- 17th Century (95)
- 19th Century (370)
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The Island at the Center of the World
- The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
- Auteur(s): Russell Shorto
- Narrateur(s): Russell Shorto
- Durée: 14 h et 33 min
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In a landmark work of history, Russell Shorto presents astonishing information on the founding of our nation and reveals in detail the crucial role of the Dutch in making America what it is today....
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The Thirty Years War
- Europe's Tragedy
- Auteur(s): Peter H. Wilson
- Narrateur(s): Matthew Waterson
- Durée: 33 h et 25 min
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The Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. Peter Wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map of the modern world....
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An amazing performance for an incomprehensible book
- Écrit par F. Toro le 2024-02-28
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City of Light, City of Poison
- Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris
- Auteur(s): Holly Tucker
- Narrateur(s): Kate Reading
- Durée: 9 h et 6 min
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Appointed to conquer the "crime capital of the world", the first police chief of Paris faces an epidemic of murder in the late 1600s....
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Thunderclap
- A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
- Auteur(s): Laura Cumming
- Narrateur(s): Laura Cumming
- Durée: 7 h et 39 min
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New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming tells the fascinating, little-known story of the massive explosion in Holland that killed Carel Fabritius, renowned painter of The Goldfinch and A View of Delft and nearly killed Johannes Vermeer—two of the greatest artists of the 17th century.
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Restoration London
- Everyday Life in the 1660s
- Auteur(s): Liza Picard
- Narrateur(s): Sean Barrett
- Durée: 6 h et 29 min
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From poverty to pets, from medicine to magic, from slang to sex, from wallpaper to women's rights....
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Devil-Land
- England Under Siege, 1588-1688
- Auteur(s): Clare Jackson
- Narrateur(s): Emma Gregory
- Durée: 24 h et 10 min
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Clare Jackson's dazzling original account of English history's most turbulent and radical era tells the story of a nation in a state of near continual crisis....
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The Island at the Center of the World
- The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
- Auteur(s): Russell Shorto
- Narrateur(s): Russell Shorto
- Durée: 14 h et 33 min
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In a landmark work of history, Russell Shorto presents astonishing information on the founding of our nation and reveals in detail the crucial role of the Dutch in making America what it is today....
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The Thirty Years War
- Europe's Tragedy
- Auteur(s): Peter H. Wilson
- Narrateur(s): Matthew Waterson
- Durée: 33 h et 25 min
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The Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. Peter Wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map of the modern world....
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An amazing performance for an incomprehensible book
- Écrit par F. Toro le 2024-02-28
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City of Light, City of Poison
- Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris
- Auteur(s): Holly Tucker
- Narrateur(s): Kate Reading
- Durée: 9 h et 6 min
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Appointed to conquer the "crime capital of the world", the first police chief of Paris faces an epidemic of murder in the late 1600s....
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Thunderclap
- A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
- Auteur(s): Laura Cumming
- Narrateur(s): Laura Cumming
- Durée: 7 h et 39 min
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New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming tells the fascinating, little-known story of the massive explosion in Holland that killed Carel Fabritius, renowned painter of The Goldfinch and A View of Delft and nearly killed Johannes Vermeer—two of the greatest artists of the 17th century.
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Restoration London
- Everyday Life in the 1660s
- Auteur(s): Liza Picard
- Narrateur(s): Sean Barrett
- Durée: 6 h et 29 min
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From poverty to pets, from medicine to magic, from slang to sex, from wallpaper to women's rights....
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Devil-Land
- England Under Siege, 1588-1688
- Auteur(s): Clare Jackson
- Narrateur(s): Emma Gregory
- Durée: 24 h et 10 min
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Clare Jackson's dazzling original account of English history's most turbulent and radical era tells the story of a nation in a state of near continual crisis....
