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The Anarchy
- The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
- By: William Dalrymple
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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The Anarchy tells the remarkable story of how one of the world’s most magnificent empires disintegrated and came to be replaced by a dangerously unregulated private company....
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Interesting story spoilt by poor narration
- By Gillian on 09-11-19
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Mutiny on the Bounty
- By: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrated by: Michael Carman
- Length: 22 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories - a tale of human drama, intrigue and adventure of the highest order - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before. Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit plants from Tahiti and take them to the West Indies, the Bounty's crew found themselves in a tropical paradise. Five months later, they did not want to leave.
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great read. couldn't stop listening to this book
- By Anna on 25-08-19
By: Peter FitzSimons
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Gibraltar
- The Greatest Siege in British History
- By: Roy Adkins, Lesley Adkins
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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For over three and a half years, from 1779 to 1783, the tiny territory of Gibraltar was besieged and blockaded, on land and at sea, by the overwhelming forces of Spain and France....
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- By Jdharrison on 15-08-19
By: Roy Adkins, and others
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Dr. Johnson's London
- By: Liza Picard
- Narrated by: Fiona Shaw
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Abridged
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Like its popular and acclaimed predecessor, Restoration London, this book is the result of the author's passionate interest in the practical details of the everyday life of our ancestors....
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Too short. Really impressive detail and research
- By Amazon Customer on 11-03-15
By: Liza Picard
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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 fortress turned prison....
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Superb!
- By Roseline Swain on 20-01-21
By: Will Bashor
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Mutiny on the Spanish Main
- HMS Hermione and the Royal Navy’s Revenge
- By: Angus Konstam
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Mutiny on the Spanish Main tells the dramatic story of HMS Hermione, a British frigate which, in 1797, was the site of the bloodiest mutiny in British naval history, which saw the death of her captain and many of her officers....
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Angus at his best.
- By D Paterson on 24-12-20
By: Angus Konstam
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The Anarchy
- The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
- By: William Dalrymple
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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The Anarchy tells the remarkable story of how one of the world’s most magnificent empires disintegrated and came to be replaced by a dangerously unregulated private company....
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Interesting story spoilt by poor narration
- By Gillian on 09-11-19
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Mutiny on the Bounty
- By: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrated by: Michael Carman
- Length: 22 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories - a tale of human drama, intrigue and adventure of the highest order - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before. Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit plants from Tahiti and take them to the West Indies, the Bounty's crew found themselves in a tropical paradise. Five months later, they did not want to leave.
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great read. couldn't stop listening to this book
- By Anna on 25-08-19
By: Peter FitzSimons
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Gibraltar
- The Greatest Siege in British History
- By: Roy Adkins, Lesley Adkins
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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For over three and a half years, from 1779 to 1783, the tiny territory of Gibraltar was besieged and blockaded, on land and at sea, by the overwhelming forces of Spain and France....
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- By Jdharrison on 15-08-19
By: Roy Adkins, and others
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Dr. Johnson's London
- By: Liza Picard
- Narrated by: Fiona Shaw
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Abridged
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Like its popular and acclaimed predecessor, Restoration London, this book is the result of the author's passionate interest in the practical details of the everyday life of our ancestors....
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Too short. Really impressive detail and research
- By Amazon Customer on 11-03-15
By: Liza Picard
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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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Overall
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Performance
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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 fortress turned prison....
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Superb!
- By Roseline Swain on 20-01-21
By: Will Bashor
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Mutiny on the Spanish Main
- HMS Hermione and the Royal Navy’s Revenge
- By: Angus Konstam
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Mutiny on the Spanish Main tells the dramatic story of HMS Hermione, a British frigate which, in 1797, was the site of the bloodiest mutiny in British naval history, which saw the death of her captain and many of her officers....
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Angus at his best.
- By D Paterson on 24-12-20
By: Angus Konstam
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A New World Begins
- The History of the French Revolution
- By: Jeremy D. Popkin
- Narrated by: Pete Cross, Jeremy D. Popkin
- Length: 21 hrs and 54 mins
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In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the revolution that puts the listener in the thick of the debates and the violence that led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a new society....
