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  • Mutiny on the Bounty cover art

    • Mutiny on the Bounty

    • Written by: Peter FitzSimons
    • Narrated by: Michael Carman
    • Length: 22 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 2018-10-30
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings

    • 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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    • Black Flags, Blue Waters

    • The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
    • Written by: Eric Jay Dolin
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 2018-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings

    • Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the dramatic and surprising history of American piracy's "Golden Age" - spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s - when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond....

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    • The Anarchy

    • The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
    • Written by: William Dalrymple
    • Narrated by: Sid Sagar
    • Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 2019-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 123 ratings

    • 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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    • 1774

    • The Long Year of Revolution
    • Written by: Mary Beth Norton
    • Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
    • Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 2020-02-11
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • 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 Age of Revolution

    • 1789-1848
    • Written by: Eric Hobsbawm
    • Narrated by: Hugh Kermode
    • Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 2020-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

    • This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and the emergence of new technologies, sciences, and ideologies, with vast intellectual daring and aphoristic elegance....

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    • Catherine the Great

    • Portrait of a Woman
    • Written by: Robert K. Massie
    • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
    • Series: The Romanovs
    • Length: 23 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 2011-11-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings

    • 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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    • The Club

    • Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age
    • Written by: Leo Damrosch
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 2019-03-26
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • 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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    • Crucible of War

    • The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766
    • Written by: Fred Anderson
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 29 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 2018-02-27
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings

    • 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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    • The Black Jacobins

    • Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
    • Written by: C.L.R. James
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 2019-04-30
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings

    • This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive account of the Haitian Revolution of 1794-1803, a revolution that began in the wake of the Bastille but became the model for the Third World liberation movements from Africa to Cuba....

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    • The Republic of Pirates

    • Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down
    • Written by: Colin Woodard
    • Narrated by: Lewis Grenville
    • Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 2015-08-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 192 ratings
    • The untold story of a heroic band of Caribbean pirates whose defiance of imperial rule inspired revolt in colonial outposts across the world....

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    • Queen Anne

    • Written by: Herbert Paul
    • Narrated by: Melissa Thompson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 2019-06-13
    • Language: English
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    • An examination of the politics and social mores of Queen Anne's reign. The book includes sections on the War of Spanish succession, politics, literature, and society and manners....

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    • Liberty Equality Fashion

    • The Women Who Styled the French Revolution
    • Written by: Anne Higonnet
    • Narrated by: Elisabeth Lagelee, Anne Higonnet
    • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 2024-04-30
    • Language: English
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    • Joséphine Bonaparte, future Empress of France; Térézia Tallien, the most beautiful woman in Europe; and Juliette Récamier, muse of intellectuals, had nothing left to lose....

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    • Citizens

    • A Chronicle of the French Revolution
    • Written by: Simon Schama
    • Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
    • Length: 36 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 2024-01-06
    • Language: English
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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 Covent Garden Ladies

    • Pimp General Jack & The Extraordinary Story of Harris' List
    • Written by: Hallie Rubenhold
    • Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 2019-10-29
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • The Covent Garden Ladies tells the story of Samuel Derrick, Jack Harris, and Charlotte Hayes, whose complicated and colorful lives were brought together by the publication of Harris' List, an infamous guidebook of prostitutes which detailed addresses....

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    • Inventing Human Rights

    • A History
    • Written by: Lynn Hunt
    • Narrated by: Siiri Scott
    • Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 2022-10-11
    • Language: English
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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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    • Acadian Driftwood

    • One Family and the Great Expulsion
    • Written by: Tyler LeBlanc
    • Narrated by: Pierre Simpson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 2023-08-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • 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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    • Olaudah Equiano

    • The Life and Legacy of the Freed Slave Whose Autobiography Fueled Britain's Abolitionist Movement
    • Written by: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
    • Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
    • Release date: 2017-12-14
    • Language: English
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    • Olaudah Equiano challenged the image of the unconscious African beast with such intellect, philosophical refinement, public presence, and elegant writing that standard British perceptions began to unravel....

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    • A New World Begins

    • The History of the French Revolution
    • Written by: Jeremy D. Popkin
    • Narrated by: Pete Cross, Jeremy D. Popkin
    • Length: 21 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 2020-12-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings

    • 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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    • The Black Count

    • Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
    • Written by: Tom Reiss
    • Narrated by: Paul Michael
    • Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 2012-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings

    • 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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    • The Pursuit of Happiness

    • How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America
    • Written by: Jeffrey Rosen
    • Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins, Jeffrey Rosen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 2024-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • The Pursuit of Happiness is more than an elucidation of the Declaration’s famous phrase; it is a revelatory journey into the minds of the Founders, and a deep, rich, and fresh understanding of the foundation of our democracy.

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