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Geographies of an Imperial Power: The British World, 1688-1815
- By: Jeremy Black
- Narrated by: Josh Albert
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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In this sweeping consideration of Britain in the 18th century, Jeremy Black explores the interconnected roles of power and geography in the creation of a global empire. Geography was at the heart of Britain’s expansion into India, its response to uprisings in Scotland and America, and its revolutionary development of railways.
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Geographies of an Imperial Power: The British World, 1688-1815
- Narrated by: Josh Albert
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 30-08-18
- Language: English
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Colonialism
- A Global History
- By: Lorenzo Veracini
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Colonialism: A Global History interprets colonialism as an unequal relationship characterized by displacement and domination and reveals the ways in which this relationship has been constitutive of global modernity.
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Colonialism
- A Global History
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 08-08-23
- Language: English
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Waves Across the South
- A New History of Revolution and Empire
- By: Sujit Sivasundaram
- Narrated by: Raj Ghatak
- Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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WINNER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE FOR GLOBAL CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN-HESSEL TILTMAN PRIZE 2021 LONGLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2021 ‘Helps re-centre how we look at the world’ PETER FRANKOPAN ‘Global history at its finest’ SUNIL AMRITH ‘A master...
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Waves Across the South
- A New History of Revolution and Empire
- Narrated by: Raj Ghatak
- Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 20-08-20
- Language: English
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Secret Lives of the Tsars
- Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia
- By: Michael Farquhar
- Narrated by: Enn Reitel
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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“Michael Farquhar doesn’t write about history the way, say, Doris Kearns Goodwin does. He writes about history the way Doris Kearns Goodwin’s smart-ass, reprobate kid brother might. I, for one, prefer it.”—Gene Weingarten, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and Washington Post columnist ...
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How people behave because they're rulers!?
- By Melmo25 on 19-11-23
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Secret Lives of the Tsars
- Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia
- Narrated by: Enn Reitel
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 08-07-14
- Language: English
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Great Northern War: A History from Beginning to End
- By: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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The Great Northern War was a war waged by Russia, Denmark-Norway, and Saxony-Poland-Lithuania against the Swedish Empire from 1700 to 1721. It also engaged several of the other great powers of Europe at the time, engulfing much of the continent and its colonies in more than two decades of war. It was part of a long and almost constant series of wars fought home and around the world by European nations over control of more land, resources, and wealth. By its end, Russia had firmly established its ascendency, while Sweden would no longer pose a threat as a major empire.
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Great Northern War: A History from Beginning to End
- Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
- Release date: 12-08-21
- Language: English
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Revolution Song
- A Story of American Freedom
- By: Russell Shorto
- Narrated by: Russell Shorto
- Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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From the author of the acclaimed history The Island at the Center of the World, an intimate new epic of the American Revolution that reinforces its meaning for today. With America's founding principles being debated today as never before, Russell Shorto looks back to the era in which those principles were forged. Drawing on new sources, he weaves the lives of six people into a seamless narrative that casts fresh light on the range of experience in colonial America on the cusp of revolution.
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Revolution Song
- A Story of American Freedom
- Narrated by: Russell Shorto
- Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 27-11-17
- Language: English
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The Last Day
- Wrath, Ruin, and Reason in the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755
- By: Nicholas Shrady
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Along with the volcanic destruction of Pompeii and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the Lisbon quake of 1755 is one of the most destructive natural disasters ever recorded. After being jolted by a massive quake, Lisbon was then pounded by a succession of tidal waves and finally reduced to ash by a fire that raged for five straight days.
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Great insight into a cataclysmic historical event! And its implications.
- By Amazon Customer on 07-01-25
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The Last Day
- Wrath, Ruin, and Reason in the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 09-05-08
- Language: English
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Thomas Paine Classic Collection
- Common Sense, The Age of Reason, and The Rights of Man
- By: Thomas Paine
- Narrated by: Russell Newton
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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This Thomas Paine Classic Collection contains three of Thomas Paine's most notable books: Common Sense, The Age of Reason, and The Rights of Man. Born during the Age of Enlightenment and one of America’s Founding Fathers, Thomas Paine wrote incredible works that continue to resonate with people in the modern world. Inside this collection, you’ll find some of Thomas Paine’s most famous and influential works, from his arguments against the Church to the nature of government and revolution.
