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Benjamin walked down from the Capitoline Hill towards the Circus Flaminius in order to reach the other Jews on the banks of the Tiber river at the Tiberina Island. They,...

How did the kangaroo transform from a bizarre curiosity to an internationally recognised symbol of Australia? How did Vegemite, a waste product of beer, come to be the most popular...

The book titled The London Underground: Diagrammatic History: Map by the author Douglas Rose. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. An inventive biography of one of the most famous ships of all time - an alluring combination of history, adventure and science. 'HISTORY BOOK OF THE...

The book titled Eltham in Old Photographs by the author John Kennett. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'Of all the many passions and crazes in nineteenth-century gardening and natural history, none was as long lasting or as wide reaching as fern fever, or Pteridomania as it became...

A vibrant, diverse history of Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples in the age of Romanticism Vesuvius is best known for its disastrous eruption of 79CE. But only after 1738,...

As a royal capital, Westminster was unique: a small town, characterized by a complex economy and society, but lacking legal incorporation. Gervase Rosser examines the nature of the urban community....

This book offers a new perspective on the pioneer settlement experience of colonial Victoria by examining the ways in which prized lands and natural resources were protected from the designs...

How does Italy really work? The bestselling author on Italian culture sets out to answer this question -- and the results are often surprising There is no world for whistle-blower...

Beyond the Palio is an interdisciplinary collection of essays examining the components and importance of ritual events and ceremonies in Renaissance Siena. Brings together studies based upon diverse disciplinary and...

The book titled Medicine and Society in Later Medieval England by the author Carole Rawcliffe. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Definitive and richly illustrated accounts of the century's most compelling sports stories Sport and the 20th century are inextricably intertwined. What began as a pastime for gentlement amateurs is today...

London was the largest city in the world in the middle of the 18th century when the British Museum was founded, and characterized by contrasts of innovation and tradition, wealth...

France is a Feast documents, through intimate and compelling photographs, Julia Child discovering French cooking and the French way of life. It all began under the guidance of her husband...

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST * ANISFIELD-WOLF AWARD WINNER * A revelatory study of the ways in which slavery both destabilized and created American politics. "Vivid and provocative; [Lepore] evokes eighteenth-century New...

This work describes art patronage in 16th-century Italy. For example, it was the time when Julius II and Bramante embarked upon rebuilding St Peter's; Paul III commissioned Michelangelo to paint...

Self-sacrifice and devotion to duty were the bywords of the traditional nursing sister. Since the days of Florence Nightingale, these women have been instrumental in setting the standards of care...

Gardens of Court and Country provides the first comprehensive overview of the development of the English formal garden from 1630 to 1730. Often overshadowed by the English landscape garden that...

This series looks at artists and their work against the background of the social, political and historical world in which they worked, examining issues of race, class, gender and psychology....

OUT OF THE PAST is the first book of its kind to encompass the history of homosexuality from 1869 to the present, drawing on the experience of ordinary men and...

Confraternities and their contribution to the fabric of society have become invisible history for us today. Although their activities began in the Renaissance and continued until the end of the...

Rocks to Riches is the story of Australia's national geological survey, which started life as the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, and is now known as the Australian...

Brimming with life and drama, this is the first book to explore two thousand years of European history through one the greatest imperial networks ever built 'A delightful, novel and...

Luxury items from centuries past are most often seen within museum settings, devoid of their connotations in time and space. This groundbreaking book seeks to reimagine objects from eighteenth-century Paris...

A new history of the Celts that reveals how this once-forgotten people became a pillar of modern national identity in Britain, Ireland, and France Before the Greeks and Romans, the...

Modern-day London abounds with a multitude of gardens, enclosed by railings and surrounded by houses, which attest to the English love of nature. These green enclaves, known as squares, are...

The book titled Skilled Hand and Cultivated Mind: A Guide to the Architecture and Art by the author Harriet Edquist. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

The story of the migration of the Cornish people throughout the world is an epic. Philip Payton is one of the world's leading scholars of the movement of Cornish people...

Gay & Lesbian, Then & Now reveals the legacies of homophobia, the personal struggles and triumphs involved in coming out, and the many different ways of being gay or lesbian...

Here are the voices of London - rich and poor, native and immigrant, women and men (and a Sarah who used to be a George) - witnessed by Craig Taylor,...

Devised as temporary housing after World War II, prefabricated homes fitted with all 'mod cons' represented the new way of living in post-war Britain. The fact that war-damaged aircraft were...

A milestone in the history of interior design, Eighteenth Century Decoration provides a highly original and authoritative account of the appearance of rooms at all levels of society and how...

It has been said that supreme enlightenment is reflected in the holy smile of the Buddha. Yet, the Victorians thought of open-mouthed smiling as obscene, and nineteenth-century English and American...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of The Wager and The...

Paris's reputation as one of the most beautiful capital cities in the world is long-standing, and owes much of its impact to the harmonious architecture. In this illustrated book, the...

'A formidable, brave and important book' Robert Macfarlane Who owns England? Behind this simple question lies this country's oldest and best-kept secret. This is the history of how England's elite...

The definitive history of Coronation and the Royal Family, from acclaimed writer Roy Strong. What is the finest sight in the world? A Coronation. What do people talk most about?...

Country house visiting is one of Britain's favorite leisure activities. For more than five centuries, historic buildings have opened their doors, inviting the tourist to step inside. Elizabethans strolled around...

First of the widely celebrated and sumptuously illustrated series, this book reveals in intimate detail what life was really like in the ancient world. Behind the vast panorama of the...

The extraordinary story of St. Paul's Churchyard-the area of London that was a center of social and intellectual life for more than a millennium St. Paul's Cathedral stands at the...

Shortlisted, Historical + Critical Studies Award Western Australian Premier's Book Awards 1995

This collection of original essays focuses upon Roman Italy where, with over 400 cities, urbanization was at the very centre of Italian civilization. Informed by an awareness of the social...

A comprehensive history of the roads and streets of metropolitan Melbourne. This book reveals how one of the world's great cities grew and developed.

White people are not literally or symbolically white; nor are they uniquely virtuous and pure. Racial imagery and racial representation are central to the organisation of the contemporary world but,...