Ancient Governments
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The Shortest History of China
- From the Ancient Dynasties to a Modern Superpower: A Retelling for Our Times
- By: Linda Jaivin
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Chinese history is nothing if not messy. Heroes are also villains; prosperity mingles with violence; cultural vibrancy coexists with censorship and repression. Modern China is seen variously as an economic powerhouse, an icon of urbanization, a propaganda state and an aggressive superpower seeking world domination. Jaivin distills this vast history into a sparkling narrative, from mythical origins to the COVID-19 pandemic. It's a story in which China's women, from the earliest warriors to 20th-century suffragettes, receive long overdue attention.
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Good introduction for beginners
- By Amazon Customer on 27-10-2025
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The Shortest History of China
- From the Ancient Dynasties to a Modern Superpower: A Retelling for Our Times
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 30-11-2021
- Language: English
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Chinese history is nothing if not messy. Heroes are also villains; prosperity mingles with violence; cultural vibrancy coexists with censorship and repression. Jaivin distills this vast history into a sparkling narrative, from mythical origins to the COVID-19 pandemic....
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$23.97 or free with 30-day trial
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Democracy
- A Life
- By: Paul Cartledge
- Narrated by: Paul Hodgson
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Ancient Greece first coined the concept of democracy, yet almost every major ancient Greek thinker - from Plato and Aristotle onward - was ambivalent toward or even hostile to democracy in any form. The explanation for this is quite simple: The elite perceived majority power as tantamount to a dictatorship of the proletariat. In ancient Greece, there can be traced not only the rudiments of modern democratic society but the entire Western tradition of antidemocratic thought.
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A very dry and academic but interesting overview
- By C. Broughton on 22-01-2018
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Democracy
- A Life
- Narrated by: Paul Hodgson
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 28-06-2016
- Language: English
- Democracy surveys the emergence and development of Greek politics, the invention of political theory, and - intimately connected to the latter - the birth of democracy....
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Politics
- By: Aristotle
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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After more than 2,300 years, the Greek philosopher Aristotle still remains one of the most influential thinkers who has ever lived. There was hardly any field of human knowledge in existence during his day in which he did not make a major contribution. Additionally, he probed areas which were never before examined. Indeed, one could make the claim that no individual person has ever known as much about this world as Aristotle. His analyses of zoology and logic paved the way for modern forensic techniques, and for which every scientist down to this day owes him a debt of gratitude.
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Politics
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 24-06-2022
- Language: English
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After more than 2,300 years, the Greek philosopher Aristotle still remains one of the most influential thinkers who has ever lived. There was hardly any field of human knowledge in existence during his day in which he did not make a major contribution....
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The Hidden History of American Democracy
- Rediscovering Humanity's Ancient Way of Living (The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series, Book 9)
- By: Thom Hartmann
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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In this powerful, sweeping history and analysis of American democracy, Thom Hartmann shows how democracy is the one form of governance most likely to produce peace and happiness among people. With the violent exception of the Civil War, American democracy resisted the pressure to disintegrate into factionalism for nearly two centuries, and now our very system of democratic elections is at stake. So how do we save our democracy?
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The Hidden History of American Democracy
- Rediscovering Humanity's Ancient Way of Living (The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series, Book 9)
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Series: The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 13-06-2023
- Language: English
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In this powerful, sweeping history and analysis of American democracy, Thom Hartmann shows how democracy is the one form of governance most likely to produce peace and happiness among people....
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Democracy from Then to Now
- From the First Democratic Thoughts in Ancient Greece to Democracy Throughout the World Today (Government and Politics Book Series)
- By: Eric Nilsen
- Narrated by: Ray Jericho
- Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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In order to understand today's democracy, we need to start from its earliest beginnings by understanding the works of the ancient philosophers who laid the foundations of democracy from the early days. Even looking at the democracy around the world today, it's clear that there are degrees to which countries choose to adhere or stray from democratic ideals. Understanding where these ideals developed from and the development of democracy over time is essential to determining what endangers these ideals in the present.
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Democracy from Then to Now
- From the First Democratic Thoughts in Ancient Greece to Democracy Throughout the World Today (Government and Politics Book Series)
- Narrated by: Ray Jericho
- Series: Government and Politics Book Series, Book 2
- Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 25-01-2024
- Language: English
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In order to understand today's democracy, we need to start from its earliest beginnings....
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Politics
- By: Aristotle
- Narrated by: Jim Killavey
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Politics is the second half of a single treatise by Aristotle (384 B.C.E - 322 B.C.E.), Ethics being the first. Both deal with one and the same subject: what Aristotle calls the philosophy of human affairs. He also refers to it as political science and social science. Aristotle collected and studied the constitutions of over 150 city states before writing his Politics.
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Politics
- Narrated by: Jim Killavey
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 14-11-2007
- Language: English
- Politics is the second half of a single treatise by Aristotle (384 B.C.E - 322 B.C.E.), Ethics being the first. Both deal with one and the same subject....
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Power and Politics
- Ancient Governance Models in Today's World
- By: Henry Clarke
- Narrated by: Karen Rich Franklin
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Ancient civilizations laid the groundwork for many aspects of modern society. There is no doubt, that we are more technologically advanced, but some of the ways, in which the government functioned, in previous generations are seen in many governments around the world, and this book will highlight some of those topics.
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Power and Politics
- Ancient Governance Models in Today's World
- Narrated by: Karen Rich Franklin
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
- Release date: 05-12-2025
- Language: English
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Ancient civilizations laid the groundwork for many aspects of modern society.
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$11.99 or free with 30-day trial
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