Trade History

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    • The History of the Trade Routes Throughout the Region and the Birth of Globalization
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Gregory T. Luzitano
    • Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-20
    • Language: English
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    • The concept of international trade was born in the ancient Mediterranean, which provided the perfect set of circumstances needed to produce an intricate trading system, whose influence can still be seen in present-day economic practices....

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    • The 16th-Century Contest That Shaped the Modern World
    • By: Roger Crowley
    • Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 18-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • The story of the 16th-century’s epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific.

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    • By: Philippa Gregory
    • Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
    • Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 341 ratings
    • Bristol in 1787 is booming, from its stinking docks to its elegant new houses. Josiah Cole, a small dockside trader, is prepared to gamble everything to join the big players of the city.

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    • How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
    • By: Matthew C. Klein, Michael Pettis
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 19-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • A provocative look at how today's trade conflicts are caused by governments promoting the interests of elites at the expense of workers....

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    • The Ancient World Economy and the Empires of Parthia, Central Asia and Han China
    • By: Raoul McLaughlin
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 18-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes investigates the trade routes between Rome and the powerful empires of inner Asia, including the Parthian regime which ruled ancient Persia (Iran)....

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    • How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created the “Mexican Drug War”
    • By: Carmen Boullosa, Mike Wallace
    • Narrated by: James Conlan
    • Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 14-07-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • The term Mexican Drug War misleads. It implies that the ongoing bloodbath, which has now killed well over 100,000 people, is an internal Mexican affair....

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    • How Trade Shaped the World
    • By: William J. Bernstein
    • Narrated by: Mel Foster
    • Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • In A Splendid Exchange, William J. Bernstein tells the extraordinary story of global commerce....

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    • Free Trade in the Age of Revolution (Early American Studies)
    • By: Tyson Reeder
    • Narrated by: Tim Welch
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 19-01-22
    • Language: English
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    • Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots delineates the differences between the British and Portuguese empires as they struggled with revolutionary tumult. It reveals how those differences led to turbulent transnational exchanges between the United States and Brazil....

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    • The Struggle for Eastern North America
    • By: Daniel K. Richter
    • Narrated by: Steve Ember
    • Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 23-02-15
    • Language: English
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    • Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Eastern North America, Natives and newcomers alike understood the close relationship between political power and control of trade and land....

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    • The Forces Driving Mexico and the United States Together
    • By: Andrew Selee
    • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 05-06-18
    • Language: English
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    • Through portraits of business leaders, migrants, chefs, and police officers, Andrew Selee looks at this emerging Mexico, showing how it increasingly influences our daily lives in the US in surprising ways - the jobs we do, the goods we consume, and even the new technology we enjoy....

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    • The White European Slaves of Islam
    • By: Simon Webb
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 20-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • A century before Britain became involved in this terrible business, whole villages and towns in England, Ireland, Italy, Spain, and other European countries were being depopulated by slavers, who transported the men, women, and children to Africa, where they were sold....

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    • Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage
    • By: Sowande’ M Mustakeem
    • Narrated by: Mia Ellis
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 13-04-21
    • Language: English
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    • Sowande' Mustakeem's groundbreaking study goes inside the Atlantic slave trade to explore the social conditions and human costs embedded in the world of maritime slavery....

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    • The Biography, Trade and Enterprise
    • By: Peter Ackroyd
    • Narrated by: Simon Callow
    • Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 02-11-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • Trade and Enterprise explores London as a center for international trade, finance, and culture....

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    • The History of Enslaved Slavs Across Eastern Europe and the Islamic World
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
    • Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Whereas for much of human history slavery was somewhat arbitrary, in its later forms, it often had a discriminatory component, typically based on race, ethnicity, nationality, or religion. This distinction shows how the practitioners of slavery justified the practice in terms of ideology....

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    • Life of the Great Anti-Slave-Trade Campaigner
    • By: William Hague
    • Narrated by: Steve Hodson
    • Length: 22 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 22-10-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 173 ratings
    • Hague shows how Wilberforce, after his agonising conversion to evangelical Christianity, was able to lead a powerful tide of opinion, as MP for Hull, against the slave trade....

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    • A History from Beginning to End
    • By: Hourly History
    • Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
    • Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
    • Release date: 22-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • The empires of the ancient Sumerians, Akkadians, Greeks, Romans, and Chinese were underpinned by slavery, where one person could be owned by another, and their obedience and labor were forced by the threat of violence or even death.

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    • 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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    • The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade
    • By: Benjamin T. Smith
    • Narrated by: John Curless
    • Length: 17 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The Mexican drug trade has inspired prejudiced narratives of a war between north and south, White and Brown; between noble cops and vicious kingpins, corrupt politicians and powerful cartels. Benjamin T. Smith tells the real story of how and why this one-peaceful industry turned violent....

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    • A Short History of British Journalism
    • By: Andrew Marr
    • Narrated by: Andrew Marr
    • Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 18-04-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • Andrew Marr's brilliant, and brilliantly funny, book is a guide to those of us who read newspapers, or who listen to and watch news bulletins but want to know more....

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