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The Coin Is Still in the Air
- Aztecs and How Little It Takes to End a Civilization
- By: Peter Kriger
- Narrated by: Jack Jackson
- Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
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When Hernan Cortes brought down an empire of millions with a few hundred men, he let a secret out of the bag that we have been trying to forget ever since. A civilization is astonishingly easy to knock over. And almost nobody has to die for it to happen.
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The Coin Is Still in the Air
- Aztecs and How Little It Takes to End a Civilization
- Narrated by: Jack Jackson
- Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 02-10-26
- Language: English
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Why the Ottoman Empire Still Haunts the Middle East
- By: Peter Kriger
- Narrated by: Angela Offutt
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
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For four hundred years, most of the Middle East was not a collection of countries. It was a set of provinces, and provinces do not have foreign ministries. They have tax registers, religious courts, and a distant capital that keeps the important decisions for itself.
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Why the Ottoman Empire Still Haunts the Middle East
- Narrated by: Angela Offutt
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 28-08-26
- Language: English
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The Bronze Age Collapse
- When the Ancient World Went Offline
- By: Peter Kriger
- Narrated by: Kenneth R. Johnson
- Length: 5 hrs
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Around the year 1200 BC, the most connected world that had ever existed came apart.
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The Bronze Age Collapse
- When the Ancient World Went Offline
- Narrated by: Kenneth R. Johnson
- Length: 5 hrs
- Release date: 21-08-26
- Language: English
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Who Killed the Knight in the Armor
- A Coroner's Inquest into the Death of Feudalism
- By: Peter Kriger
- Narrated by: Angela Offutt
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
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Everyone knows how the Middle Ages ended. Gunpowder arrived, the armored horseman became a museum piece, castles fell, feudalism collapsed, and the modern world walked in through the breach. It is a wonderful story. Almost none of it survives contact with the evidence.
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Who Killed the Knight in the Armor
- A Coroner's Inquest into the Death of Feudalism
- Narrated by: Angela Offutt
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 24-08-26
- Language: English
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From Vikings to Peacemakers
- The Logic of Transformation
- By: Peter Kriger
- Narrated by: Candida Blissard-Davies
- Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
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For three centuries, the people of the North were the primary security problem of Christian Europe. Today their descendants award the Peace Prize, mediate other nations’ wars, and appear at the top of every index of trust and decency anyone has thought to construct.
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From Vikings to Peacemakers
- The Logic of Transformation
- Narrated by: Candida Blissard-Davies
- Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 26-08-26
- Language: English
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The Goths
- Fifteen Centuries of Misunderstanding
- By: Peter Kriger
- Narrated by: Carsten Clovelly
- Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
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A barbarian king sacked Rome in the year 410, and fifteen hundred years later teenagers are still being blamed for it. They do not know this. Neither, for that matter, did the cathedral builders, the horror novelists, or the engineers now training machines in dim rooms.
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The Goths
- Fifteen Centuries of Misunderstanding
- Narrated by: Carsten Clovelly
- Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 21-08-26
- Language: English
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Rom Ist Nicht Untergegangen
- Es Hat Nur Den Server Gewechselt: Warum Rom Immer Noch Unser Betriebssystem Ist
- By: Peter Kriger
- Narrated by: Bernadette Hirschauer
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
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Alle gaben es gleichzeitig zu. Das ganze Internet blickte von seinen Handys auf und gestand: Ja , tatsächlich denkt es ständig an das Römische Reich. Wir machten einen Witz daraus, denn so gehen wir mit Dingen um, die uns ein wenig Angst machen.
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Rom Ist Nicht Untergegangen
- Es Hat Nur Den Server Gewechselt: Warum Rom Immer Noch Unser Betriebssystem Ist
- Narrated by: Bernadette Hirschauer
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 03-09-26
- Language: German
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How Columbus Launched the Apocalypse
- By: Peter Kriger
- Narrated by: Andrew Faulding
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
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Christopher Columbus set out to end the world. He said so in writing, at length, with scriptural citations. He believed his voyages had been foretold by the prophets. He believed the gold of the Indies would finance the recovery of Jerusalem, without which the last act of history could not begin.
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How Columbus Launched the Apocalypse
- Narrated by: Andrew Faulding
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 08-09-26
- Language: English
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Krieg Braucht Gute Menschen
- Wie Unsere Besten Instinkte Massenmord Möglich Machen
- By: Peter Kriger
- Narrated by: Jan Walravens
- Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
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Jeder weiß, was Kriege verursacht. Hass verursacht Kriege. Grausamkeit, Gier, der Mob, der Tyrann, der gebrochene Mann, der etwas beweisen will. Wenn man die Schlimmsten unter uns beschuldigt, scheint die Rechnung aufzugehen. Es funktioniert nicht.
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Krieg Braucht Gute Menschen
- Wie Unsere Besten Instinkte Massenmord Möglich Machen
- Narrated by: Jan Walravens
- Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 28-08-26
- Language: German
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The Reformation as an Information War
- When Everyone Started Fact-Checking God
- By: Peter Kriger
- Narrated by: Katrina Loutzenhiser
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
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The Elector of Saxony owned five thousand holy bones, and he had them printed in a catalogue with illustrations, because a collection nobody can browse is a wasted asset. Eight years later his own university professor published a list of complaints about precisely this line of business.
