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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: 17-10-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 234 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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    • Colonialism

    • A Moral Reckoning
    • By: Nigel Biggar
    • Narrated by: Matt Bates
    • Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-2023
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 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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    • Capital and Ideology

    • By: Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer - translator
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 48 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 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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    • Metternich

    • Strategist and Visionary
    • By: Wolfram Siemann, Daniel Steuer - translator
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 36 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 14-06-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 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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    • How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs

    • The Syrian Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of its Historic Liberal-Islamic Alliance
    • By: Elizabeth F. Thompson
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-2020
    • Language: English
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    • The story of a pivotal moment in modern world history, when representative democracy became a political option for Arabs - and how the West denied the opportunity....

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    • Why Nations Fail

    • The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
    • By: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 20-03-2012
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 279 ratings
    • Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....

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    • How the World Became Rich

    • The Historical Origins of Economic Growth
    • By: Mark Koyama, Jared Rubin
    • Narrated by: Adam Barr
    • Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 17-01-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin dive into the many theories of why modern economic growth happened when and where it did. They discuss recently advanced theories rooted in geography, politics, culture, demography, and colonialism....

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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: 25-01-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 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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    • Orientalism

    • By: Edward Said
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 19 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 31-12-2010
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 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 New Age of Empire

    • How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World
    • By: Kehinde Andrews
    • Narrated by: Kehinde Andrews
    • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 02-03-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • The New Age of Empire is a damning exploration of the many ways in which the effects and logic of anti-Black colonialism continue to inform our modern world.

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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
    • Release date: 01-06-2021
    • 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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    • The British Empire

    • By: Stephen W. Sears
    • Narrated by: Corrie James
    • Length: 30 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 14-02-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Here is the story of how the English acquired their vast domain; how they ruled, maintained, and exploited it; and how, within decades, they presided over its dissolution....

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    • Another Day in the Colony

    • By: Chelsea Watego
    • Narrated by: Chelsea Watego
    • Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 105 ratings

    • A ground-breaking work—and a call to arms—that exposes the ongoing colonial violence experienced by First Nations people....

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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: 28-12-2009
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 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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    • 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: 30-09-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 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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    • 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: 13-11-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 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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    • Koh-i-Noor

    • The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond
    • By: Anita Anand, William Dalrymple
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 15-06-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • The first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i-Noor, arguably the most celebrated and mythologised jewel in the world....

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    • Journey to a Revolution

    • A Personal Memoir and History of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956
    • By: Michael Korda
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 31-03-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • Journey to a Revolution is at once history and a compelling memoir - the author's riveting account of the course of the revolution, from its heroic beginnings to the sad martyrdom of its end....

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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: 06-07-2023
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • 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: 28-04-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4 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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