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A History Of Modern Japan
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A landmark work in the study of East Asian history, A History...
A History Of Modern Japan
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the twilight of the Tokugawa shogunate to the aftermath of the Second World War, A History of...
The World And The West
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A landmark work of historical philosophy, The World and the...
Shaping History: 100 Great Leaders - From Antiquity to the Present
$20.00 AUD
There is a growing demand for biographies and this title settles lightly into the market. The book is hugely educational in its excellent coverage of fascinating and colourful assembly leaders....
The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination
Author: Richard J. Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Renowned historian Richard Evans puts 'fake news' in historical perspective in this challenging and illuminating study The idea...
New Movements In The Study And Teaching Of History
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt a pivotal moment in educational reform, New Movements in the Study and Teaching of History assembles some...
History in the House: Some Remarkable Dons and the Teaching of Politics, Character and Statecraft
A Spectator Best Book of the Year; An Aspects of History Best Book of the Year; An Engelsberg Ideas Best Book of the Year Five hundred years ago, Thomas Wolsey...
The Machine Age: An Idea, a History, a Warning
A sweeping history of and meditation on humanity's relationship with machines, showing how we got here and what happens next We live in a world made by machines; their development...
The Third Reich in Power, 1933 - 1939: How the Nazis Won Over the
The terrible and compelling story of the Nazi regime, from the moment Hitler seized power in the summer of 1933 to the point where he plunged Europe into war. The...
The Third Reich at War: How the Nazis Led Germany from Conquest to
'Masterly ... will surely be the standard history for many years to come ... This is a warning for the future, as much as a judgement on the past' Richard...
The Coming of the Third Reich: How the Nazis Destroyed Democracy and
'Impressive . . . perceptive . . . humane . . . the most comprehensive history in any language of the disastrous epoch of the Third Reich' IAN KERSHAW AUTHOR...
Thinking the Unthinkable
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
Images Of Crisis: Literary Iconology, 1750 To The Present
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodWhat does it mean when a civilization turns to images of catastrophe, ruin, and upheaval to articulate its deepest anxieties?...
An Historian's Conscience: The Correspondence Of Arnold J. Toynbee And Columba Cary-Elwes, Monk Of Ampleforth
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Author: Christian B. PeperBinding: HardbackPublished: Beacon Press, 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: No markingsAn illuminating work of intellectual history, An Historian's Conscience chronicles the profound...
A Bibliography Of Arnold J. Toynbee
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Author: S. Fiona MortonBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsA scholarly work, A Bibliography Of Arnold J. Toynbee meticulously catalogs the extensive literary output...
The English and their History: Updated with two new chapters
The first full-length history of England in one volume for many decades - now in paperback The English first came into existence as an idea, before they had a common...
The Age of Revolutions: And the Generations Who Made It
A panoramic new history of the revolutionary decades between 1760 and 1825, from North America and Europe to Haiti and Spanish America, showing how progress and reaction went hand in...
Secondhand History & Culture Bargain Book Box SP2848
$120.00 AUD
Secondhand History & Culture Bargain Book Box SP2848 Eighteen books on the big questions facing the modern world — climate change, globalisation, the future of the internet, the emptying oceans,...
The Territory of the Historian
$40.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Photo is of the actual book - please note wear and tear. A description...
Aspects of Roman History 82BC-AD14: A Source-based Approach
Aspects of Roman History 82BC-AD14 examines the political and military history of Rome and its empire in the Ciceronian and Augustan ages. It is an indispensable introduction to this central...
Radar Gunner
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RADAR GUNNER is the autobiography of Dick Dakeyne who served as a gunner and radar countermeasures operator flying over Japanese enemy territory during World War Two. Born and raised in...
The Story of Scandinavia: From the Vikings to Social Democracy
In The Story of Scandinavia, political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises, kings and queens, war, peace, language and culture. Scandinavian...
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is an ambitious masterwork of political economy, detailing the impact of slavery and colonialism on the history of international capitalism. In this classic book, Rodney makes...
Bourgeouis Hinduism, or Faith of the Modern Vedantists: Rare
In 1839 a diverse group of Hindu leaders began gathering in Calcutta to share and propagate their faith in a non-idolatrous form of worship. The group, known as the Tattvabodhini...
Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: An Extraordinary Diary of Courage from
LAST NIGHT I DREAMED OF PEACE is the moving diary kept by a 27-year-old Vietnamese doctor who was killed by the Americans during the Vietnam War, while trying to defend...
Asian Horizons: Giuseppe Tucci's Buddhist, Indian, Himalayan and
The present volume is published in honour of the great scholar of Asia, Professor Giuseppe Tucci (18941984). Through the work of present-day scholars, both senior and emerging, it represents their...
The Audacious Adventures of Dr Louis Lawrence Smith
$80.00 AUD
L. L. Smith, medico, writer, publisher, politician, litigant, showman, speculator, collector, vigneron, farmer, breeder and rider of racehorses, guiding hand for thirty years of Melbourne's great exhibition complex...The Audacious Adventures...
An Environmental History of France: Making the Landscape, 1770-2020
The French countryside is as beloved by the many millions of tourists who visit it each year as it is of French people themselves. But it has not always looked...
Appeasing Jakarta: Australia's Complicity in the East: Quarterly Essay
In the second Quarterly Essay, John Birmingham takes apart the folly of twenty-five years of Australian policy on East Timor. How did Gough Whitlam and Richard Woolcott in 1975 saddle...
Pro Patria Mori: The 56th (1st London) Division at Gommecourt, 1st
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On Saturday, 1st July 1916, the men of the 56th Division, went 'over the top' to storm Gommecourt - a village recognised as the strongest position in the German lines....
Asian Design Destinations
Luxury resorts on stilts, a bar that looks like a UFO on the streets of Bangkok, and an underground museum. What do these places have in common? They are establishing...
Renaissance Secrets: Recipes & Formulas
From recipes for plague amulets to aphrodisiacs and formulas for everything from lip balm to paint pigments, this book takes you into the secret world of Renaissance trades and explains...
Vincent Van Gogh Masterpieces of Art
New edition of Van Gogh in the popular Masterpieces of Art series. Part of a new series of beautiful gift art books, Van Gogh Masterpieces of Art features all of...
Hubert Who?
How can a man who achieved so much be so little remembered? Explorer, pioneer aviator, war photographer, naturalist, meteorologist, author, student of the paranormal, and secret agent; loyal lieutenant to...