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Lincoln in the World
- The Making of A Statesman and the Dawn of American Power
- By: Kevin Peraino
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
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Lincoln in the World is an illuminating examination of how Lincoln evolved into one of our seminal foreign policy presidents and pointed the way to America's rise as a world power....
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Insightful
- By Anthony L. Washington on 08-18-21
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Lincoln in the World
- The Making of A Statesman and the Dawn of American Power
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 10-29-13
- Language: English
- Lincoln in the World is an illuminating examination of how Lincoln evolved into one of our seminal foreign policy presidents and pointed the way to America's rise as a world power....
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Churchill and Empire
- A Portrait of an Imperialist
- By: Lawrence James
- Narrated by: Michael Healy
- Length: 17 hrs and 4 mins
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One of our finest narrative historians, Lawrence James has written an illuminating, genuinely new biography of Winston Churchill that focuses solely on his contradictory relationship with the British Empire....
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- By Timothy on 03-11-18
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Churchill and Empire
- A Portrait of an Imperialist
- Narrated by: Michael Healy
- Length: 17 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 06-24-14
- Language: English
- One of our finest narrative historians, Lawrence James has written an illuminating, genuinely new biography of Winston Churchill that focuses solely on his contradictory relationship with the British Empire....
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Ill Winds
- Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency
- By: Larry Diamond
- Narrated by: Larry Diamond
- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
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From America’s leading scholar of democracy,a personal, passionate call to action against the rising authoritarianism that challenges our world order - and the very value of liberty....
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The Most Important Book of the Ers
- By Theo Horesh on 12-27-19
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Ill Winds
- Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency
- Narrated by: Larry Diamond
- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 06-11-19
- Language: English
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From America’s leading scholar of democracy,a personal, passionate call to action against the rising authoritarianism that challenges our world order - and the very value of liberty....
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The Problem of China
- By: Bertrand Russell
- Narrated by: Joel Allen
- Length: 7 hrs
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This study of the history of China, its social fabric, and the character of its people was first published in 1922 after the author's return from a year spent at the University of Beijing. The book contains valuable historical analysis plus some remarkably prescient observations....
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- By Anonymous User on 05-12-19
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The Problem of China
- Narrated by: Joel Allen
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 04-01-19
- Language: English
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This study of the history of China, its social fabric, and the character of its people was first published in 1922 after the author's return from a year spent at the University of Beijing. The book contains valuable historical analysis plus some remarkably prescient observations....
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Disordered World
- Setting a New Course for the Twenty-First Century
- By: Amin Maalouf, George Willer - translator
- Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
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Born into the Christian minority in Lebanon and since settled in France, Amin Maalouf claims a unique position in global conversation....
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Couldn't put this book down.
- By Candice Brothers on 11-14-18
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Disordered World
- Setting a New Course for the Twenty-First Century
- Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 03-04-13
- Language: English
- Born into the Christian minority in Lebanon and since settled in France, Amin Maalouf claims a unique position in global conversation....
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Other Pasts, Different Presents, Alternative Futures
- By: Jeremy M. Black
- Narrated by: Charles Henderson Norman
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
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Black focuses on the role of counterfactualism in demonstrating the part of contingency, and thus human agency, in history....
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Don't Judge this Academic Treatise by its Intriguing Cover Drawing
- By Gingoldj on 01-04-16
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Other Pasts, Different Presents, Alternative Futures
- Narrated by: Charles Henderson Norman
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 10-07-15
- Language: English
- Black focuses on the role of counterfactualism in demonstrating the part of contingency, and thus human agency, in history....
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China Goes Global
- The Partial Power
- By: David Shambaugh
- Narrated by: Mark Ashby
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
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In China Goes Global, eminent China scholar David Shambaugh delivers the book that many have been waiting for - a sweeping account of China's growing prominence on the international stage....
