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  • The Habsburg Empire cover art

    • 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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    • Asperger's Children

    • The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
    • By: Edith Sheffer
    • Narrated by: Christa Lewis
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings

    • In 1930s and 1940s Vienna, psychiatrist Hans Asperger sought to define autism as a diagnostic category, aiming to treat those children he deemed capable of participating fully in society. Depicted as a compassionate researcher, Asperger was in fact deeply influenced by Nazi psychiatry....

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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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    • The Penguin History of New Zealand

    • By: Michael King
    • Narrated by: Rosemary Ronald
    • Length: 17 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 23-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

    • This best-selling book, the triumphant fruit of careful research, wide reading and judicious assessment, is the unchallenged contemporary reference on the history of New Zealand....

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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 Concise History of Modern India

    • By: Barbara Metcalf, Thomas Metcalf
    • Narrated by: Raj Ghatak
    • Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 14-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • A Concise History of Modern India, by Barbara D. Metcalf and Thomas R. Metcalf, has become a classic in the field since it was first published in 2001. As a fresh interpretation of Indian history from the Mughals to the present, it has informed students across the world....

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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
    • Release date: 30-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • ike Davis discloses the relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history....

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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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    • Villains of All Nations

    • Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age
    • By: Marcus Rediker
    • Narrated by: Cornell Womack
    • Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 26-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • Villains of All Nations explores the "Golden Age" of Atlantic piracy (1716-1726) and the infamous generation whose images underlie our modern, romanticized view of pirates....

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    • Savarkar: Echoes of a Forgotton Past, Vol. 1: Part 1

    • By: Vikram Sampath
    • Narrated by: Pratik Sharma
    • Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 19-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings

    • As the intellectual fountainhead of the ideology of Hindutva, which is in political ascendancy in India today, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar is undoubtedly one of the most contentious political thinkers and leaders of the 20th century....

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    • Embers of War

    • The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
    • By: Fredrik Logevall
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 32 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 13-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings

    • An epic story of wasted opportunities and deadly miscalculations, Embers of War delves deep into the historical record to provide hard answers to the unanswered questions surrounding the demise of one Western power in Vietnam and the arrival of another....

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    • Back to Black

    • Black Radicalism for the 21st Century
    • By: Kehinde Andrews
    • Narrated by: Kehinde Andrews
    • Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 24-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

    • Back to Black seeks to show us the long, powerful and painful history of Black radical politics. Born out of resistance to slavery and colonialism, its rich past encompasses figures such as Marcus Garvey, Angela Davis, the Black Panthers and the activists of today....

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    • Dictatorland

    • The Men Who Stole Africa
    • By: Paul Kenyon
    • Narrated by: Hamilton McLeod
    • Length: 19 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings

    • The dictator who grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop that he built a 35-storey-high basilica in the jungles of the Ivory Coast. The austere, incorruptible leader who has shut Eritrea off from the world in a permanent state of war and conscripted every adult into the armed forces....

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    • Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism

    • By: Vladimir Ilich Lenin
    • Narrated by: Richard Webb
    • Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

    • This 100-year-old book still explains our endless wars. As the extraordinary death and suffering of World War I unfolded, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin tried to explain why so many nations agreed to sacrifice so many people in such a brutal way....

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    • Hospicing Modernity

    • Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism
    • By: Vanessa Machado de Oliveira
    • Narrated by: Dougald Hine, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira
    • Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 04-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings

    • Vanessa Machado de Oliveira presents us with a challenge: to grow up, step up, and show up for ourselves, our communities, and the living Earth, and to interrupt the modern behavior patterns that are killing the planet we’re part of....

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