Burning the Big House by Terence Dooley
$24.95 AUD
Category: World History
The gripping story of the tumultuous destruction of the Irish country house, spanning the revolutionary years of 1912 to 1923 During the Irish Revolution nearly three hundred country houses were burned to the ground. These "Big Houses" were powerful symbols of conquest, plantation, and colonial oppressi ...Show more
Burning the Books: A history of knowledge under attack by Richard Ovenden
$32.99 AUD
Category: World History | Reading Level: near fine
Opening with the notorious bonfires of 'un-German' and Jewish literature in 1933 that offered such a clear signal of Nazi intentions, Burning the Books takes us on a 3000-year journey through the destruction of knowledge and the fight against all the odds to preserve it. Richard Ovenden, director of the ...Show more
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
$19.99 AUD
Category: World History | Series: Arena Books
The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost their land, lives and liberty to white settlers pushin ...Show more
By Steppe, Desert, & Ocean - The Birth of Eurasia by Barry Cunliffe
$46.95 AUD
Category: World History | Reading Level: near fine
By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean is nothing less than the story of how humans first started building the globalized world we know today. Set on a huge continental stage, from Europe to China, it is a tale covering over 10,000 years, from the origins of farming around 9000 BC to the expansion of the Mongols ...Show more
Cadre Country How China became the Chinese Communist Party by John Fitzgerald
$39.99 AUD
Category: World History
Since the founding of the Communist Party in China just over a century ago, there is much the country has achieved. But who does the heavy lifting in China? And who walks away with the spoils? Cadre Country places the spotlight on the nation’s 40 million cadres – the managers and government officials em ...Show more
Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances by Lisa Morton
$22.99 AUD
Category: World History
From Halloween expert Morton, a level-headed and entertaining history of our desire and attempts to hold conversations with the dead. Calling the Spirits investigates the eerie history of our conversations with the dead, from necromancy in Homer’s Odyssey to the emergence of Spiritualism — when Victori ...Show more
Captain Cook's Epic Voyage by Geoffrey Blainey
$34.99 AUD
Category: World History | Reading Level: near fine
In 1768 Captain James Cook and his crew set out on a small British naval vessel in search of a missing continent. 2020 marks the 250th anniversary of that voyage, and Cook's 'discovery' of Australia. Captain Cook's Epic Voyage reveals the hardships and adventure of this remarkable quest, and the euphori ...Show more
Caste: The International Bestseller by Isabel Wilkerson
$26.99 AUD
Category: World History
The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power - which groups have it and which do not' Beyond race or class, our lives are defined by a powerful, unspoken system of divisions. In Caste, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson gives an astounding portrait of this hi ...Show more
Cathedral: the Story of Its Construction by David Macauley
$29.99 AUD
Category: World History
"This marvelous book recreates the building of a French Gothic cathedral from the hewing down of half a forest to the placement of the last sheet of lead on the spire. Macaulay uses voluminous knowledge and pen-and-ink sketches accompanied by a brief clear narrative." -- Time
Catherine of Aragon: Henry's Spanish Queen by Giles Tremlett
$24.99 AUD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
A glorious account of the life of the Spanish infanta who became Queen of England and changed the course of Tudor history. The image of Catherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the vivacious eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry VIII married Catherine, she was an auburn-haired beauty ...Show more
Caught in the Web of Words: James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary by K. M. Elisabeth Murray
$57.95 AUD
Category: World History | Series: Nota Bene Ser.
This unique and celebrated biography describes how a largely self-educated boy from a small village in Scotland entered the world of scholarship and became the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and a great lexicographer. It also provides an absorbing account of how the dictionary was written ...Show more
Chanel's Riviera - Life, Love and the Struggle for Survival on the Côte D'Azur, 1930-1944 by Anne de Courcy
$24.99 AUD
Category: World History
Far from worrying about the onset of war, in the spring of 1938 the burning question on the French Riviera was whether one should curtsey to the Duchess of Windsor. Few of those who had settled there thought much about what was going on in the rest of Europe. It was a golden, glamorous life, far removed ...Show more