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Good summary of China's recent developements
- By Ernest on 12-29-13
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China Goes Global
- The Partial Power
- Narrated by: Mark Ashby
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 12-17-13
- Language: English
- In China Goes Global, eminent China scholar David Shambaugh delivers the book that many have been waiting for - a sweeping account of China's growing prominence on the international stage....
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Golden Bones
- An Extraordinary Journey from Hell in Cambodia to a New Life in America
- By: Sichan Siv
- Narrated by: David Thorn
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
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Sichan Siv knew he would soon be a target of the Khmer Rouge - ending up, perhaps, as one of the millions of anonymous human skeletons buried in his nation's Killing Fields....
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Misleading Publisher’s Summary
- By Chris on 05-01-18
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Golden Bones
- An Extraordinary Journey from Hell in Cambodia to a New Life in America
- Narrated by: David Thorn
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 02-14-12
- Language: English
- Sichan Siv knew he would soon be a target of the Khmer Rouge - ending up, perhaps, as one of the millions of anonymous human skeletons buried in his nation's Killing Fields....
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Satchmo Blows Up the World
- Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War
- By: Penny M. Von Eschen
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
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At the height of the ideological antagonism of the Cold War, the US State Department unleashed an unexpected tool in its battle against Communism: jazz. From 1956 through the late 1970s, America dispatched its finest jazz musicians to the far corners of the earth....
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Not bad, but definitely not my favorite
- By Eric L. Gillispie on 07-14-24
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Satchmo Blows Up the World
- Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 07-10-18
- Language: English
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At the height of the ideological antagonism of the Cold War, the US State Department unleashed an unexpected tool in its battle against Communism: jazz. From 1956 through the late 1970s, America dispatched its finest jazz musicians to the far corners of the earth....
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Restraint: A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy
- Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
- By: Barry R. Posen
- Narrated by: Jim R. Sartor
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
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The US, Posen argues in Restraint, has grown incapable of moderating its ambitions in international politics. Its grand strategy of "liberal hegemony" is counterproductive, costly, and wasteful....
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Problematic, frustrating, but of some use
- By Christopher Weuve on 10-11-18
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Restraint: A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy
- Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
- Narrated by: Jim R. Sartor
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 10-30-17
- Language: English
- The US, Posen argues in Restraint, has grown incapable of moderating its ambitions in international politics. Its grand strategy of "liberal hegemony" is counterproductive, costly, and wasteful....
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The American Trajectory
- Divine or Demonic?
- By: David Ray Griffin
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
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In The American Trajectory: Divine or Demonic?, David Ray Griffin traces the trajectory of the American empire from its founding through to the end of the 20th century....
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The truth is hard to swallow
- By Bryan Bennett on 04-18-21
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The American Trajectory
- Divine or Demonic?
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 01-08-19
- Language: English
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In The American Trajectory: Divine or Demonic?, David Ray Griffin traces the trajectory of the American empire from its founding through to the end of the 20th century....
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The Sphinx
- Franklin Roosevelt, the Isolationists, and the Road to World War II
- By: Nicholas Wapshott
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
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Before Pearl Harbor, before the Nazi invasion of Poland, America teetered between the desire for isolation and the threat of world war....
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Fascinating Look into History
- By Barbara on 04-20-15
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The Sphinx
- Franklin Roosevelt, the Isolationists, and the Road to World War II
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 12-09-14
- Language: English
- Before Pearl Harbor, before the Nazi invasion of Poland, America teetered between the desire for isolation and the threat of world war....
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Year 501
- The Conquest Continues
- By: Noam Chomsky
- Narrated by: Brian Jones
- Length: 15 hrs and 49 mins
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Noam Chomsky draws parallels between the genocide of colonial times and the murder and exploitation associated with modern-day imperialism....
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It's very good
- By Paola V. Hidalgo on 08-11-17
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Year 501
- The Conquest Continues
- Narrated by: Brian Jones
- Length: 15 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 07-28-15
- Language: English
- Noam Chomsky draws parallels between the genocide of colonial times and the murder and exploitation associated with modern-day imperialism....
