Lotharingia: A Personal History of Europe's Lost Country by Simon Winder
$32.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY | Reading Level: very good
Following Danubia and the bestselling Germania, Lotharingia is the third and final instalment in Simon Winder's hilarious and informative personal exploration of European history. In 843 AD, the three surviving grandsons of the great emperor Charlemagne met at Verdun. After years of bitter squabbles ove ...Show more
TWENTY YEARS IN SARAWAK 1848-68 : A FLOURISH FOR THE BISHOP AND BROOKE'S FRIEND GRANT by MAX SAINT
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FOOD CULTURE IN COLONIAL ASIA : A TASTE OF EMPIRE - SIGNED by Cecilia Leong-Salobir
$150.00 AUD
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Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE | Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia Ser.
Presenting a social history of colonial food practices in India, Malaysia and Singapore, this book discusses the contribution that Asian domestic servants made towards the development of this cuisine between 1858 and 1963. Domestic cookbooks, household management manuals, memoirs, diaries and travelogue ...Show more
THE AGRARIAN PROBLEM IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY by R H TAWNEY
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Southeast Asia: A Modern History by Nicholas Tarling
$90.00 AUD
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This book adopts both a narrative and a comprartive approach to the modern history of Southeast Asia. It is divided into five parts, examining, for example, state formation, political developments in the twentieth century, and historiography. The author also compares the experiences of Southeast Asian s ...Show more
Southeast Asian History and Historiography - Essays Presented to D. G. E. Hall by C. D. Cowan (Editor); O. W. Wolters (Editor)
$45.00 AUD
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Culture & Imperialism by Edward W. Said
$15.00 AUD
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
From Jane Austen to Salman Rushdie, and from Yeats to the news coverage of the Gulf War, this is broad account of the roots of imperialism in European culture, and an analysis of the impact of 19th-century British and French imperialism on the culture of the period.
The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia - 4 Volume Set by Nicholas Tarling (Editor)
$200.00 AUD
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In these four volumes, now published in paperback, 22 scholars of international reputation consider the whole of mainland and island Southeast Asia from Burma to Indonesia. Each volume has a new preface which points to the relationships with the other volumes. The prefaces also comment on some of the re ...Show more
Milestones of the Twentieth Century : The Events that Shaped Our Lives by READER'S DIGEST.
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The age of flight - Eary films (movies) - Early radio - Henry Ford and the car industry - Sigmund Freud - Women's suffrage (Suffragettes) - Panama Canal - World War 1 - Lenin & the Russian Revolution - Roaring twenties - Versailles - Gandhi struggle for freedom in India - Stalin - Alexander Fleming ...Show more
Time and Power - Visions of History in German Politics, from the Thirty Years` War to the Third Reich by Christopher Clark
$54.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY | Series: The\Lawrence Stone Lectures | Reading Level: near fine
From the author of the national bestseller The Sleepwalkers, a book about how the exercise of power is shaped by different concepts of timeThis groundbreaking book presents new perspectives on how the exercise of power is shaped by different notions of time. Acclaimed historian Christopher Clark draws o ...Show more