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  • Black Flags, Blue Waters cover art

    • 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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    • How to Hide an Empire

    • 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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    • 1493

    • 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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 44 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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    • The Witches

    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 Habsburg Empire

    • A New History
    • Written by: Pieter M. Judson
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 2017-01-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • In a panoramic and pioneering reappraisal, Pieter M. Judson shows why the Habsburg Empire mattered so much, for so long, to millions of Central Europeans....

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    • Merchant Kings

    • 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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    • New World, Inc.

    • Written by: John Butman, Simon Targett
    • Narrated by: Chris Kipiniak
    • Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 2018-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • Three generations of English merchant adventurers - not the Pilgrims, as we have so long believed - were the earliest founders of America. Profit - not piety - was their primary motive....

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    • Mayflower Lives

    • Pilgrims in a New World and the Early American Experience
    • Written by: Martyn Whittock
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 2019-08-06
    • Language: English
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    • Leading into the 400th anniversary of the voyage of the Mayflower, Martyn Whittock examines the lives of the "saints" (members of the Separatist Puritan congregations) and "strangers" (economic migrants) on the original ship....

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    • The Patient Assassin

    • A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge, and India's Quest for Independence
    • Written by: Anita Anand
    • Narrated by: Anita Anand
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 2019-06-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings

    • The “compelling [and] vivid” (The New York Times Book Review) true story of a man who claimed to be a survivor of a 1919 British massacre in India, his elaborate 20-year plan for revenge, and the mix of truth and legend that made him a hero to hundreds of millions....

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    • Colonialism

    • 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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    • Fur, Fortune, and Empire

    • The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America
    • Written by: Eric Jay Dolin
    • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 2010-07-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • From the bestselling author of Leviathan comes this sweeping narrative of one of America’s most historically rich industries....

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    • A Land So Strange

    • 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 143 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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    • The War That Made America

    • A Short History of the French and Indian War
    • Written by: Fred Anderson
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 2006-01-25
    • Language: English
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    • Apart from The Last of the Mohicans, most Americans know little of the French and Indian War, and yet it remains one of the most fascinating periods in our history....

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    • The Nutmeg's Curse

    • Parables for a Planet in Crisis
    • Written by: Amitav Ghosh
    • Narrated by: Sam Dastor
    • Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 2022-04-26
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • A powerful work of history, essay, testimony, and polemic, The Nutmeg’s Curse argues that the dynamics of climate change today are rooted in a centuries-old geopolitical order constructed by Western colonialism. At the center of Ghosh’s narrative is the now-ubiquitous spice....

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    • John Adams

    • 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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    • American Revolutions

    • A Continental History, 1750-1804
    • Written by: Alan Taylor
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 18 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 2016-09-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ideal framework for a democratic, prosperous nation....

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    • The Habsburgs

    • To Rule the World
    • Written by: Martyn Rady
    • Narrated by: Simon Boughey
    • Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 2020-08-25
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 28 ratings

    • The definitive history of a powerful family dynasty who dominated Europe for centuries - from their rise to power to their eventual downfall....

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    • Indigenous Continent

    • The Epic Contest for North America
    • Written by: Pekka Hamalainen
    • Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
    • Length: 18 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 2022-12-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • In Indigenous Continent, acclaimed historian Pekka Hämäläinen presents a sweeping counternarrative that shatters the most basic assumptions about American history....

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