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The Tango War
- The Struggle for the Hearts, Minds and Riches of Latin America During World War II
- By: Mary Jo McConahay
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
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The Tango War fills an important gap in World War II history. Beginning in the '30s, both sides were well aware of the need to control not just the hearts and minds but also the resources of Latin America....
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Not easy to follow
- By J.Brock on 08-25-19
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The Tango War
- The Struggle for the Hearts, Minds and Riches of Latin America During World War II
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 09-18-18
- Language: English
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The Tango War fills an important gap in World War II history. Beginning in the '30s, both sides were well aware of the need to control not just the hearts and minds but also the resources of Latin America....
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The Africans
- By: David Lamb
- Narrated by: Nelson Runger
- Length: 18 hrs and 27 mins
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Written in 1983, The Africans is a remarkable and very personal commentary on the people of this vast continent....
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Would have been great 25 years ago
- By Amazon Customer on 07-04-09
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The Africans
- Narrated by: Nelson Runger
- Length: 18 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 04-30-09
- Language: English
- Written in 1983, The Africans is a remarkable and very personal commentary on the people of this vast continent....
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Sex and World Peace
- By: Valerie M. Hudson, Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, Mary Caprioli, and others
- Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
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Sex and World Peace unsettles a variety of assumptions in political and security discourse, demonstrating that the security of women is a vital factor in the security of the state and its incidence of conflict and war....
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Sex and World Peace
- Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 07-14-20
- Language: English
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Sex and World Peace unsettles a variety of assumptions in political and security discourse, demonstrating that the security of women is a vital factor in the security of the state and its incidence of conflict and war....
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All Against All
- The Long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War
- By: Paul Jankowski
- Narrated by: Dean Gallagher
- Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
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All Against All is the story of the season our world changed from postwar to prewar again. It is about the power of bad ideas - exploring why, during a single winter, between November 1932 and April 1933, so much went so wrong....
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Comprehensive history
- By John Cashman on 06-24-20
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All Against All
- The Long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War
- Narrated by: Dean Gallagher
- Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 04-28-20
- Language: English
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All Against All is the story of the season our world changed from postwar to prewar again. It is about the power of bad ideas - exploring why, during a single winter, between November 1932 and April 1933, so much went so wrong....
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Germany in the World
- A Global History, 1500-2000
- By: David Blackbourn
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 36 hrs and 48 mins
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Brilliantly conceived and majestically written, this monumental work of European history recasts the five-hundred-year history of Germany....
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Germany in the World
- A Global History, 1500-2000
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 36 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 10-24-23
- Language: English
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Brilliantly conceived and majestically written, this monumental work of European history recasts the five-hundred-year history of Germany....
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Bound Together
- How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization
- By: Nayan Chanda
- Narrated by: Stephen Russell
- Length: 16 hrs and 19 mins
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In this entertaining book, Nayan Chanda follows the exploits of traders, preachers, adventurers, and warriors throughout history as they have shaped and reshaped the world....
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School Assignment
- By Tammy on 08-20-15
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Bound Together
- How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization
- Narrated by: Stephen Russell
- Length: 16 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 04-26-12
- Language: English
- In this entertaining book, Nayan Chanda follows the exploits of traders, preachers, adventurers, and warriors throughout history as they have shaped and reshaped the world....
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Rethinking American Grand Strategy
- By: Elizabeth Borgwardt - editor, Christopher McKnight Nichols - editor, Andrew Preston - editor
- Narrated by: Steve Menasche, Teri Schnaubelt
- Length: 19 hrs and 44 mins
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Rethinking American Grand Strategy assembles a roster of leading historians to examine America's place in the world....
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Poorly organized, very disjointed uneven narration
- By Lynn Ochberg on 11-30-23
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Rethinking American Grand Strategy
- Narrated by: Steve Menasche, Teri Schnaubelt
- Length: 19 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 08-10-21
- Language: English
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Rethinking American Grand Strategy assembles a roster of leading historians to examine America's place in the world....
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