British Imperialism
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Inglorious Empire
- What the British Did to India
- Written by: Shashi Tharoor
- Narrated by: Shashi Tharoor
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
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In the 18th century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew rebels from cannons, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched institutionalized racism, and caused millions to die from starvation. British imperialism justified itself as enlightened despotism for the benefit of the governed, but Shashi Tharoor takes on and demolishes this position, demonstrating how every supposed imperial "gift" was designed in Britain's interests alone.
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Can it be told any better? I believe not.
- By Shah on 2020-02-05
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Inglorious Empire
- What the British Did to India
- 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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The Politically Incorrect Guide to the British Empire
- Written by: H. W. Crocker III
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
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Nothing offends liberals more than Western imperialism—it is racism, sexism, and chauvinism all in one. And of course the epitome of Western imperialism is the British Empire, covering at its height a quarter of the globe’s surface and ruling a quarter of the world’s population. Here, best-selling author H. W. Crocker III exposes how the British Empire was actually one of the greatest establishers and defenders of freedom in history.
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Real History
- By William Dayman on 2023-01-26
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to the British Empire
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 2011-10-25
- Language: English
- Strap on your pith helmet for a rollicking ride through some of history’s most colorful events....
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Time’s Monster
- How History Makes History
- Written by: Priya Satia
- Narrated by: Tanya Rodriguez, Priya Satia
- Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
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For generations, British thinkers told the history of an empire whose story was still very much in the making. While they wrote of conquest, imperial rule in India, the Middle East, Africa, and the Caribbean was consolidated. While they described the development of imperial governance, rebellions were brutally crushed. As they reimagined empire during the two world wars, decolonization was compromised. 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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Time’s Monster
- How History Makes History
- Narrated by: Tanya Rodriguez, Priya Satia
- Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 2021-05-11
- Language: English
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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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Empireworld
- How British Imperialism Shaped the Globe
- Written by: Sathnam Sanghera
- Narrated by: Homer Todiwala
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
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2.6 billion people are inhabitants of former British colonies. The empire's influence upon the quarter of the planet it occupied, and its gravitational influence upon the world outside it, has been profound: from the spread of Christianity by missionaries to the shaping international law. Even today, 1 in 3 people drive on the left hand side of the road, an artifact of the British empire. Yet Britain's idea of its imperial history and the world's experience of it are two very different things. Empireworld explores the ways in which British Empire has come to shape the modern world.
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Empireworld
- How British Imperialism Shaped the Globe
- 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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Ghosts of the British Museum
- A True Story of Colonial Loot and Restless Objects
- Written by: Noah Angell
- Narrated by: Noah Angell
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
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What if the British Museum isn't a house of learning, but a vast sinkhole of still-bubbling historic injustice? What if it presents us not with a carefully ordered cross section of history but is instead a palatial trophy cabinet of colonial loot swarming with volatile and errant spirits? When artist and writer Noah Angell first heard murmurs of ghostly sightings at the British Museum he had to find out more. What started as a trickle soon became a landslide as staff old and new brought forth testimonies of their inexplicable supernatural encounters.
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Ghosts of the British Museum
- A True Story of Colonial Loot and Restless Objects
- 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 Colonies of British South Africa
- 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
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The Napoleonic Wars radically altered the old, established European power dynamics, and in 1795, the British, now emerging 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. Possession passed back and forth once or twice, but more or less from that point onward, the British established their presence at the Cape, which they held until the unification of South Africa in 1910.
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The Colonies of British South Africa
- The History and Legacy of British Imperialism in Modern South Africa and Zimbabwe
- 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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Outposts
- Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire
- Written by: Simon Winchester
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
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Originally published in 1985, Outposts is Simon Winchester's journey to find the vanishing empire, "on which the sun never sets". In the course of a three-year, 100,000 mile journey - from the chill of the Antarctic to the blue seas of the Caribbean, from the South of Spain and the tip of China to the utterly remote specks in the middle of gale-swept oceans - he discovered such romance and depravity, opulence and despair that he was inspired to write what may be the last contemporary account of the British empire.
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SW is always a treat!!! Can listen to him forever
- By Alison Buchanan on 2019-03-25
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Outposts
- Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 2005-04-21
- Language: English
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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 British Raj
- 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
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The British East India Company served as one of the key players in the formation of the British Empire. From its origins as a trading company struggling to keep up with its superior Dutch, Portuguese, and Spanish competitors to its tenure as the ruling authority of the Indian subcontinent to its eventual hubristic downfall, the East India Company serves as a lens through which to explore the much larger economic and social forces that shaped the formation of a global British Empire.
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The British Raj
- The History and Legacy of Great Britain's Imperialism in India and the Indian Subcontinent
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 1 hr and 20 mins
- Release date: 2016-11-30
- Language: English
- The British East India Company served as one of the key players in the formation of the British Empire....
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Imperial Intimacies
- A Tale of Two Islands
- Written by: Hazel V. Carby
- Narrated by: Hazel V. Carby
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
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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, Carby’s place in her home, her neighbourhood, and her country of birth was always in doubt.
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Imperial Intimacies
- A Tale of Two Islands
- 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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Empire, Incorporated
- The Corporations That Built British Colonialism
- Written by: Philip J. Stern
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
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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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Empire, Incorporated
- The Corporations That Built British Colonialism
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 2023-05-16
- Language: English
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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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Builders of Empire
- Freemasons and British Imperialism, 1717-1927
- Written by: Jessica L. Harland-Jacobs
- Narrated by: Brett Barry
- Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
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They built some of the first communal structures on the empire's frontiers. The empire's most powerful proconsuls sought entrance into their lodges. Their public rituals drew dense crowds from Montreal to Madras. The Ancient Free and Accepted Masons were quintessential builders of empire, argues Jessica Harland-Jacobs.
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Builders of Empire
- Freemasons and British Imperialism, 1717-1927
- Narrated by: Brett Barry
- Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 2010-05-20
- Language: English
- They built some of the first communal structures on the empire's frontiers....
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The British Raj
- The History of the British in India and Pakistan
- Written by: Kelly Mass
- Narrated by: Doug Greene
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
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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, until the country gained its independence. Let’s explore how the rule of the British Raj evolved, how their power became stronger and weaker, what the impact of the world wars was, the nationalist groups in India, and significant figures like Mahatma Gandhi.
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The British Raj
- The History of the British in India and Pakistan
- 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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These Bodies of Water
- 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
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Sabrina Mahfouz once sat in a Whitehall interview room and was interrogated about everything from her political leanings to her private life. It was ostensibly a job interview, but implicit in their demands was the unspoken question: as a woman of Middle Eastern heritage, could she really be trusted? Years later, Sabrina found herself confronting the meaning behind this interrogation, and how it was specifically informed by the British Empire's historical dominance in the Middle East.
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These Bodies of Water
- A Personal History of the British Empire in the Middle East
- 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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Imperial Nostalgia
- How the British Conquered Themselves
- Written by: Peter Mitchell
- Narrated by: Alan Gilchrist
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
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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. This provocative and passionate book surveys the scene of the imperial memory wars in contemporary Britain, exploring how the myths that structure our views of empire came to be, and how they inform the present.
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Imperial Nostalgia
- How the British Conquered Themselves
- 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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