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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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1774
- The Long Year of Revolution
- Auteur(s): Mary Beth Norton
- Narrateur(s): Kimberly Farr
- Durée: 16 h et 26 min
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From one of our most acclaimed and original colonial historians, a groundbreaking book - the first to look at the critical "long year" of 1774 and the revolutionary change that took place from December 1773 to mid-April 1775....
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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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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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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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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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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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1774
- The Long Year of Revolution
- Auteur(s): Mary Beth Norton
- Narrateur(s): Kimberly Farr
- Durée: 16 h et 26 min
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From one of our most acclaimed and original colonial historians, a groundbreaking book - the first to look at the critical "long year" of 1774 and the revolutionary change that took place from December 1773 to mid-April 1775....
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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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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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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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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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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 Pirate Menace
- Uncovering the Golden Age of Piracy
- Auteur(s): Angus Konstam
- Narrateur(s): David Monteath
- Durée: 14 h et 18 min
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The growth of piracy led to a major surge in attacks in the Caribbean and along North America’s Atlantic seaboard. With the fragile maritime economy of the Americas threatened with collapse, major ports were threatened and trade brought to a standstill, the British government finally declared war.
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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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The Penguin Book of Pirates
- Auteur(s): Katherine Howe
- Narrateur(s): Jaime Lamchick, Matthew Lloyd Davies, Jerome Harmann-Hardeman, Autres
- Durée: 11 h et 9 min
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The Penguin Book of Pirates takes us behind the eye patches, the peg legs, and the skull and crossbones of the Jolly Roger and into the no-man’s-land of piracy that is rife with paradoxes and plot twists....
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The Great Upheaval
- America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800
- Auteur(s): Jay Winik
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Davis
- Durée: 31 h et 13 min
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It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial power, and France plunged into revolution....
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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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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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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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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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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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The Revolutionary Temper
- Paris, 1748-1789
- Auteur(s): Robert Darnton
- Narrateur(s): Andrew J. Andersen
- Durée: 21 h
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When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth of a new society.
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The Idea of Europe and the Origins of the American Revolution
- Auteur(s): D.H. Robinson
- Narrateur(s): Liam Gerrard
- Durée: 15 h et 9 min
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In The Idea of Europe and the Origins of the American Revolution, Dan Robinson presents a new history of politics in colonial America and the imperial crisis, tracing how ideas of Europe and Europeanness shaped British-American political culture....
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Toussaint L'Ouverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines
- The History and Legacy of the Haitian Revolution’s Most Famous Leaders
- Auteur(s): Charles River Editors
- Narrateur(s): Daniel Houle
- Durée: 2 h et 10 min
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Toussaint L'Ouverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines: The History and Legacy of the Haitian Revolution’s Most Famous Leaders chronicles how the only successful slave uprising came about and examines the backgrounds of the men who led it....
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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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Qing Dynasty
- A History from Beginning to End (History of China)
- Auteur(s): Hourly History
- Narrateur(s): Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
- Durée: 1 h et 3 min
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The history of China as a single nation began more than 2,000 years ago, when Qin Shi Huangdi first united a group of warring kingdoms into a single empire....
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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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Liberty's First Crisis
- Adams, Jefferson, and the Misfits Who Saved Free Speech
- Auteur(s): Charles Slack
- Narrateur(s): Brian Holsopple
- Durée: 9 h et 36 min
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Liberty's First Crisis, writer Charles Slack tells the story of the 1798 Sedition Act, the crucial moment when high ideals met real-world politics and the country's future hung in the balance....
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Adam Smith
- Father of Economics
- Auteur(s): Jesse Norman
- Narrateur(s): Jesse Norman
- Durée: 13 h et 40 min
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A dazzlingly original account of the life and thought of Adam Smith, the greatest economist of all time....
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Marie-Antoinette
- The Making of a French Queen
- Auteur(s): John Hardman
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Cowley
- Durée: 17 h et 47 min
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A new look which fundamentally overturns our understanding of this famously "out of touch" queen....
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Engaging
- Écrit par L. Antoine le 2019-12-10
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Le Prix de la Liberté
- La Révolution Française 3
- Auteur(s): Francis Scaglia
- Narrateur(s): Michel Papineschi
- Durée: 58 min
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Formidable fresque relatant tous les grands episodes de la Révolution Française !
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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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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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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 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