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Injects utter tedium into a fascinating subject
- By Arkhidamos on 21-08-21
By: Jeremy D. Popkin
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Catherine the Great
- Portrait of a Woman
- By: Robert K. Massie
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 23 hrs and 52 mins
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Robert K. Massie returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became Catherine the Great. Born into a minor noble family, Catherine transformed herself into empress of Russia by sheer determination....
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Great book about a great woman
- By Mette on 23-12-12
By: Robert K. Massie
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Queen Anne
- By: Herbert Paul
- Narrated by: Melissa Thompson
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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An examination of the politics and social mores of Queen Anne's reign. The book includes sections on the War of Spanish succession, politics, literature, and society and manners....
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A book for fact and speculation.
- By Shades of Blue Q on 08-01-21
By: Herbert Paul
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Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune
- How Younger Sons Made Their Way in Jane Austen's England
- By: Rory Muir
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Historian Rory Muir weaves together the stories of many obscure and well-known young men of good family but small fortune, shedding light on an overlooked aspect of Regency society....
By: Rory Muir
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The Fall of Robespierre
- 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris
- By: Colin Jones
- Narrated by: Sasha Higgins
- Length: 18 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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The day of 9 Thermidor is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. At midnight, Maximilien Robespierre was planning to destroy one of the most dangerous plots that the Revolution had faced....
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Dire Reading
- By Stephen Bentley on 03-09-22
By: Colin Jones
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The Duchess
- By: Amanda Foreman
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
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Lady Georgiana Spencer was the great-great-great-great-aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, and was nearly as famous in her day....
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wonderful listen
- By Artemis on 13-09-20
By: Amanda Foreman
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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
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Scandal! Intrigue! Cossacks! Here the world’s most engaging royal historian chronicles the world’s most fascinating imperial dynasty: the Romanovs, whose three-hundred-year reign was remarkable for its shocking violence, spectacular excess, and unimaginable venality....
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How people behave because they're rulers!?
- By Melmo25 on 19-11-23
By: Michael Farquhar
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The Penguin Book of Pirates
- By: Katherine Howe
- Narrated by: Jaime Lamchick, Matthew Lloyd Davies, Jerome Harmann-Hardeman, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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The Penguin Book of Pirates takes us behind the eye patches, the peg legs, and the skull and crossbones of the Jolly Roger and into the no-man’s-land of piracy that is rife with paradoxes and plot twists....
By: Katherine Howe
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London Journal
- By: James Boswell
- Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Between the years of 1762 and 1763, James Boswell kept a journal of his time in London. During his time, he met the renowned writer, moralist, and lexicographer Samuel Johnson, with whom Boswell would form a close relationship....
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outrageous but fascinating
- By CKC on 11-10-20
By: James Boswell
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The Enlightenment
- And Why it Still Matters
- By: Anthony Pagden
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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One of our most renowned and brilliant historians takes a fresh look at the revolutionary intellectual movement that laid the foundation for the modern world....
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Worth every penny.
- By Gabriel ARMSTRONG on 05-07-19
By: Anthony Pagden
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Covered with Night
- A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
- By: Nicole Eustace
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the distant summer of 1722, two White fur traders attacked an Indigenous hunter and left him for dead near Conestoga, Pennsylvania....
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Pleasantly meandering
- By M. MccOy on 29-06-22
By: Nicole Eustace
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The Favourite
- By: Ophelia Field
- Narrated by: Natalie Boscombe
- Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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This biography brings Sarah Churchill's own voice, passionate and intelligent, back to life and casts a critical eye over images of the Duchess handed down through art, history and literature....
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Great narration, boring meandering story
- By Briony Rees on 31-12-18
By: Ophelia Field
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The Wandering Army
- The Campaigns That Transformed the British Way of War
- By: Huw J. Davies
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 18 hrs and 5 mins
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A compelling history of the British Army in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—showing how the military gathered knowledge from campaigns across the globe....
By: Huw J. Davies
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The HMS Wager
- The History of the 18th Century's Most Famous Shipwreck and Mutiny
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Mark Norman
- Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Mention the 18th century Royal Navy and visions come to mind of swashbuckling sailors swinging from rope to rope....
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The Great Cat Massacre
- And Other Episodes in French Cultural History
- By: Robert Darnton
- Narrated by: Ken Kliban
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
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The landmark history of France and French culture in the 18th century, a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize....
