Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
The renowned Israeli historian revisits the formative period of the State of Israel. Between 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred, and around a million men, women, and children were expelled from their homes at gunpoint. Denied for almost six ...Show more
Fight for Liberty and Freedom: The origins of Australian Aboriginal activism by John Maynard
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
Opposition to the British colonisation of Australia did not spring from the Mabo decision or the Native Title Act, nor was it born in the vibrant 1960s which culminated in the famous Aboriginal tent embassy in 1972.Rather, the first politically organised and united all-Aboriginal activist group was the ...Show more
Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J. Bass
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
In the weeks after Japan finally surrendered to the Allies to end World War II, the victorious powers turned to the question of how to move on from years of carnage and destruction. To them, it was clear that Japan's militaristic leaders needed to be tried and punished for their crimes. For the Allied ...Show more
Legacy of Empire - Britain, Zionism and the Creation of Israel by Gardner Thompson
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
It is now more than seventy years since the creation of the state of Israel, yet its origins and the British Empire's historic responsibility for Palestine remain little known. Confusion persists too as to the distinction between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. In Legacy of Empire, Gardner Thompson offe ...Show more
Messalina: The Life and Times of Rome's Most Scandalous Empress by Honor Cargill-Martin
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
This is the story of Messalina - third wife of Emperor Claudius and one of the most notorious women to have inhabited the Roman world.According to the Roman historians Tacitus and Suetonius, the Empress Messalina was a sexually insatiable schemer. The tales they told about her - including a twenty-four- ...Show more
Night of Power: The Betrayal of the Middle East by Robert Fisk
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
The final work of Robert Fisk, following on from the authoritative and highly acclaimed The Great War for Civilisation, which charted his 30-year career as a reporter in the war zones of the Middle East. An extraordinary chronicle of Fisk's trademark rigorous journalism, historical analysis and eyewitn ...Show more
Palestinians and Israelis: A Short History of Conflict by MICHAEL SCOTT-BAUMANN
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Newly updated, this accessible history explores the origins and development of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. What are the origins of the Israeli Palestinian conflict? Why has it proved so intractable, and what are the implications of escalating tensions for both the Middle East and the world? The co ...Show more
Rock and Tempest: Surviving Cyclone Tracy and its Aftermath by Patricia Collins
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
When Cyclone Tracy flattened Darwin on Christmas Day 1974, it was the worst natural disaster Australians had ever experienced. Stationed in the city with the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service, Patricia Collins not only lived through Tracy but was part of the massive clean-up effort. This is her ext ...Show more
Terra Nova: Ambition, Jealousy and Simmering Rivalry in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration by Harrison Christian
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
‘A riveting account about Scott of Antarctica and the machinations of his demise. Of the food depots that were diminished and the rescue that never came.’ Peter Hillary, mountaineer and explorer For a long time it seemed Antarctica would remain the sole holdout in a nearly fully explored world. The app ...Show more
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance by Rashid I. Khalidi
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The twentieth century for Palestine and the Palestinians has been a century of denial: denial of statehood, denial of nationhood and denial of history. The Hundred Years War on Palestine is Rashid Khalidi's powerful response. Drawing on his family archives, he reclaims the fundamental right of any peop ...Show more
Yeelirrie 50 Years of Resistance by Shirley Wonyabong; Sandra Evans (Voice by); Geoffrey Stokes (Voice by); Steve McCartney; Darcy Gunning; Robin Chapple; Dave Sweeney; K. A. Garlick; Lucy Hacock; Bilbo (William) Taylor (Voice by); Shae Callan; Elizabeth Wonyabong; Ruby Hamilton; Annica Schoo; Marcus Atkinson; Richard Evans; Rocio Martin (Photographer); Simon Dooley (Photographer); Jessie Boylan (Photographer); Mia Pepper (Editor-In-Chief); Kenneth Liberman; Kado Muir; Vicki Abdullah (Voice by); Jennifer Narrier (Voice by); Geraldine Hogath (Voice by); Colleen Berry (Voice by); Gaye Harris (Voice by)
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
This book commemorates 50 years of resistance to uranium mining at Yeelirrie. It is a compilation of stories from anthropologists, lawyers, scientists, advocates and activists. And, most importantly, from those in the communities connected to this important place.
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed - Revised and Updated by Eric H. Cline
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Turning Points in Ancient History Ser.
From acclaimed archaeologist and bestselling author Eric Cline, a breathtaking account of how the collapse of an ancient civilised world ushered in the first Dark Ages. In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the 'Sea Peoples' invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy defeated them, but the victo ...Show more