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The Anarchy
- The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
- Auteur(s): William Dalrymple
- Narrateur(s): Sid Sagar
- Durée: 15 h et 43 min
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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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Very Good. Not for Me
- Écrit par Langer MD le 2020-06-27
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Marie Antoinette
- The Journey
- Auteur(s): Antonia Fraser
- Narrateur(s): Donada Peters
- Durée: 20 h et 27 min
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France's iconic queen, Marie Antoinette, wrongly accused of uttering the infamous "Let them eat cake", was alternately revered and reviled during her lifetime....
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History Buffs Delight!
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2020-02-27
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Crucible of War
- The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766
- Auteur(s): Fred Anderson
- Narrateur(s): Paul Woodson
- Durée: 29 h et 4 min
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In this vivid and compelling narrative, the Seven Years' War - long seen as a mere backdrop to the American Revolution - takes on a whole new significance. Relating the history of the war as it developed, Anderson shows how the complex array of forces brought into conflict helped both....
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good but a little muddled
- Écrit par jeff olasz le 2019-03-15
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A New World Begins
- The History of the French Revolution
- Auteur(s): Jeremy D. Popkin
- Narrateur(s): Pete Cross, Jeremy D. Popkin
- Durée: 21 h et 54 min
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In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the revolution that puts the listener in the thick of the debates and the violence that led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a new society....
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Learned a lot
- Écrit par Kathryn Smith le 2023-08-17
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The Pursuit of Happiness
- How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America
- Auteur(s): Jeffrey Rosen
- Narrateur(s): Sean Patrick Hopkins, Jeffrey Rosen
- Durée: 10 h et 51 min
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President of the National Constitution Center Jeffrey Rosen examines what “the pursuit of happiness” meant to our nation’s Founders and how that famous phrase defined their lives and became the foundation of our democracy....
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Mutiny on the Bounty
- Auteur(s): Peter FitzSimons
- Narrateur(s): Michael Carman
- Durée: 22 h et 32 min
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The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories - a tale of human drama, intrigue and adventure of the highest order - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before. Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit plants from Tahiti and take them to the West Indies, the Bounty's crew found themselves in a tropical paradise. Five months later, they did not want to leave.
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excellent story, masterful narration
- Écrit par Justin R Trupp le 2023-08-21
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The Anarchy
- The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
- Auteur(s): William Dalrymple
- Narrateur(s): Sid Sagar
- Durée: 15 h et 43 min
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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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Very Good. Not for Me
- Écrit par Langer MD le 2020-06-27
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Marie Antoinette
- The Journey
- Auteur(s): Antonia Fraser
- Narrateur(s): Donada Peters
- Durée: 20 h et 27 min
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Histoire
France's iconic queen, Marie Antoinette, wrongly accused of uttering the infamous "Let them eat cake", was alternately revered and reviled during her lifetime....
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History Buffs Delight!
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2020-02-27
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Crucible of War
- The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766
- Auteur(s): Fred Anderson
- Narrateur(s): Paul Woodson
- Durée: 29 h et 4 min
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In this vivid and compelling narrative, the Seven Years' War - long seen as a mere backdrop to the American Revolution - takes on a whole new significance. Relating the history of the war as it developed, Anderson shows how the complex array of forces brought into conflict helped both....
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good but a little muddled
- Écrit par jeff olasz le 2019-03-15
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A New World Begins
- The History of the French Revolution
- Auteur(s): Jeremy D. Popkin
- Narrateur(s): Pete Cross, Jeremy D. Popkin
- Durée: 21 h et 54 min
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In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the revolution that puts the listener in the thick of the debates and the violence that led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a new society....
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Learned a lot
- Écrit par Kathryn Smith le 2023-08-17
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The Pursuit of Happiness
- How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America
- Auteur(s): Jeffrey Rosen
- Narrateur(s): Sean Patrick Hopkins, Jeffrey Rosen
- Durée: 10 h et 51 min
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President of the National Constitution Center Jeffrey Rosen examines what “the pursuit of happiness” meant to our nation’s Founders and how that famous phrase defined their lives and became the foundation of our democracy....
