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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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 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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    • 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 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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    • 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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    • 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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 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 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 19 ratings
    • In A Splendid Exchange, William J. Bernstein tells the extraordinary story of global commerce....

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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 41 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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    • 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 334 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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    • 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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    • A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror
    • By: Beverly Gage
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 31-07-18
    • Language: English
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    • In The Day Wall Street Exploded, Beverly Gage tells the story of a once infamous but now largely forgotten terrorist attack. On September 16, 1920, a horse-drawn cart packed with dynamite exploded in a spray of metal and fire....

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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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    • 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
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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 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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    • Slavery and Colonization in Early America
    • By: Wendy Warren
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-16
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In a work that recasts the history of colonial America, Wendy Warren shows how the institution of slavery was inexorably linked with the first century of English colonization of New England....

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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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    • Merchants, Mariners, and the Transatlantic Commerce in Captives, 1644–1865
    • By: Sean M. Kelley
    • Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
    • Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 30-05-23
    • Language: English
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    • Historian Sean M. Kelley tells the unknown story of America's two-hundred-year history as a slave-trading nation....

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    • War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World
    • By: Wim Klooster
    • Narrated by: Fred Filbrich
    • Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 15-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In The Dutch Moment, Wim Klooster shows how the Dutch built and eventually lost an Atlantic empire that stretched from the homeland in the United Provinces to the Hudson River and from Brazil and the Caribbean to the African Gold Coast....

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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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