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Late Victorian Holocausts
- El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
- By: Mike Davis
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
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Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history. Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine: India, Northern China, and Northeastern Brazil.
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Sounds grim, worth the time
- By L P on 20-08-25
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Late Victorian Holocausts
- El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 30-04-17
- Language: English
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
- By: Thorstein Veblen
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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In this, his best-known work, the controversial American economist and social critic Thorstein Veblen appropriates Darwin's theory of evolution to analyze the modern industrial system. For Veblen, the shallowness and superficiality observed in society results from the tendency to believe that true accomplishment lies in arriving at a condition of ostentatious wealth and status.
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Absolutely brilliant
- By Dr. Dylan Evans on 01-10-23
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 19-12-17
- Language: English
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On the Shadow Tracks
- A Journey Through Occupied Myanmar
- By: Clare Hammond
- Narrated by: Clare Hammond
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2016, while working as a journalist in Yangon, Clare Hammond discovered an obscure map that showed a web of new railways spanning the length and breadth of the country - railways not shown on any other publicly available maps. She was determined to uncover the railways' origins, purpose, and most of all, the silence that surrounded them. She would spend three months travelling on these mysterious railways, and the next five years piecing their story together.
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Outstanding
- By Mr. A. on 25-06-24
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On the Shadow Tracks
- A Journey Through Occupied Myanmar
- Narrated by: Clare Hammond
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 06-06-24
- Language: English
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Habsburgs on the Rio Grande
- The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire
- By: Raymond Jonas
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Based on research in five languages and in archives across the globe, Habsburgs on the Rio Grande fundamentally revises narratives of global history. Far more than a footnote, the Second Mexican Empire was at the center of world-historic great-power struggles—a point of inflection in a contest for supremacy that set the terms of twentieth-century rivalry.
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Habsburgs on the Rio Grande
- The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 14-01-25
- Language: English
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Robert Smalls
- The Life of the Escaped Slave Who Commandeered a Confederate Ship During the Civil War
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Steve Knupp
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Robert Smalls’ life illustrates what can happen when one is freed from the fetters of others’ estimations. Smalls’ metamorphosis from slave to ship pilot to U.S. Congressman displays the power of fiery determination and unrelenting ambition. News of Smalls’ incredible exploit made it all the way up to Lincoln, who eventually met him and asked why he would dare such a thing. Smalls replied with only one word: ‘Freedom.
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Robert Smalls
- The Life of the Escaped Slave Who Commandeered a Confederate Ship During the Civil War
- Narrated by: Steve Knupp
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
- Release date: 09-02-26
- Language: English
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Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader
- Jewish Lives
- By: Derek Penslar
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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The life of Theodor Herzl (1860–1904) was as puzzling as it was brief. How did this cosmopolitan and assimilated European Jew become the leader of the Zionist movement? How could he be both an artist and a statesman, a rationalist and an aesthete, a stern moralist yet possessed of deep, and at times dark, passions? And why did scores of thousands of Jews, many of them from traditional, observant backgrounds, embrace Herzl as their leader?
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Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader
- Jewish Lives
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 19-11-25
- Language: English
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The Industrial Revolution
- A History from Beginning to End
- By: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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The Industrial Revolution, which took place in Great Britain between the middle of the 18th century and the middle of the 19th, transformed British industry and society and made Great Britain the most powerful nation in the world. The Industrial Revolution didn’t happen due to one, single factor but rather to a number of separate, yet, related developments which interacted to change the world profoundly and completely. Improvements in the production of iron allowed the construction of efficient, reliable steam engines.
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The Industrial Revolution
- A History from Beginning to End
- Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Release date: 25-03-19
- Language: English
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J.S. Mill: Philosophy in an Hour
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Jonthan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance37
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Philosophy for busy people. Listen to a succinct account of the philosophy of J.S. Mill in just one hour. John Stuart Mill is remembered today as the leading exponent of Utilitarianism, arguing that our aim in life must be the attainment of pleasure and the minimizing of pain for the majority of...
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J.S. Mill: Philosophy in an Hour
- Narrated by: Jonthan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
- Release date: 30-05-13
- Language: English
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A Fate Worse than Hell
- American Prisoners of the Civil War
- By: W. Fitzhugh Brundage
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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From the Pulitzer Prize finalist, a harrowing new history of the Civil War’s prisoner of war camps, North and South. It is newly estimated that 750,000 soldiers died in the American Civil War. But less well-known than the war’s death toll are the roughly 400,000 Union and Confederate troops...
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A Fate Worse than Hell
- American Prisoners of the Civil War
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 24-02-26
- Language: English
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Vatican I
- The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Church
- By: John W. O'Malley
- Narrated by: Matthew McAuliffe
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
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The enduring influence of the Catholic Church has many sources, but in the first half of the 19th century, the foundations upon which the church had rested were shaken. For many people, liberalism in the guise of liberty, equality, and fraternity was the quintessence of the evils that shook those foundations. At the Vatican Council of 1869-1870, the church made an effort to set things right by defining the doctrine of papal infallibility. Author John W. O'Malley draws us into the bitter controversies over papal infallibility that at one point seemed destined to rend the church in two.
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Excellent information on an important subject
- By Anonymous on 27-10-23
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Vatican I
- The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Church
- Narrated by: Matthew McAuliffe
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 16-10-18
- Language: English
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Bad Girls
- A History of Rebels and Renegades
- By: Caitlin Davies
- Narrated by: Rose Ackroyd
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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A history of a century of women, punishment and crime in HM Prison Holloway. Society has never known what to do with its rebellious women. Those who defied expectations about feminine behaviour have long been considered dangerous and unnatural, and ever since the Victorian era they have been removed from public view, locked up and often forgotten about. Many of these women ended up at HM Prison Holloway, the self-proclaimed 'terror to evil-doers'.