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Mutiny on the Bounty
- Auteur(s): Peter FitzSimons
- Narrateur(s): Michael Carman
- Durée: 22 h et 32 min
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The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories - a tale of human drama, intrigue and adventure of the highest order - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before. Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit plants from Tahiti and take them to the West Indies, the Bounty's crew found themselves in a tropical paradise. Five months later, they did not want to leave.
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excellent story, masterful narration
- Écrit par Justin R Trupp le 2023-08-21
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Catherine the Great
- Portrait of a Woman
- Auteur(s): Robert K. Massie
- Narrateur(s): Mark Deakins
- Durée: 23 h et 52 min
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Robert K. Massie returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became Catherine the Great. Born into a minor noble family, Catherine transformed herself into empress of Russia by sheer determination....
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Portrait of a Truly Remarkable Woman
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2024-03-21
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Citizens
- A Chronicle of the French Revolution
- Auteur(s): Simon Schama
- Narrateur(s): Frederick Davidson
- Durée: 36 h et 48 min
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From one of the truly preeminent historians of our time, this is a landmark book chronicling the French Revolution. Simon Schama deftly refutes the contemporary notion that the French Revolution represented an uprising of the oppressed poor against a decadent aristocracy and corrupt court....
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The Black Count
- Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
- Auteur(s): Tom Reiss
- Narrateur(s): Paul Michael
- Durée: 13 h et 30 min
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General Alex Dumas is a man almost unknown today, yet his story is strikingly familiar—because his son, the novelist Alexandre Dumas, used his larger-than-life feats as inspiration for such classics as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers....
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Very enjoyable dive into the forgotten father
- Écrit par Alex Martin le 2020-11-05
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Acadian Driftwood
- One Family and the Great Expulsion
- Auteur(s): Tyler LeBlanc
- Narrateur(s): Pierre Simpson
- Durée: 5 h et 37 min
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Piecing together his family history through archival documents, Tyler LeBlanc tells the story of his ancestor Joseph LeBlanc and the LeBlanc family during the Great Expulsion....
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The Enlightenment
- And Why It Still Matters
- Auteur(s): Anthony Pagden
- Narrateur(s): Robert Blumenfeld
- Durée: 16 h et 24 min
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One of our most renowned and brilliant historians takes a fresh look at the revolutionary intellectual movement that laid the foundation for the modern world....
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The Duchess
- Auteur(s): Amanda Foreman
- Narrateur(s): Wanda McCaddon
- Durée: 15 h et 36 min
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Lady Georgiana Spencer was the great-great-great-great-aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, and was nearly as famous in her day....
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The Favourite
- Auteur(s): Ophelia Field
- Narrateur(s): Natalie Boscombe
- Durée: 17 h et 44 min
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This biography brings Sarah Churchill's own voice, passionate and intelligent, back to life and casts a critical eye over images of the Duchess handed down through art, history and literature....
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French Revolution: A History from Beginning to End
- One Hour History Revolution, Book 1
- Auteur(s): Hourly History
- Narrateur(s): Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr
- Durée: 57 min
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Explore the triumph and terror that existed in France during the French Revolution. Review the causes and the lasting effects brought about during this tumultuous time period when the common people of France struggled to remake their world upon the cornerstone of liberty....
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The HMS Wager
- The History of the 18th Century's Most Famous Shipwreck and Mutiny
- Auteur(s): Charles River Editors
- Narrateur(s): Mark Norman
- Durée: 1 h et 25 min
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Mention the 18th century Royal Navy and visions come to mind of swashbuckling sailors swinging from rope to rope....
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The Great Cat Massacre
- And Other Episodes in French Cultural History
- Auteur(s): Robert Darnton
- Narrateur(s): Ken Kliban
- Durée: 10 h et 4 min
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The landmark history of France and French culture in the 18th century, a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize....
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Thomas Paine Classic Collection
- Common Sense, The Age of Reason, and The Rights of Man
- Auteur(s): Thomas Paine
- Narrateur(s): Russell Newton
- Durée: 17 h et 50 min
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This Thomas Paine Classic Collection contains three of Thomas Paine's most notable books: Common Sense, The Age of Reason, and The Rights of Man....