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Born to Be Hanged
- The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune
- Auteur(s): Keith Thomson
- Narrateur(s): Feodor Chin
- Durée: 9 h et 41 min
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The year is 1680, in the heart of the Golden Age of Piracy, and more than 300 daring, hardened pirates—a potent mix of low-life scallywags and a rare breed of gentlemen buccaneers—gather on a remote Caribbean island....
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Under the Black Flag
- The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
- Auteur(s): David Cordingly
- Narrateur(s): Don Hagen
- Durée: 10 h et 31 min
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As he explodes many accepted pirate myths (i.e. "walking the plank" is pure fiction), Cordingly replaces them with a truth that is more complex and often bloodier....
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The English Civil Wars
- 1640-1660
- Auteur(s): Blair Worden
- Narrateur(s): Leighton Pugh
- Durée: 5 h et 29 min
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The political upheaval of the mid-17th century has no parallel in English history. Other events have changed the occupancy and the powers of the throne, but the conflict of 1640-60 was more dramatic....
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The Year of Lear
- Shakespeare in 1606
- Auteur(s): James Shapiro
- Narrateur(s): Robert Fass
- Durée: 11 h et 6 min
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In the years leading up to 1606, since the death of Queen Elizabeth and the arrival in England of her successor, King James, Shakespeare's great productivity had ebbed....
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Vermeer's Hat
- The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
- Auteur(s): Timothy Brook
- Narrateur(s): Malcolm Hillgartner
- Durée: 8 h et 22 min
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A Vermeer painting shows a military officer in a Dutch sitting room, talking to a laughing girl....
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Unfabling the East
- The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia
- Auteur(s): Jürgen Osterhammel, Robert Savage - translator
- Narrateur(s): Ric Jerrom
- Durée: 25 h et 49 min
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During the long 18th century, Europe's travelers, scholars, and intellectuals looked to Asia in a spirit of puzzlement, irony, and openness. Author Jürgen Osterhammel tells the story of the European Enlightenment's nuanced encounter with the great civilizations of the East....
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The Invention of Science
- A New History of the Scientific Revolution
- Auteur(s): David Wootton
- Narrateur(s): James Langton
- Durée: 22 h et 5 min
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A groundbreaking examination of the greatest event in history, the Scientific Revolution, and how it came to change the way we understand ourselves and our world....
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Good
- Écrit par Eugenius Radius le 2018-01-02
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They Flew
- A History of the Impossible
- Auteur(s): Carlos M. N. Eire
- Narrateur(s): Emmanuel Chumaceiro
- Durée: 16 h et 56 min
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Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded in the early modern era—tales of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft—even as skepticism, atheism, and empirical science were starting to supplant religious belief in the paranormal....
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Reformations
- The Early Modern World, 1450-1650
- Auteur(s): Carlos M. N. Eire
- Narrateur(s): David Drummond
- Durée: 39 h et 42 min
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Carlos Eire, popular professor and gifted writer, chronicles the 200-year era of the Renaissance and Reformation with particular attention to issues that persist as concerns in the present day....
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Batavia's Graveyard
- The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny
- Auteur(s): Mike Dash
- Narrateur(s): Guy Bethell
- Durée: 12 h et 36 min
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It was the autumn of 1628, and the Batavia, the Dutch East India Company's flagship, was loaded with a king's ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java....
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Away Off Shore
- Nantucket Island and Its People, 1602-1890
- Auteur(s): Nathaniel Philbrick
- Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
- Durée: 8 h et 57 min
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In his first book of history, Away Off Shore, New York Times best-selling author Nathaniel Philbrick reveals the people and the stories behind what was once the whaling capital of the world....
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Captain Alatriste
- Auteur(s): Arturo Pérez-Reverte
- Narrateur(s): Scott Brick, Margaret Sayers Peden
- Durée: 6 h et 48 min
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Captain Alatriste is the story of a fictional 17th-century Spanish soldier who, after being wounded in battle during the Thirty Years' War, is forced to retire from the army....
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Wonderful book!
