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Fashion Design 1800-1940

Fashion Design 1800-1940

$69.50 AUD$60.00 AUD
The thousands of illustrations in this book provide a unique overview of Western fashion from 1800 to 1945. This eventful time covers the romantic Art Nouveau period and the Edwardian...
Fashion: A History from the 18th to the 20th Century

Fashion: A History from the 18th to the 20th Century

$70.00 AUD$40.00 AUD
This special 25th anniverary edition has a chic new format: two volumes packaged in a slipcase.
Frederick Whirlpool VC: Australia's Hidden Victoria Cross

Frederick Whirlpool VC: Australia's Hidden Victoria Cross

$29.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
"A riveting historical mystery that sweeps four continents and fills a void in the Victoria Cross story." Frederick Whirlpool's Victoria Cross is displayed near the entrance to the Hall of...
Life and Adventures 1776-1801: Text Classics

Life and Adventures 1776-1801: Text Classics

$14.95 AUD$10.00 AUD
Introduced by Tim Flannery At length, almost to our sorrow, we made the land upon the 3rd of June 1790, just one year all but one day from our leaving...
Dress-up Jane Austen

Dress-up Jane Austen

$17.99 AUD$8.00 AUD
Discover Jane Austen's Regency era through paper doll fashion! How did a Regency bride and groom dress for their wedding? Why did everyone wear hats? Cut out the fourteen colourful...
The Victorian Scrapbook

The Victorian Scrapbook

$39.95 AUD$25.00 AUD
Mariano Fortuny: His Life and Work

Mariano Fortuny: His Life and Work

$250.00 AUD
Mariano Fortuny was a visionary designer and artist - best known today for his rich, innovative textiles and opulent dress designs, he was also an accomplished painter, etcher and photographer,...
The Great Upheaval: The Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800

The Great Upheaval: The Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800

$29.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial power, and France plunged...
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Memories and Adventures

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Memories and Adventures

$16.95 AUD$12.00 AUD
Arthur Conan Doyle is best remembered today as the creator of the world's most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes. But he was much more than that. Apart from being a popular...
Impossible Monsters: How the Discovery of Dinosaurs Changed the World

Impossible Monsters: How the Discovery of Dinosaurs Changed the World

$27.99 AUD$23.79 AUD
A superb narrative history of the discovery of dinosaurs and how they revolutionised our understanding of the Earth's and mankind's origins Impossible Monsters is the captivating story of the discovery...
Eureka: The Unfinished Revolution: from the author of The Opera House,

Eureka: The Unfinished Revolution: from the author of The Opera House,

$34.99 AUD$29.74 AUD
Eureka- The Unfinished Revolution ... history comes to life with Peter Fitzsimons. THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Peter FitzSimons is an Australian phenomenon.' The Canberra Times In 1854, Victorian miners fought a...
The Romantic

The Romantic

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
From one of Britain's best-loved and bestselling writers comes an intimate yet panoramic novel set in the 19th century Born in 1799, Cashel Greville Ross experiences myriad lives- joyous and...
The Diaries of Franz Kafka

The Diaries of Franz Kafka

$32.99 AUD$28.04 AUD
The essential translation of the author's complete, uncensored diaries - revealing the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers Dating from 1909 to 1923,...
The Awakening

The Awakening

$14.99 AUD$12.74 AUD
Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series 'The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander...
The Making of the English Working Class

The Making of the English Working Class

$39.99 AUD$33.99 AUD
The revolutionary account of working-class culture and ideals, reissued as a Penguin Modern Classic to mark the 50th anniversary of its publication This brilliant account of working-class society in its...
Citizens: A Chronicle of The French Revolution

Citizens: A Chronicle of The French Revolution

$45.00 AUD$38.25 AUD
Winner of the NCR Book Award. Number 1 bestseller in hb. World-wide best-seller. The book which made Schama's name The most authoritative social, cultural and narrative history of the French...
In the Shadow of the Alabama: The British Foreign Office and the

