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.
Defiant Voices
How Australia's Female Convicts...
Paperback
$49.99
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Radicals
Remembering the Sixties
Paperback
$39.99
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Mutineers
A True Story of Heroes and Villains...
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$29.99
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Convicts Capitalists and Corruption
Nubrygyn and the Colony's Settlement...
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$45
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James Cook
The story behind the man who mapped...
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$34.99
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Secret and Special
The Untold Story of Z Special Unit...
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$34.99
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The Ruby Princess
The Truth Behind the 21st-Century...
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$34.99
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Return to Uluru
Hardback
$34.99
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Into the Loneliness
The unholy alliance of Ernestine...
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$34.99
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Macquarie
Paperback
$34.99
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Argyle
The Impossible Story of Australian...
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$34.99
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Corruption in High Places
The Key Witness in the Justice Murphy...
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$34.95
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The RAAF History
1921-1996 (3-Volume Boxed Set)
Hardback
$69.99
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Aircraft of The Royal Australian Air Force
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$49.99
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The Royal Australian Air Force in South Australia During...
Adelaide - Gawler - Mallala - Mount...
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$29.95
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RAAF Black Cats
The Secret History of the Covert...
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$32.99
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Continent Aflame
Responses to an Australian Catastrophe...
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$40
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Trouble in the Land of Giving
Australian Charities, Fraud and...
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$32
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Teddy Sheean VC
A Selfless Act of Valour
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$29.99
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Two Cultures, One Story
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$24.99
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Truth-Telling
History, sovereignty and the Uluru...
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$34.99
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A Liberal State
How Australians Chose Liberalism...
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$59.99
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Reset
Restoring Australia After the Pandemic...
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$32.99
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Literary Lion Tamers
Book editors who made publishing...
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$29.99
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Indigenous Rights and Colonial Subjecthood
Protection and Reform in the Nineteenth-Century...
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$43.95
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Historical Guide to New South Wales
Hardback
$70
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Going to the Dogs
A History of Greyhound Racing in...
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$49.95
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Chronicles of Soccer in Australia
The Foundation Years 1859 to 1949...
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$34.99
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A Bookshop in Wartime
Paperback
$34.95
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Maralinga
The struggle for return of the lands...
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$34.95
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The Legacy of Douglas Grant
A Notable Aborigine in War and Peace...
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$26.99
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Ned Kelly
The Stringybark Creek Police Murders...
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$39.95
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Navigating by the Southern Cross
A History of the European Discovery...
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$170
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Like a Wicked Noah's Ark
The Nautical School Ships Vernon...
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$44
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Dharawal
The First Contact People
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$40
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A Trip to the Dominions
The Scientific Event that Changed...
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$29.95
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With the Falling of the Dusk
A Chronicle of the World in Crisis...
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$34.99
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White Russians, Red Peril
A Cold War History of Migration...
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Cleopatra
The Queen who Challenged Rome and...
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$34.99
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The Bookseller of Florence
Vespasiano da Bisticci and the Manuscripts...
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$35
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France
A Short History
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$35
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The Barbizon
The New York Hotel That Set Women...
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$32.99
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Henry III
The Rise to Power and Personal Rule,...
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The Volga
A History
Hardback
$51.95
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Fall
The Mystery of Robert Maxwell
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$45
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Oblivion or Glory
1921 and the Making of Winston Churchill...
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$22.95
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A History of Ancient Greece in 50 Lives
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$21.99
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Voyagers
The Settlement of the Pacific
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$35
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The Light of Days
Women Fighters of the Jewish Resistance...
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$32.99
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Lancaster
The Forging of a Very British Legend...
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$22.99
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The Duchess Countess
Paperback
$32.99
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Digging Up Britain
A New History in Ten Extraordinary...
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$24.99
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The Changing of the Guard
The British army since 9/11
Hardback
$60
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The Emperor's Grace
Untold Stories of the Australians...
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$34.95
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You Don't Belong Here
How Three Women Rewrote the Story...
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$32.99
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Money and Power
The World Leaders Who Changed Economics...
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$32.99
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The Spymaster of Baghdad
The Untold Story of the Elite Intelligence...
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$35
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Maiden Voyages
women and the Golden Age of transatlantic...
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$22.99
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A Short History of Russia
Paperback
$27.99
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The Great Empires of the Ancient World
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$21.99
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Queens of Jerusalem
The Women Who Dared to Rule
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$32.99
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The Kennedy Curse
The shocking true story of America's...
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$19.99
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Empire of the Black Sea
The Rise and Fall of the Mithridatic...
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$45.95
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China 1949
Year of Revolution
Hardback
$50
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Iran Rising
The Survival and Future of the Islamic...
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$32.99
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Unrigged
How Americans Are Battling Back...
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$27.95
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The Fall of the House of Byron
Scandal and Seduction in Georgian...
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$24.99
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The Poison Trials
Wonder Drugs, Experiment, and the...
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$57.95
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At Close Range
Life and Death in an Artillery Regiment,...
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$49.99
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Idi Amin
The Story of Africa's Icon of Evil...
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$72.95
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Four Hundred Souls
A Community History of African America...
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$35
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The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens
Paperback
$56.95
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Plowshares into Swords
From Zionism to Israel
Paperback
$39.99
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What is Medieval History?
Paperback
$32.95
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The Rise and Fall of a Medieval Family
The Despensers
Hardback
$75
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Art and Myth in Ancient Greece
Hardback
$35
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Viking Art
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$29.99
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The Fiume Crisis
Life in the Wake of the Habsburg...
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$59.95
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Land
How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped...
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$34.99
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Unlocking the World
Port Cities and Globalization in...
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$49.99
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Promises to Keep
Paperback
$35
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Hitler's Horses
The Incredible True Story of the...
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$35
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Underground Asia
Global Revolutionaries and the Assault...
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$69.99
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The Emperor's Feast
'A tasty portrait of a nation' -Sunday...
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$32.99
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