- Écrit par Christian G. Cameron le 2022-01-10
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Oliver Cromwell: A Life from Beginning to End
- Auteur(s): Hourly History
- Narrateur(s): William Irvine
- Durée: 1 h et 20 min
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One of the most controversial figures in British history, Oliver Cromwell entered as an insignificant member of the English gentry and left it as the all-powerful Lord Protector....
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A Hangman’s Diary
- The Journal of Master Franz Schmidt, Public Executioner of Nuremberg, 1573-1617
- Auteur(s): Franz Schmidt, Albrecht Keller - editor and translator, C. Calvert BA - translator, Autres
- Narrateur(s): John McLain
- Durée: 4 h et 51 min
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Now an esoteric of legal and criminal history, A Hangman's Diary gives a year-by-year breakdown on all of Master Franz Schmidt's executions, which included hangings, beheadings, and other methods, as well as details of each capital crime and the reason for the punishment....
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Intermittent static ruins experience
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2024-10-28
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Killers of the King
- The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I
- Auteur(s): Charles Spencer
- Narrateur(s): Richard Trinder
- Durée: 12 h et 1 min
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January, 1649. After seven years of fighting in the bloodiest war in Britain’s history, Parliament faced a problem: what to do with a defeated king, a king who refused to surrender....
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Providence Lost
- The Rise and Fall of Cromwell's Protectorate
- Auteur(s): Paul Lay
- Narrateur(s): Gordon Griffin
- Durée: 10 h et 24 min
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England, 1651. Oliver Cromwell has defeated his royalist opponents in two civil wars, executed the Stuart King Charles I, laid waste to Ireland, and crushed the late king's son and his Scottish allies....
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Spain
- The Centre of the World 1519-1682
- Auteur(s): Robert Goodwin
- Narrateur(s): Jeremy Clyde
- Durée: 21 h et 2 min
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Robert Goodwin delves into previously unrecorded sources to bring a tumultuous and exciting period to life. Spain is a revealing portrait of an empire at the height of its power and a world at the dawn of a new age....
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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 Dutch Moment
- War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World
- Auteur(s): Wim Klooster
- Narrateur(s): Fred Filbrich
- Durée: 11 h et 52 min
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In The Dutch Moment, Wim Klooster shows how the Dutch built and eventually lost an Atlantic empire that stretched from the homeland in the United Provinces to the Hudson River and from Brazil and the Caribbean to the African Gold Coast....
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The Vanishing Velázquez
- A 19th Century Bookseller's Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece
- Auteur(s): Laura Cumming
- Narrateur(s): Siobhan Redmond
- Durée: 10 h et 16 min
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When John Snare, a 19th-century provincial bookseller, traveled to a liquidation auction, he stumbled on a vivid portrait of King Charles I that defied any explanation....
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Intriguing
- Écrit par Roberta W le 2024-10-07
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The Taste of Conquest
- The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice
- Auteur(s): Michael Krondl
- Narrateur(s): Todd McLaren
- Durée: 10 h et 34 min
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In this engaging, anecdotal history of food, world conquest, and desire, a chef-turned-journalist tells the story of three legendary cities that transformed the globe in the quest for spice....
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Republic
- Britain's Revolutionary Decade, 1649–1660
- Auteur(s): Alice Hunt
- Narrateur(s): Sophie Roberts
- Durée: 13 h et 12 min
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Events moved fast in the 1650s. Something cataclysmic happened every year, something that would thrust the newly formed republic, its people, and its eventual 'Lord Protector' Oliver Cromwell, in an entirely new direction.
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Hoax
- The Catholic Plot That Never Was
- Auteur(s): Victor Stater
- Narrateur(s): John Lee
- Durée: 13 h et 8 min
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In 1678, a handful of perjurers claimed that the Catholics of England planned to assassinate the king. Victor Stater examines the Popish Plot in full, arguing that it had a profound and lasting significance on British politics....