Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat Volume 3 by Jan Morris
$24.99 AUD
Category: World History
Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat traces the momentous decline and fall of the greatest of empires - from Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee to the death of Winston Churchill in 1965. With characteristic balance, this masterpiece of narrative history describes the long retreat and final dissoluti ...Show more
Faustian Bargain - The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War by Ian Ona Johnson
$49.99 AUD
Category: World History
When Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, launching World War Two, its army seemed an unstoppable force. The Luftwaffe bombed towns and cities across the country, and fifty divisions of the Wehrmacht crossed the border. Yet only two decades earlier, at the end of World War One, Germany had ...Show more
Feeding the People - The Politics of the Potato by Rebecca Earle
$32.95 AUD
Category: World History
Potatoes are the world's fourth most important food crop, yet they were unknown to most of humanity before 1500. Feeding the People traces the global journey of this popular foodstuff from the Andes to everywhere. The potato's global history reveals the ways in which our ideas about eating are entangled ...Show more
Femina - A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It by Janina Ramirez
$35.00 AUD
Category: World History | Reading Level: near fine
'Part of the terror is to take back our own listening, to use our own voice, to see our own light.' The middle ages are seen as a bloodthirsty time of Vikings, saints and kings: a patriarchal society which oppressed and excluded women. But when we dig a little deeper into the truth, we can see that the ...Show more
Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy by Tim Harford
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Category: World History
Based on the series produced for the BBC World Service A Financial Times and Bloomberg Business Week Book of the Year Who thought up paper money? How did the contraceptive pill change the face of the legal profession? Why was the horse collar as important for human progress as the steam engine? How di ...Show more
Flight: The Complete History of Aviation by R. G. Grant
$59.99 AUD
Category: World History
An expanded and updated edition of the history of aviationDiscover the enthralling story of how we took to the skies, in this journey through over 100 years of airborne innovation and adventure. From the Wright brothers' first powered flight to Concorde's final voyage, Flight takes you sky-high, swoopin ...Show more
Forgotten Warriors: A History of Women on the Front Line by Sarah Percy
$34.99 AUD
Category: World History
From Boudicca to Ukraine, battlefields have always contained a surprising number of women. Tracing the long history of female fighters, Forgotten Warriors puts the record straight, exploring how war became an all-male space, and getting to the bottom of why women were allowed to be astronauts a full thi ...Show more
Forgotten Warriors: A History of Women on the Front Line by Sarah Percy
$24.99 AUD
Category: World History
'Ambitious, wide-ranging and learned' Times Literary Supplement 'Vivid and extraordinary' Wall Street Journal From Boudicca to Ukraine, battlefields have always contained a surprising number of female fighters. We have all heard of Joan of Arc, but not the cross-dressing soldiers whose disguises were s ...Show more
Four Queens and a Countess by Jill Armitage
$29.95 AUD
Category: World History
When Mary Stuart was forced off the Scottish throne she fled to England, a move that made her cousin Queen Elizabeth very uneasy. Elizabeth had continued the religious changes made by her father and England was a Protestant country, yet ardent Catholics plotted to depose Elizabeth and put Mary Stuart on ...Show more
France: A Short History by Jeremy Black
$21.99 AUD
Category: World History
A concise history of France from prehistory to the present, recounting the great events and personalities and exploring France's cultural and political influence today. Artists, martyrs, kings, revolutionaries: France's sense of national identity is inextricably linked to its dramatic history, which fas ...Show more
France: An Adventure History by Graham Robb
$24.99 AUD
Category: World History
A SPECTATOR and PROSPECT Book of 2022 Winner of the 2022 American Library in Paris Book Award 2022 'Ceaselessly interesting, knowledgeable and evocative' - Spectator 'A fresh way to write history' - Alan Johnson 'An amused, erudite homage to France . . . ambitious and original' - The Time Original, ...Show more
France in the World - A New Global History by Boucheron Patrick
$39.99 AUD
Category: World History