British Imperialism

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    • What the British Did to India
    • Written by: Shashi Tharoor
    • Narrated by: Shashi Tharoor
    • Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 2018-11-20
    • Language: English
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    • In the 18th century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, it had decreased six-fold. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew rebels from cannons, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched racism, and caused millions to die from starvation....

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    • How History Makes History
    • Written by: Priya Satia
    • Narrated by: Tanya Rodriguez, Priya Satia
    • Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 2021-05-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • For generations, British thinkers told the history of an empire whose story was still very much in the making. Priya Satia shows how these historians not only interpreted the major political events of their time but also shaped the future that followed....

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    • How British Imperialism Shaped the Globe
    • Written by: Sathnam Sanghera
    • Narrated by: Homer Todiwala
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 2024-05-07
    • Language: English
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    • Bestselling author and journalist Sathnam Sanghera explores the global legacy of the British Empire, and the ways it continues to influence economics, politics, and culture around the world....

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    • A True Story of Colonial Loot and Restless Objects
    • Written by: Noah Angell
    • Narrated by: Noah Angell
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 2024-04-11
    • Language: English
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    • Ghosts of the British Museum fuses storytelling, folklore and history, digs deep into our imperial past and unmasks the world's oldest national museum as a site of ongoing conflict, where under the guise of preservation, restless objects are held against their will....

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    • The History and Legacy of British Imperialism in Modern South Africa and Zimbabwe
    • Written by: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 2020-12-05
    • Language: English
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    • In 1795, the British, emerging after the Napoleonic Wars as the globe’s naval superpower, assumed control of the Cape as part of the spoils of war. In doing so, they recognized the enormous strategic value of the Cape as global shipping routes were developing and expanding....

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    • Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire
    • Written by: Simon Winchester
    • Narrated by: Simon Winchester
    • Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 2005-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Originally published in 1985, Outposts is Simon Winchester's journey to find the vanishing empire, "on which the sun never sets"....

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    • The History and Legacy of Great Britain's Imperialism in India and the Indian Subcontinent
    • Written by: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Scott Clem
    • Length: 1 hr and 20 mins
    • Release date: 2016-11-30
    • Language: English
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    • The British East India Company served as one of the key players in the formation of the British Empire....

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    • A Tale of Two Islands
    • Written by: Hazel V. Carby
    • Narrated by: Hazel V. Carby
    • Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 2021-12-07
    • Language: English
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    • “Where are you from?” was the question hounding Hazel Carby as a girl in post-war London. One of the so-called brown babies of the Windrush generation, born to a Jamaican father and Welsh mother....

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    • The Corporations That Built British Colonialism
    • Written by: Philip J. Stern
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 2023-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Challenging conventional wisdom about where power is held on a global scale, Stern complicates the supposedly firm distinction between private enterprise and the state, offering a new history of the British Empire, as well as a new history of the corporation....

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    • Freemasons and British Imperialism, 1717-1927
    • Written by: Jessica L. Harland-Jacobs
    • Narrated by: Brett Barry
    • Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 2010-05-20
    • Language: English
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    • They built some of the first communal structures on the empire's frontiers....

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    • The History of the British in India and Pakistan
    • Written by: Kelly Mass
    • Narrated by: Doug Greene
    • Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
    • Release date: 2022-01-06
    • Language: English
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    • From about 1858 to 1947, the British ruled over India. The Raj carried out orders and came up with them. There was public mistrust and dissatisfaction with their regime, which led to protests, riots, and controversial events. India was a big part of the British Empire for a long time....

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    • A Personal History of the British Empire in the Middle East
    • Written by: Sabrina Mahfouz
    • Narrated by: Sabrina Mahfouz
    • Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 2022-05-12
    • Language: English
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    • Part history, part polemic and part intimate memoir, These Bodies of Water is a tapestry of writing that tells the story of Britain's relationship with the Middle East in the most revealing terms....

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    • How the British Conquered Themselves
    • Written by: Peter Mitchell
    • Narrated by: Alan Gilchrist
    • Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 2022-08-11
    • Language: English
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    • A strong emotional attachment to the memory of empire runs deep in British culture. In recent years, that memory has become a battleground in a long-drawn ideological war, inflecting debates on race, class, gender, culture, the UK’s future and its place in the world....

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