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  • Mutiny on the Bounty cover art

    • Mutiny on the Bounty

    • By: Peter FitzSimons
    • Narrated by: Michael Carman
    • Length: 22 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 30-10-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 673 ratings

    • The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories - a tale of human drama, intrigue and adventure of the highest order - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before. Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit plants from Tahiti and take them to the West Indies, the Bounty's crew found themselves in a tropical paradise. Five months later, they did not want to leave.

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    • 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: 17-10-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 235 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: 16-10-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 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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    • Under the Black Flag

    • The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
    • By: David Cordingly
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 29-11-2011
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • As he explodes many accepted pirate myths (i.e. "walking the plank" is pure fiction), Cordingly replaces them with a truth that is more complex and often bloodier....

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    • The Republic of Pirates

    • Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down
    • By: Colin Woodard
    • Narrated by: Lewis Grenville
    • Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 14-08-2015
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • The untold story of a heroic band of Caribbean pirates whose defiance of imperial rule inspired revolt in colonial outposts across the world....

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    • A New World Begins

    • The History of the French Revolution
    • By: Jeremy D. Popkin
    • Narrated by: Pete Cross, Jeremy D. Popkin
    • Length: 21 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings

    • In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the revolution that puts the listener in the thick of the debates and the violence that led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a new society....

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    • The Enlightenment

    • And Why it Still Matters
    • By: Anthony Pagden
    • Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
    • Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 07-02-2014
    • Language: English
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    • One of our most renowned and brilliant historians takes a fresh look at the revolutionary intellectual movement that laid the foundation for the modern world....

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    • Unfabling the East

    • The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia
    • By: Jürgen Osterhammel, Robert Savage - translator
    • Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
    • Length: 25 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 13-11-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • During the long 18th century, Europe's travelers, scholars, and intellectuals looked to Asia in a spirit of puzzlement, irony, and openness. Author Jürgen Osterhammel tells the story of the European Enlightenment's nuanced encounter with the great civilizations of the East....

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    • The Wandering Army

    • The Campaigns That Transformed the British Way of War
    • By: Huw J. Davies
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 18 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-2023
    • Language: English
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    • A compelling history of the British Army in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—showing how the military gathered knowledge from campaigns across the globe....

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    • The Invisible Hook

    • The Hidden Economics of Pirates
    • By: Peter T. Leeson
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Gage
    • Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-2009
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Revealing the democratic and economic forces propelling history's most colorful criminals, The Invisible Hook establishes pirates' trailblazing relevance to the contemporary world....

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    • Dr. Johnson's London

    • By: Liza Picard
    • Narrated by: Fiona Shaw
    • Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-2007
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Like its popular and acclaimed predecessor, Restoration London, this book is the result of the author's passionate interest in the practical details of the everyday life of our ancestors....

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    • Traders in Men

    • Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
    • By: Nicholas Radburn
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 25-07-2023
    • Language: English
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    • A sweeping new history that reveals how British, African, and American merchants developed the transatlantic slave trade....

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    • Catherine the Great

    • Portrait of a Woman
    • By: Robert K. Massie
    • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
    • Series: The Romanovs
    • Length: 23 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-2011
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings

    • Robert K. Massie returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became Catherine the Great. Born into a minor noble family, Catherine transformed herself into empress of Russia by sheer determination....

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    • Qing Dynasty

    • A History from Beginning to End (History of China)
    • By: Hourly History
    • Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
    • Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-2023
    • Language: English
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    • The history of China as a single nation began more than 2,000 years ago, when Qin Shi Huangdi first united a group of warring kingdoms into a single empire....

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    • The Fall of Robespierre

    • 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris
    • By: Colin Jones
    • Narrated by: Sasha Higgins
    • Length: 18 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 18-07-2022
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • The day of 9 Thermidor is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. At midnight, Maximilien Robespierre was planning to destroy one of the most dangerous plots that the Revolution had faced....

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    • John Marshall

    • The Man Who Made the Supreme Court
    • By: Richard Brookhiser
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 30-11-2018
    • Language: English
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    • The life of John Marshall, founding father and America's premier chief justice....

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    • Avengers of the New World

    • The Story of the Haitian Revolution
    • By: Laurent DuBois
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 25-08-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • The first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when thousands of brutally exploited slaves rose up against their masters on Saint-Domingue, the most profitable colony in the 18th-century Atlantic world....

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  • American Revolution: A History from Beginning to End cover art

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    • The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution

    • By: Timothy Tackett
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 15 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 23-06-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

    • Between 1793 and 1794, thousands of French citizens were imprisoned and hundreds sent to the guillotine by a dictatorship that claimed to be acting in the public interest. Only a few years earlier, revolutionaries had proclaimed a new era of tolerance, equal justice, and human rights....

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    • A General History of the Pyrates

    • From Their First Rise and Settlement in the Island of Providence, to the Present Time
    • By: Daniel Defoe
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 15-11-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • This work is the prime source for the biographies of many well-known pirates of that era and shaped the popular notions about pirates of the day....

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