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I'll buy the paperback
- By A. Hall on 08-06-20
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Thomas Paine Classic Collection
- Common Sense, The Age of Reason, and The Rights of Man
- Narrated by: Russell Newton
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 14-01-20
- Language: English
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The Entire Life Story Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen of France
- Great Biographies, Book 26
- By: The History Hour
- Narrated by: Ashton Haugen
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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As you begin to listen to this audiobook, you will undoubtedly feel that Queen Marie Antoinette and King Louise XVI led spoiled lives. You will be right in what you think; but you will also find out that with their parents arranging their marriages at a very young age, neither of them was ever able to experience the feelings of young love. You will see what horrors and terrors that Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, their children, and Louis’ sister had to suffer through for four years before their deaths.
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Not great
- By L. Irvine on 06-09-20
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The Entire Life Story Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen of France
- Great Biographies, Book 26
- Narrated by: Ashton Haugen
- Series: Great Biographies, Book 26
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
- Release date: 05-03-20
- Language: English
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La Révolution Française. De La Convention au Directoire, 1792 à 1799
- L'Histoire de France Vivante
- By: Frédéric Nort
- Narrated by: Antoine Marin, Claude Rio, Claude Vernick, and others
- Length: 28 mins
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Cette collection "L'Histoire de France vivante" nous faire revivre les grandes heures de l'histoire de France. Pour chaque époque, l'illustration sonore est faite avec des musiques de la période concernée. Les grands moments de chaque période sont reconstitués à la façon d'une pièce de théâtre, avec plusieurs comédiens et comédiennes qui interprètent les personnages historiques.
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La Révolution Française. De La Convention au Directoire, 1792 à 1799
- L'Histoire de France Vivante
- Narrated by: Antoine Marin, Claude Rio, Claude Vernick, Daniel Benedite, Frédéric Nort, Lucienne Delangue
- Series: L'Histoire de France Vivante
- Length: 28 mins
- Release date: 12-01-18
- Language: French
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The History of England Volume 3
- From Henry VII to Mary
- By: David Hume
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 19 hrs and 46 mins
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Volume 3 of Hume's great History of England the theme of which is liberty, above all English constitutional development from the Anglo-Saxon period to the Revolution of 1688.
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The History of England Volume 3
- From Henry VII to Mary
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Series: The History of England, Book 3
- Length: 19 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 19-09-24
- Language: English
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How to Create the Perfect Wife
- By: Wendy Moore
- Narrated by: Daniel Pirrie
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
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This is the story of how Thomas Day, a young man of means, decided he could never marry a woman with brains, spirit or fortune. Instead, he adopted two orphan girls from a Foundling Hospital, and set about educating them to become the meek, docile women he considered marriage material...
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Fascinating history lesson on Georgian England
- By Amazon Customer on 17-06-22
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How to Create the Perfect Wife
- Narrated by: Daniel Pirrie
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 07-02-13
- Language: English
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Liberty Equality Fashion
- The Women who Styled the French Revolution
- By: Anne Higonnet
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Lagelee, Anne Higonnet
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Joséphine Bonaparte, future Empress of France; Térézia Tallien, the most beautiful woman in Europe; and Juliette Récamier, muse of intellectuals, had nothing left to lose. After surviving incarceration and forced incestuous marriage during the worst violence of the French Revolution of 1789, they dared sartorial revolt.
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Liberty Equality Fashion
- The Women who Styled the French Revolution
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Lagelee, Anne Higonnet
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 30-04-24
- Language: English
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Rousseau and Voltaire
- The Lives of the Two Most Famous Intellectuals of the Enlightenment
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Mark Linsenmayer
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
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Alongside the Renaissance, the Enlightenment is credited with the transition to an adherence to reason, secularism, and promotion of values such as the value of the individual, collective freedom, and liberty. At the heart of the movement in France was François-Marie Arouet, better known by the pen name Voltaire, whose writings advocated for greater liberalism, including freedom of religion and separation of church and state. Voltaire was a biting polemic whose satirical attacks on the Catholic Church were among the fiercest of his day.
