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  • The Anarchy cover art

    • The Anarchy

    • 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 1,152 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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    • Black Flags, Blue Waters

    • The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
    • By: Eric Jay Dolin
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 16-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings

    • Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the dramatic and surprising history of American piracy's "Golden Age" - spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s - when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond....

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    • Colonialism

    • 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 128 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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    • Political Order and Political Decay

    • 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 279 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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    • Capital and Ideology

    • 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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    • Almost a Miracle

    • The American Victory in the War of Independence
    • By: John Ferling
    • Narrated by: David Baker
    • Length: 26 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 17-12-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • In this gripping chronicle of America's struggle for independence, award-winning historian John Ferling transports listeners to the grim realities of that war....

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    • The Habsburg Empire

    • 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 Puritans

    • A Transatlantic History
    • By: David D. Hall
    • Narrated by: Jason Culp
    • Length: 21 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 15-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings

    • A panoramic new history of Puritanism in England, Scotland, and New England....

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    • A Storm of Witchcraft

    • The Salem Trials and the American Experience
    • By: Emerson W. Baker
    • Narrated by: Marc Vietor
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Beginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America....

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    • George Washington

    • The Wonder of the Age
    • By: John Rhodehamel
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 21-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Rhodehamel examines George Washington as a public figure, arguing that the man - who first achieved fame in his early twenties - is inextricably bound to his mythic status....

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    • This Land Is Their Land

    • The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving
    • By: David J. Silverman
    • Narrated by: William Roberts
    • Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • Ahead of the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, a new look at the Plymouth colony’s founding events, told for the first time with Wampanoag people at the heart of the story....

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    • British Colonialism in India

    • 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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    • Merchant Kings

    • When Companies Ruled the World, 1600-1900
    • By: Stephen R. Bown
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 25-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • It was an era when monopoly trading companies were the unofficial agents of European expansion, controlling vast numbers of people and huge tracts of land, and taking on governmental and military functions....

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    • Walter Ralegh

    • 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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    • Bloody Mohawk

    • The French and Indian War & American Revolution on New York's Frontier
    • By: Richard Berleth
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 19-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings

    • In this narrative history of the Mohawk River Valley and surrounding region from 1713 to 1794, Professor Richard Berleth charts the passage of the valley from a fast-growing agrarian region streaming with colonial traffic to a war-ravaged wasteland....

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    • The War That Made America

    • A Short History of the French and Indian War
    • By: Fred Anderson
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 25-01-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Apart from The Last of the Mohicans, most Americans know little of the French and Indian War, and yet it remains one of the most fascinating periods in our history....

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    • A Man Most Driven

    • By: Peter Firstbrook
    • Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
    • Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 29-01-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • He fought and beheaded three Turkish adversaries in duels. He was sold into slavery and then murdered his master to escape....

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    • Brethren by Nature

    • New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery
    • By: Margaret Ellen Newell
    • Narrated by: Aaron Killian
    • Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 18-03-16
    • Language: English
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    • Margaret Ellen Newell reveals a little-known aspect of American history: English colonists in New England enslaved thousands of Indians....

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    • Rosicrucian America

    • How a Secret Society Influenced the Destiny of a Nation
    • By: Steven Sora
    • Narrated by: Nick McDougal
    • Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • Providing a thorough and expansive view of Rosicrucianism, its occult origins, and its deep imprint on America, Sora shows how this secret society still continues to exert invisible influence on the modern world....

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    • Metternich

    • Strategist and Visionary
    • By: Wolfram Siemann, Daniel Steuer - translator
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 36 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 14-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings

    • Wolfram Siemann paints a fundamentally new image of the man who shaped Europe for over four decades. He reveals Metternich as more modern and his career much more forward-looking than we have ever recognized....

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