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The Reformation as an Information War
- When Everyone Started Fact-Checking God
- Narrated by: Katrina Loutzenhiser
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 30-09-26
- Language: English
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Peter Kriger Roma No Cayó, Solo Cambió De Servidor
- Por Qué No Podemos Dejar De Pensar en El Imperio Romano
- By: Peter Kriger
- Narrated by: Fran Galvan
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
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Todos lo admitieron al mismo tiempo. Internet entero levantó la vista de su teléfono y confesó que sí , que piensa constantemente en el Imperio Romano. Lo convertimos en una broma, porque así solemos hacer con las cosas que nos asustan un poco.
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Peter Kriger Roma No Cayó, Solo Cambió De Servidor
- Por Qué No Podemos Dejar De Pensar en El Imperio Romano
- Narrated by: Fran Galvan
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 30-09-26
- Language: Spanish
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The Opium Wars
- Addiction at Gunpoint
- By: Peter Kriger
- Narrated by: Eric Steele
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
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Everyone knows the story. A Christian empire sold narcotics to a civilization that did not want them, and when that civilization objected, the empire sent warships. It is the most morally convenient episode in the Western canon, which is exactly why it deserves to be handled with suspicion.
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The Opium Wars
- Addiction at Gunpoint
- Narrated by: Eric Steele
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 25-09-26
- Language: English
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The Original Tech Panic
- Why People Feared Trains, Telegraphs, and Telephones
- By: Peter Kriger
- Narrated by: Bob McCoy
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
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In 1830, respectable physicians warned that the human body would come apart at thirty miles an hour. In 1889, a Boston paper explained that the telephone would end visiting, conversation, and eventually friendship. In 1954, the United States Senate spent three days investigating comic books.
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The Original Tech Panic
- Why People Feared Trains, Telegraphs, and Telephones
- Narrated by: Bob McCoy
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 23-09-26
- Language: English
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The Witch Hunts
- The Ancient Roots of Cancel Culture
- By: Peter Kriger
- Narrated by: Patricia Roberts
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
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Every age is certain its witches are real. The old world had servants of the Devil; later centuries had wreckers, subversives, and enemies of the people; we have our own quiet vocabulary for the ones we agree to destroy.
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The Witch Hunts
- The Ancient Roots of Cancel Culture
- Narrated by: Patricia Roberts
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 23-09-26
- Language: English
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Rome N'est Pas Tombée, Elle a Juste Changé De Serveur
- Pourquoi Nous Ne Pouvons Pas Cesser De Penser À L'empire Romain (french Edition)
- By: Peter Kriger
- Narrated by: Cynthia Dargavel
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
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Tout le monde l'a admis en même temps. Internet tout entier a levé les yeux de son téléphone et a avoué que oui , en effet, il pensait constamment à l'Empire romain. On en a fait une blague, comme on le fait souvent avec ce qui nous fait un peu peur.
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Rome N'est Pas Tombée, Elle a Juste Changé De Serveur
- Pourquoi Nous Ne Pouvons Pas Cesser De Penser À L'empire Romain (french Edition)
- Narrated by: Cynthia Dargavel
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 21-09-26
- Language: French
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The World War That Nobody Wanted
- By: Peter Kriger
- Narrated by: Maureen Byrne
- Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
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The First World War is usually explained by asking what people wanted. Historians have spent a century sorting the guilty from the merely reckless, and the argument has produced magnificent scholarship without producing agreement. This book asks a different question.
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The World War That Nobody Wanted
- Narrated by: Maureen Byrne
- Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 16-09-26
- Language: English
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The Future Is Older than You Think
- Forgotten Predictions and the History of Tomorrow
- By: Peter Kriger
- Narrated by: Steven Gillen
- Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
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In 2007 a man published a book about the future. He held no chair in futurology, ran no consultancy, and had no institutional reason to be believed.
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The Future Is Older than You Think
- Forgotten Predictions and the History of Tomorrow
- Narrated by: Steven Gillen
- Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 15-09-26
- Language: English
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Babylonian Crowdfunding
- The Roots of Our Debts
- By: Peter Kriger
- Narrated by: Emma Maxey
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
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Five thousand years ago, somebody poured a season's worth of grain into a shared building and immediately ran into a problem that has never once gone away: who gave what, and who gets it back? The answer was to write it down.
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Babylonian Crowdfunding
- The Roots of Our Debts
- Narrated by: Emma Maxey
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 14-09-26
- Language: English
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The Sugar Trail
- How Breakfast Built the Transatlantic Slave Trade
- By: Peter Kriger
- Narrated by: Ida Anders
- Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
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Nobody ever needed it. For the whole of human existence before the sixteenth century, our species got along on honey, fruit, and the occasional raided hive, and no one recorded the deprivation.
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The Sugar Trail
- How Breakfast Built the Transatlantic Slave Trade
- Narrated by: Ida Anders
- Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 08-09-26
- Language: English
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When Privacy Was Invented
- Why Our Ancestors Rarely Had Any
- By: Peter Kriger
- Narrated by: Roger Delves
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
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We talk about privacy the way we talk about clean air: as something we once had in abundance and are now carelessly using up. The historical record tells a stranger story.
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When Privacy Was Invented
- Why Our Ancestors Rarely Had Any
- Narrated by: Roger Delves
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 08-09-26
- Language: English
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