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The Anarchy
- The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
- By: William Dalrymple
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
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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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Amazing history, average performance
- By Gerrit Gmel on 18-01-2020
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Conquerors
- How Portugal Seized the Indian Ocean and Forged the First Global Empire
- By: Roger Crowley
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
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As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten....
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Amazing Story
- By Vytautas on 01-10-2016
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Rebels Against the Raj
- Western Fighters for India’s Freedom
- By: Ramachandra Guha
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
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Rebels Against the Raj tells the little-known story of seven people who chose to struggle for a country other than their own: foreigners to India who across the late 19th to late 20th century arrived to join the freedom movement fighting for independence....
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We Dared to Win
- The SAS in Rhodesia
- By: Hannes Wessels, Andre Scheepers - with
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
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In addition to Andre Scheepers' personal story, this book reveals more about some of the other men who were distinguished operators in SAS operations during the Rhodesian War....
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Oh no, not again
- By harry on 21-11-2020
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The Anarchy
- The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
- By: William Dalrymple
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Amazing history, average performance
- By Gerrit Gmel on 18-01-2020
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Conquerors
- How Portugal Seized the Indian Ocean and Forged the First Global Empire
- By: Roger Crowley
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
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As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten....
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Amazing Story
- By Vytautas on 01-10-2016
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Rebels Against the Raj
- Western Fighters for India’s Freedom
- By: Ramachandra Guha
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Rebels Against the Raj tells the little-known story of seven people who chose to struggle for a country other than their own: foreigners to India who across the late 19th to late 20th century arrived to join the freedom movement fighting for independence....
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We Dared to Win
- The SAS in Rhodesia
- By: Hannes Wessels, Andre Scheepers - with
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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In addition to Andre Scheepers' personal story, this book reveals more about some of the other men who were distinguished operators in SAS operations during the Rhodesian War....
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Oh no, not again
- By harry on 21-11-2020
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Rise and Fall
- A History of the World in Ten Empires
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
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Rise and Fall opens with the Akkadian Empire, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia, then turns to the immense Roman Empire, where we trace back our Western and Eastern roots....
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So so
- By Anonymous User on 17-01-2020
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Midnight's Furies
- The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition
- By: Nisid Hajari
- Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
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Nobody expected the liberation of India and birth of Pakistan to be so bloody - it was supposed to be an answer to the dreams of Muslims and Hindus who had been ruled by the British for centuries....
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Smoke Hole
- Looking to the Wild in the Time of the Spyglass
- By: Martin Shaw
- Narrated by: Martin Shaw
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
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At a time when we are all confronted by not one, but many crossroads in our modern lives - identity, technology, trust, politics, and a global pandemic - celebrated mythologist and wilderness guide Martin Shaw delivers Smoke Hole to help us understand our world....
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A Brief History of Indonesia
- Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of Southeast Asia's Largest Nation
- By: Tim Hannigan
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
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Indonesia is by far the largest nation in Southeast Asia and has the fourth-largest population in the world after the United States. Indonesian history and culture are especially relevant today as the island nation is an emerging power....
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Good history, shame about the pronunciations
- By Anonymous User on 15-04-2022
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Empire of Sand
- How Britain Made the Middle East
- By: Walter Reid
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 14 hrs and 59 mins
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Working from both primary and secondary sources, Walter Reid explores Britain's role in the creation of the modern Middle East and the rise of Zionism from the early years of the twentieth century to 1948....
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Empireland
- How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain
- By: Sathnam Sanghera
- Narrated by: Homer Todiwala
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
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In his brilliantly illuminating new book Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consider to be modern Britain is actually rooted in our imperial past....
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Interesting
- By G. Lynch on 11-06-2022
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Orientalism
- By: Edward Said
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 19 hrs and 2 mins
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This landmark book, first published in 1978, remains one of the most influential books in the Social Sciences, particularly Ethnic Studies and Postcolonialism....
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Brilliant
- By Jarad McMahon on 02-04-2017
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Fake History
- Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped the World
- By: Otto English
- Narrated by: Otto English
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
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A fun, authoritative and alternative history of the world that exposes some of the biggest lies ever told and how they've been used over time....
