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HISTORY HERALD represents the vast history book catalogue at Abbey's Bookshop, 131 York Street, Sydney.
We are Australia's specialist bookstore for history and archaeology. Australian History, World & Ancient History, Military & Maritime History, Art History, Roman, Greek, Egyptology - whatever your reading or research interests are, we have books sourced from publishers large and small, and from university presses across the globe.
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The saga of Australia continues with... GIRT NATION, the third book in this entertaining view of Australian history. David Hunt tramples the tall poppies of the past in charting Australia's transformation from aspiration to nation - an epic tale of charlatans and costermongers, of bush bards and bushier beards, of workers and women who weren't going to take it anymore.
Some of you may have already listened to the podcast on ABC Listen, Rum, Rebels & Ratbags, where David Hunt and Dom Knight take you through the history that was included in first book in David's GIRT series. It's a fun listen and a wonderful companion to the book.
Paul van Reyk writes on the history of Australian food alongside the xenophobia and immigration policies which questioned the image of Australia as a model multicultural society. Also examined is the emergence of Indigenous peoples taking control over how their traditional foods are interpreted and marketed.
For some years, iconic Australian music writer Clinton Walker has been working on a book which documents a fundamental part of the history of Australian popular music. Knitted into a background of tumultuous social change, Suburban Songbook gets inside the compositions that helped shape the sound, paying long overdue credit to the often-obscure pioneers who toiled to set the stage for the full maturation of Australian music that followed Countdown into the 1980s.
Superbly designed in lavish colour and with a wealth of archival photographs and images, linked playlists (for Spotify and YouTube) and exhaustive discographies across its 272 pages, this book will (like so many of Clinton's other books) become the standard reference on the subject for decades to come.
The Reckoning
How #MeToo is changing Australia:...
Paperback
$24.99
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Between the Last Oasis and the next Mirage
Writings on Australia
Paperback
$39.99
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Then Now Always
Royal Australian Air Force Illustrated...
Hardback
$59.99
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The exhibitionists
A History of Sydney's Art Gallery...
Hardback
$65
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Suburban Songbook
Writing Hits in Post-War / Pre-Countdown...
Paperback
$49.95
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Great Furphies of Australian History
What you really need to know - the...
Paperback
$29.99
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No, You're Not Entitled to Your Opinion
And 49 Other Essays that Got the...
Paperback
$29.99
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Pocket sized but powerful, In the National Interest is a new series in the Monash University Publishing list that is focused on the challenges Australia confronts. The series informs, influences and inspires public discourse. Showcasing experts both from within Monash and beyond, these short, thought-provoking and accessible books will address the major issues of our times, from public policy to governance and government. Perfect for the thoughtful commuter or an intellectual lunch break.
Powers and Thrones
A New History of the Middle Ages...
Hardback
$49.99
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Blood and Ruins
The Great Imperial War, 1931-1945...
Hardback
$75 $65
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The Radical Potter
Josiah Wedgwood and the Transformation...
Hardback
$55
Forthcoming
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A World Beneath the Sands
Adventurers and Archaeologists in...
Paperback
$26.99
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JFK
Volume 1: John F Kennedy: 1917-1956...
Paperback
$32.99
Forthcoming
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The Story of the World in 100 Moments
Discover the stories that defined...
Hardback
$45
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When Women Ruled the World
Making the Renaissance in Europe...
Hardback
$49.95
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Merchants
The Community That Shaped England's...
Hardback
$51.95
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The Tudors in Love
The Courtly Code Behind the Last...
Paperback
$39.99
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The Hitler Years ~ Disaster 1940-1945
Paperback
$27.99
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The Wolf Age
The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and...
Hardback
$49.99
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The Library
A Fragile History
Hardback
$49.99
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The Strange Death and Curious Rebirth of the Israeli...
Jewish Quarterly 246
Paperback
$22.99
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Hero of Two Worlds
The Marquis de Lafayette in the...
Hardback
$45
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The Invention of Sicily
A Mediterranean History
Hardback
$39.99
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The Dressmakers of Auschwitz
The True Story of the Women Who...
Paperback
$34.99
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Two Afternoons in the Kabul Stadium
A History of Afghanistan Through...
Paperback
$34.99
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The Horde
How the Mongols Changed the World...
Hardback
$49.95
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The Gallery of Miracles and Madness
Insanity, Art and Hitler's First...
Paperback
$34.99
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Steam Trains Today
Journeys Along Britain's Heritage...
Hardback
$34.99
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