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The Divide
- Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets
- By: Jason Hickel
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
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Sixty percent of humanity - some four-point-three billion people - live in debilitating poverty. The standard development narrative suggests that alleviating poverty in poor countries is a matter of getting the internal policies right....
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A must read.
- By goce chekorov on 12-10-19
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The Divide
- Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 13-02-18
- Language: English
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Sixty percent of humanity - some four-point-three billion people - live in debilitating poverty. The standard development narrative suggests that alleviating poverty in poor countries is a matter of getting the internal policies right....
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The Last Embassy
- The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History of Western Encounters with China
- By: Tonio Andrade
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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The Last Embassy tells the story of the Dutch mission of 1795, bringing to light a dramatic but little-known episode that transforms our understanding of the history of China and the West....
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Fantastic
- By Daniel Mang on 20-05-23
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The Last Embassy
- The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History of Western Encounters with China
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 01-06-21
- Language: English
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The Last Embassy tells the story of the Dutch mission of 1795, bringing to light a dramatic but little-known episode that transforms our understanding of the history of China and the West....
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Through the Leopard's Gaze
- Jacaranda Twenty in 2020
- By: Njambi McGrath
- Narrated by: Njambi McGrath
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
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In her captivating memoir Through the Leopard's Gaze, Njambi McGrath details the harrowing circumstances of her life as a young girl in Kenya, who one fateful night was beaten to a pulp and left for dead....
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I thought this book was absolutely brilliant
- By STP on 07-02-20
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Through the Leopard's Gaze
- Jacaranda Twenty in 2020
- Narrated by: Njambi McGrath
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 30-01-20
- Language: English
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In her captivating memoir Through the Leopard's Gaze, Njambi McGrath details the harrowing circumstances of her life as a young girl in Kenya, who one fateful night was beaten to a pulp and left for dead....
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For God and Kaiser
- The Imperial Austrian Army, 1619-1918
- By: Richard Bassett
- Narrated by: Aaron Blain
- Length: 28 hrs and 39 mins
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The definitive history of Austria’s multinational army and its immense role during three centuries of European military history....
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Excellent historical account
- By Jon lanģley on 25-12-19
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For God and Kaiser
- The Imperial Austrian Army, 1619-1918
- Narrated by: Aaron Blain
- Length: 28 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 05-04-19
- Language: English
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The definitive history of Austria’s multinational army and its immense role during three centuries of European military history....
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¡Tequila!: Distilling the Spirit of Mexico
- By: Marie Gaytán
- Narrated by: Darren Roebuck
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
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¡Tequila! Distilling the Spirit of Mexico traces how and why tequila became and remains Mexico's national drink and symbol....
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The history
- By Amazon Customer on 18-09-24
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¡Tequila!: Distilling the Spirit of Mexico
- Narrated by: Darren Roebuck
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 29-09-16
- Language: English
- ¡Tequila! Distilling the Spirit of Mexico traces how and why tequila became and remains Mexico's national drink and symbol....
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Why Australia Prospered
- The Shifting Sources of Economic Growth
- By: Ian W. McLean
- Narrated by: Fleet Cooper
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
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This book is the first comprehensive account of how Australia attained the world's highest living standards within a few decades of European settlement....
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Why Australia Prospered
- The Shifting Sources of Economic Growth
- Narrated by: Fleet Cooper
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 15-11-12
- Language: English
- This book is the first comprehensive account of how Australia attained the world's highest living standards within a few decades of European settlement....
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Birth of a Dream Weaver
- A Writer's Awakening
- By: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
- Narrated by: Benjamin A. Onyango
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
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From one of the world’s greatest writers, the story of how the author found his voice as a novelist at Makerere University in Uganda....
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Fascinating story, superb reading
- By Roland McMorran on 22-01-22
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Birth of a Dream Weaver
- A Writer's Awakening
- Narrated by: Benjamin A. Onyango
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 29-12-20
- Language: English
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From one of the world’s greatest writers, the story of how the author found his voice as a novelist at Makerere University in Uganda....
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When Montezuma Met Cortes
- The True Story of the Meeting That Changed History
- By: Matthew Restall
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
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A dramatic rethinking of the encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Cortés that completely overturns what we know about the Spanish conquest of the Americas....
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When Montezuma Met Cortes
- The True Story of the Meeting That Changed History
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 30-01-18
- Language: English
- A dramatic rethinking of the encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Cortés that completely overturns what we know about the Spanish conquest of the Americas....
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A Way in the World
- A Novel
- By: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
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In a vastly innovative novel, Nobel Prize-winner V. S. Naipaul intertwines memory and history to create what is at once an autobiography and an ambitious fictional archaeology of colonialism....
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A Way in the World
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 04-09-18
- Language: English
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In a vastly innovative novel, Nobel Prize-winner V. S. Naipaul intertwines memory and history to create what is at once an autobiography and an ambitious fictional archaeology of colonialism....
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The Many-Headed Hydra
- Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic
- By: Peter Linebaugh
- Narrated by: Cornell Womack
- Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
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Long before the American Revolution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a motley crew of sailors, slaves, pirates, laborers, market women, and indentured servants had ideas about freedom and equality that would forever change history....
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the detail
- By Remy Brade on 03-05-24
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The Many-Headed Hydra
- Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic
- Narrated by: Cornell Womack
- Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 05-04-22
- Language: English
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Long before the American Revolution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a motley crew of sailors, slaves, pirates, laborers, market women, and indentured servants had ideas about freedom and equality that would forever change history....
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The Next Factory of the World
- How Chinese Investment Is Reshaping Africa
- By: Irene Yuan Sun
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
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Will Africa be the world's next hub of manufacturing? China is answering in the affirmative and investing accordingly....
