Warra Warra Wai: How Indigenous Australians discovered Captain Cook, and what they tell about the coming of the Ghost People by Darren Rix, Craig Cormick
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
For the first time, the First Nations story of Cook’s arrival, and what blackfellas want everyone to know about the coming of Europeans Both 250 years late and extremely timely, this is an account of what First Nations people saw and felt when James Cook navigated their shores in 1770. We know the Eur ...Show more
Bina: First Nations Languages, Old and New
$37.99 AUD
Category: History
Australia's language diversity is truly breathtaking. This continent lays claim to the world's longest continuous collection of cultures, including over 440 unique languages and many more dialects. Sadly, European invasion has had severe consequences for the vitality of these languages.Amid devastating ...Show more
Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History by Nur Masalha
$21.99 AUD
Category: History
This rich and magisterial work traces Palestine's millennia-old heritage, uncovering cultures and societies of astounding depth and complexity that stretch back to the very beginnings of recorded history. Starting with the earliest references in Egyptian and Assyrian texts, Nur Masalha explores how Pale ...Show more
Straight Acting: The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare by Will Tosh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sexuality and Gender
Was Shakespeare gay? The answer is both simpler and more complex than you might think . . . Shakespeare's work was profoundly influenced by the queer culture of his time - much of it totally integrated into mainstream society. From a relentless schooling in Latin and Greek homoeroticism, to a less form ...Show more
The Earth Transformed: An Untold History by Peter Frankopan
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
'Humanity has transformed the Earth: Frankopan transforms our understanding of history' —Financial Times 'Vast, learned and timely work' —Sunday Times From the international bestselling author of The Silk Roads comes a major history of how a changing climate has dramatically shaped the development-and ...Show more
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World by William Dalrymple
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World. The internationally bestselling author of The Anarchy returns with a sparkling, soaring history of ideas, tracing South Asia's under-recognized role in producing the world as we know it. Major religions that rose to dominate Earth's largest con ...Show more
To the City: Life and Death Along the Ancient Walls of Istanbul by Alexander Christie-Miller
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
This is a meditation on the soul of Istanbul, a paean to its resilience and fortitude. Walk with Alexander Christie-Miller and see the danger, beauty and hope. Caught between two seas and two continents, with a contested past and an imperiled future, Istanbul represents the precipitous moment civilizat ...Show more
What’s Her Name: A History of the World in 80 Lost Women by Katie Nelson, Olivia Meikle, What'sHerName Podcast
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
Journey through thousands of years of human history (now with the women put back in).From the earliest human civilizations through to the present day, the stories of countless influential women - leaders, artists, warriors, scientists and more - have been ignored, forgotten, or actively suppressed. You ...Show more
A Little History of the Australian Labor Party by Nick Dyrenfurth, Frank Bongiorno
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
A little book about the big history of one of Australia’s most important institutions The Australian Labor Party is one of the oldest labour parties in the world and the first to form a government. This short, sharp history tells the story of the party’s formation, its successes and failures at winning ...Show more
A Natural Battleground - The Fight to Establish a Rail Heritage Centre at Western Australia's Midland Railway Workshops by Bobbie Oliver
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
When the Government Railway Workshops at Midland closed on 4 March 1994, Western Australia lost a major trainer and employer of skilled tradespeople and much of its heavy industry. Former workers feared that their history of industrial achievements on the factory floor and through union action would als ...Show more
A Secretive Century: Monte Punshon's Australia by Tessa Morris-Suzuki
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
In a life that spanned more than a century - 1882 to 1989 - Monte Punshon witnessed crucial events in Australia's history. She was a pioneer radio broadcaster, travelled the country with children's theatrical troupes and defied convention with her active involvement in the underground world of queer Mel ...Show more
Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine by Jeff Halper
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
'Extremely convincing' - Electronic Intifada For decades we have spoken of the 'Israel-Palestine conflict', but what if our understanding of the issue has been wrong all along? This book explores how the concept of settler colonialism provides a clearer understanding of the Zionist movement's project t ...Show more