Modern Greats

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    • By: Dorsey Armstrong, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Dorsey Armstrong
    • Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 17-09-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 216 ratings
    • Was King Arthur a real person? What about Robin Hood? Is the Holy Grail a cup, or something else altogether? Did Europeans really burn millions of people at the stake for witchcraft? These are just a few of the questions you will explore with the help of medieval scholar Dorsey Armstrong....

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    • How the British Navy Changed the Modern World
    • By: Arthur Herman
    • Narrated by: John Curless
    • Length: 29 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 19-12-2016
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • The extraordinary story of how the British Royal Navy allowed one nation to rise to a level of power unprecedented in history....

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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 158 ratings
    • Penguin presents the unabridged audiobook edition of Empire by Niall Ferguson, read by Jonathan Keeble....

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    • America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800
    • By: Jay Winik
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 31 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial power, and France plunged into revolution....

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    • How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West
    • By: Andrew Wilson
    • Narrated by: Andrew Wilson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • In Remaking the World, Andrew Wilson highlights 7 major developments from the year 1776—globalization, the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, the Great Enrichment, the American Revolution, the rise of post-Christianity, and the dawn of Romanticism.

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    • Murder and Mayhem in Early Modern Britain
    • By: Blessin Adams
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 30-03-2023
    • Language: English
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    • These stories are pieced together from original research using coroner’s inquests, court records, parish archives, letters, diaries and the cheap street pamphlets that proliferated to satisfy a voracious public.

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    • Chief Inspector Gamache, Book 12
    • By: Louise Penny
    • Narrated by: Adam Sims
    • Series: Chief Inspector Gamache, Book 12
    • Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 30-08-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 101 ratings
    • Former chief inspector Gamache has been hunting killers his entire career, and as the new commander of the Sûreté Academy, he is given the chance to combat corruption and brutality....

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    • A Modern Approach for Making Crucial Business Decisions, Create Great Products and Manage Successful Startups and Companies
    • By: Steven Branson
    • Narrated by: Chad Shoppa
    • Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-2020
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Design is a time-tested strategy, and now you can apply it in your business to achieve spectacular outcomes....

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    • The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror
    • By: W. Scott Poole
    • Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 16-10-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Historian and Bram Stoker Award nominee W. Scott Poole traces the confluence of history, technology, and art that gave us modern horror films and literature....

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    • The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
    • By: Modris Eksteins
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-2015
    • Language: English
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    • Rites of Spring probes the origins, impact, and aftermath of World War I from the premiere of Stravinsky's ballet "The Rite of Spring" in 1913 to the death of Hitler in 1945....

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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
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    • 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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    • A Modern History
    • By: T.M. Devine
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 33 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 19-03-2024
    • Language: English
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    • An account of the last three hundred years of Scottish history offers a look at Scottish identity and culture.

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    • By: Andrew Marr
    • Narrated by: David Timson
    • Length: 29 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-2016
    • Language: English
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    • A History of Modern Britain confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics....

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    • How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational
    • By: Nick Robins
    • Narrated by: Simon Barber
    • Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 17-05-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational....

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    • Isaac Newton, The Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
    • By: Edward Dolnick
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-2011
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • The Clockwork Universe is the story of a band of men who lived in a world of dirt and disease but pictured a universe that ran like a perfect machine....

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    • By: Andrew Marr
    • Narrated by: David Timson
    • Length: 20 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-2016
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Between the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the Second World War, the nation was shaken by war and peace....

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