The Romantic Revolution by Tim Blanning
$24.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics
Three great revolutions rocked the world around 1800. The first two - the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution - have inspired the greatest volume of literature. But the third - the romantic revolution - was perhaps the most fundamental and far-reaching. From Byron, Wordsworth, Coleridge and ...Show more
Thieves of Baghdad : One Marine's Passion to Recover the World's Greatest Stolen Treasures by Matthew Bogdanos
$24.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics
Thieves of Baghdad exposes sordid truths about the international art and antiquities market. He's a spit-and-polish Marine, a competitive boxer, a classics scholar, and an assistant District Attorney in Manhattan. New York tabloids call him 'pit bull' for his relentless prosecution of high-profile defen ...Show more
Over the Edge of the World by Laurence Bergreen
$24.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics
The astonishing tale of the first sea voyage to circumnavigate the entire globe. Magellan's dramatic maritime expedition in 1519 discovered the straits that enabled Europe to trade with the Eastern spice islands and changed the course of history. In an era of intense commercial rivalry between Spain and ...Show more
Mistresses - A History of the Other Woman by Elizabeth Abbott
$27.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics | Reading Level: very good
She has been known as the 'kept woman', the 'fancy woman' and the 'other woman'. She exists as both a fictional character and flesh-and-blood human being. But who is she, really? What do Madame de Pompedour, Heloise, Marilyn Monroe, Jane Eyre and Camilla Parker-Bowles have in common? Why do women becom ...Show more
The English Ghost: Spectres Through Time by Peter Ackroyd
$19.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics
The English see more ghosts than any other nation. From medieval times to the present day, stories have been told about ghosts who avenge injustice, souls who long for peace and spooks who just want to have fun. "The English Ghost" is a treasure trove of such sightings; comical and scary, like all the b ...Show more
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu
$35.00 AUD
Category: World History/Politics | Reading Level: very good
In the West are the 'haves', while much of the rest of the world are the 'have-nots'. The extent of inequality today is unprecedented. Drawing on an extraordinary range of contemporary and historical examples, Why Nations Fail looks at the root of the problems facing some nations. Economists and scienti ...Show more
The Battle for Spain by Antony Beevor
$32.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics | Reading Level: good
The Battle for Spain is a compelling account of one of the most hard-fought and bitter wars of the twentieth century: a war of atrocities and political genocide that was a military testing ground before the Second World War for the Russians, Italians, and Germans.With his thorough and contemporary exami ...Show more
Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal by Anthony Arnove
$36.00 AUD
Category: World History/Politics
Nearly forty years after the Vietnam war, the United States is once again involved in a seemingly intractable foreign conflict. Anthony Arnove sets out a compelling case for the immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq. Countering widespread arguments made in support of the occupation by conservatives a ...Show more
We Will Remember Them by Max Arthur
$35.00 AUD
Category: World History/Politics
For Britain and her empire, the human cost of the First World War was worse than any other conflict in history. Almost a million British people died in the war, with a further quarter of a million from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, India and Africa. Almost twice as many again were injured in battle, ...Show more