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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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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.
There'll be no bottle of Rum for Matt Murphy because he assures us that his interest is entirely academic and he doesn't even drink rum. Despite that he did fall headlong into its intoxicating history from colonial Australia to the present day.
Linda Jaivin's nimble history of rogues, revolutions and rebellions can be read in a day, but will transform your view for a lifetime. From kung-fu to tofu, tea to trade routes, sages to silk, China has influenced cuisine, commerce, military strategy, aesthetics and philosophy across the world for thousands of years.
Wounded Country
The Murray-Darling Basin - a Contested...
Paperback
$34.99
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Human Rights in Twentieth-Century Australia
Paperback
$41.95
Not in-store but you can order this
The Battlefield of Imperishable Memory
Passchendaele and the Anzac Legend...
Paperback
$34.95
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The Ruby Princess
The Truth Behind the 21st-Century...
Paperback
$34.99
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Meredith Burgmann and Nadia Wheatley say that RADICALS - Remembering the Sixties will make you feel like you were there, whether or not you really were.
The Sixties - an era of protest, free love, civil disobedience, duffel coats, flower power, giant afros and desert boots, all recorded on grainy black and white film footage - marked a turning point for change. Radicals found their voices and used them...
Six-time Walkley Award-winning investigative reporter Suzanne Smith and shortlisted for the 2020 Walkley Book Award, THE ALTAR BOYS is the explosive expose of widespread and organised clerical abuse of children in one Australian city, and how the cover-up in the Catholic Church in Australia extended from parish priests to every echelon of the organisation.
Geoffrey Robertson's recent theatre show recounted some key moments from his career which touched on the human rights aspects of big topics such as the death penalty and the pursuit and trial of Julian Assange. An inspirational talk from a truly good-hearted humanist who sees right through the justifications and rationalisations for human rights abuses that the power-hungry cling to. And all done with wit and wisdom.
Robertson's latest book outlines an emerging Plan B for punishing human rights abusers- 'Magnitsky Laws', which could impose debilitating sanctions on 'bad people'. The book explains the background and potential of these laws - early versions of them have been introduced in the US, Canada and Britain, and they are now being considered in Australia.
Hitler's First Hundred Days
When Germans Embraced the Third...
Hardback
$56.95
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Imperial Tragedy
From Constantine's Empire to the...
Paperback
$24.99
Forthcoming
You can preorder this
We Shall Be Masters
Russian Pivots to East Asia from...
Hardback
$49.95
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The Dressmakers of Auschwitz
The True Story of the Women Who...
Paperback
$34.99
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Night of the Assassins
The Untold Story of Hitler's Plot...
Paperback
$32.99
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Behind the Enigma
The Authorised History of GCHQ,...
Paperback
$24.99
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Why the Germans Do it Better
Notes from a Grown-Up Country
Paperback
$22.99
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Lancaster
The Forging of a Very British Legend...
Paperback
$22.99
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A Brief History of Motion
From the Wheel to the Car to What...
Paperback
$29.99
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The Wrens of World War II
Bletchley's Secret Source
Paperback
$29.99
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The White Ship
Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking...
Paperback
$24.99
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Two Afternoons in the Kabul Stadium
A History of Afghanistan through...
Paperback
$34.99
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The Gallery of Miracles and Madness
Insanity, Art and Hitler's First...
Paperback
$34.99
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The Impossible Office?
The History of the British Prime...
Hardback
$37.95
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Asian Worldviews
Religions, Philosophies, Political...
Paperback
$47.95
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How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs
The Syrian Congress of 1920 and...
Paperback
$22.99
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Slaughter and Stalemate in 1917
British Offensives from Messines...
Hardback
$58.99
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BY PERIOD
- Early History 500-1450
- Modern History 1450-1700
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- Modern History from 2000
BY REGION
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EDUCATION & CULTURAL
ARCHAEOLOGY
- Archaeological Theory
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- Archaeology by Period & Region
- Biblical Archaeology
- Classical Greek & Roman Archaeology
- Egyptian Archaeology & Egyptology
- Environmental Archaeology
- Industrial Archaeology
- Landscape Archaeology
- Medieval European Archaeology
- Prehistoric Archaeology
- Underwater Archaeology
MILITARY HISTORY
- OSPREY Military History Books
- Naval Forces & Warfare
- Naval Ships
- Crusades
- English Civil War
- American War of Independence
- Napoleonic Wars
- American Civil War
- Crimean War
WARFARE & DEFENCE
- OSPREY Military History Books
- Warfare & Defence
- Theory of warfare & military science
- Land forces & warfare
- Irregular or guerrilla forces & warfare
- Naval forces & warfare
- Air forces & warfare
- Special & elite forces
- Military administration
- Defence strategy, planning & research
- Military intelligence
- Military tactics
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