By: Robert Darnton
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War at Saber Point
- Banastre Tarleton and the British Legion
- By: John Knight
- Narrated by: Ian Putnam
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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The British Legion was one of the most remarkable regiments, not only of the American Revolution, but of any war. A corps made up of American Loyalists, it saw its first action in New York and then engaged in almost every battle in the Southern colonies....
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Entertained, Informed, Satisfied.
- By Shades of Blue Q on 26-03-23
By: John Knight
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Inventing Human Rights
- A History
- By: Lynn Hunt
- Narrated by: Siiri Scott
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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How were human rights invented, and how does their tumultuous history influence their perception and our ability to protect them today? From Professor Lynn Hunt comes this extraordinary cultural and intellectual history, which traces the roots of human rights to the rejection of torture....
By: Lynn Hunt
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Villains of All Nations
- Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age
- By: Marcus Rediker
- Narrated by: Cornell Womack
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Villains of All Nations explores the "Golden Age" of Atlantic piracy (1716-1726) and the infamous generation whose images underlie our modern, romanticized view of pirates....
By: Marcus Rediker
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George Washington: History in an Hour
- By: David B. McCoy
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
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Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour....
By: David B. McCoy
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From Conquest to Colony
- Empire, Wealth, and Difference in Eighteenth-Century Brazil
- By: Kirsten Schultz
- Narrated by: Alex Picard
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
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Kirsten Schultz provides a new history of Brazil's eighteenth century that foregrounds debates about wealth, difference, and governance....
By: Kirsten Schultz
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The Invisible Hook
- The Hidden Economics of Pirates
- By: Peter T. Leeson
- Narrated by: Jeremy Gage
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
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Revealing the democratic and economic forces propelling history's most colorful criminals, The Invisible Hook establishes pirates' trailblazing relevance to the contemporary world....
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Patronising and Repetative
- By David on 30-10-11
By: Peter T. Leeson
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The American Revolution
- A Concise History from Colonial Rebellion to the War for Independence to the Constitution
- By: Eric Porterfield
- Narrated by: Daniel Winski
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Relive the revolution that gave birth to the United States as it stands today....
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INFORMATIVE!!
- By Grace on 10-02-24
By: Eric Porterfield
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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....
By: Jeremy Black
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A Warrior Dynasty
- The Rise and Fall of Sweden as a Military Superpower 1611-1721
- By: Henrik O. Lunde
- Narrated by: Mark Ashby
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
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This audiobook examines the meteoric rise of Sweden as the pre-eminent military power in Europe during the Thirty Years War during the 1600s....
By: Henrik O. Lunde
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The Revolutionary Temper
- Paris, 1748-1789
- By: Robert Darnton
- Narrated by: Andrew J. Andersen
- Length: 21 hrs
- Unabridged
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When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth of a new society. Most historians account for the French Revolution by viewing it in retrospect as the outcome of underlying conditions such as a faltering economy, social tensions, or the influence of Enlightenment thought. But what did Parisians themselves think they were doing—how did they understand their world? What were the motivations and aspirations that guided their actions?
By: Robert Darnton
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Bluestockings
- The First Women's Movement
- By: Susannah Gibson
- Narrated by: Fenella Fudge
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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In Britain in the 1750s, women had no power and no rights - all money and property belonged to their fathers or husbands. A brave group risked everything to think and live as they wished, despite the sneers of contemporaries who argued that books frazzled female brains and damaged their wombs. Bluestockings provides unexpected and inspiring stories of the forgotten heroines of Britain's very first women's movement.
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So joyful, interesting and reflective
- By Corvicula on 15-04-24
By: Susannah Gibson
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Fort Ticonderoga: The Last Campaigns
- The War in the North, 1777-1783
- By: Mark Edward Lender
- Narrated by: Al Kessel
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Based on new archival research, Fort Ticonderoga, The Last Campaigns: The War in the North, 1777-1783 by distinguished historian Mark Edward Lender highlights the strategic importance of the fort as British, American, and regional forces fought for control of the northern front at a critical point in the war. The book tells the Ticonderoga story in all of its complexity and drama, correcting misconceptions embedded in many previous accounts, and sheds vital new light on this key chapter in America's struggle for independence.