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Impressed by the individual stories the book presents of the factory owners and workers.
- By Amazon Customer on 28-11-23
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The Next Factory of the World
- How Chinese Investment Is Reshaping Africa
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 09-11-17
- Language: English
- Will Africa be the world's next hub of manufacturing? China is answering in the affirmative and investing accordingly....
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Rise and Fall of the British Empire
- From a Superpower to a Fragile Nation
- By: Michael Klein
- Narrated by: Jim D Johnston
- Length: 4 hrs
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The sudden rise and fall of Great Britain should not have come as a surprise to those few persons who study the increase and fall of empires, and they are acquainted with the lands....
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Rise and Fall of the British Empire
- From a Superpower to a Fragile Nation
- Narrated by: Jim D Johnston
- Length: 4 hrs
- Release date: 26-10-16
- Language: English
- The sudden rise and fall of Great Britain should not have come as a surprise to those few persons who study the increase and fall of empires, and they are acquainted with the lands....
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Imperialism: The Final Stage of Capitalism
- By: Vladimir Lenin
- Narrated by: Michael Richards
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
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Vladimir Lenin’s 1916 essay "Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism", is a synthesis of Lenin's development of economic theories that Karl Marx formulated in Das Kapital....
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Imperialism: The Final Stage of Capitalism
- Narrated by: Michael Richards
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 11-11-20
- Language: English
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Vladimir Lenin’s 1916 essay "Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism", is a synthesis of Lenin's development of economic theories that Karl Marx formulated in Das Kapital....
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Offshore
- Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism
- By: Brooke Harrington
- Narrated by: Jennifer Walden
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
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How do the rich keep getting richer, while dodging the long arm of the law? The ultra-rich seem to live in a different world from the rest of us. That world is called offshore.
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Offshore
- Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism
- Narrated by: Jennifer Walden
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 17-09-24
- Language: English
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How do the rich keep getting richer, while dodging the long arm of the law? The ultra-rich seem to live in a different world from the rest of us. That world is called offshore.
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The Exiled
- The incredible story of the South Asian exodus from Uganda to the UK in 1972
- By: Lucy Fulford
- Narrated by: Shaheen Khan
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
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When Ugandan President Idi Amin expelled the country's entire Asian population in 1972, more than 28,000 people from Britain's former colony arrived on airstrips around the country and began building new lives - but their incredible stories remained largely hidden....
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Fascinating and informative
- By MR P T DACK on 23-07-24
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The Exiled
- The incredible story of the South Asian exodus from Uganda to the UK in 1972
- Narrated by: Shaheen Khan
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 31-08-23
- Language: English
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When Ugandan President Idi Amin expelled the country's entire Asian population in 1972, more than 28,000 people from Britain's former colony arrived on airstrips around the country and began building new lives - but their incredible stories remained largely hidden....
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The Ship That Never Was
- The Greatest Escape Story of Australian Colonial History
- By: Adam Courtenay
- Narrated by: John Eastman
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
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The greatest escape story of Australian colonial history by the son of Australia's best-loved storyteller....
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Excellent, heartbreaking inspires further reading
- By Loppydog on 13-08-23
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The Ship That Never Was
- The Greatest Escape Story of Australian Colonial History
- Narrated by: John Eastman
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 25-05-18
- Language: English
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The greatest escape story of Australian colonial history by the son of Australia's best-loved storyteller....
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A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies
- By: Bartolome de las Casas
- Narrated by: Jason McCoy
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
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A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies is the story of the Spanish Dominican priest Bartolome de las Casas, who came to the Americas in the 16th century. Immediately he was struck by the inhumane ways in which the native peoples were treated by the Europeans....
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A sickening account of what lurks inside many
- By Patrick McCartan on 23-03-22
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A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies
- Narrated by: Jason McCoy
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 05-09-19
- Language: English
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A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies is the story of the Spanish Dominican priest Bartolome de las Casas, who came to the Americas in the 16th century. Immediately he was struck by the inhumane ways in which the native peoples were treated by the Europeans....
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Immigration
- An American History
- By: Carl J. Bon Tempo, Hasia R. Diner
- Narrated by: Kathleen Li
- Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
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A sweeping narrative history of American immigration from the colonial period to the present....
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Immigration
- An American History
- Narrated by: Kathleen Li
- Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 29-11-22
- Language: English
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A sweeping narrative history of American immigration from the colonial period to the present....
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Revolution and Dictatorship
- The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism
- By: Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 17 hrs and 16 mins
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This book explores why dictatorships born of social revolution—such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam—are extraordinarily durable, even in the face of economic crisis, large-scale policy failure, mass discontent, and intense external pressure....
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Revolution and Dictatorship
- The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 17 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 13-12-22
- Language: English
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This book explores why dictatorships born of social revolution—such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam—are extraordinarily durable, even in the face of economic crisis, large-scale policy failure, mass discontent, and intense external pressure....
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The Vietnam War
- A Concise International History
- By: Mark Atwood Lawrence
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
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Hailed as a "pithy and compelling account of an intensely relevant topic" ( Kirkus Reviews), this wide-ranging volume offers a superb account of a key moment in modern U.S. and world history....
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A good intro to the Vietnam war
- By Mrs. T. L. Brown on 01-10-14
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The Vietnam War
- A Concise International History
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 24-03-11
- Language: English
- Hailed as a "pithy and compelling account of an intensely relevant topic" ( Kirkus Reviews), this wide-ranging volume offers a superb account of a key moment in modern U.S. and world history....
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