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  • How to Hide an Empire Audiobook By Daniel Immerwahr cover art

    • How to Hide an Empire

    • A History of the Greater United States
    • By: Daniel Immerwahr
    • Narrated by: Luis Moreno
    • Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,454 ratings

    • Author Daniel Immerwahr tells the fascinating story of the United States outside the United States. In crackling, fast-paced prose, he reveals forgotten episodes that cast American history in a new light....

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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 1,141 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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  • Hospicing Modernity Audiobook By Vanessa Machado de Oliveira cover art

    • 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: 01-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 40 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 Habsburg Empire Audiobook By Pieter M. Judson cover art

    • The Habsburg Empire

    • A New History
    • By: Pieter M. Judson
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 01-25-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 368 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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  • The Habsburgs Audiobook By Martyn Rady cover art

    • The Habsburgs

    • To Rule the World
    • By: Martyn Rady
    • Narrated by: Simon Boughey
    • Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 407 ratings

    • The definitive history of a powerful family dynasty who dominated Europe for centuries - from their rise to power to their eventual downfall....

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  • Asperger's Children Audiobook By Edith Sheffer cover art

    • Asperger's Children

    • The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
    • By: Edith Sheffer
    • Narrated by: Christa Lewis
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings

    • In 1930s and 1940s Vienna, psychiatrist Hans Asperger sought to define autism as a diagnostic category, aiming to treat those children he deemed capable of participating fully in society. Depicted as a compassionate researcher, Asperger was in fact deeply influenced by Nazi psychiatry....

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  • Covered with Night Audiobook By Nicole Eustace cover art

    • Covered with Night

    • A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
    • By: Nicole Eustace
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings

    • On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the distant summer of 1722, two White fur traders attacked an Indigenous hunter and left him for dead near Conestoga, Pennsylvania....

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  • The Bridge at Andau Audiobook By James A. Michener cover art

    • The Bridge at Andau

    • By: James A. Michener
    • Narrated by: Larry McKeever
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 11-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 123 ratings

    • For five brief, glorious days in the autumn of 1956, the Hungarian revolution gave its people a glimpse at a different kind of future - until the citizens of Budapest awoke one morning to the shattering sound of Russian tanks ravaging their streets. The revolution was over....

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  • Merchant Kings Audiobook By Stephen R. Bown cover art

    • 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: 01-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings

    • 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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  • The Nutmeg's Curse Audiobook By Amitav Ghosh cover art

    • The Nutmeg's Curse

    • Parables for a Planet in Crisis
    • By: Amitav Ghosh
    • Narrated by: Sam Dastor
    • Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings

    • A powerful work of history, essay, testimony, and polemic, The Nutmeg’s Curse argues that the dynamics of climate change today are rooted in a centuries-old geopolitical order constructed by Western colonialism. At the center of Ghosh’s narrative is the now-ubiquitous spice....

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  • The Many-Headed Hydra Audiobook By Peter Linebaugh cover art

    • The Many-Headed Hydra

    • Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic
    • By: Peter Linebaugh
    • Narrated by: Cornell Womack
    • Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 32 ratings

    • Long before the American Revolution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a motley crew of sailors, slaves, pirates, laborers, market women, and indentured servants had ideas about freedom and equality that would forever change history....

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  • The Crusades Audiobook By Christopher Tyerman cover art

    • The Crusades

    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Christopher Tyerman
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
    • Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • Crusading fervor gripped Europe for over 200 years, creating one of the most extraordinary, vivid episodes in world history....

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  • Capital and Ideology Audiobook By Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer - translator cover art

    • Capital and Ideology

    • By: Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer - translator
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 48 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 344 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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  • Did America Have a Christian Founding? Audiobook By Mark David Hall cover art

    • Did America Have a Christian Founding?

    • Separating Modern Myth from Historical Truth
    • By: Mark David Hall
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 70 ratings

    • A distinguished professor debunks the assertion that America's Founders were deists who desired the strict separation of church and state and instead shows that their political ideas were profoundly influenced by their Christian convictions....

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  • Danubia Audiobook By Simon Winder cover art

    • Danubia

    • A Personal History of Habsburg Europe
    • By: Simon Winder
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 22 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 178 ratings

    • From the end of the Middle Ages to the First World War, Europe was dominated by one family: the Habsburgs. Their unprecedented rule is the focus of Simon Winder's vivid third book, Danubia. Thrillingly informative, Danubia is a treat that listeners will be eager to dip into....

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  • The Enemy at the Gate Audiobook By Andrew Wheatcroft cover art

    • The Enemy at the Gate

    • Habsburgs, Ottomans, and the Battle for Europe
    • By: Andrew Wheatcroft
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 81 ratings

    • A gripping work by a master historian, The Enemy at the Gate offers a timely examination of an epic clash of civilizations....

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  • In Defense of German Colonialism Audiobook By Bruce Gilley cover art

    • In Defense of German Colonialism

    • And How Its Critics Empowered Nazis, Communists, and the Enemies of the West
    • By: Bruce Gilley
    • Narrated by: Damon Abernathy
    • Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings

    • The author of the groundbreaking "The Case for Colonialism" demonstrates that, contrary to modern presuppositions, German colonialism from its roots to the mid-twentieth century was overall a force for good in the world where development was encouraged and native governance flourished....

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  • Iron and Blood Audiobook By Peter H. Wilson cover art

    • Iron and Blood

    • A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples Since 1500
    • By: Peter H. Wilson
    • Narrated by: Rory Alexander
    • Length: 34 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 51 ratings

    • German military history is typically viewed as an inexorable march to the rise of Prussia and the two world wars, the road paved by militarism and the result a specifically German way of war. Peter Wilson challenges this narrative....

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  • History of Austria Audiobook By Captivating History cover art

    • History of Austria

    • A Captivating Guide to Austrian History
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings

    • When Austrian President Franz Jonas visited the Vatican in 1971, Pope Paul VI named Austria “the Island of the Blessed”. He did so to emphasize Austria’s steep recovery. Only 25 years had passed since the end of the Second World War....

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  • In the Shadow of the Empress Audiobook By Nancy Goldstone cover art

    • In the Shadow of the Empress

    • The Defiant Lives of Maria Theresa, Mother of Marie Antoinette, and Her Daughters
    • By: Nancy Goldstone
    • Narrated by: Emma Newman
    • Length: 23 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 152 ratings

    • The vibrant, sprawling saga of Empress Maria Theresa - one of the most renowned women rulers in history - and three of her extraordinary daughters, including Marie Antoinette, the doomed queen of France....

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