MY PEOPLES SONGS How an Indigenous Family Survived Colonial Tasmania by Joel Stephen Birnie
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian History
Tarenootairer (c.1806–58) was still a child when a band of white sealers bound her and forced her onto a boat. From there unfolded a life of immense cruelty inflicted by her colonial captors. As with so many Indigenous women of her time, even today the historical record of her life remains a scant threa ...Show more
Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know - The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce by Colm Toibin
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
'A father...is a necessary evil.' Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses William Butler Yeats' father was an impoverished artist, an inveterate letter writer, and a man crippled by his inability to ever finish a painting. Oscar Wilde's father was a doctor, a brilliant statistician and amateur archaeologist who was ...Show more
Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler by Lynne Olson
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
In 1941, a thirty-one-year-old Frenchwoman, a young mother born to privilege and known for her beauty and glamour, became the leader of a vast Resistance organisation - the only woman to hold such a role. Brave, independent, and a lifelong rebel against her country's conservative, patriarchal society, ...Show more
Madhouse at the End of the Earth - The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night by Julian Sancton
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
A new classic of extreme endurance - Into Thin Air meets The Perfect Storm in 19th century Antarctica 'The next great contribution to polar literature' -- Hampton Sides 'An unforgettable tale brilliantly told' -- Scott Anderson 'It grips from first sentence to last' -- Lawrence Osborne The harrowing, su ...Show more
Madhouse at the End of the Earth - The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night by Julian Sancton
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
A new classic of extreme endurance - Into Thin Air meets The Perfect Storm in 19th century Antarctica **A Times Best Book of 2021** The harrowing, survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly wrong, with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarct ...Show more
Making Australian History by Anna Clark
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Australian history has been revised and reinterpreted by successive generations of historians, writers, governments and public commentators, yet there has been no account of the ways it has changed, who makes history, and how. Making Australian History responds to this critical gap in Australian histori ...Show more
Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past by Richard Cohen
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
THE HISTORY MAKERS is an epic exploration of who writes about the past and how the biases of certain storytellers - whether Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare or Simon Schama -continue to influence our ideas about history (and about who we are) today. There are many stories we can spin about years gone ...Show more
Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future by Kate Brown
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Dear Comrades Since the accident at the Chernobyl power plant, there has been a detailed analysis of the radioactivity of the food and territory of your population point. The results show that living and working in your village will cause no harm to adults or children.So began a pamphlet issued by the U ...Show more
Maoism: A Global History by Julia Lovell
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
"Revelatory and instructive . . . [a] beautifully written and accessible book" --The Times (London). For decades, the West has dismissed Maoism as an outdated historical and political phenomenon. Since the 1980s, China seems to have abandoned the utopian turmoil of Mao's revolution in favour of authorit ...Show more
Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future by Ed Conway
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil and lithium. They built our world, and they will transform our future. These are the six most crucial substances in human history. They took us from the Dark Ages to the present day. They power our computers and phones, build our homes and offices, and create life-saving me ...Show more
Media Unmade: Australian Media's Most Disruptive Decade by Tim Burrowes
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Media Unmade presents the definitive story of the decade in which big media in Australia was cut down to size - a decade that forever altered what had until then been perceived as the unbreachable foundations of the industry in this country. Drawing on insights from his ringside seat, independent journa ...Show more
Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages by Jack Hartnell
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Wellcome Collection
A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARJust like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell in love and had children. And yet their lives were full of miraculous and richly metaphorical experiences radically different to our own, unfolding in a world where d ...Show more