Colonial Period

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    • 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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 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 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 122 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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    • Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
    • Written by: Charles C. Mann
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 2011-08-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically different suites of plants and animals....

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    • Salem, 1692
    • Written by: Stacy Schiff
    • Narrated by: Eliza Foss
    • Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 2015-10-27
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra, the number one national best seller, unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials. It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter began to scream and convulse....

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    • Written by: Frantz Fanon
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 2023-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A Dying Colonialism is Frantz Fanon’s seminal work on anticolonialism and the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution....

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    • A History of the Greater United States
    • Written by: Daniel Immerwahr
    • Narrated by: Luis Moreno
    • Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 2019-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Author Daniel Immerwahr tells the fascinating story of the United States outside the United States. In crackling, fast-paced prose, he reveals forgotten episodes that cast American history in a new light....

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    • Life and Death in the New World
    • Written by: Malcolm Gaskill
    • Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
    • Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 2022-11-01
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In Springfield, Massachusetts in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails, property vanishes, and people suffer convulsions as if possessed by demons. A woman is seen wading through the swamp like a lost soul. Disturbing dreams and visions proliferate....

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    • A Moral Reckoning
    • Written by: Nigel Biggar
    • Narrated by: Matt Bates
    • Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 2023-02-02
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed that we had arrived at the ‘End of History’—that the global dominance of liberal democracy had been secured forever.....

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    • When Companies Ruled the World, 1600-1900
    • Written by: Stephen R. Bown
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 2022-01-25
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • It was an era when monopoly trading companies were the unofficial agents of European expansion, controlling vast numbers of people and huge tracts of land, and taking on governmental and military functions....

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    • The Fuhrer's Vendetta Against the Austrian Royals
    • Written by: James Longo
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 2018-11-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • As he rose to power, Hitler's hatred toward the Habsburgs and their diverse empire fixated on Franz Ferdinand's sons, who became outspoken critics of the Nazi party and its racist ideology. When Germany seized Austria in 1938, they were the first two Austrians arrested by the Gestapo....

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    • The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke
    • Written by: Timothy Snyder
    • Narrated by: Michael Damon
    • Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 2009-12-28
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The extraordinary story of a life suspended between the collapse of the imperial order and the violent emergence of modern Europe....

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    • Written by: David McCullough
    • Narrated by: Nelson Runger
    • Length: 29 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 2005-11-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • In this powerful, epic biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams....

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    • Written by: Benjamin Franklin
    • Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 2015-04-28
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Left unfinished at the time of his death, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin has endured as one of the most well-known and influential autobiographies ever written....

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    • The Defiant Lives of Maria Theresa, Mother of Marie Antoinette, and Her Daughters
    • Written by: Nancy Goldstone
    • Narrated by: Emma Newman
    • Length: 23 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 2021-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The vibrant, sprawling saga of Empress Maria Theresa - one of the most renowned women rulers in history - and three of her extraordinary daughters, including Marie Antoinette, the doomed queen of France....

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    • A Jewish Family's Story of Exile and Return
    • Written by: Anna Goldenberg, Alta L. Price - translator
    • Narrated by: Christa Lewis
    • Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 2020-06-09
    • Language: English
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    • In autumn 1942, Anna Goldenberg's great-grandparents and one of their sons are deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Hans, their elder son, survives by hiding in an apartment in the middle of Nazi-controlled Vienna....

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    • 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 1 rating
    • 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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    • Written by: Peter Marshall, David Manuel
    • Narrated by: Raymond Todd
    • Length: 15 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 2006-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • As we look at our nation's history from God's point of view, we begin to have an idea of how much we owe a very few, and how much is still at stake....

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    • The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
    • Written by: Andres Resendez
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 2011-10-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 142 ratings
    • In 1528, a mission set out from Spain to colonize Florida. But the expedition went horribly wrong. Of the 300 men who had embarked on the journey, only four survived....

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    • History of a Creole City
    • Written by: Dianne Guenin-Lelle
    • Narrated by: Sally Martin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 2018-07-25
    • Language: English
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    • History, location, and culture continue to link New Orleans to France while distancing it culturally and symbolically from the US. This audiobook explores the traces of French language, history, and artistic expression that have been present there over the last 300 years....

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