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'The vast sweeping story of Aboriginal Australia from 1788 is told in Richard Broome's typical lucid and imaginative style. This is an important work ...
A masterly biography, as yet unsurpassed, of one of the most talented, colourful and controversial of British statesmen
George Nathaniel Curzon's controversial life in ...
Carthage was the western Mediterranean's first superpower, long before Rome, and her military history was powerful, eventful, and chequered even before her Punic Wars ...
During the 1940s and '50s in Australia there rose to prominence many icons of Aboriginal descent, representative of the culture of the day and of ...
This book analyzes the evolution of Russian military thought and how Russia's current thinking about war is reflected in recent crises. While other books ...
The fascinating story of the pioneers who explored vast regions of Central Asia, India and Tibet to create maps, and spy out the country for ...
Neville Chamberlain has gone down in history as the architect of appeasement, the Prime Minister who by sacrificing Czechoslovakia at Munich in September 1938 put ...
Why do we see the world the way we do? An unusual history of sight across 500 million years. From the mastery of fire a ...
When the dying Alexander the Great was asked to whom he bequeathed his vast empire, he supposedly replied to the strongest. There ensued a long ...
This book is an overview of plans, maps, and occasionally map-views of great cities all over the world. It follows the development of the city ...
When the dying Alexander the Great was asked to whom he bequeathed his vast empire, he supposedly replied "to the strongest." There ensued a long ...
Japan's mythology is alive with gods, spirits and monsters. It draws on Buddhist and Shinto traditions to explain the nature of the world of ...
The Battle of Marathon in 490 BC, where an Athenian-led Greek force defeated a Persian invasion, is one of the most decisive battles in Antiquity ...
Not just another collection of short biographies, this book adds women's stories to the wider context of global history. Our perception of history is ...