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  • The Republic of Pirates Audiobook By Colin Woodard cover art

    • 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: 08-14-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,247 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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  • Black Flags, Blue Waters Audiobook By Eric Jay Dolin cover art

    • 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: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,243 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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  • Mutiny on the Bounty Audiobook By Peter FitzSimons cover art

    • Mutiny on the Bounty

    • By: Peter FitzSimons
    • Narrated by: Michael Carman
    • Length: 22 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 886 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 Audiobook By William Dalrymple 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: 10-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,148 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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  • The Enlightenment Audiobook By Ritchie Robertson cover art

    • The Enlightenment

    • The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790
    • By: Ritchie Robertson
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 40 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 261 ratings

    • This magisterial history - sure to become the definitive work on the subject - recasts the Enlightenment as a period not solely consumed with rationale and reason, but rather as a pursuit of practical means to achieve greater human happiness....

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  • A New World Begins Audiobook By Jeremy D. Popkin cover art

    • 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: 12-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 294 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 Pursuit of Happiness Audiobook By Jeffrey Rosen cover art

    • The Pursuit of Happiness

    • How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America
    • By: Jeffrey Rosen
    • Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins, Jeffrey Rosen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings

    • The Pursuit of Happiness is more than an elucidation of the Declaration’s famous phrase; it is a revelatory journey into the minds of the Founders, and a deep, rich, and fresh understanding of the foundation of our democracy.

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  • Citizens Audiobook By Simon Schama cover art

    • Citizens

    • A Chronicle of the French Revolution
    • By: Simon Schama
    • Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
    • Length: 36 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 398 ratings
    • From one of the truly preeminent historians of our time, this is a landmark book chronicling the French Revolution....

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  • A Little History of the United States Audiobook By James West Davidson cover art

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  • The Black Jacobins Audiobook By C.L.R. James cover art

    • The Black Jacobins

    • Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
    • By: C.L.R. James
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 481 ratings

    • This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive account of the Haitian Revolution of 1794-1803, a revolution that began in the wake of the Bastille but became the model for the Third World liberation movements from Africa to Cuba....

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  • The Black Count Audiobook By Tom Reiss cover art

    • The Black Count

    • Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
    • By: Tom Reiss
    • Narrated by: Paul Michael
    • Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,091 ratings

    • General Alex Dumas is a man almost unknown today, yet his story is strikingly familiar—because his son, the novelist Alexandre Dumas, used his larger-than-life feats as inspiration for such classics as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers....

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  • Crucible of War Audiobook By Fred Anderson cover art

    • Crucible of War

    • The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766
    • By: Fred Anderson
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 29 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 617 ratings

    • In this vivid and compelling narrative, the Seven Years' War - long seen as a mere backdrop to the American Revolution - takes on a whole new significance. Relating the history of the war as it developed, Anderson shows how the complex array of forces brought into conflict helped both....

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  • Under the Black Flag Audiobook By David Cordingly cover art

    • 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: 11-29-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 352 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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  • Every Living Thing Audiobook By Jason Roberts cover art

    • Every Living Thing

    • The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
    • By: Jason Roberts
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings

    • In the eighteenth century, two men—exact contemporaries and polar opposites—dedicated their lives to the same daunting task: identifying and describing all life on Earth. Carl Linnaeus, a pious Swedish doctor with a huckster’s flair, believed that life belonged in tidy, static categories....

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  • Catherine the Great Audiobook By Robert K. Massie cover art

    • 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: 11-08-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,553 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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  • A General History of the Pyrates Audiobook By Daniel Defoe cover art

    • 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: 11-15-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 183 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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  • The Age of Revolution Audiobook By Eric Hobsbawm cover art

    • The Age of Revolution

    • 1789-1848
    • By: Eric Hobsbawm
    • Narrated by: Hugh Kermode
    • Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 169 ratings

    • This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and the emergence of new technologies, sciences, and ideologies, with vast intellectual daring and aphoristic elegance....

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  • James Madison Audiobook By Jay Cost cover art

    • James Madison

    • America's First Politician
    • By: Jay Cost
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 14 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 107 ratings

    • How do you solve a problem like James Madison? The fourth president is one of the most confounding figures in early American history; his political trajectory seems almost intentionally inconsistent....

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  • Frederick the Great Audiobook By Dennis Showalter cover art

    • Frederick the Great

    • A Military History
    • By: Dennis Showalter
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 65 ratings

    • Frederick the Great is one of history's most important leaders. Famed for his military successes and domestic reforms, his campaigns were a watershed in the history of Europe, securing Prussia's place as a continental power and inaugurating a new pattern of total war....

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  • War Along the Wabash Audiobook By Steven P. Locke cover art

    • War Along the Wabash

    • The Ohio Indian Confederacy’s Destruction of the U.S. Army, 1791
    • By: Steven P. Locke
    • Narrated by: Steven P. Locke
    • Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 07-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings

    • The result of 30 years of study, this book is an examination of the battle of the Wabash from both the Indian and American points of view....

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