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General & world history
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Tyrannie de la Penitence: Essai sur le Masochisme Occidental
Pascal Bruckner
General & world history; Social & political philosophy; Languages & ESL
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Prehistory: The Making Of The Human Mind
Lord Colin Renfrew
History; General & world history; Ancient history: to c 500 CE
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A brief and original prehistory of the world [more]
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A Little History of the World
Ernst H. Gombrich
General & world history; History: earliest times to present day; Children's & Educational
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In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited to attempt a... [more]
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The Kills of Kedumba: The Story of a Blue Mountains Pioneering Family
Jim Barrett
History; General & world history; Local history; Family history, tracing ancestors
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At the core of the story is the marriage of George Kill and Mary Ann Hunt and their association with events in the early history... [more]
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Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
Niall Ferguson
History; General & world history; British & Irish history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
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Shows how a gang of buccaneers and gold-diggers from a rainy island in the North Atlantic came to build the most powerful... [more]
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The Rise of Rome: Books One to Five
Livy
Literary essays; General & world history; European history; Ancient history: to c 500 CE
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Romulus and Remus, the rape of Lucretia, Horatius at the bridge, the saga of Coriolanus, Cincinnatus called from his farm... [more]
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Their Darkest Hour: People Tested to the Extreme in WWII
Laurence Rees
History; General & world history; Oral history; Second World War
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How could Nazi killers shoot Jewish women and children at close range? Why did Japanese soldiers rape and murder on such a... [more]
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The Histories
Herodotus
Literary essays; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; General & world history; Ancient history: to c 500 CE
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Originally published: Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. [more]
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New Day Dawning: the Early Years of Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras...
Gavin Harris, John Witte, Ken Davis
Other performing arts; History; General & world history; Social & cultural history; Gay & Lesbian studies
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The vitality, sense of fun, creativity, contemplativeness (sic) and determination these events epitomise, reflect the optimism... [more]
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Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire
Judith Herrin
History; General & world history; European history; History of other lands; Early history: c 500 to c 1450&1500; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700
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For a thousand years, an extraordinary empire made possible Europe's transition to the modern world: Byzantium. This book... [more]
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The Gallic War: Seven Commentaries on The Gallic War with an Eighth Commentary...
Julius Caesar
Literary essays; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; General & world history; European history; Ancient history: to c 500 CE
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The Gallic War, published on the eve of the civil war which led to the end of the Roman Republic, is an autobiographical account... [more]
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Pompey Elliott
Ross McMullin
Biography; Biography: historical, political & military; General & world history; First World War
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Pompey Elliott was a remarkable Australian. During the Great War he was a charismatic, controversial, and outstandingly successful... [more]
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Tobruk
Peter FitzSimons
True war & combat stories; History; General & world history; Second World War
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In the early days of April 1941, the 14,000 Australian forces garrisoned in the Libyan town of Tobruk were told to expect... [more]
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Stalingrad
Antony Beevor
History; General & world history; Second World War; Battles & campaigns
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The battle for Stalingrad became the focus of Hitler and Stalin's determination to win the war on the eastern front. But the... [more]
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The Great War
Les Carlyon
History; General & world history; First World War
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Winner of the inaugural Prime Minister's Prize for History, 2007The Great War is Les Carlyon's extraordinary account of the... [more]
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International Relations: A Very Short Introduction
Paul Wilkinson
General & world history; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000; Globalization; Politics & government; International relations
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This Introduction covers topics such as foreign policy, the world economy, and globalization, showing how many disciplines... [more]
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Enlightenment's Wake: Politics and Culture at the Close of the Modern Age...
John Gray
General & world history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Social & cultural history; Philosophy; Politics & government; Political science & theory; Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies; Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies
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Turning his back on neoliberalism at the moment that its advocates were in their pomp, trumpeting 'the end of history' and... [more]
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Caesar
Adrian Goldsworthy
Biography: historical, political & military; History; General & world history; European history; Ancient history: to c 500 CE
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The story of one of the most brilliant, flamboyant and historically important men who ever lived. [more]
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The Great Transformation: The World in the Time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius...
Karen Armstrong
General & world history; Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Religion & beliefs; History of religion
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Now available in paperback: The Great Transformation is nothing less than a global account of the time when religion was born.<br... [more]
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A Short History Of The Twentieth Century
Geoffrey Blainey
History; General & world history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
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Takes us on an incredible global journey through a tempestuous hundred years and brings to vivid life many of the events that... [more]
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69 AD: The Year of Four Emperors
Gwyn Morgan
History; General & world history; Ancient history: to c 500 CE
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The Year of Four Emperors was one of the most chaotic, violent and frightening periods in all Roman history. It was a time... [more]
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The First World War: A Very Short Introduction
Michael Howard, QC
History; General & world history; British & Irish history; First World War
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By the time the First World War ended in 1918, eight million people had died in what had been perhaps the most apocalyptic... [more]
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The Cold War
John Lewis Gaddis
History; General & world history; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000; Marxism & Communism
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In 1945 war came to an end. But a whole new terror was only just beginning... In this book, the truth behind every spy thriller... [more]
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The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall...
Susan Wise Bauer
History; General & world history; Ancient history: to c 500 CE
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A lively and engaging narrative history showing the common threads in the cultures that gave birth to our own. [more]
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Caesar's Civil War
William W. Batstone, Cynthia Damon
Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; History; General & world history; European history; Ancient history: to c 500 CE
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Presents the story of Caesar's contest with the Pompeian party through nineteen months of the civil war. This work offers... [more]
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