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1688 THE FIRST MODERN REVOLUTION by PINCUS STEVEN
$37.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History Ser.
Based on new archival information, this book upends two hundred years of scholarship on England's Glorious Revolution to claim that it--not the French Revolution--was the first truly modern revolution For two hundred years historians have viewed England's Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689 as an un-revolu ...Show more
A Brief History of Japan: Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun by Jonathan Clements
$19.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Brief History of Asia Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion. Stretching for nearly 2000 miles and encompassing almost ...Show more
A Brief History of Singapore and Malaysia - Multiculturalism and Prosperity: the Shared History of Two Southeast Asian Tigers by Christopher Hale
$32.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Brief History of Asia Ser.
The fascinating account of two former British colonies with a shared past but vastly different identities today! Singapore and Malaysia sit astride the sea lanes linking East with West--vital choke points in the world's commerce. Since ancient times, ports along the Silk Road of the Sea were populat ...Show more
A Handful of Sand: The Gurindji Struggle, After the Walk-Off by Charlie Ward
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction | Series: Australian History Ser.
Fifty years ago, a group of striking Aboriginal stockmen in the remote Northern Territory of Australia heralded a revolution in the cattle industry and a massive shift in Aboriginal affairs. Now, after many years of research, A Handful of Sand tells the story behind the Gurindji people's famous Wave Hil ...Show more
A History of Gold and Money: 1450-1920 by Pierre Vilar
$39.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: World History Series
Anyone interested in the changing sources and functions of gold and money in Western society will be enlightened and at times diverted by Vilar's pioneering history. Beginning with a survey of the role of gold and the various currencies used in ancient and medieval societies, Vilar goes on to analyze th ...Show more
A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia (vol. 1): Inner Eurasia from Prehistory to the Mongol Empire by David Christian
$75.95 AUD
Category: Special Orders | Series: Blackwell History of the World Ser.
This is a history of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia from the time of the first inhabitants of the region up to the break up of the Mongol Empire in 1260AD.
A History of the Crusades: Volume 1: The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem by Steven Runciman
$32.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Penguin History Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In this first volume of three, Runciman recounts the capture of Jerusalem by Christian knights.
A Nation Without Borders by Steven Hahn
$55.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: The\Penguin History of the United States Ser.
The era from 1830 to 1910 witnessed massive transformations in how people lived, worked, thought about themselves, and struggled to live and thrive. It also witnessed the birth of economic and political institutions that still shape our world. America's population grew more than ten-fold. The country ex ...Show more
A People's History of the Civil War - Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom by David Williams
$51.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: A\New Press People's History Ser.
The acclaimed sweeping history of a nation at war with itself, told here for the first time by the people who lived it. Bottom-up history at its very best, A People's History of the Civil War "does for the Civil War period what Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States did for the study of ...Show more
A Potted History of Fruit by Mike Darton; Jim Buckland (Foreword by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Potted History Ser.
Discover the origins, nature and personalities of everyday and unusual fruit.
A Second Chance: The Making of Yiddish Melbourne by Andrew Markus; Margaret Taft
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction | Series: Australian History Ser.
They came from an old world to a new land. The Yiddish speakers from Eastern Europe brought few material possessions but clung to a language and a culture that defined who they were, a way of life that had endured pogroms, persecution, and a genocide that pushed them to the brink of extinction. Melbourn ...Show more
A Short History of Japan by Curtis Andressen (Senior Lecturer, Department of Asian Studies and Languages, Flinders University, Australia)
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: A\Short History of Asia Ser.
From the dawn of time when the first settlers arrived in the islands of Japan, through feudalism with its heavy imprint of authoritarianism to 20th-century adventurism, American occupation and contemporary uncertainty, the author traces Japan's history and its social and political manifestations.