Henry VII: (Penguin Monarchs) by Sean Cunningham
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Monarchs
Part of the Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers in a collectible format Henry VII was one of England's unlikeliest monarchs. An exile and outsider with barely a claim to the throne, his victory over Richard III at Bosworth Field seemed to many in 1485 like only the ...Show more
Edward VII : The Cosmopolitan King by Richard Davenport-Hines
$35.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Monarchs
The First Dismissal by Luke Slattery
$9.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Specials
While violent revolution and social upheaval rocked Europe, far away in New South Wales, Governor Lachlan Macquarie was sowing the seeds for the Australian idea of the 'fair go'. Macquarie was a reformer and an emancipator. He believed that a person's worth - be they gentry, infantry or convict - lay in ...Show more
Leaders : People Who Shaped the Last Century by S. K. Cooper
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: People Who Shaped the Last Century
The leaders that are remembered by history both define the world they live in and change that world forever. Whether their leadership is inspirational, innovative, decisive or ultimately destructive, we have a lot to learn from the lives and achievements of the eclectic group of people featured in this ...Show more
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything about the World by Tim Marshall (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
$32.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Politics of Place Ser.
In this New York Times bestseller, updated for 2016, an award-winning journalist uses ten maps of crucial regions to explain the geo-political strategies of the world powers fans of geography, history, and politics (and maps) will be enthralled (Fort Worth Star-Telegram). Maps have a mysterious hold ove ...Show more
What is History?: Popular Penguins by E. H. Carr
$12.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Since its first publication in 1961 E.H. Carr's What is History? has established itself as the classic introduction to the subject. Ranging across topics such as historical objectivity, society and the individual, the nature of causation, and the possibility of progress, Carr delivered an incisive text ...Show more
Enchantment of the Long-Haired Rat: A Rodent History of Australia by Tim Bonyhady
$32.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Rodent History of Australia
The Enchantment of the Long-haired Rat tells the story of a small Australian rodent known for its fast and prodigious spread after big rains: plagues for the European colonists who feared and loathed all rats; an abundance of food for the indigenous peoples who feasted with delight in these times of ple ...Show more
Lines - A Brief History by Tim Ingold
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
What do walking, weaving, observing, storytelling, singing, drawing and writing have in common? The answer is that they all proceed along lines. In this extraordinary book Tim Ingold imagines a world in which everyone and everything consists of interwoven or interconnected lines and lays the foundations ...Show more
The Order of Things: Archaeology of the Human Sciences by Michel Foucault
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
With vast erudition, Foucault cuts across disciplines and reaches back into seventeenth century to show how classical systems of knowledge, which linked all of nature within a great chain of being and analogies between the stars in the heavens and the features in a human face, gave way to the modern sci ...Show more
Queen Victoria by Paula Bartley
$58.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Routledge Historical Biographies Ser.
Paula Bartley¿s Queen Victoria examines Victorian Britain from the perspective of the Queen. Victoria¿s personal and political actions are discussed in relation to contemporary shifts in Britain¿s society, politics and culture, examining to what extent they did ¿ or did not ¿ influence events throughout ...Show more
Life of Mendel by Hugo Iltis (Editor)
$77.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Routledge Library Editions: Science and Technology in the Ni Ser.
First published in 1932. The widespread influence of Gregor Johann Mendel's work and his own remarkable destiny combine to arouse interest in the personality and the life of this investigator who, little known in his lifetime, was one of the pioneers of science. This comprehensive biography of the life ...Show more
The Boundaries of Modern Palestine, 1840-1947 by Gideon Biger
$94.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern History Ser.
Boundary limitation is a crucial issue in the Middle East, and the boundaries marked out during the years 1840 to 1947 are still one of the major issues in today's political discussions concerning Israel and its surrounding countries.This book, which is based on extensive archival research, deals with t ...Show more