La Vie En Bleu by Roderick Kedward
$26.95 AUD
Category: History
Rod Kedward brings to life the great, and often terrible, dramas of modern France - the two cataclysmic wars - the Algerian disaster, the student and worker revolt of 1968, as well as exploring the special worlds of the workplace, immigration, minorities, the role of women, and the politics of everyday ...Show more
Mad About the Mekong : Exploration and empire in South-East Asia by John Keay
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
This is the story of both a dramatic journey retracing the historic voyage of France's greatest 19th-century explorer up the mysterious Mekong river, and a portrait of the river and its peoples today. Any notion of sailing up the Mekong in homage to Francis Garnier has been unthinkable until now. From i ...Show more
Last Post: The end of Empire in the Far East by John Keay
$29.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: good
John Keay's epic, expert study of the twentieth-century demise of colonial rule in the Far East The names echo like the last long notes of a bugle call: Hiroshima, Dien Bien Phu, Tiananmen Square; MacArthur and Mountbatten; The Quiet American and Bridge over the River Kwai. In a twentieth-century welter ...Show more
The Spice Route - A History by John Keay
$29.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Aromatic spices and exotic trade routes mingle headily in this lush, evocative history. This is an exotic saga with the tang of drama in every voyage. "The Spice Route" transports the reader from the dawn of history to the ends of the earth. "The Spice Route" is one of history's great anomalies. Shroude ...Show more
China : A History by John Keay
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
An accessible, authoritative single-volume narrative history of China, from the earliest times to the present day, designed both to engage the general reader and to challenge the horizons of the China specialist. Most histories of China appear to have been written by sinologists for sinologists. As Chi ...Show more
China : A History by John Keay
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
An accessible, authoritative single-volume narrative history of China, from the earliest times to the present day, designed both to engage the general reader and to challenge the horizons of the China specialist. Most histories of China appear to have been written by sinologists for sinologists. As Chi ...Show more
The Siege of Venice by Jonathan Keates
$32.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: good
Venetia, as far as the Adige River, including the city of Venice, Istria and Dalmatia, were ceded by Napoleon to Austria in 1797 and confirmed as Austrian possessions at the Congress of Vienna in 1815.The siege of Venice in 1848 is one of history's most thrilling and tragic episodes. After half a centur ...Show more
Fatal Silence : The Pope, the Resistance and the German Occupation of Rome by Robert Katz
$24.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: good
The untold and dramatic story of Rome under German occupation in 1943-44, between the fall of Mussolini and the city's capture by the Americans.This is the epic story of the brutal occupation of Rome by the Germans after the fall of Mussolini in July 1943 up to the capture of the city by General Mark Cl ...Show more
The Occult Tradition : From the Renaissance to the present day by David S. Katz
$30.00 AUD
Category: History
Is the universe alive? Are there hidden connections within it, revealed in history and in sacred texts? Can we understand or even learn to control these secrets? Have we neglected an entirely separate science that works according to a different set of principles? Certainly by the time of the Renaissance ...Show more