Imperialism History

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    • Firsthand Accounts of Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation Program
    • By: Hal Gold, Yuma Totani - foreword
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 18-08-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Some of the cruelest deeds of Japan's war in Asia did not occur on the battlefield, but in quiet, antiseptic medical wards in obscure parts of China. Far from front lines and prying eyes, Japanese doctors and their assistants subjected human guinea pigs to gruesome medical experiments....

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    • 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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    • 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: 30-04-2017
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 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 Global History of America’s Endless Conflicts, From Columbus to the Islamic State
    • By: David Vine
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 25-05-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The United States has been at war or has invaded other countries almost every year since independence. David Vine traces this pattern of bloody conflict from Columbus' 1494 arrival in Guantanamo Bay through the 250-year expansion of a global US empire....

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    • A History of Mexico
    • By: T. R. Fehrenbach
    • Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Length: 35 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • T. R. Fehrenbach brilliantly delineates the contrasts and conflicts between the many Mexicos, unraveling the history while weaving a fascinating tapestry of beauty and brutality: the Amerindians, who wrought from the vulnerable land a great indigenous Meso-American civilization....

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    • The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World
    • By: J. C. Sharman
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 14-05-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Empires of the Weak argues that Europeans had no general military superiority in the early modern era. J. C. Sharman shows instead that European expansion is better explained by deference to strong Asian and African polities, disease in the Americas, and maritime supremacy....

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    • How Britain Made the Modern World
    • By: Niall Ferguson
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble, Niall Ferguson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 157 ratings
    • Penguin presents the unabridged audiobook edition of Empire by Niall Ferguson, read by Jonathan Keeble....

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    • How One Man's Private American Army Tried to Conquer Mexico, Nicaragua, and Honduras
    • By: Scott Martelle
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 30-01-2019
    • Language: English
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    • In the decade before the onset of the Civil War, groups of Americans engaged in a series of longshot - and illegal - forays into Mexico, Cuba, and other Central American countries in hopes of taking them over....

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    • A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa
    • By: Michael Gomez
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 19 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 17-12-2020
    • Language: English
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    • A groundbreaking book that puts early and medieval West Africa on the map of global history....

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    • A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj
    • By: Anita Anand
    • Narrated by: Anita Anand
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Anita Anand tells the remarkable story of one Indian's 20-year quest for revenge, taking him around the world in search of those he held responsible for the Amritsar massacre of 1919, which cost the lives of hundreds....

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    • A History of the British Empire
    • By: Caroline Elkins
    • Narrated by: Adam Barr
    • Length: 31 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 24-03-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a searing study of the British Empire that interrogates the pervasive use of violence throughout the 20th century and traces how these practices were exported, modified and institutionalised in colonies around the globe....

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    • By: David Graeber
    • Narrated by: Roger Davis
    • Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 26-01-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Madagascar's lost pirate utopia represents some of the first stirrings of Enlightenment political thought. In this jewel of a book, he offers a way to 'decolonise the Enlightenment', demonstrating how this mixed community experimented with an alternative vision of human freedom....

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    • The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation
    • By: Serhii Plokhy
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • From a preeminent scholar of Eastern Europe and the prizewinning author of Chernobyl, the essential history of Russian imperialism....

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    • An Imperial History
    • By: Hugh Wilford
    • Narrated by: Hugh Wilford
    • Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-2024
    • Language: English
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    • As World War II ended, the United States stood as the dominant power on the world stage. In 1947, to support its new global status, it created the CIA to analyse foreign intelligence.

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    • How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain
    • By: Sathnam Sanghera
    • Narrated by: Homer Todiwala
    • Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • In his brilliantly illuminating new book Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consider to be modern Britain is actually rooted in our imperial past....

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    • How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe
    • By: Sathnam Sanghera
    • Narrated by: Homer Todiwala
    • Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 25-01-2024
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Empireworld traces the legacies of British empire across the globe....

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    • Empire and the Deep State
    • By: Aaron Good
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • American Exception seeks to explain the breakdown of US democracy, in particular to understand the uncanny continuity of American foreign policy, the breakdown of the rule of law, and the extreme concentration of wealth and power into an overworld of the corporate rich....

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    • How Britain Made the Modern World
    • By: Niall Ferguson
    • Narrated by: Niall Ferguson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-2010
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • Once vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, but the prairies of America, the plains of Asia, the jungles of Africa and the deserts of Arabia....

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