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Black Skin, White Masks
- Penguin Modern Classics
- By: Frantz Fanon, Richard Philcox
- Narrated by: Theo Solomon
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
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Frantz Fanon's urgent, dynamic critique of the effects of racism on the psyche is a landmark study of the Black experience in a white world....
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Legacy of Violence
- A History of the British Empire
- By: Caroline Elkins
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 31 hrs and 36 mins
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a searing study of the British Empire that interrogates the pervasive use of violence throughout the 20th century and traces how these practices were exported, modified and institutionalised in colonies around the globe....
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Genius
- By busby on 28-07-2022
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Time's Monster
- History, Conscience and Britain's Empire
- By: Priya Satia
- Narrated by: Priya Satia, Tania Rodrigues
- Length: 16 hrs and 46 mins
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For generations, the history of the British Empire was written by its victors....
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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
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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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Another Day in the Colony
- By: Chelsea Watego
- Narrated by: Chelsea Watego
- Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
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A ground-breaking work—and a call to arms—that exposes the ongoing colonial violence experienced by First Nations people....
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A powerful call to sovereignty
- By Hannah McCauley on 21-07-2022
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The True Flag
- Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire
- By: Stephen Kinzer
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
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The best-selling author of Overthrow and The Brothers brings to life the forgotten political debate that set America's interventionist course in the world for the 20th century and beyond....
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Dismantling Global White Privilege
- Equity for a Post-Western World
- By: Chandran Nair
- Narrated by: Karen Huie
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
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White privilege damages and distorts societies around the world, not just in the United States. This audiobook exposes its pervasive global reach and creates a new space for discourse on worldwide racial equality....
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uncomfortable life changing read
- By Anonymous User on 25-03-2022
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Victoria & Abdul (Movie Tie-in)
- The True Story of the Queen's Closest Confidant
- By: Shrabani Basu
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Jasicki
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
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History’s most unlikely friendship - this is the astonishing story of Queen Victoria and her dearest companion, the young Indian Munshi Abdul Karim....
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Amazing Story
- By Anonymous User on 10-03-2018
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Bitter Lemons of Cyprus
- By: Lawrence Durrell
- Narrated by: Andrew Sachs
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
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Lawrence Durrell's evocative memoir of living in Cyprus, just before the Greek/Turkish partition....
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The Denniston Rose
- By: Jenny Pattrick
- Narrated by: Kate Hood
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
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The bleak coal-mining settlement of Denniston, isolated high on a plateau above New Zealand's West Coast, is a place that makes or breaks those who live there....
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Excellent!
- By Paul Lishman on 14-04-2021
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Nehru
- The Debates That Defined India
- By: Tripurdaman Singh, Adeel Hussain
- Narrated by: Shubhankar
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
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A history of Nehru that dives deep into the debates of his era to understand his ideology - and that of his contemporaries and opponents, asking what India would look like had another bold young mind with fiercely held views led during the country’s formative years of independence....
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Unsettling Truths
- 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
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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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Hero of the Empire
- The Making of Winston Churchill
- By: Candice Millard
- Narrated by: Mr Simon Vance
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
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From the New York Times best-selling author Candice Millard, this is the gripping true story of one dramatic - and emblematic - year in the early life of Winston Churchill....
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Black Spartacus
- The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
- By: Sudhir Hazareesingh
- Narrated by: Sudhir Hazareesingh, Ben Arogundade
- Length: 17 hrs and 35 mins
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The Haitian Revolution began in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue with a slave revolt in August 1791 and culminated a dozen years later in the proclamation of the world's first independent Black state....
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Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen
- By: Lili‘uokalani
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
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In 1893, Liliuokalani, the Queen of Hawaii, was deposed and five years later her nation became an incorporated territory of the US. Published shortly after these events, Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen is an incredibly personal history of the islands that she was born to rule....
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Great insight
- By Jeff C on 10-01-2020
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The Flat Earth Activist, Second Edition
- A Guide to Dismantling the Globe-Paradigm
- By: Tim Ozman
- Narrated by: Stephen Floyd
- Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
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Flat Earth isn't merely a matter of topography and the conspicuous lack of curvature or detectable movement. Flat Earth is the absence of delusion. It is a cleansing of the doors of perception....