Modern States

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    • Maritime Culture, Continental Empires, and the Conflict That Made the Modern World
    • Written by: Andrew Lambert
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 2018-11-27
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Andrew Lambert, author of The Challenge, turns his attention to Athens, Carthage, Venice, the Dutch Republic, and Britain, examining how their identities as "seapowers" informed their actions and enabled them to achieve success disproportionate to their size....

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    • Television, Donald Trump, and the Politics of Illusion
    • Written by: James Poniewozik
    • Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
    • Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 2019-09-10
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • An incisive cultural history that captures a fractious nation through the prism of television and the rattled mind of a celebrity president....

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    • How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World
    • Written by: William L. Silber
    • Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 2019-02-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • This is the story of silver's transformation from soft money during the 19th century to hard asset today, and how manipulations of the white metal by American president FDR during the 1930s and by the richest man in the world during the 1970s altered the course of US and world history....

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    • Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution
    • Written by: Carl R. Trueman
    • Narrated by: Carl R. Trueman, Rod Dreher
    • Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 2021-10-11
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Since the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court decision in 2015, sexual identity has dominated both public discourse and cultural trends — yet no historical phenomenon is its own cause....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • Written by: Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
    • Narrated by: Suzie Althens
    • Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 2021-08-31
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • This addition to Oxford's Very Short Introductions series traces how Americans have addressed the issues and events of their time and place, whether it is the Civil War, the Great Depression, or the culture wars of today....

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    • The Man Who Made Modern Britain
    • Written by: John Bew
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 22 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 2021-06-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In this definitive new biography, John Bew reveals how the title of Britain's most consequential leader belongs to Clement Attlee, Winston Churchill's successor, who launched a new era of political, economic, and social reform that would forever change Great Britain....

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    • How Jazz Age Manhattan Gave Birth to Modern America
    • Written by: Donald L. Miller
    • Narrated by: Frangione Jim
    • Length: 29 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 2014-05-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In four words - "the capital of everything" - Duke Ellington captured Manhattan during one of the most exciting and celebrated eras in our history: The Jazz Age....

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    • Truman, Picasso, and the Cold War Politics of Modern Art
    • Written by: Matthew Algeo
    • Narrated by: Pat Grimes
    • Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 2023-11-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • When Harry Met Pablo intertwines the biographies of Harry Truman and Pablo Picasso, the history of modern art, and twentieth-century American politics, but at its core, it is the story of two old men who meet for the first time and realize they have more in common than they ever imagined....

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    • Penguin Modern Classics
    • Written by: Jan Karski
    • Narrated by: Janusz Guttner
    • Length: 18 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 2011-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • I do not pretend to have given an exhaustive picture of the Polish Underground, its organisation and its activities....

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    • The Untold Story of Black Train Porters and the Birth of Modern Canada
    • Written by: Cecil Foster
    • Narrated by: Dillon Taylor
    • Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 2020-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • Smartly dressed and smiling, Canada’s black train porters were a familiar sight to the average passenger - yet their minority status rendered them politically invisible, second-class in the social imagination that determined who was and who was not considered Canadian....

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    • An Anarchist Theory of the Modern State
    • Written by: Eric Laursen, Maia Ramnath - foreword
    • Narrated by: Bea Flowers
    • Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 2022-12-09
    • Language: English
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    • One of the most unique aspects of anarchism as a political philosophy is that it seeks to abolish the state. But what exactly is “the state”? The State is like a vast operating system for ordering and controlling relations among human society, the economy, and the natural world....

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    • The Place of Sugar in Modern History
    • Written by: Sidney W. Mintz
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 2017-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In this eye-opening study, Sidney W. Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life....

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    • Eight Stories of the Modern State of Israel
    • Written by: Rick Richman
    • Narrated by: Rick Richman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 2023-04-19
    • Language: English
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    • This is the story of how Zionism, supported by Americanism, created a modern miracle—told through the little-known stories of eight individuals who collectively changed history....

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    • Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations
    • Written by: Craig Nelson
    • Narrated by: Paul Hecht
    • Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 2011-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • John Adams told Thomas Jefferson that “history is to ascribe the American Revolution to Thomas Paine"....

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    • The Epic Story of the Jewish Immigrants Who Transformed Wall Street and Shaped Modern America
    • Written by: Daniel Schulman
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 22 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 2023-11-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Joseph Seligman arrived in the United States in 1837, with the equivalent of $100 sewn into the lining of his pants. Then came the Lehman brothers, who would open a general store in Montgomery, Alabama....

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    • Andrew Marshall and the Shaping of Modern American Defense Strategy
    • Written by: Andrew Krepinevich, Barry Watts
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 2015-01-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The Last Warrior tells Andrew Marshall's story for the first time, in the process providing an unparalleled history of the evolution of the American defense establishment.....

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    • An Enthralling Overview of One of the Most Powerful European States during the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period
    • Written by: Billy Wellman
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 2024-10-15
    • Language: English
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    • Discover the Holy Roman Empire: The Empire That Shaped Modern EuropeStep into the fascinating story of the Holy Roman Empire, a powerful force that connected the old world to the new.

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    • Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe
    • Written by: Ian Kershaw
    • Narrated by: Matt Bates
    • Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 2022-11-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • From one of the leading historians of twentieth-century Europe and the author of the definitive biography of Hitler, Personality and Power is a masterful reckoning with how character conspired with opportunity to create the modern age’s uniquely devastating despots....

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    • The Life of Alain Locke
    • Written by: Jeffrey C. Stewart
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 45 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 2019-05-28
    • Language: English
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    • In The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, Jeffrey C. Stewart offers the definitive biography of the father of the Harlem Renaissance, based on the extant primary sources of his life and on interviews with those who knew him personally....

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