In the Shadow of the Alabama: The British Foreign Office and the

$74.99 AUD$20.00 AUD
This book looks at an allegation of betrayal made against a young Foreign Office clerk, Victor Buckley, who, it was claimed, leaked privileged information to agents of the southern States...
George Washington and Benedict Arnold: A Tale of Two Patriots

George Washington and Benedict Arnold: A Tale of Two Patriots

$49.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
From 1775 through 1777, George Washington and Benedict Arnold were America's two most celebrated warriors. Their earlier lives had surprisingly parallel paths. They were strong leaders in combat, they admired...
Curiosities of the Civil War: Strange Stories, Infamous Characters and

Curiosities of the Civil War: Strange Stories, Infamous Characters and

$42.99 AUD$20.00 AUD
Civil War buffs, be warned: Webb Garrison's Curiosities of the Civil War may catch you off guard. Packed with obscurities and bizarre anecdotes, it spills over with specifics you've likely...
Stealing the General

Stealing the General

$20.00 AUD
If James J. Andrews' plan had worked, it could have dramatically altered the course of the war, but the General's young conductor had other ideas. At first, he gave chase...
Best Little Stories of the Blue and Gray

Best Little Stories of the Blue and Gray

$39.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
A journalistic history of America's Civil War, it records the war largely in terms of human-interest aspects. In more than 100 vignettes, the writings of soldiers, sailors, slaves, politicians, and...
Blood: Stories of Life and Death from the Civil War

Blood: Stories of Life and Death from the Civil War

$15.00 AUD
The Civil War the bloodiest, most dramatic moment in this nation's history also produced some of the country's greatest literature. Blood reflects the violent hatred, love, patriotism, and heroism this...
A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. I,

A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. I,

$20.00 AUD
The first of a multi-volume history of Lincoln as a political genius-from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, assassination, and the overthrow of his post-Civil War dreams of Reconstruction. This...
The Confederate Yellow Fever Conspiracy: The Germ Warfare Plot of Luke

The Confederate Yellow Fever Conspiracy: The Germ Warfare Plot of Luke

$68.20 AUD$15.00 AUD
Defeat was looming for the South--as the Civil War continued, paths to possible victory were fast disappearing. Dr. Luke Pryor Blackburn, a Confederate physician and expert in infectious diseases, had...
American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America

American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America

$20.00 AUD
In this vivid and brilliant biography, David Stewart describes Aaron Burr, the third vice president, as a daring and perhaps deluded figure who shook the nation's foundations in its earliest,...
Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence

Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence

$12.00 AUD
By the author of the acclaimed Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution , a gripping narrative that tells the story of the second and final war of independence...
Patriotic Fire: Andrew Jackson and Jean Laffite at the Battle of New

Patriotic Fire: Andrew Jackson and Jean Laffite at the Battle of New

$20.00 AUD
From the author of best-selling works of history and fiction, a fast-paced, enthralling retelling of one of the greatest battles fought on the North American continent, and of the two...
Texas and New Mexico on the Eve of the Civil War: The Mansfield and

Texas and New Mexico on the Eve of the Civil War: The Mansfield and

$43.95 AUD$20.00 AUD
The reports of officers Lt. Col. Joseph E. Johnston and Col. Joseph K. F. Mansfield on the combat readiness of troops in the Texas and New Mexico Departments of the...
This Distracted and Anarchical People: New Answers for Old Questions

This Distracted and Anarchical People: New Answers for Old Questions

$61.95 AUD$15.00 AUD
While most of the fighting took place in the South, the Civil War profoundly affected the North. As farm boys became soldiers and marched off to battle, social, economic, and...
Virginia at War, 1864

Virginia at War, 1864

$79.95 AUD$20.00 AUD
The fourth book in the Virginia at War series casts a special light on vital home front matters in Virginia during 1864. Following a year in which only one major...
Noa Noa: The Tahiti Journal Of Paul Gauguin

Noa Noa: The Tahiti Journal Of Paul Gauguin

$27.95 AUD$12.00 AUD
In 1894, Paul Gauguin left what he considered to be a culturally bereft Europe to live an unfettered life in a tropical paradiseTahiti. It was there that he produced some...
Confederate Corsair: The Life of Lt Charles W 'Savez' Read

