Silk Roads: A New History of the World: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins has reversed- where for the last five centuries the globe turned westwards on its axis, it now turns to the east. For centuries, fame and fortune were to be found in the west - in the New World of the Amer ...Show more
Medieval Britain, C.1000-1500 by David Crouch
$45.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Cambridge History of Britain
Ten Caesars - Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine by Barry Strauss
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Bestselling classical historian Barry Strauss delivers "an exceptionally accessible history of the Roman Empire...much of Ten Caesars reads like a script for Game of Thrones" (The Wall Street Journal)--a summation of three and a half centuries of the Roman Empire as seen through the lives of ten of the ...Show more
The Scythian Empire - Central Eurasia and the Birth of the Classical Age from Persia to China by Christopher I. Beckwith
$69.99 AUD
Category: History
A rich, discovery-filled history that tells how a forgotten empire transformed the ancient world In the late 8th and early 7th centuries BCE, Scythian warriors conquered and unified most of the vast Eurasian continent, creating an innovative empire that would give birth to the age of philosophy and the ...Show more
The Poetic Edda - Essays on Old Norse Mythology by Paul L. Acker (Editor); Carolyne Larrington (Editor)
$98.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Garland Medieval Casebooks Ser.
This unique collection of essays applies significant critical approaches to the mythological poetry of the Poetic Edda, a principal source for Old Norse cosmography and the legends of Odin, Loki, and Thor. The volume also provides very useful introductions that sketch the critical history of the Eddas. ...Show more
The Norman Conquest by Marc Morris
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
An upstart French duke who sets out to conquer the most powerful and unified kingdom in Christendom. An invasion force on a scale not seen since the days of the Romans. One of the bloodiest and most decisive battles ever fought. This riveting book explains why the Norman Conquest was the single most imp ...Show more
Ten Cities that Led the World From Ancient Metropolis to Modern Megacity by Paul Strathern
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'A book of ideas [...] Strathern ably guides us through these moments of glory.' -- The Times *** Great cities are complex, chaotic and colossal. These are cities that dominate the world stage and define eras; where ideas flourish, revolutions are born and history is made. Through ten unique cit ...Show more