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Dark Brilliance
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Focusing on key characters from the seventeenth to the eighteenth centuries, including Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Newton, Descartes, Spinoza, Louis XIV and Charles I, Dark Brilliance is a fascinating and wide-ranging history that explores the human costs of imposing progress and modernity.
By: Paul Strathern
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Colorism
- Black Baby Doll Series
- By: Saif Noble
- Narrated by: Tyler Nissen
- Length: 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Although the ideology of judging a person for the color of their skin has infected much of the planet today, this series is focused on the origin, distribution, and perpetuity of this deceptive scourge. According to Margret Hunter of Mills College, her studies of Colorism in America and around the world is, “However, dark-skinned people of color are typically regarded as more ethnically authentic or legitimate than light-skinned people. Colorism is directly related to the larger system of racism in the USA and around the world.”
By: Saif Noble
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The Zong
- A Massacre, the Law & the End of Slavery
- By: James Walvin
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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On November 29, 1781, Captain Collingwood of the British ship Zong commanded his crew to throw overboard one-third of his cargo: a shipment of Africans bound for slavery in America. The captain believed his ship was off course, and he feared there was not enough drinking water to last until landfall. This book is the first to examine in detail the deplorable killings on the Zong, the lawsuit that ensued, how the murder of 132 slaves affected debates about slavery, and the way we remember the infamous Zong today.
By: James Walvin
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The Revolutionary Temper
- Paris, 1748-1789
- By: Robert Darnton
- Narrated by: Andrew J. Andersen
- Length: 21 hrs
- Unabridged
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When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth of a new society. Most historians account for the French Revolution by viewing it in retrospect as the outcome of underlying conditions such as a faltering economy, social tensions, or the influence of Enlightenment thought. But what did Parisians themselves think they were doing—how did they understand their world? What were the motivations and aspirations that guided their actions?
By: Robert Darnton
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Bluestockings
- The First Women's Movement
- By: Susannah Gibson
- Narrated by: Fenella Fudge
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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In Britain in the 1750s, women had no power and no rights - all money and property belonged to their fathers or husbands. A brave group risked everything to think and live as they wished, despite the sneers of contemporaries who argued that books frazzled female brains and damaged their wombs. Bluestockings provides unexpected and inspiring stories of the forgotten heroines of Britain's very first women's movement.
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So joyful, interesting and reflective
- By Corvicula on 15-04-24
By: Susannah Gibson
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Fort Ticonderoga: The Last Campaigns
- The War in the North, 1777-1783
- By: Mark Edward Lender
- Narrated by: Al Kessel
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Based on new archival research, Fort Ticonderoga, The Last Campaigns: The War in the North, 1777-1783 by distinguished historian Mark Edward Lender highlights the strategic importance of the fort as British, American, and regional forces fought for control of the northern front at a critical point in the war. The book tells the Ticonderoga story in all of its complexity and drama, correcting misconceptions embedded in many previous accounts, and sheds vital new light on this key chapter in America's struggle for independence.
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Dark Brilliance
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Focusing on key characters from the seventeenth to the eighteenth centuries, including Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Newton, Descartes, Spinoza, Louis XIV and Charles I, Dark Brilliance is a fascinating and wide-ranging history that explores the human costs of imposing progress and modernity.
By: Paul Strathern
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Colorism
- Black Baby Doll Series
- By: Saif Noble
- Narrated by: Tyler Nissen
- Length: 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Although the ideology of judging a person for the color of their skin has infected much of the planet today, this series is focused on the origin, distribution, and perpetuity of this deceptive scourge. According to Margret Hunter of Mills College, her studies of Colorism in America and around the world is, “However, dark-skinned people of color are typically regarded as more ethnically authentic or legitimate than light-skinned people. Colorism is directly related to the larger system of racism in the USA and around the world.”
By: Saif Noble
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The Zong
- A Massacre, the Law & the End of Slavery
- By: James Walvin
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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On November 29, 1781, Captain Collingwood of the British ship Zong commanded his crew to throw overboard one-third of his cargo: a shipment of Africans bound for slavery in America. The captain believed his ship was off course, and he feared there was not enough drinking water to last until landfall. This book is the first to examine in detail the deplorable killings on the Zong, the lawsuit that ensued, how the murder of 132 slaves affected debates about slavery, and the way we remember the infamous Zong today.
By: James Walvin