John Hirst, one of Australia's pre-eminent historians, provides a compelling history of the long, sometimes difficult, and ultimately 'sentimental' process of Australian Federation. His account appears on the eve of the Centenary of Federation.

The Sentimental Nation: The Making of the Australian Commonwealth

History

Hirst, John

Australia & Oceania

Oxford University Press

In this important book, Casey analyses the solutions that Nietzsche, Freud and Rorty provide for meaninglessness and the new world they would bring into being.

Meaninglessness: The Solutions of Nietzsche, Freud and Rorty

Casey, Michael A.

Freedom Publishing Company

The New Evangelist: Being Outlines For Village Preachers, Town Missionaries, And Sunday-School Teachers (1864)

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Kessinger Publishing, LLC

The New Evangelist, Outlines for Village Preachers

Palala Press

Sense and Nonsense in Australian History represents a lifetime's original reflection by Australia's most innovative and penetrating historian. Included here are classic essays on the pioneer legend, Australian egalitarianism and colonial culture. There are celebrated critiques of The Tyranny of Distance, multiculturalism and nationalistic history, as well as a substantial essay on Aboriginal dispossession and the history wars. In Sense and Nonsense in Australian History, John Hirst overturns familiar conceptions and deepens our sense of Australia's development from convict society to distinctive democracy.

Sense & Nonsense In Australian History

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Three millennia of history on a momentous, world-changing continent, distilled into 208 thrilling pages, from The Shortest History series! Celebrated historian John Hirst draws from his own lectures to deliver this ultra-accessible master class on the making of modern Europe, from Ancient Greece through World War II. With over 600,000 copies sold worldwide, this brief history is a global sensation propelled by a thesis of astonishing simplicity: Just three elements--German warfare, Greek and Roman culture, and Christianity--come together to explain everything else, from the Crusades to the Industrial Revolution. Hirst's razor-sharp grasp of cause and effect helps us see with sparkling clarity how the history of Europe--the crucible of liberal democracy--shapes the way we live today.

The Shortest History of Europe: How Conquest, Culture, and Religion Forged a Continent―A Retelling for Our Times (The Shortest History Series)

Europe

The Experiment

Celebrated historian John Hirst offers a fascinating exploration of the qualities that made Europe a world-changing civilisation, from Ancient Greece and Rome to the two World Wars. The Shortest History of Europe begins with a rapid overview of European civilisation, describing its birth from an unlikely mixture of classical learning, Christianity and German warrior culture. Over the centuries, this unstable blend produced highly distinctive characters - pious knights and belligerent popes, romantics spouting folklore and revolutionaries imitating Rome - and its coming apart provided the dynamic of European history in modern times. Accompanied by lively illustrations, The Shortest History of Europe is a clear, humorous and thought-provoking account of a remarkable civilisation.

The Shortest History of Europe

Americas

Black Inc.

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