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  • History of Austria cover art

    • History of Austria

    • A Captivating Guide to Austrian History
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 16-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • When Austrian President Franz Jonas visited the Vatican in 1971, Pope Paul VI named Austria “the Island of the Blessed”. He did so to emphasize Austria’s steep recovery. Only 25 years had passed since the end of the Second World War....

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    • The Case for Colonialism

    • By: Bruce Gilley
    • Narrated by: Warren du Plooy
    • Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 25-09-24
    • Language: English
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    • “For the last hundred years, Western colonialism has had a bad name.” So began Professor Bruce Gilley’s watershed academic article, “The Case for Colonialism,” of 2017. The article sparked a global furor.

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    • Empire of Things

    • How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
    • By: Frank Trentmann
    • Narrated by: Mark Meadows
    • Length: 33 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 28-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 192 ratings
    • What we consume has become the defining feature of our lives: our economies live or die by spending, we are treated more as consumers than workers....

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    • How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

    • By: Walter Rodney, Angela Y. Davis - foreword
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 23-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 298 ratings

    • Powerfully introduced by Angela Davis, this is the classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis by Walter Rodney, Guyanese intellectual and leading thinker and activist of the anticolonial revolution....

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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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    • Orientalism

    • By: Edward Said
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 19 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 31-12-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 192 ratings
    • This landmark book, first published in 1978, remains one of the most influential books in the Social Sciences, particularly Ethnic Studies and Postcolonialism....

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    • The Crusades

    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Christopher Tyerman
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
    • Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 29-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • Crusading fervor gripped Europe for over 200 years, creating one of the most extraordinary, vivid episodes in world history....

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    • Thunder at Twilight

    • Vienna 1913/1914
    • By: Frederic Morton
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 03-11-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • It was during the carnival of 1913 that a young Stalin arrived in Vienna on a mission that would launch him into the upper echelon of Russian revolutionaries....

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    • Loot

    • Britain and the Benin Bronzes
    • By: Barnaby Phillips
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings

    • This is the story of the "Benin Bronzes", their creation, theft, and what should happen to them now. When first exhibited in London, they caused a sensation and helped reshape European attitudes towards Africa....

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  • The Politically Incorrect Guide to the British Empire cover art

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    • Culture and Imperialism

    • By: Edward Said
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 19 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 16-02-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • A landmark work from the author of Orientalism, this book explores the connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it....

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    • The Red Prince

    • The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke
    • By: Timothy Snyder
    • Narrated by: Michael Damon
    • Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 28-12-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • The extraordinary story of a life suspended between the collapse of the imperial order and the violent emergence of modern Europe....

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    • A Dying Colonialism

    • By: Frantz Fanon
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 23-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • A Dying Colonialism is Frantz Fanon’s seminal work on anticolonialism and the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution....

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    • Opium

    • How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World
    • By: John H. Halpern, David Blistein
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 13-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • From a psychiatrist on the front lines of addiction medicine and an expert on the history of drug use comes the "authoritative, engaging, and accessible" (Booklist) history of the flower that helped to build - and now threatens - modern society....

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    • The Habsburg Empire

    • A Captivating Guide to the House of Austria and the Impact the Habsburgs Had on the Holy Roman Empire
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 28-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • The Habsburg family ruled central Europe since the early medieval times to World War I, but they still exist as one of the most prestigious Austrian families. To keep themselves in such high positions, the Habsburgs had to develop unique strategies to fight their political enemies....

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    • They Called It Peace

    • Worlds of Imperial Violence
    • By: Lauren Benton
    • Narrated by: Raquel Beattie
    • Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-24
    • Language: English
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    • Holding vital lessons for us today, They Called It Peace reveals how the imperial violence of the past has made perpetual war and the threat of atrocity endemic features of the international order.

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    • Puerto Rico

    • A National History
    • By: Jorell Meléndez-Badillo
    • Narrated by: Tony Chiroldes
    • Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-24
    • Language: English
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    • This audiobook narrated by Tony Chiroldes traces the multifaceted history of Puerto Rico from pre-Columbian times to today.

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    • Tip and Run

    • The Untold Tragedy of the First World War in Africa
    • By: Edward Paice
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 19 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings

    • The Great War's East Africa campaign was, and remains, of huge importance. A 'small war', consisting of a few 'local affairs', was all that was expected in August 1914 as Britain moved to eliminate the threat to the high seas of German naval bases in Africa....

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    • A People’s History of the World

    • From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
    • By: Chris Harman
    • Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
    • Length: 29 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 29-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • Chris Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals....

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