Red Peril: A Cold War History of Migration to Australia by Sheila Fitzpatrick
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A gripping account of the paths that led postwar Russian migrants to Australia - and what they found when they arrived.More than 20,000 ethnic Russians migrated to Australia after the Second World War - yet we know very little about their experiences. Some came via China, others from refugee camps in E ...Show more
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
In this landmark book, Nancy Isenberg argues that the voters who boosted Trump all the way to the White House have been a permanent part of the American fabric, and reveals how the wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlements to today's hillbillies.P ...Show more
Who Ate the First Oyster?: The Extraordinary People Behind the Greatest Firsts in History by Cody Cassidy
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Who wore the first pants? Who painted the first masterpiece? Who first rode the horse? This madcap adventure across ancient history uses everything from modern genetics to archaeology to uncover the geniuses behind these and other world-changing innovations.In this book, writer Cody Cassidy digs deep in ...Show more
Who Ate the First Oyster? The Extraordinary People Behind the Greatest Firsts in History by Cody Cassidy
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Who wore the first pants? Who painted the first masterpiece? Who first rode the horse? Who invented soap? This madcap adventure across ancient history uses everything from modern genetics to archaeology to uncover the geniuses behind these and other world-changing innovations. Who invented the wheel? Wh ...Show more
Who Owns History? Elgin's Loot and the Case for Returning Plundered Treasure by Geoffrey Robertson
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Hard on the heels of his best-selling autobiography Rather His Own Man, one of Australia's foremost public intellectuals turns his mind to one of the most important contemporary questions that divides the world of art and culture- the restitution of heritage treasures removed in earlier times from subju ...Show more
Who Owns History? The Case of Elgin's Loot (HB) by Geoffrey Robertson
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
The controversy about the Elgin Marbles continues to rage. This book will be the first to propound a system for the return of cultural property, based on human rights law principles that are being developed by the courts to decide whether artworks, manuscripts and sculptures have cultural importance and ...Show more
Who's Black and Why? - A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor); Andrew S. Curran (Editor)
$49.95 AUD
Category: History
The first translation and publication of sixteen submissions to the notorious eighteenth-century Bordeaux essay contest on the cause of black skin--an indispensable chronicle of the rise of scientifically based, anti-Black racism.In 1739 Bordeaux's Royal Academy of Sciences announced a contest for the b ...Show more
Will in the World - How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Will in the World interweaves a searching account of Elizabethan England with a vivid narrative of the playwright's life. We see Shakespeare learning his craft, starting a family, and forging a career for himself in the wildly competitive London theater world, while at the same time grappling with dange ...Show more
Windswept - Walking in the Footsteps of Remarkable Women by Annabel Abbs
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
The story of extraordinary women who lost their way - their sense of self, their identity, their freedom - and found it again through walking in the wild. A feminist exploration of the power of walking in nature, following in the footsteps of Gwen John, Georgia O'Keeffe, Frieda Lawrence, Clara Vyvyan, S ...Show more
Wine and War - The French, the Nazis and France's greatest treasure by Don Kladstrup; Petie Kladstrup
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Hungry Student Ser.
In the vineyards, wine caves, and cellars of France as war and occupation came to the country winemakers acted heroically not only to save the best wines but to defend their way of life.
Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage by Nathalia Holt
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
The never-before-told story of a small cadre of influential female spies in the precarious early days of the CIA - women who helped create the template for cutting-edge espionage (and blazed new paths for equality in the workplace).
Wolf's Lair: Inside Hitler's East Prussian HQ by IAN BAXTER
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
An insight into the inner workings of Hitler's secret headquarters. The Wolf's Lair was the most important German command post building during the Second World War. Orders sent from these secret headquarters would play a massive part in the outcome of the War. Ian Baxter looks in to the inner workings o ...Show more