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  • Capital and Ideology cover art

    • Capital and Ideology

    • By: Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer - translator
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 48 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 140 ratings

    • The epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global history, a scathing critique of contemporary politics, and a bold proposal for a new and fairer economic system....

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    • Colonialism

    • A Moral Reckoning
    • By: Nigel Biggar
    • Narrated by: Matt Bates
    • Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 128 ratings

    • In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed that we had arrived at the ‘End of History’—that the global dominance of liberal democracy had been secured forever.....

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    • Political Order and Political Decay

    • From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
    • By: Francis Fukuyama
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Series: Political Order, Book 2
    • Length: 24 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 30-09-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 279 ratings
    • Taking up the essential question of how societies develop strong, impersonal, and accountable political institutions, Fukuyama follows the story from the French Revolution to the so-called Arab Spring....

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    • The Habsburg Empire

    • A New History
    • By: Pieter M. Judson
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 25-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • In a panoramic and pioneering reappraisal, Pieter M. Judson shows why the Habsburg Empire mattered so much, for so long, to millions of Central Europeans....

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    • A Dying Colonialism

    • By: Frantz Fanon
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 23-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • A Dying Colonialism is Frantz Fanon’s seminal work on anticolonialism and the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution....

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    • Austrian History

    • A Captivating Guide to the History of Austria and the Habsburg Empire
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 21-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • Two manuscripts in one audiobook: History of Austria and The Habsburg Empire. When Austrian President Franz Jonas visited the Vatican in 1971, Pope Paul VI named Austria “The Island of the Blessed"....

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    • History of Austria

    • A Captivating Guide to Austrian History
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 16-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • When Austrian President Franz Jonas visited the Vatican in 1971, Pope Paul VI named Austria “the Island of the Blessed”. He did so to emphasize Austria’s steep recovery. Only 25 years had passed since the end of the Second World War....

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    • British Colonialism in India

    • From the East India Company to the Road to Independence and the Partition of India
    • By: Nigel Durve
    • Narrated by: Jack Jacobs
    • Length: 2 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 23-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • The Indian diaspora and its descendants are one of the most significant minorities in Britain today. This audiobook will examine the vast contributions they have made in influencing and shaping modern-day British culture....

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    • The New Age of Empire

    • How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World
    • By: Kehinde Andrews
    • Narrated by: Kehinde Andrews
    • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 02-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings

    • The New Age of Empire is a damning exploration of the many ways in which the effects and logic of anti-Black colonialism continue to inform our modern world.

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    • Why Nations Fail

    • The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
    • By: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 20-03-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 923 ratings
    • Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....

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    • Metternich

    • Strategist and Visionary
    • By: Wolfram Siemann, Daniel Steuer - translator
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 36 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 14-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings

    • Wolfram Siemann paints a fundamentally new image of the man who shaped Europe for over four decades. He reveals Metternich as more modern and his career much more forward-looking than we have ever recognized....

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    • How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs

    • The Syrian Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of its Historic Liberal-Islamic Alliance
    • By: Elizabeth F. Thompson
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

    • The story of a pivotal moment in modern world history, when representative democracy became a political option for Arabs - and how the West denied the opportunity....

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    • Journey to a Revolution

    • A Personal Memoir and History of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956
    • By: Michael Korda
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 31-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • Journey to a Revolution is at once history and a compelling memoir - the author's riveting account of the course of the revolution, from its heroic beginnings to the sad martyrdom of its end....

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  • Savarkar: Echoes of a Forgotton Past, Vol. 1: Part 1 cover art

    • Savarkar: Echoes of a Forgotton Past, Vol. 1: Part 1

    • By: Vikram Sampath
    • Narrated by: Pratik Sharma
    • Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 19-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings

    • As the intellectual fountainhead of the ideology of Hindutva, which is in political ascendancy in India today, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar is undoubtedly one of the most contentious political thinkers and leaders of the 20th century....

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    • Empire of Things

    • How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
    • By: Frank Trentmann
    • Narrated by: Mark Meadows
    • Length: 33 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 28-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 192 ratings
    • What we consume has become the defining feature of our lives: our economies live or die by spending, we are treated more as consumers than workers....

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    • Orientalism

    • By: Edward Said
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 19 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 31-12-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 193 ratings
    • This landmark book, first published in 1978, remains one of the most influential books in the Social Sciences, particularly Ethnic Studies and Postcolonialism....

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    • Empire, Incorporated

    • The Corporations That Built British Colonialism
    • By: Philip J. Stern
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 16-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • Challenging conventional wisdom about where power is held on a global scale, Stern complicates the supposedly firm distinction between private enterprise and the state, offering a new history of the British Empire, as well as a new history of the corporation....

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    • Border and Rule

    • Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
    • By: Harsha Walia, Robin D. G. Kelley - foreword, Nick Estes - afterword
    • Narrated by: Cindy Kay
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 16-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

    • Border and Rule explores a number of seemingly disparate global geographies with shared logics of border rule that displace, immobilize, criminalize, exploit, and expel migrants and refugees....

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    • In Defense of German Colonialism

    • And How Its Critics Empowered Nazis, Communists, and the Enemies of the West
    • By: Bruce Gilley
    • Narrated by: Damon Abernathy
    • Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

    • The author of the groundbreaking "The Case for Colonialism" demonstrates that, contrary to modern presuppositions, German colonialism from its roots to the mid-twentieth century was overall a force for good in the world where development was encouraged and native governance flourished....

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