On this page are lists of featured books and eBooks that may be beneficial to your studies, an eBook search bar, a list of our history physical book collection by call number, and useful videos for searching tips and tricks.
You can go to the book shelves and browse the Library collection using the following Call Numbers:
900 Theories of History
909 History of the World
910 Geography
919s & 990s Australia / New Zealand / Pacific History
920s Biographies
930s Ancient History
940s European History (940.3 World War I, 940.54 World War II, 941 England/Scotland/Ireland, 942 Medieval/Elizabethan/ Victorian/Edwardian, 943 Germany, 944 France, 945 Italy, 946 Spain & Portugal, 947 Russia)
950s Asia (951 China, 952 Japan. 954 India, 956 Middle East, 959 Southeast Asia)
970s America
980s Latin America
The essential illustrated guide to the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece and Rome, vividly retelling their stories and exploring their origins. Each chapter focuses on an individual god or goddess, beginning with their 'biography' as understood by the Greeks and Romans and exploring the origins of the legends.
The houses of history is a clear, jargon-free introduction to the major theoretical approaches employed by historians.
Taking Pandora and her jar (the box came later) as the starting point, this book puts the women of the Greek myths on equal footing with the menfolk. After millennia of stories telling of gods and men, be they Zeus or Agamemnon, Paris or Odysseus, Oedipus or Jason, the voices that sing from these pages are those of Hera, Athena and Artemis, and of Clytemnestra, Jocasta, Eurydice and Penelope.
Introduces students to the chief disciplines, methods, and sources employed in "doing" ancient history. It gives them a sense of the nature of evidence and its use in the reconstruction of the past, helping them to read a historical narrative with more critical appreciation, and it encourages them to consider the differences between their own academic experience of ancient sources - books, inscriptions, coins, and the like - and the use of these same objects within the everyday life of ancient society.
Committed to the scientific investigation of human antiquity, Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology uses interesting--and often humorous--archaeological hoaxes, myths, and mysteries to show how we can use science to learn things about the past
Oxford and BBC historian Janina Ramirez has uncovered countless influential women's names struck out of historical records, with the word FEMINA annotated beside them. Femina goes beyond the official records to uncover the true impact of women like Jadwiga, the only female King in Europe, Margery Kempe, who exploited her image and story to ensure her notoriety, and the Loftus Princess, whose existence gives us clues about the beginnings of Christianity in England.
One of America's most distinguished military historians offers the definitive account of the greatest tank battle of World War II--the critical turning point on World War II's Eastern Front, and an epic clash of machines and men that matched the indomitable will of the Soviet Red Army against the awesome might of the Nazi Wehrmacht. Drawing on the masses of new information made available by the opening of the Russian military archives, Armor and Blood re-creates every aspect of this dramatic struggle. But it is the author's exploration of the human dimension of armored combat that truly distinguishes this book.
Queen Boudica, leader of the Iceni, revolted against the Romans in AD60 only to have her efforts avenged by a humiliated Roman army. This lively and fascinating book examines in detail the evidence and theories which surround these events.
The first full history of the Fourth Division, this book presents a detailed narrative telling the Division's story from its formation after Gallipoli right through to a period rarely covered in Australian military history - the final weeks of the 1914-18 war and the first weeks of peace. The book ties together the history of not only the Division's infantry, but also of the artillerymen, machine gunners, engineers, medical personnel and headquarters staff, showing how the various elements worked together through adversity to achieve the triumphs of 1918.
An examination of the imperial spread of English from the Australian perspective, University of Melbourne historian Joy Damousi takes as her focus the key role voice culture, elocution, and eloquence played in the civilising mission of the British Empire, and how this impacted Australian culture over the century covered by the book. Rather than looking at the English language in Australia from a linguistic point of view of lexis and pronunciation, Damousi uniquely concentrates on the oral and auditory aspects of language, language as speech and listening, language as it is spoken and heard in everyday life.
In Hitler's Panzers, renowned World War II scholar Dennis Showalter presents a comprehensive and unbiased study of Nazi Germany's armored forces. By delving deeply into a detailed history of the theory, strategy, myths, and realities of Germany's technologically innovative approach to warfare, Showalter provides a look at the military lessons of the past, and a speculation on how the Panzer ethos may be implemented in the future of international conflict.
