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Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire, And The Birth Of Europe
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling historical account, Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire, And The Birth Of Europe, chronicles...
The Cathedrals Of England
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis architectural history, The Cathedrals Of England, presents a comprehensive study of...
From Solon To Socrates: Greek History And Civilization During The Sixth And Fifth Centuries B.C.
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis academic work chronicles the pivotal era of ancient Greece, detailing the societal transformations...
The Japan Reader: Imperial Japan 1800-1945
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis comprehensive historical anthology, The Japan Reader: Imperial Japan 1800-1945, chronicles the complex and...
Greenham Common: Women At The Wire
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling historical account chronicles the extraordinary women who formed the Greenham Common Women's...
Childbearing In American Society: 1650-1850
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Faded spine. Otherwise internally sound, clean and bright copy. Catherine M. Scholten's Childbearing...
The Year 1000: An Englishman's Year
In the year 1000 the world was one of mystery and magicians, monks, warriors and wandering merchants - people who feared an apocalypse and people who had no idea what...
Target Switzerland: Swiss Armed Neutrality In World War II
A fascinating and enlightening explanation of the dilemma Switzerland found itself in during the 1930's and 1940's. - Publishers Weekly
Armament And History: The Influence Of Armament On History From The
Although skill, leadership, strategy, and number of forces have been important factors in battles, armaments have played the most decisive role in determining ultimate military victory. Entranced by the power...
Designing The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: An Architect's Journey
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling architectural memoir, Designing The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: An Architect's Journey,...
Dreams From A Suitcase (Sogni Dalla Valigia): Recollections Of Italian Settlers In The Yarra Valley
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis historical account chronicles the poignant journeys and enduring legacies of Italian immigrants who...
The Roman World: People And Places
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis comprehensive historical account, The Roman World: People And Places, chronicles the vast and...
1001 Inventions That Changed The World
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image1001 Inventions That Changed The World presents a comprehensive catalog of human ingenuity, chronicling...
The World's Religions: Old Traditions And Modern Transformations
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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Name penned on fep and small underlinings on copyright page. This seminal work,...
Knightly Arts Of Combat: Sword-And-Buckler Fighting, Wrestling, And Fighting In Armor
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis comprehensive historical manual presents the intricate combat techniques of medieval Europe, meticulously detailing...
Victorian Heritage: Ornamental Cast Iron In Architecture
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis authoritative volume, Victorian Heritage: Ornamental Cast Iron In Architecture, chronicles the intricate world...
Compassion And Courage: Australian Doctors And Dentists In The Great War
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling historical account, Compassion And Courage: Australian Doctors And Dentists In The Great...
An Atlantic Album: Photographs Of The Atlantic Provinces, Before 1920
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling historical collection, An Atlantic Album: Photographs Of The Atlantic Provinces, Before 1920,...
Aspects Of Ancient Greece: Book 1
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAspects Of Ancient Greece: Book 1 presents a comprehensive overview of the foundational elements...
Antisemitism and the Politics of History
A sophisticated contribution to debates in both the academic and the public realms regarding the nature of antisemitism today. This groundbreaking anthology addresses the history and challenges of using "antisemitism"...
Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times that Made
The extraordinary true story of intertwined lives that lies behind Handel's Messiah, the most performed piece of classical music ever written 'A delicious history of music, power, love, genius, royalty...
Memory Construction and the Politics of Time in Neoliberal South Korea
In Memory Construction and the Politics of Time in Neoliberal South Korea Namhee Lee explores memory construction and history writing in post-1987 South Korea. The massive neoliberal reconstruction of all...
Redemption
" Vengeance...a comforting echo...a warm hug that tantalised the darkest of thoughts." Despair has left Sophia prey to the same evil she is trying to overcome. It's only those she's...
Dinetah: An Early History of the Navajo People
Here, in a highly readable style, is a lively chronicle of the Navajo people from prehistory to 1868. It is a sympathetic history of a great people who depended on...
Honor and Slavery: Lies, Duels, Noses, Masks, Dressing as a Woman,
The "honorable men" who ruled the Old South had a language all their own, one comprised of many apparently outlandish features yet revealing much about the lives of masters and...
