HISTORY

Stuart Macintyre, one of Australia's most highly regarded historians, revisits A Concise History of Australia to provoke readers to reconsider Aust...

The book that forever changed the way architectural history is viewed, taught, and studied, A Global History of Architecture examines 5,000 years o...

For fans of Sheryl McCorry's DIAMONDS AND DUST and Sara Henderson, this is the story of Toni Tapp Coutts's extraordinary childhood on the legendary...

Between 1870 and 1920, as many as 2,000 cameleers and 20,000 camels arrived in Australia from Afghanistan and northern India. Australia's Muslim Ca...

PIRACY SLAVERY OPIUM AND GUNS:THE STORY OF A PACIFIC PARADISE This book tells the story of Bali the paradise island of the Pacific; its rulers and ...

How worlds collided on the scientific expedition to Arnhem Land of 1948 WINNER of the 2025 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award'Here was I with...

Anzac Nursing Stories

  For biologists, 2009 was an epochal year: the bicentennial of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of a book now ...

A crocodile pulls a sleeping man into the river by one leg. Another breaks the neck of a swimming policeman. An out-of-luck miner drowns himself in...

THIS IS A PRINT ON DEMAND TITLE - 6-8 WEEKS FOR DELIVERY Much of Charles Darwin's groundbreaking work as an evolutionary biologist stemmed from his...

Mounted Constable William Willshire commanded a corps of Native Police in Central Australia during the 1880s. Notorious for the violence of his pat...

  A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier warsDavid Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal...

Dr Robyn Smith, the author, is a lecturer in colonial history at Charles Darwin University and a conjoint lecturer at the University of Newcastle. ...

In May 1939, Australia's Naval Intelligence had the foresight to set up a network of men located on various islands north of Australia to report on...

Winner of the 2020 Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award for nonfiction and the 2019 NSW Premier's History Awards for general history. How di...

For the first time, The Australian Wars brings what for too long has been considered the historical past into connection with its reverberations in...

' The Gulag Archipelago helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph WITH A NEW FOREW...

A new, radically updated edition of the immensely successful introductory textbook on world prehistory.

The history of Australia has been written before - but not like this. In The Shortest History of Australia, Mark McKenna offers a compelling new ve...

Millions of Australians who will vote in the upcoming referendum have little knowledge of the history of our relations with the traditional owners....

PRINT ON DEMAND 6-8 WEEKS TO ARRIVE Thirty years ago, on Christmas Day 1974, Australia woke up to the news that Darwin had been devastated by Cyclo...

The history of Australia’s north coast is a story of ancient industry and international trade with tentacles that reached as far as China. It tells...

This book represents the first consolidated history of vocational education and training in the Northern Territory. Not only does the story present...

In this volume, Leni Shilton offers us a woman’s exploration of loss and survival in a savagely beautiful landscape. The story of Bertha Strehlow -...