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    • 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 3,489 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 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 1,164 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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    • 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 412 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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    • 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 372 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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    • 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 44 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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    • 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 65 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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    • By: Frantz Fanon
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • A Dying Colonialism is Frantz Fanon’s seminal work on anticolonialism and the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution....

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    • 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 83 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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    • 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 31 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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    • A Captivating Guide to the House of Austria and the Impact the Habsburgs Had on the Holy Roman Empire
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • The Habsburg family ruled central Europe since the early medieval times to World War I, but they still exist as one of the most prestigious Austrian families. To keep themselves in such high positions, the Habsburgs had to develop unique strategies to fight their political enemies....

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    • 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 348 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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    • 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 158 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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    • The Compelling True Story of a Brave, Embattled People
    • 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 127 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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    • The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery
    • By: Mark Charles, Soong-Chan Rah
    • Narrated by: William Sarris
    • Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 168 ratings
    • You cannot discover lands already inhabited. Injustice has plagued American society for centuries. And we cannot move toward being a more just nation without understanding the root causes that have shaped our culture and institutions....

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    • Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance That Changed the World
    • By: Greg King, Sue Woolmans
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 310 ratings
    • Drawing on unpublished letters and rare primary sources, King and Woolmans tell the true story behind the tragic romance and brutal assassination that sparked World War I....

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    • 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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 61 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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    • Strategist and Visionary
    • By: Wolfram Siemann, Daniel Steuer - translator
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 36 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • Wolfram Siemann paints a fundamentally new image of the man who shaped Europe for over four decades. He reveals Metternich as more modern and his career much more forward-looking than we have ever recognized....

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    • A Moral Reckoning
    • By: Nigel Biggar
    • Narrated by: Matt Bates
    • Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed that we had arrived at the ‘End of History’—that the global dominance of liberal democracy had been secured forever.....

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    • The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke
    • By: Timothy Snyder
    • Narrated by: Michael Damon
    • Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 12-28-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • The extraordinary story of a life suspended between the collapse of the imperial order and the violent emergence of modern Europe....

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