Never Turn Back: China and the Forbidden History of the 1980s
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year A BBC History Magazine Best Book of the Year "Excellent...A fascinating, authoritative account of the paths for China's future explored during a...
Stalin and the Fate of Europe: The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year Winner of the Norris and Carol Hundley Award Winner of the US-Russia Relations Book Prize "The achievement of a lifetime." -Stephen Kotkin,...
Imperial Wine: How the British Empire Made Wine's New World
A fascinating and approachable deep dive into the colonial roots of the global wine industry. Imperial Wine is a bold, rigorous history of Britain's surprising role in creating the wine...
A Brief History of Fascist Lies
"There is no better book on fascism's complex and vexed relationship with truth."-Jason Stanley, author of How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them In this short companion to...
A Greek State in Formation: The Origins of Civilization in Mycenaean
The Mycenaean civilization of the Greek Bronze was identified 150 years ago, yet its origins remain obscure. Jack L. Davis, codirector of ongoing excavations at the Palace of Nestor at...
Prisoner of the Infidels: The Memoir of an Ottoman Muslim in
Victor Hugo meets Papillon in this effervescent memoir of war, slavery, and self-discovery, told with aplomb and humor in its first English translation. A pioneering work of Ottoman Turkish literature,...
Do They Hear You When You Cry
For Fauziya Kassindja, an idyllic childhood in Togo, West Africa, sheltered from the tribal practices of polygamy and genital mutilation, ended with her beloved father's sudden death.Forced into an arranged...
Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order
A sweeping, lavishly illustrated one-volume history of the rise of American naval power during World War II "When he is at his best, as he often is in these pages,...
Adventurers: The Improbable Rise of the East India Company: 1550-1650
"Overflowing with surprises."-William Dalrymple, The Spectator "Essential reading."-Dan Jones, Times (UK) "Fascinating and authoritative."-Jerry Brotton The unlikely beginnings of the East India Company-from Tudor origins and rivalry with the superior...
The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter
A case for why regionalization, not globalization, has been the biggest economic trend of the past forty years The conventional wisdom about globalization is wrong. Over the past forty years...
The Week: A History of the Unnatural Rhythms That Made Us Who We Are
An investigation into the evolution of the seven-day week and how our attachment to its rhythms influences how we live "[Henkin] scours American literature, diaries, periodicals, menus and other ephemera...
Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova
A fast-paced narrative about the world-famous libertine Giacomo Casanova, from celebrated biographer Leo Damrosch "Fully succeeds in communicating that 'vivid presentness,' that 'joyful eagerness' for life, which is what keeps...
A Short History of War
An engaging, accessible introduction to war, from ancient times to the present and into the future "Forty short chapters . . . describe war from the ancient world to the...
Peace at Last: A Portrait of Armistice Day, 11 November 1918
What happened on the last day of the Great War? Each year since we have marked the end of the war with tributes and remembrance, solemnity and respect. But as...
Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World
Bill Gates' favourite scientist is on a mission to make facts matter Is flying dangerous? How much do the world's cows weigh? And what makes people happy? From earth's nations...
Under Empire: Muslim Lives and Loyalties Across the Indian Ocean
An imam banished from eastern Indonesia to the Cape of Good Hope in 1780 builds a new Muslim community with a mix of fellow exiles, enslaved people, and even the...
The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History
A history of how, in the mid-twentieth century, we came to believe in the concept of creativity. Named a best book of 2023 by the New Yorker and a notable...
Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich: How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched
The economist and historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has been best known recently for her Bourgeois Era trilogy, a vigorous defense, unrivaled in scope, of commercially tested betterment. Its massive volumes,...
The Knowledge Machine: How an Unreasonable Idea Created Modern Science
Rich with tales of discovery from Galileo to general relativity, a stimulating and timely analysis of how science works and why we need it It is only in the last...
The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn (Collins Classics)
$10.00 AUD
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and...
Remember Them: A Generation Of Victorians At The Great War
$35.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis poignant historical account, Remember Them: A Generation Of Victorians In The Great War,...
1932: A Hell Of A Year
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling historical account, 1932: A Hell Of A Year, chronicles a pivotal and...