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    • The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
    • By: William Dalrymple
    • Narrated by: Sid Sagar
    • Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 17-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,146 ratings
    • 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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    • A Moral Reckoning
    • By: Nigel Biggar
    • Narrated by: Matt Bates
    • Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 126 ratings
    • In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed that we had arrived at the ‘End of History’—that the global dominance of liberal democracy had been secured forever.....

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    • A Captivating Guide to the History of Austria and the Habsburg Empire
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 21-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Two manuscripts in one audiobook: History of Austria and The Habsburg Empire. When Austrian President Franz Jonas visited the Vatican in 1971, Pope Paul VI named Austria “The Island of the Blessed"....

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    • From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
    • By: Francis Fukuyama
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Series: Political Order, Book 2
    • Length: 24 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 30-09-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 278 ratings
    • Taking up the essential question of how societies develop strong, impersonal, and accountable political institutions, Fukuyama follows the story from the French Revolution to the so-called Arab Spring....

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    • A New History
    • By: Pieter M. Judson
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 25-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • In a panoramic and pioneering reappraisal, Pieter M. Judson shows why the Habsburg Empire mattered so much, for so long, to millions of Central Europeans....

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    • The Fuhrer's Vendetta Against the Austrian Royals
    • By: James Longo
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • As he rose to power, Hitler's hatred toward the Habsburgs and their diverse empire fixated on Franz Ferdinand's sons, who became outspoken critics of the Nazi party and its racist ideology. When Germany seized Austria in 1938, they were the first two Austrians arrested by the Gestapo....

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    • From the East India Company to the Road to Independence and the Partition of India
    • By: Nigel Durve
    • Narrated by: Jack Jacobs
    • Length: 2 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 23-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The Indian diaspora and its descendants are one of the most significant minorities in Britain today. This audiobook will examine the vast contributions they have made in influencing and shaping modern-day British culture....

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    • By: Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer - translator
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 48 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 140 ratings
    • The epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global history, a scathing critique of contemporary politics, and a bold proposal for a new and fairer economic system....

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    • A Personal Memoir and History of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956
    • By: Michael Korda
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 31-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Journey to a Revolution is at once history and a compelling memoir - the author's riveting account of the course of the revolution, from its heroic beginnings to the sad martyrdom of its end....

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    • And How Its Critics Empowered Nazis, Communists, and the Enemies of the West
    • By: Bruce Gilley
    • Narrated by: Damon Abernathy
    • Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • The author of the groundbreaking "The Case for Colonialism" demonstrates that, contrary to modern presuppositions, German colonialism from its roots to the mid-twentieth century was overall a force for good in the world where development was encouraged and native governance flourished....

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    • How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World
    • By: Kehinde Andrews
    • Narrated by: Kehinde Andrews
    • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 02-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • The New Age of Empire is a damning exploration of the many ways in which the effects and logic of anti-Black colonialism continue to inform our modern world.

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Stephen Howe
    • Narrated by: Victor Bevine
    • Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Stephen Howe interprets the meaning of the idea of "empire" through the ages, disentangling the multiple uses and abuses of the labels "empire" and "colonialism," etc., and examines the aftermath of imperialism on the contemporary world....

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    • The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
    • By: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 20-03-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 921 ratings
    • Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....

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    • By: Dinah Jefferies
    • Narrated by: Eliza Parkes
    • Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 25-02-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 116 ratings
    • French Indochina, 1952. Since her mother's death, 18-year-old half-French, half-Vietnamese Nicole has been living in the shadow of her beautiful older sister, Sylvie....

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    • Architect of Empire
    • By: Alan Gallay
    • Narrated by: Paul Hodgson
    • Length: 19 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 20-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • From a Bancroft Prize-winning historian, a biography of the famed poet, courtier, and colonizer, showing how he laid the foundations of the English Empire....

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    • The Corporations That Built British Colonialism
    • By: Philip J. Stern
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 16-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Challenging conventional wisdom about where power is held on a global scale, Stern complicates the supposedly firm distinction between private enterprise and the state, offering a new history of the British Empire, as well as a new history of the corporation....

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    • The Historical Origins of Economic Growth
    • By: Mark Koyama, Jared Rubin
    • Narrated by: Adam Barr
    • Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 17-01-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin dive into the many theories of why modern economic growth happened when and where it did. They discuss recently advanced theories rooted in geography, politics, culture, demography, and colonialism....

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    • The Syrian Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of its Historic Liberal-Islamic Alliance
    • By: Elizabeth F. Thompson
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • The story of a pivotal moment in modern world history, when representative democracy became a political option for Arabs - and how the West denied the opportunity....

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