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    • Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849
    • By: Christopher Clark
    • Narrated by: Christopher Clark
    • Length: 33 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • From the bestselling author of The Sleepwalkers comes an epic history of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe, and the charismatic figures who propelled them forward, with deep resonance and frightening parallels to today....

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    • On Political Reaction
    • By: Mark Lilla
    • Narrated by: Michael Kramer
    • Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 03-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • We don't understand the reactionary mind. As a result, argues Mark Lilla, the ideas and passions that shape today's political dramas are unintelligible to us....

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    • The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution
    • By: R. R. Palmer, Isser Woloch - foreword
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • The Reign of Terror continues to fascinate scholars as one of the bloodiest periods in French history, when the Committee of Public Safety strove to defend the first Republic from its many enemies, creating a climate of fear and suspicion in revolutionary France....

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    • By: Albert Camus
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 154 ratings
    • By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is an essay on revolution. As old regimes throughout the world collapse, this classic resonates as an ardent, eloquent, and supremely rational voice of conscience for our tumultuous times....

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    • By: Thomas Paine
    • Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
    • Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 109 ratings
    • Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man is unquestionably one of the great classics on the subject of democracy....

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    • By: Thomas Jefferson
    • Narrated by: Philip Withers
    • Length: 42 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) served his country in many capacities - architect, naturalist, and linguist, author of the Declaration of Independence, and President of the United States. Not a conventional autobiography, this memoir is more of a summary of his life's work....

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    • Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations
    • By: Craig Nelson
    • Narrated by: Paul Hecht
    • Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • John Adams told Thomas Jefferson that “history is to ascribe the American Revolution to Thomas Paine"....

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    • Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature
    • By: Timothy Ferris
    • Narrated by: Fred Stella
    • Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • Timothy Ferris makes a passionate case for science as the inspiration behind the rise of liberalism and democracy....

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    • Lafayette Reconsidered
    • By: Laura Auricchio
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 10-14-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 235 ratings
    • A major biography of the Marquis de Lafayette, French hero of the American Revolution....

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    • Intimations of a New World View
    • By: Richard Tarnas
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 25 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • Whether listened to as astrology updated for the quantum age or as a contemporary classic of spirituality, Cosmos and Psyche is a work of immense sophistication, deep learning, and lasting importance....

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    • A History of Communism
    • By: David Priestland
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 28 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 05-20-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 284 ratings
    • In The Red Flag, Oxford professor David Priestland tells the epic story of a movement that has taken root in dozens of countries across 200 years....

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    • By: Kester Grant
    • Narrated by: Ajjaz Awad, John Lee
    • Series: The Court of Miracles, Book 1
    • Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • Les Misérables meets Six of Crows in this pause resisting adventure as a young thief finds herself going head to head with leaders of Paris' criminal underground in the wake of the French Revolution....

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    • A Life of the Empress
    • By: Carolly Erickson
    • Narrated by: Davina Porter
    • Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Popular biographer Carolly Erickson creates intimate and richly detailed portraits of her historical subjects. In this book she offers a provocative new perspective on Josephine and her fabled marriage to Napoleon......

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    • Her Life, Her Times, Her Legacy
    • By: Elena Maria Vidal
    • Narrated by: Courtney Shelly
    • Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Marie-Antoinette, Daughter of the Caesars is about the life, death, and legacy of Louis XVI's tragic queen, based upon the author's 30 years of research. Whenever possible, the historical persons speak for themselves out of memoirs and letters....

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    • Political Paranoia and the Creation of the Modern State, 1789 - 1848
    • By: Adam Zamoyski
    • Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
    • Length: 22 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 02-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 101 ratings
    • For the ruling and propertied classes of the late eighteenth century, the years following the French Revolution were characterized by intense anxiety....

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    • By: Timothy Tackett
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 15 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • Between 1793 and 1794, thousands of French citizens were imprisoned and hundreds sent to the guillotine by a dictatorship that claimed to be acting in the public interest. Only a few years earlier, revolutionaries had proclaimed a new era of tolerance, equal justice, and human rights....

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    • By: Victor Hugo
    • Narrated by: Bill Homewood
    • Length: 67 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 04-29-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 694 ratings
    • Les Misérables is set in Paris after the French Revolution. In the sewers and backstreets, we encounter "the wolf-like tread of crime"....

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    • Paris, 1748-1789
    • By: Robert Darnton
    • Narrated by: Andrew J. Andersen
    • Length: 21 hrs
    • Release date: 03-12-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth of a new society.

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    • The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum
    • By: James Gardner
    • Narrated by: Graham Halstead
    • Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • The fascinating and little-known story of the Louvre, from its inception as a humble fortress to its transformation into the palatial residence of the kings of France and then into the world's greatest art museum....

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    • Satire, Scandal and Printmakers in Georgian London
    • By: Alice Loxton
    • Narrated by: Alice Loxton
    • Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-16-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • One of the UK's most exciting young historians presents a brilliant new history of Georgian Britain through the eyes of the artists who immortalized it....

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