Witches and Witch-Hunts - A Global History by Wolfgang Behringer
$124.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Themes in History Ser.
In this major new book, Wolfgang Behringer surveys the phenomenon of witchcraft past and present. Drawing on the latest historical and anthropological findings, Behringer sheds new light on the history of European witchcraft, while demonstrating that witch-hunts are not simply part of the European past. ...Show more
The Mask of Command by Ian Ross
$19.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Twilight of Empire
When a treacherous act of murder throws the western provinces into turmoil, Aurelius Castus is ordered to take command of the military forces on the Rhine. But he soon discovers that the frontier is a place where the boundaries between civilisation and barbarism, freedom and slavery, honour and treason ...Show more
Norse Myths (Usborne Illustrated) by Alex Frith
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Usborne Illustrated Story Collections
A brand-new collection of Viking myths that tell the story of the Norse gods from creation to the story of how the world will end, including Odin's quest for wisdom, the battles of Thor the thunder god, and the tale of Sigurd the Dragonslayer and the curs. Beautifully bound with head and tail bands and ...Show more
The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War by Lynn H Nicholas
$32.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Vintage
The treasures of Quedlinburg . . . the Trojan gold . . . the Amber Room. These fabled objects are only the tiny summit of an immense mountain of artifacts - artistic, religious, historic - that were sold, confiscated, stolen, dismembered, defaced, destroyed, or buried as Europe succumbed first to the gr ...Show more
The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy by Gerda Lerner
$35.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Women and History Ser.
A pioneer in women's studies and long-term activist for women's issues, and a past president of the Organization of American Historians, Gerda Lerner is one of the founders and foremost scholars of Women's History. The Creation of Patriarchy, the first book in her two-volume magnum opus Women and Histor ...Show more
Mary Queen Of Scots by Antonia Fraser
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Women in History Ser.
'Ground-breaking ... One of the greatest international bestsellers of the post-war period' Andrew Roberts, Daily Telegraph 'Reads like an engrossing novel' Sunday Times An infant queen. A teenage widow. Beautiful, flamboyant Mary Queen of Scots had a formidable intellect but her political sense - formed ...Show more
The Russian Revolution by Sheila Fitzpatrick
$28.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: revised edtion
The Russian Revolution had a decisive impact on the history of the twentieth century. In the years following the collapse of the Soviet regime and the opening of its archives, it has become possible to step back and see the full picture. Starting with an overview of the roots of the revolution, Fitzpat ...Show more