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Fascinating history of women in prison
- By Chris on 24-01-26
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Bad Girls
- A History of Rebels and Renegades
- Narrated by: Rose Ackroyd
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 08-03-18
- Language: English
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The Balkans [Modern Library Chronicles]
- By: Mark Mazower
- Narrated by: Robert O'Keefe
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
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In this fascinating work, winner of the Wolfson Prize for History Mark Mazower uncovers the history of the Balkans with detail and clarity. He explores the reasons for current conflicts and examines the Balkans as a religious, cultural, and economic melting pot for Europe and Asia. Through Robert O'Keefe's articulate narration, listeners will be absorbed by this rich world.
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Good short overview of history of Balkans
- By Lukas on 16-11-19
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The Balkans [Modern Library Chronicles]
- Narrated by: Robert O'Keefe
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 15-07-05
- Language: English
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Phantom Terror
- The Threat of Revolution and the Repression of Liberty 1789-1848
- By: Adam Zamoyski
- Narrated by: Geoff Holman
- Length: 19 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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A magnificent and timely examination of an age of fear, subversion, suppression and espionage, Adam Zamoyski explores the attempts of the governments of Europe to police the world in a struggle against obscure forces, seemingly dedicated to the overthrow of civilisation. The advent of the French...
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A good man and thorough...
- By woodwild on 15-04-16
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Phantom Terror
- The Threat of Revolution and the Repression of Liberty 1789-1848
- Narrated by: Geoff Holman
- Length: 19 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 09-10-14
- Language: English
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The King and the Catholics
- The Fight for Rights 1829
- By: Antonia Fraser
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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The story of Catholic Emancipation begins with the Anti-Catholic Gordon Riots in 1780, fuelled by a reduction in Penal Laws against Catholics harking back to the 16th century. Fifty years later, the passing of the Emancipation Bill was hailed as a 'bloodless revolution'. Yet, had the Irish Catholics been a 'millstone', or were they the prime movers?
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1829
- By Nina on 12-05-19
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The King and the Catholics
- The Fight for Rights 1829
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 29-11-18
- Language: English
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Imperial Germany and War, 1871-1918
- Modern War Studies
- By: Daniel J. Hughes, Richard L. DiNardo
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 21 hrs and 6 mins
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Performance25
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Written by two of the world's leading authorities on the subject, Imperial Germany and War, 1871-1918 examines the most essential components of the imperial German military system, with an emphasis on such foundational areas as theory, doctrine, institutional structures, training, and the officer corps. In the period between 1871 and 1918, rapid technological development demanded considerable adaptation and change in military doctrine and planning.
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Brilliant study of the Prussian/German Army
- By Derrick on 04-04-25
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Imperial Germany and War, 1871-1918
- Modern War Studies
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 21 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 27-08-19
- Language: English
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The Shape of the New
- Four Big Ideas and How They Made the Modern World
- By: Scott L. Montgomery, Daniel Chirot
- Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
- Length: 20 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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This panoramic book tells the story of how revolutionary ideas from the Enlightenment about freedom, equality, evolution, and democracy have reverberated through modern history and shaped the world as we know it today.
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In depth but fascinating
- By Amazon Customer on 06-03-21
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The Shape of the New
- Four Big Ideas and How They Made the Modern World
- Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
- Length: 20 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 25-05-15
- Language: English
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The British Army in the 19th Century
- The History of the Soldiers Who Defeated Napoleon and Oversaw the World’s Greatest Empire
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Today, the British Army is one of the most powerful fighting forces in the world. Its highly trained professional soldiers are equipped with the most advanced military technology ever made. Its international interventions, while controversial both at home and abroad, are carried out with incredible professionalism and little loss of life among British servicemen and servicewomen. Naturally, the history and traditions behind this army are also impressive.
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The British Army in the 19th Century
- The History of the Soldiers Who Defeated Napoleon and Oversaw the World’s Greatest Empire
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 13-06-18
- Language: English
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Van Gogh
- A Power Seething (Icons)
- By: Julian Bell
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Van Gogh is a vivid portrait of the great Impressionist painter that traces his life from the Netherlands, where he was born into a family of art dealers, through his years in England, the Hague, and Paris, to his final home in Arles, where he discovered the luminous style of his late paintings before his suicide at the age of thirty-seven.
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Beautifully empathic
- By Tim Patrick on 30-01-24
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Van Gogh
- A Power Seething (Icons)
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Series: Icons
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 08-01-15
- Language: English
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The Genius of Jane Austen
- Her Love of Theatre and Why She Is a Hit in Hollywood
- By: Paula Byrne
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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'I relished every page … This is the best book on Jane Austen I have ever read’ Spectator 'Compelling … a delightful and engrossing book … Byrne’s passion is nothing if not persuasive’ Sunday Times Was Jane Austen a woman of prim manners and genteel calm? Or someone who behaved...
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The Genius of Jane Austen
- Her Love of Theatre and Why She Is a Hit in Hollywood
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 18-05-17
- Language: English
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American Republics
- A Continental History of the United States 1783-1850
- By: Alan Taylor
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 14 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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In this beautifully written history of America’s formative period, a preeminent historian upends the traditional story of a young nation confidently marching to its continent-spanning destiny.
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All together now and it works
- By Amazon Customer on 25-05-21
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American Republics
- A Continental History of the United States 1783-1850
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 14 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 18-05-21
- Language: English
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