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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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Stan Grant is one of our foremost observers and chroniclers of the world in crisis. Weaving his personal experiences of reporting from the front lines of the world's flashpoints, together with his deep understanding of politics, history and philosophy, he explores what is driving the world to crisis and how it might be averted. He fears the worst, but begins to chart the way forward. There is bitterness, anger and history here, but there is also the capacity for negotiation, forgiveness and hope.
A powerful and incisive analysis of the state of our world, and our place within it.
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Mark McKenna wanted to write about the centre of Australia and specifically Uluru - the rock - and its unique hold on Australians' imaginations. He does that, writing about Uluru and its place in indigenous songlines and Tjukurpa and giving a sense of the mere blip in the history of the rock represented by the white man's 'discovery' of the rock and subsequent tourism.
But he also centres the book around a tragic event at the frontier between the indigenous people and white colonisers, bringing to the fore the legal and ethical conundrum that arose when white policeman Bill McKinnon shot and killed aboriginal man Yokunnuna for his alleged role in a tribal law killing. This conundrum was neatly phrased by Richard Fidler in his ABC Radio Conversations talk with Mark McKenna as 'who is the lawman and who is the murderer?' in this sad story... [read on]
When I gave Beneath Hill 60 to my father-in-law he told me enthusiastically some days later that it was a cracking read. Documentary-maker and author Will Davies came by to sign our stack of his latest history book - about the untold story of Z Special Unit and Operations, the precursor to the elite SAS, and the extraordinary feats they undertook in the Pacific during the Second World War. Another one for father-in-law!
Snap up your signed copy - they won't last!
With his unique and entertaining blend of memoir, biography, and literary detective work, Craig Munro recreates the lives and careers of a group of renowned Australian editors and their authors in a narrative spanning from the 1890s to the 1990s.
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.
So far in the series, former PM, Kevin Rudd, examines the conservative movement and Murdoch monopoly, Rachel Doyle SC (a leading barrister who has appeared several Royal Commissions) looks at Power and Consent, Bill Bowtell (leading health policy strategist and an architect of Australia's renowned HIV pandemic response) unmasks pandemic politics and Scott Ryan (long serving Liberal MP, Minister and current President of the Senate) takes on the challenges of modern politics.
Convicts Capitalists and Corruption
Nubrygyn and the Colony's Settlement...
Paperback
$45
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Corruption in High Places
The Key Witness in the Justice Murphy...
Paperback
$34.95
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The Royal Australian Air Force in South Australia During...
Adelaide - Gawler - Mallala - Mount...
Paperback
$29.95
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Indigenous Rights and Colonial Subjecthood
Protection and Reform in the Nineteenth-Century...
Paperback
$43.95
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Chronicles of Soccer in Australia
The Foundation Years 1859 to 1949...
Paperback
$34.99
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The Legacy of Douglas Grant
A Notable Aborigine in War and Peace...
Paperback
$26.99
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Navigating by the Southern Cross
A History of the European Discovery...
Hardback
$170
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With the Falling of the Dusk
A Chronicle of the World in Crisis...
Paperback
$34.99
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White Russians, Red Peril
A Cold War History of Migration...
Paperback
$34.99
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The Bookseller of Florence
Vespasiano da Bisticci and the Manuscripts...
Paperback
$35
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Oblivion or Glory
1921 and the Making of Winston Churchill...
Paperback
$22.95
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The Light of Days
Women Fighters of the Jewish Resistance...
Paperback
$32.99
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Lancaster
The Forging of a Very British Legend...
Paperback
$22.99
Not in-store but you can order this
Digging Up Britain
A New History in Ten Extraordinary...
Paperback
$24.99
Not in-store but you can order this
The Spymaster of Baghdad
The Untold Story of the Elite Intelligence...
Paperback
$35
In Stock 😊
Maiden Voyages
women and the Golden Age of transatlantic...
Paperback
$22.99
Forthcoming
You can preorder this
The Fall of the House of Byron
Scandal and Seduction in Georgian...
Paperback
$24.99
In Stock 😊
Underground Asia
Global Revolutionaries and the Assault...
Hardback
$69.99
Not in-store but you can order this
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131 York Street
Sydney NSW 2000
Australia