Confederate Corsair: The Life of Lt Charles W 'Savez' Read

$42.99 AUD$20.00 AUD
Lieutenant Charles W 'Savez' Read's life was one of swashbuckling adventure and dazzling escapes. Yet very little has been known about him until recently. Robert A. Jones has tracked down...
The H. L. Hunley: The Secret Hope of the Confederacy

The H. L. Hunley: The Secret Hope of the Confederacy

$39.00 AUD$15.00 AUD
On the evening of February 17, 1864, the Confederacy's H. L. Hunley sank the USS Housatonic and became the first submarine in world history to sink an enemy ship. Not...
The Fate of Their Country: Politicians, Slavery Extension, and the

The Fate of Their Country: Politicians, Slavery Extension, and the

$19.95 AUD$12.00 AUD
How partisan politics lead to the Civil War What brought about the Civil War? Leading historian Michael F. Holt convincingly offers a disturbingly contemporary answer: partisan politics. In this brilliant...
American Slavery, 1619-1897

American Slavery, 1619-1897

$12.00 AUD
A concise, engaging overview of American slavery from the beginning of the colonial era to emancipation and its aftermath. Kolchin takes a broad geographical perspective, putting American slavery in the...
In the Hands of Providence: Joshua L. Chamberlain and the American

In the Hands of Providence: Joshua L. Chamberlain and the American

$79.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
The story of an authentic American hero; This acclaimed biography traces the life and times of Joshua L. Chamberlain, the professor-turned-soldier who led the Twentieth Maine Regiment to glory at...
Lincoln's Forgotten Ally: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of

Lincoln's Forgotten Ally: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of

$99.99 AUD$20.00 AUD
Joseph Holt, the stern, brilliant, and deeply committed Unionist from Kentucky, spent the first several months of the American Civil War successfully laboring to maintain Kentucky's loyalty to the Union,...
The Military Memoirs of General John Pope

The Military Memoirs of General John Pope

$102.99 AUD$20.00 AUD
Union general John Pope was among the most controversial and misunderstood figures to hold major command during the Civil War. Before being called east in June 1862 to lead the...
English Trader, Indian Maid: Representing Gender, Race, and Slavery in

English Trader, Indian Maid: Representing Gender, Race, and Slavery in

$71.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
On March 13th, 1711, an article appeared in "The Spectator about Thomas Inkle, a young and aspiring English trader cast ashore in the Americas, who is saved from violenct death...
Father India

Father India

$49.95 AUD$15.00 AUD
Over the past hundred years, India has held an enormous fascination for western intellectuals and artists. Father India explores the life-changing influence of the subcontinent on western ideas of modernity...
Wilde's Women: How Oscar Wilde was Shaped by the Women he Knew

Wilde's Women: How Oscar Wilde was Shaped by the Women he Knew

$26.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
Hailed as a gay icon and pioneer of individualism, Oscar Wilde's insistence that 'there should be no law for anybody' made him a staunch defender of gender equality. Women were...
Tecumseh

Tecumseh

$49.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
' A heroic work of research and scholarship. . . The most complete and reliable account of the events that made the great Shawnee Indian a giant figure on the...
Florence Harding

Florence Harding

$25.00 AUD
This book tells the story of Florence Hardin g''s rise to power. The daughter of an abusive father, mother at a young age to an illegitimate child, she saw her...
Lincoln's Men: How Lincoln Became Father to an Army and a Nation

Lincoln's Men: How Lincoln Became Father to an Army and a Nation

$20.00 AUD
LINCOLN'S MEN offers a fascinating account of the emotional bonds forged between the average Union soldier and 'Father Abraham' Lincoln. William C. Davis bases his study on the correspondence and...
Commander of All Lincoln's Armies: A Life of General Henry W. Halleck

Commander of All Lincoln's Armies: A Life of General Henry W. Halleck

$95.00 AUD$20.00 AUD
In the summer of 1862, President Lincoln called General Henry W. Halleck to Washington, D.C., to take command of all Union armies in the death struggle against the Confederacy. For...