European Social History

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    • A Nation in Its Time: Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500-2000
    • By: Helmut Walser Smith
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 20 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • For nearly a century, historians have depicted Germany as a rabidly nationalist land, born in a sea of aggression. Not so, says Helmut Walser Smith, who, in this groundbreaking 500-year history, challenges traditional perceptions of Germany's conflicted past....

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    • The Forging of the Fascist Alliance
    • By: Christian Goeschel
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 25-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • From 1934 until 1944, Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two developed a relationship that affected both countries. While Germany is regarded as the senior power, Christian Goeschel demonstrates just how much history has underrepresented Mussolini's influence on his German ally....

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    • The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World
    • By: J. C. Sharman
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 14-05-19
    • Language: English
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    • Empires of the Weak argues that Europeans had no general military superiority in the early modern era. J. C. Sharman shows instead that European expansion is better explained by deference to strong Asian and African polities, disease in the Americas, and maritime supremacy....

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    • David Headley, the Mumbai Massacre, and His European Revenge
    • By: Kaare Sørensen, Cory Klingsporn - translator
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • With the pacing of a thriller, a veteran journalist's account of the terrorist behind the Mumbai attacks and a planned attack in Europe....

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    • An Untold History
    • By: Olivette Otele
    • Narrated by: Olivette Otele
    • Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 22-10-20
    • Language: English
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    • Renowned historian Olivette Otele uncovers the untold history of Europeans of African descent, from Saint Maurice who became the leader of a Roman legion and Renaissance scholar Juan Latino, to abolitionist Mary Prince and the activist, scholars and grime artists of the present day....

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    • Building a New Russia After Putin
    • By: Mikhail Khodorkovsky
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 13-02-24
    • Language: English
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    • How to Slay a Dragon is Khodorkovsky's account of his own journey and of how the vicious cycle of Russian history can be broken. He charts a pathway towards a parliamentary federal republic which would enable Russia to become a free and democratic society, living in peace and without dragons....

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    • The Path from Suez to Brexit
    • By: Philip Stephens
    • Narrated by: Sean Barrett
    • Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 31-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 151 ratings
    • In 1962 the American statesman Dean Acheson famously charged that Britain had lost an empire and failed to find a new role. Nearly 60 years later the rebuke rings true again....

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    • The Eastern Front 1917-21
    • By: Prit Buttar
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 22 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 24-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Concluding his acclaimed series on the Eastern Front in World War I, Prit Buttar comprehensively details not only these climactic events, but also the "successor wars" that raged long after the armistice of 1918....

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    • How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
    • By: Richard Cockett
    • Narrated by: Gareth Richards
    • Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 26-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Richard Cockett gives us the entirety of an extraordinary story of how one city made the modern world—and how we all remain inescapably Viennese....

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    • The Emerging Crisis in Europe
    • By: George Friedman
    • Narrated by: Bruce Turk, George Friedman
    • Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 27-01-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 85 ratings
    • This provocative work examines the geopolitical flashpoints - particularly in Europe - in which imminent future conflicts are brewing....

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    • The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
    • By: Andrea Wulf
    • Narrated by: Julie Teal
    • Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 01-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • Magnificent Rebels is a riveting, eye-opening biography of the first Romantics: a revolutionary group of friends based in the small German town of Jena whose modern ideas transformed society and the way we lead our lives today....

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    • By: Margaret Jacob
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 14-07-20
    • Language: English
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    • A majestic work of intellectual and cultural history, The Secular Enlightenment demonstrates how secular values and pursuits took hold of 18th-century Europe, spilled into the American colonies, and left their lasting imprint on the Western world for generations to come....

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    • A Very Short Introduction, 4th edition
    • By: John Pinder, Simon Usherwood
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In this fully updated fourth edition, Pinder and Usherwood cover the migrant crisis and the UK's decision to leave the Union, set in the context of a body that is now involved in most areas of public policy....

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    • Empire, Commerce, Crisis
    • By: Richard Whatmore
    • Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
    • Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • The End of Enlightenment offers a radical re-evaluation of one of the most important moments in human history....

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    • By: William Blake
    • Narrated by: Frank Clem
    • Length: 33 mins
    • Release date: 18-04-20
    • Language: English
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    • The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by the English poet William Blake consists of a series of texts written in the style of biblical prophecy but expressing Blake's own beliefs....

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    • A History of the EU and the People Who Made It
    • By: Dermot Hodson
    • Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
    • Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 27-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Circle of Stars provides a compelling new history of the European Union and the people who sought to shape and challenge it—from Maastricht to today....

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    • The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia
    • By: Jürgen Osterhammel, Robert Savage - translator
    • Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
    • Length: 25 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 13-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • During the long 18th century, Europe's travelers, scholars, and intellectuals looked to Asia in a spirit of puzzlement, irony, and openness. Author Jürgen Osterhammel tells the story of the European Enlightenment's nuanced encounter with the great civilizations of the East....

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