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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 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 280 ratings
    • Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....

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    • Merchant Kings

    • When Companies Ruled the World, 1600-1900
    • By: Stephen R. Bown
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 25-01-2022
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • It was an era when monopoly trading companies were the unofficial agents of European expansion, controlling vast numbers of people and huge tracts of land, and taking on governmental and military functions....

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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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    • 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 4 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

    • By: Walter Rodney, Angela Y. Davis - foreword
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 23-10-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 28 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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    • Austrian History

    • A Captivating Guide to the History of Austria and the Habsburg Empire
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 21-03-2022
    • Language: English
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    • Two manuscripts in one audiobook: History of Austria and The Habsburg Empire. When Austrian President Franz Jonas visited the Vatican in 1971, Pope Paul VI named Austria “The Island of the Blessed"....

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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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    • Culture and Imperialism

    • By: Edward Said
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 19 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 16-02-2011
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 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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    • 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: 29-08-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 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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    • 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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    • 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: 04-01-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 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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    • The Silk Merchant's Daughter

    • By: Dinah Jefferies
    • Narrated by: Eliza Parkes
    • Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 25-02-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • French Indochina, 1952. Since her mother's death, 18-year-old half-French, half-Vietnamese Nicole has been living in the shadow of her beautiful older sister, Sylvie....

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