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  • Silent Winds, Dry Seas cover art

    • Silent Winds, Dry Seas

    • A Novel
    • By: Vinod Busjeet
    • Narrated by: Mahesh Jadu
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 17-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • A sweeping debut novel that explores the intimate struggle for independence and success of a young descendant of Indian indentured laborers in Mauritius, a small multiracial island in the Indian Ocean....

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    • The Assassination of King Shaka

    • Zulu History's Dramatic Moment
    • By: John Laband
    • Narrated by: Silas Lekgoathis
    • Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • In this riveting new book, John Laband, pre-eminent historian of the Zulu Kingdom, tackles some of the questions that swirl around the assassination in 1828 of King Shaka, the celebrated founder of the Zulu Kingdom and war leader of legendary brilliance....

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    • Smuggler Nation

    • How Illicit Trade Made America
    • By: Peter Andreas
    • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 15 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-14
    • Language: English
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    • America is a smuggler nation. Our long history of illicit imports has ranged from West Indies molasses and Dutch gunpowder in the 18th century....

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    • Condemned

    • The Transported Men, Women and Children Who Built Britain's Empire
    • By: Graham Seal
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 18-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

    • In the early 17th century, Britain took ruthless steps to deal with its unwanted citizens, forcibly removing men, women, and children from their homelands and sending them to far-flung corners of the empire to be sold off to colonial masters....

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    • The Land of Enterprise

    • A Business History of the United States
    • By: Benjamin C. Waterhouse
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-17
    • Language: English
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    • A new, gripping history of America - told through the executives, bankers, farmers, and politicians who paved the way from colonial times to the present....

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    • Siamese Sovereignty

    • Thailand's Strategy of Political Duality During World War II
    • By: Wantakan Nicolette Arcado
    • Narrated by: Doug Greene
    • Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 17-12-19
    • Language: English
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    • Beginning in the 1800s, Asian nations were gradually falling under European rule. Yet, despite Europe’s growing military, economic, and political dominance in the Eastern hemisphere, one country prevailed as the sole nation untouched by colonialism: Thailand (then known as Siam)....

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    • Ghosts of Empire

    • Britain's Legacies in the Modern World
    • By: Kwasi Kwarteng
    • Narrated by: Kwasi Kwarteng, Elliot Levey
    • Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 22-02-12
    • Language: English
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    • Kwasi Kwarteng brings a unique perspective and impeccable academic credentials to a narrative history of the British Empire....

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    • The Jesuits in the United States

    • A Concise History
    • By: David J. Collins SJ
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 22-08-23
    • Language: English
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    • Jesuits in the United States offers a panoramic overview of the Jesuit order in the United States from the colonial era to the present. David J. Collins, SJ, describes the development of the Jesuit order in the US against the background of American religious, cultural, and social history....

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  • The Age of Atlantic Revolution cover art

    • The Age of Atlantic Revolution

    • The Fall and Rise of a Connected World
    • By: Patrick Griffin
    • Narrated by: Steve Menasche
    • Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 16-05-23
    • Language: English
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    • A bold new account of the Age of Revolution, one of the most complex and vast transformations in human history....

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  • Analysis: A Macat Analysis of Mahmood Mamdani's Citizen and Subject cover art

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    • The British Empire

    • A Captivating Guide to the Largest Empire in History and Its Impact on the Age of Discovery, Transatlantic Slave Trade, the Americas, ... War 1 and More (Exploring England's Past)
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
    • Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-22
    • Language: English
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    • In the Age of Exploration, the British began building an enormous and highly profitable foreign empire. While the British Empire initially lagged behind other European powers such as Spain and Portugal, it still managed to colonize the New World and discover highly-lucrative trade routes....

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    • Emperor Charles V

    • A Life from Beginning to End
    • By: Hourly History
    • Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
    • Length: 1 hr and 1 min
    • Release date: 17-03-22
    • Language: English
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    • A lot has been written, but even so, historical texts do not always reveal the complex personality that this man possessed. He was a man of purpose who felt destined to hold both Europe and the Christian faith together. This is the life and the story of Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire....

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    • The Crime of the Congo

    • Annotated with a New Introduction Giving Historical Context and Contemporary Commentary
    • By: Arthur Conan Doyle
    • Narrated by: Tim Dalgleish
    • Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 23-06-22
    • Language: English
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    • Ten million people had been murdered. For 15 years, atrocities had been perpetrated by King Leopold II of Belgium and his Force Publique in the Congo Free State. By 1909, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle could stand it no longer and felt the need to speak out and inform the general public....

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    • Argentina

    • The History and Legacy of the Nation from the Colonial Era to Today
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
    • Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 22-09-20
    • Language: English
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    • By the time Christopher Columbus started setting east from the New World, he had explored San Salvador in the Bahamas (which he thought was Japan), Cuba (which he thought was China), and Hispaniola, the source of gold....

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  • History: The Rise and Fall of the Spartan Empire cover art

    • History: The Rise and Fall of the Spartan Empire

    • By: Robert Paulson
    • Narrated by: Daniel Hawking
    • Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • This book contains the daily life, culture, training, battles, history, and kings of the Spartan Empire. From the birth of their city to the end, the Spartans endured a history of violence and war....

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  • How to Talk to the World cover art

    • How to Talk to the World

    • Just Write Well, That's the Key
    • By: Mr Gerald Victor Steinmetz
    • Narrated by: Mr Gerald Victor Steinmetz
    • Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • This audiobook will show you how to write and speak clear English. You will be able to communicate in English as a confident and responsible citizen of the World....

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    • Africa’s Struggle for Its Art

    • History of a Postcolonial Defeat
    • By: Bénédicte Savoy, Susanne Meyer-Abich - translator
    • Narrated by: Ronnie Archer-Morgan
    • Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • For decades, African nations have fought for the return of countless works of art stolen during the colonial era and placed in Western museums. In Africa’s Struggle for Its Art, Bénédicte Savoy brings to light this largely unknown but deeply important history....

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    • Dirt

    • The Erosion of Civilizations
    • By: David R. Montgomery
    • Narrated by: Tim Lundeen
    • Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 19-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings

    • An engaging natural and cultural history of soil that sweeps from ancient civilizations to modern times, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations explores the compelling idea that we are, and have long been, using up Earth's soil.

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    • Competing Empires in Burma

    • A Chronicle of the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations in World War 2
    • By: Quin Cho, Sunwoo Park
    • Narrated by: Dale Rich
    • Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-21
    • Language: English
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    • In considerable operational detail, this chronicle captures not only the logistical nightmare of fighting in the CBI theater, but also the impossible dilemma confronted by colonial subjects in Asia during an inescapable global conflict....

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