Committed: A Memoir of Finding Meaning in Madness by Suzanne Scanlon
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
When Suzanne Scanlon was a student at Barnard in the 90s and grieving the loss of her mother, she made a suicide attempt that landed her in the New York State Psychiatric Institute.After nearly three years and countless experimental treatments, Suzanne left the ward on shaky legs. In the decades it took ...Show more
Country: Future Fire, Future Farming (First Knowledges Series) by Bruce Pascoe, William Leonard Gammage
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: First Knowledges
What do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65,000 years? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians. For millennia, Indigenous Australians harvested this continent in ways that can offer contemporary environmen ...Show more
Courting: An Intimate History of Love and the Law by Alecia Simmonds
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
Award-winning author Alecia Simmonds uncovers a hidden history of love and heartbreak in the archives of law Until well into the twentieth century, heartbroken men and women in Australia had a legal redress for their suffering- jilted lovers could claim compensation for 'breach of promise to marry'. Hu ...Show more
Creating Christ - How Roman Emperors Invented Christianity by James S. Valliant; Warren Fahy
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
Dancing Before Storms: Five Revolutions that Made Today's World by Robert T. Harr is
$39.95 AUD
Category: History
The American and French Revolutions; the European Springtime of the Peoples; and the Chinese and the Russian Revolutions broadly shaped the contours of the world as we know it. This is the story of five revolutions that changed the world, and the unexplored connections between them. The American and Fre ...Show more
Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine by Jeff Halper
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
'Extremely convincing' - Electronic Intifada For decades we have spoken of the 'Israel-Palestine conflict', but what if our understanding of the issue has been wrong all along? This book explores how the concept of settler colonialism provides a clearer understanding of the Zionist movement's project t ...Show more
Deep Care - The Radical Activists Who Provided Abortions, Defied the Law, and Fought to Keep Clinics Open by Angela Hume
$52.95 AUD
Category: History
The story of the radical feminist networks who worked outside the law to defend abortion. Starting in the 1970s, small groups of feminist activists met regularly to study anatomy, practice pelvic exams on each other, and learn how to safely perform a procedure known as menstrual extraction, which can en ...Show more
Design: Building on Country (First Knowledges) by Alison Page, Paul Memmott
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: First Knowledges
Aboriginal design is of a distinctly cultural nature, based in the Dreaming and in ancient practices grounded in Country. It is visible in the aerodynamic boomerang, the ingenious design of fish traps and the precise layouts of community settlements that strengthen social cohesion. Alison Page and Paul ...Show more
Dethroned: The Downfall of India's Princely States by John Zubrzycki
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The dramatic true story of the betrayal of hundreds of Indian princely states by both the departing British and the new Congress government. The dramatic true story of the betrayal of hundreds of Indian princely states by both the departing British and the new Congress government. In July 1947, India’s ...Show more
Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind by Tom Holland
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
'If great books encourage you to look at the world in an entirely new way, then Dominion is a very great book indeed . . . Written with terrific learning, enthusiasm and good humour, Holland's book is not just supremely provocative, but often very funny' Sunday Times History Book of the YearChristianity ...Show more
Europe: The Enlightening History of a Continent by Jean Baptiste Duroselle
$37.99 AUD
Category: History
A history of the continent uniquely told from a very European viewpointThe first one-volume, complete history of Europe, as told by Europeans themselves, from Homo Erectus to the Celts, to Greek wisdom and Roman grandeur, all of the way to the European phenomenon - the Industrial Revolution.This is the ...Show more
Eve Bites Back - An Alternative History of English Literature by Anna Beer
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Anna Beer investigates the lives and achievements of eight women writers, uncovering a startling and unconventional history of literature 'Essential reading.' Claire Tomalin Warned not to write - and certainly not to bite - these women put pen to paper anyway and wrote themselves into history. ...Show more