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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    • An Untold History
    • By: Olivette Otele
    • Narrated by: Olivette Otele
    • Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 22-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • 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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    • 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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    • How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
    • By: David W. Anthony
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 18 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? Learn more in this audiobook....

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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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Serhii Plokhy
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 16-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • On 24 February 2022, Russia stunned the world by launching an invasion of Ukraine....

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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    • Narrated by: Erik Sandval
    • Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 16-07-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • A milestone of political science, and essential reading for students of history, philosophy, and social science....

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    • Scotland's Global Diaspora 1750-2010
    • By: T.M. Devine
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 30-01-24
    • Language: English
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    • The Scots are one of the world's greatest nations of emigrants. For centuries, untold numbers of men, women, and children sought their fortunes in every part of the globe, from the British Empire to the United States, in cities and on prairie farms....

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    • By: Margaret Jacob
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 14-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • 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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    • Refugees in Europe since 1492
    • By: Philipp Ther, Jeremiah Riemer - translator
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 26-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The Outsiders chronicles every major refugee movement since 1492, when the Catholic rulers of Spain set in motion the first mass flight and expulsion in modern European history. Philipp Ther provides needed perspective on today's "refugee crisis"....

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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 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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    • An audio course on the Origins and Development of the E.U.
    • By: Richard T. Griffiths
    • Narrated by: Richard T. Griffiths
    • Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Richard Griffiths invites the listener to look closer at the history and the underlying reasons behind the main developments of European integration...

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