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Rousseau and Voltaire
- The Lives of the Two Most Famous Intellectuals of the Enlightenment
- Narrated by: Mark Linsenmayer
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 05-06-15
- Language: English
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Marie Antoinette's Darkest Days
- Prisoner No. 280 in the Conciergerie
- By: Will Bashor
- Narrated by: Aaron Killian
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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This compelling book begins on the 2nd of August 1793, the day Marie Antoinette was torn from her family's arms and escorted from the Temple to the Conciergerie, a thick-walled fortress turned prison. It was also known as the "waiting room for the guillotine" because prisoners only spent a day or two here before their conviction and subsequent execution. The ex-queen surely knew her days were numbered, but she could never have known that two and a half months would pass before she would finally stand trial and be convicted.
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Superb!
- By Roseline Swain on 20-01-21
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Marie Antoinette's Darkest Days
- Prisoner No. 280 in the Conciergerie
- Narrated by: Aaron Killian
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 20-07-17
- Language: English
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West of the Revolution
- An Uncommon History of 1776
- By: Claudio Saunt
- Narrated by: Phil Holland
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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This panoramic account of 1776 chronicles the other revolutions unfolding that year across North America, far beyond the British colonies. In 1776, Thomas Paine published Common Sense, the Continental Congress declared independence, and Washington crossed the Delaware. We are familiar with these famous moments in American history, but we know little about the extraordinary events occurring that same year far beyond the British colonies.
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West of the Revolution
- An Uncommon History of 1776
- Narrated by: Phil Holland
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 16-06-14
- Language: English
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A Great and Noble Scheme
- The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland
- By: John Mack Faragher
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 17 hrs and 52 mins
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In 1755, New England troops embarked on a "great and noble scheme" to expel 18,000 French-speaking Acadians from Nova Scotia, killing thousands, separating innumerable families, and driving many into forests where they waged a desperate guerrilla resistance. The right of neutrality - to live in peace from the imperial wars waged between France and England - had been one of the founding values of Acadia. John Mack Faragher draws on original research to weave 150 years of history into a gripping narrative of both the civilization of Acadia and the British plot to destroy it.
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A Great and Noble Scheme
- The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 17 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 06-08-19
- Language: English
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Gibraltar
- The Greatest Siege in British History
- By: Roy Adkins, Lesley Adkins
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 14 hrs and 53 mins
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A rip-roaring account of the dramatic four-year siege of Britain’s Mediterranean garrison by Spain and France—an overlooked key to the British loss in the American Revolution For more than three and a half years, from 1779 to 1783, the tiny territory of Gibraltar was besieged and blockaded...
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Gibraltar
- The Greatest Siege in British History
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 14 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 13-03-18
- Language: English
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Qing Dynasty
- A History from Beginning to End (History of China)
- By: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
- Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
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The history of China as a single nation began more than 2,000 years ago, when Qin Shi Huangdi first united a group of warring kingdoms into a single empire. China was then ruled by a series of imperial dynasties until the last one—the Qing Dynasty—fell in 1912. The 275-year period of Qing rule saw China becoming a world superpower, gaining dominance over present-day Korea, Tibet, and Vietnam, as well as becoming the center of global trade.
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Qing Dynasty
- A History from Beginning to End (History of China)
- Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
- Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
- Release date: 10-11-23
- Language: English
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The Doctors' Riot of 1788
- Body Snatching, Bloodletting, and Anatomy in America
- By: Andy McPhee
- Narrated by: Tim H. Dixon
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
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Throughout the seventeenth century, medical lecturers demonstrated human anatomy by dissecting a cadaver while surrounded by students. After the Revolutionary War, though, instructors realized that they needed many more cadavers to serve a growing number of medical students. Enter the “resurrectionists”–body snatchers. Resurrectionists were a cruel lot; men (almost always men and often medical students themselves) who would sneak into a cemetery under the cover of darkness, remove a body, and then sell it to a physician or anatomist–usually for around $100.
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The Doctors' Riot of 1788
- Body Snatching, Bloodletting, and Anatomy in America
- Narrated by: Tim H. Dixon
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 02-03-26
- Language: English
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