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The Invisible Hook
- The Hidden Economics of Pirates
- Auteur(s): Peter T. Leeson
- Narrateur(s): Jeremy Gage
- Durée: 7 h et 41 min
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Revealing the democratic and economic forces propelling history's most colorful criminals, The Invisible Hook establishes pirates' trailblazing relevance to the contemporary world....
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As expected from Leeson...
- Écrit par Vangel Vesovski le 2019-10-18
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Inventing Human Rights
- A History
- Auteur(s): Lynn Hunt
- Narrateur(s): Siiri Scott
- Durée: 7 h et 14 min
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How were human rights invented, and how does their tumultuous history influence their perception and our ability to protect them today? From Professor Lynn Hunt comes this extraordinary cultural and intellectual history, which traces the roots of human rights to the rejection of torture....
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The Rights of Man
- Auteur(s): Thomas Paine
- Narrateur(s): Matthew Erwin
- Durée: 9 h et 1 min
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The Rights of Man defended the French Revolution’s values of freedom, equality, and brotherhood. Paine argued that a government based on justice ought to support mankind’s civil rights relating to security and protection, as well as liberty, and freedom of conscience....
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The Fall of Robespierre
- 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris
- Auteur(s): Colin Jones
- Narrateur(s): Sasha Higgins
- Durée: 18 h et 45 min
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The day of 9 Thermidor is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. At midnight, Maximilien Robespierre was planning to destroy one of the most dangerous plots that the Revolution had faced....
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Villains of All Nations
- Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age
- Auteur(s): Marcus Rediker
- Narrateur(s): Cornell Womack
- Durée: 7 h et 12 min
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Villains of All Nations explores the "Golden Age" of Atlantic piracy (1716-1726) and the infamous generation whose images underlie our modern, romanticized view of pirates....
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Gibraltar
- The Greatest Siege in British History
- Auteur(s): Lesley Adkins, Roy Adkins
- Narrateur(s): John Telfer
- Durée: 14 h et 53 min
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For more than three and a half years, from 1779 to 1783, the tiny territory of Gibraltar was besieged and blockaded, on land and at sea, by the overwhelming forces of Spain and France....
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The Club
- Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age
- Auteur(s): Leo Damrosch
- Narrateur(s): Simon Vance
- Durée: 15 h et 1 min
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Prize-winning biographer Leo Damrosch tells the story of "the Club", a group of extraordinary writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavern....
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Excellent
- Écrit par Tammer E Kamel le 2020-05-28
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Culloden
- Scotland's Last Battle and the Forging of the British Empire
- Auteur(s): Trevor Royle
- Narrateur(s): Tim Bruce
- Durée: 11 h et 23 min
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The Battle of Culloden in 1746 has gone down in history as the last major battle fought on British soil....
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The Duel: A Captivating Guide to the Lives of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr
- Auteur(s): Captivating History
- Narrateur(s): Duke Holm
- Durée: 4 h et 18 min
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Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr lived very similar lives. They were both orphaned at an early age. Both were young staff officers under General George Washington, and both became war heroes. How did these two men end up in the most famous duel in American history? Listen for more....
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La Révolution Française. De La Convention au Directoire, 1792 à 1799
- L'Histoire de France Vivante
- Auteur(s): Frédéric Nort
- Narrateur(s): Antoine Marin, Claude Rio, Claude Vernick, Autres
- Durée: 28 min
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Cette collection "L'Histoire de France vivante" nous faire revivre les grandes heures de l'histoire de France. Pour chaque époque, l'illustration sonore...
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Covered with Night
- A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
- Auteur(s): Nicole Eustace
- Narrateur(s): Laural Merlington
- Durée: 14 h et 33 min
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On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the distant summer of 1722, two White fur traders attacked an Indigenous hunter and left him for dead near Conestoga, Pennsylvania....
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Edmund Burke
- The First Conservative
- Auteur(s): Jesse Norman
- Narrateur(s): Antony Ferguson
- Durée: 9 h et 47 min
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Edmund Burke is both the greatest and the most underrated political thinker of the past three hundred years....
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The Last Day
- Wrath, Ruin, and Reason in the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755
- Auteur(s): Nicholas Shrady
- Narrateur(s): Patrick Lawlor
- Durée: 6 h et 56 min
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A riveting history of how the cataclysmic Lisbon earthquake shook the religious and intellectual foundations of Enlightenment Europe....