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  • The Divide cover art

    • The Divide

    • Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets
    • By: Jason Hickel
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
    • Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 13-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings

    • Sixty percent of humanity - some four-point-three billion people - live in debilitating poverty. The standard development narrative suggests that alleviating poverty in poor countries is a matter of getting the internal policies right....

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    • The Last Embassy

    • The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History of Western Encounters with China
    • By: Tonio Andrade
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • The Last Embassy tells the story of the Dutch mission of 1795, bringing to light a dramatic but little-known episode that transforms our understanding of the history of China and the West....

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    • Through the Leopard's Gaze

    • Jacaranda Twenty in 2020
    • By: Njambi McGrath
    • Narrated by: Njambi McGrath
    • Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 30-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings

    • In her captivating memoir Through the Leopard's Gaze, Njambi McGrath details the harrowing circumstances of her life as a young girl in Kenya, who one fateful night was beaten to a pulp and left for dead....

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    • For God and Kaiser

    • The Imperial Austrian Army, 1619-1918
    • By: Richard Bassett
    • Narrated by: Aaron Blain
    • Length: 28 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings

    • The definitive history of Austria’s multinational army and its immense role during three centuries of European military history....

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    • Why Australia Prospered

    • The Shifting Sources of Economic Growth
    • By: Ian W. McLean
    • Narrated by: Fleet Cooper
    • Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 15-11-12
    • Language: English
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    • This book is the first comprehensive account of how Australia attained the world's highest living standards within a few decades of European settlement....

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    • Birth of a Dream Weaver

    • A Writer's Awakening
    • By: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
    • Narrated by: Benjamin A. Onyango
    • Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 29-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • From one of the world’s greatest writers, the story of how the author found his voice as a novelist at Makerere University in Uganda....

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    • When Montezuma Met Cortes

    • The True Story of the Meeting That Changed History
    • By: Matthew Restall
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 30-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • A dramatic rethinking of the encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Cortés that completely overturns what we know about the Spanish conquest of the Americas....

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    • A Way in the World

    • A Novel
    • By: V. S. Naipaul
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings

    • In a vastly innovative novel, Nobel Prize-winner V. S. Naipaul intertwines memory and history to create what is at once an autobiography and an ambitious fictional archaeology of colonialism....

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    • The Many-Headed Hydra

    • Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic
    • By: Peter Linebaugh
    • Narrated by: Cornell Womack
    • Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

    • Long before the American Revolution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a motley crew of sailors, slaves, pirates, laborers, market women, and indentured servants had ideas about freedom and equality that would forever change history....

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    • The Next Factory of the World

    • How Chinese Investment Is Reshaping Africa
    • By: Irene Yuan Sun
    • Narrated by: Nancy Wu
    • Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Will Africa be the world's next hub of manufacturing? China is answering in the affirmative and investing accordingly....

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    • Imperialism: The Final Stage of Capitalism

    • By: Vladimir Lenin
    • Narrated by: Michael Richards
    • Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 11-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • Vladimir Lenin’s 1916 essay "Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism", is a synthesis of Lenin's development of economic theories that Karl Marx formulated in Das Kapital....

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    • Rise and Fall of the British Empire

    • From a Superpower to a Fragile Nation
    • By: Michael Klein
    • Narrated by: Jim D Johnston
    • Length: 4 hrs
    • Release date: 26-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 2.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The sudden rise and fall of Great Britain should not have come as a surprise to those few persons who study the increase and fall of empires, and they are acquainted with the lands....

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    • Offshore

    • Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism
    • By: Brooke Harrington
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Walden
    • Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 17-09-24
    • Language: English
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    • How do the rich keep getting richer, while dodging the long arm of the law? The ultra-rich seem to live in a different world from the rest of us. That world is called offshore.

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    • The Exiled

    • The incredible story of the South Asian exodus from Uganda to the UK in 1972
    • By: Lucy Fulford
    • Narrated by: Shaheen Khan
    • Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 31-08-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • When Ugandan President Idi Amin expelled the country's entire Asian population in 1972, more than 28,000 people from Britain's former colony arrived on airstrips around the country and began building new lives - but their incredible stories remained largely hidden....

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    • The Ship That Never Was

    • The Greatest Escape Story of Australian Colonial History
    • By: Adam Courtenay
    • Narrated by: John Eastman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 25-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings

    • The greatest escape story of Australian colonial history by the son of Australia's best-loved storyteller....

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    • A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies

    • By: Bartolome de las Casas
    • Narrated by: Jason McCoy
    • Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies is the story of the Spanish Dominican priest Bartolome de las Casas, who came to the Americas in the 16th century. Immediately he was struck by the inhumane ways in which the native peoples were treated by the Europeans....

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    • Immigration

    • An American History
    • By: Carl J. Bon Tempo, Hasia R. Diner
    • Narrated by: Kathleen Li
    • Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 29-11-22
    • Language: English
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    • A sweeping narrative history of American immigration from the colonial period to the present....

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    • Revolution and Dictatorship

    • The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism
    • By: Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 17 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 13-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • This book explores why dictatorships born of social revolution—such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam—are extraordinarily durable, even in the face of economic crisis, large-scale policy failure, mass discontent, and intense external pressure....

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    • Revolusi

    • Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World
    • By: David Van Reybrouck
    • Narrated by: Neil Gardner
    • Length: 22 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-24
    • Language: English
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    • In August 1945, a handful of people raised a homemade cotton flag and announced the birth of a new nation. With the fourth largest population in the world, inhabiting islands that span an eighth of the globe, Indonesia became the first country to rid itself of colonial rule after WWII.

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