The Contamination of the Earth: A History of Pollutions in the Industrial Age by François Jarrige; Thomas Le Roux; Janice Egan (Translator); Michael Egan (Translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: History for a Sustainable Future Ser.
The trajectories of pollution in global capitalism, from the toxic waste of early tanneries to the poisonous effects of pesticides in the twentieth century Through the centuries, the march of economic progress has been accompanied by the spread of industrial pollution. As our capacities for production ...Show more
The Convict Valley: The Bloody Struggle on Australia's Early Frontier by Mark Dunn
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
In 1790, five convicts escaped Sydney by boat and were swept ashore near present day Newcastle. They were taken in by the Worimi people, given Aboriginal names and started families. Thus began a long and at times dramatic series of encounters between Aboriginals and convicts in the second settlement in ...Show more
The Covent Garden Ladies by Hallie Rubenhold
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
*By the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of THE FIVE* 'A fascinating expose of the seamy side of eighteenth century life' MAIL ON SUNDAY'Rubenhold's pages practically reek with smelly, pox-ridden Georgian Soho' GUARDIAN In 1757, a down-and-out Irish poet, the head waiter at the Shakespear's Head ...Show more
The Curtain and the Wall - A Modern Journey along Europes Cold War Border by Timothy Phillips
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
From the Arctic Circle to the Turkish border, a landmark journey along the old Iron Curtain, tracing the history of the Cold War and meeting the people who live with its legacy.
The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World by Catherine Nixey
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
A bold new history of the rise of Christianity, showing how its radical followers ravaged vast swathes of classical culture, plunging the world into an era of dogma and intellectual darkness In Harran, the locals refused to convert. They were dismembered, their limbs hung along the town's main street. ...Show more
The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts and Harrimans - A Story of Love and War by Catherine Katz
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The brilliant untold story of three daughters of diplomacy: Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen Harriman, glamorous, fascinating young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference with Stalin in the waning days of World War II. With victory close at hand, the Yalta confer ...Show more
The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad and the Globalizing World by Maya Jasanoff
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Martin's Pick "Enlightening, compassionate, superb" --John Le Carre A visionary exploration of the life and times of Joseph Conrad, his turbulent age of globalization and our own, from one of the most exciting young historians writing today Migration, terrorism, the tensions between global capitalism ...Show more
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber, David Wengrow
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
'Pacey and potentially revolutionary' Sunday Times 'Iconoclastic and irreverent ... an exhilarating read' The Guardian 'This is not a book. This is an intellectual feast' Nassim Nicholas Taleb For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thu ...Show more
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber, David Wengrow
$65.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
A breathtakingly ambitious retelling of the earliest human societies offers a new understanding of world history. For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrifi ...Show more
The Deadly Trade by Iain Ballantyne
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Originally a puny craft, derided as being of no worth, the submarine evolved to become an assassin of the deep, capable of sinking mighty battleships and gigantic aircraft carriers. The cast of colourful and courageous characters includes a former monk who created submersible boats to assist the cause o ...Show more
The Death of Hitler - The Final Word on the Ultimate Cold Case: The Search for Hitler s Body by Jean-Christophe Brisard; Lana Parshina
$35.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
A dramatic and revelatory new account of the final days in Hitler's bunker, based on new access to previously unseen Soviet archives. After two years of nonstop negotiations with the Russian authorities, Jean-Christophe Brisard and Lana Parshina were granted access to secret files detailing the Soviets' ...Show more
The Decline and Fall of Republican Afghanistan by Ahmad Shuja Jamal; William Maley
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
The Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan in 2021 was the result of declining active support for the government, and of waste and inefficiency in aid delivery. Yet, while corrosive, these problems were not in themselves sufficient to have brought about a collapse. To a significant degree, they were the resu ...Show more