Emperor of the Seas
Kublai Khan and the Making of China
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Jack Weatherford
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Bloomsbury presents… Emperor of the Seas: Kublai Khan and the Making of China by Jack Weatherford, read by Mark Elstob
Control the sea, and you control everything...a gripping tale of naval warfare, dynastic rivalry, and technical innovation, from the author of the classic work Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World.
Genghis Khan built a formidable land empire, but he never crossed the sea. Yet by the time his grandson Kublai Khan had defeated the last vestiges of the Song empire and established the Yuan dynasty in 1279, the Mongols controlled the most powerful navy in the world. How did a nomad come to conquer China and master the sea? Based on ten years of research and a lifetime of immersion in Mongol culture and tradition, Emperor of the Seas brings this little-known story vibrantly to life.
Kublai Khan is one of history’s most fascinating characters. He brought Islamic mathematicians to his court, where they invented modern cartography and celestial measurement. He transformed the world’s largest land mass into a unified, diverse and economically progressive empire, introducing paper money. And, after bitter early setbacks, he transformed China into an outward looking sea-faring empire.
By the end of his reign, the Chinese were building and supplying remarkable ships to transport men, grain, and weapons over vast distances, of a size and dexterity that would be inconceivable in Europe for hundreds of years. Khan had come to a brilliant realization: control the sea, and you control everything.
A master storyteller with an unparalleled grasp of Mongol sources, Jack Weatherford shows how Chinese naval hegemony changed the world forever - revolutionizing world commerce and transforming tastes as far away as England and France.
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De: Jack Weatherford
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The History of Money
- De: Jack Weatherford
- Narrado por: Victor Bevine
- Duración: 10 h y 35 m
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From primitive man's cowrie shells to the electronic cash card, from the markets of Timbuktu to the New York Stock Exchange, The History of Money explores how money and the myriad forms of exchange have affected humanity, and how they will continue to shape all aspects of our lives--economic, political, and personal.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Interesting annecdotes, but very biased reporting
- De Dean en 10-13-11
De: Jack Weatherford
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
- De: Jack Weatherford
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis, Jack Weatherford
- Duración: 14 h y 20 m
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The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Golden Horde/Platinum Listen
- De Cynthia en 12-11-13
De: Jack Weatherford
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The Scythian Empire
- Central Eurasia and the Birth of the Classical Age from Persia to China
- De: Christopher I. Beckwith
- Narrado por: Jim Lee
- Duración: 7 h y 58 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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This audiobook narrated by Jim Lee provides a rich, discovery-filled account of how a forgotten empire transformed the ancient world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Demystifying the mysteries of the Ancient Worlds through a common source
- De cpdb en 02-10-23
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The Mongol Storm
- Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East
- De: Nicholas Morton
- Narrado por: Nick Biadon
- Duración: 12 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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For centuries, the Crusades have been central to the story of the medieval Near East, but these religious wars are only part of the region's complex history. As The Mongol Storm reveals, during the same era the Near East was utterly remade by another series of wars: the Mongol invasions. In a single generation, the Mongols conquered vast swaths of the Near East and upended the region's geopolitics. This is the definitive history of the Mongol assault on the Near East and its enduring global consequences.
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4 out of 5 stars
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History explained and experienced
- De Bob H en 03-20-25
De: Nicholas Morton
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Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood
- The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade
- De: Anthony Kaldellis
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 15 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 63
In the second half of the tenth century, Byzantium embarked on a series of spectacular conquests. By the early eleventh century, the empire was the most powerful state in the Mediterranean. Yet this imperial project came to a crashing collapse fifty years later, when political disunity, fiscal mismanagement, and defeat at the hands of the Seljuks and the Normans brought an end to Byzantine hegemony. By 1081, Byzantium's very existence was threatened.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very Detailed but Tedious
- De Amazon Customer en 09-06-24
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Rivers of Gold
- The Rise of the Spanish Empire, from Columbus to Magellan
- De: Hugh Thomas
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 27 h y 25 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 8
From one of the greatest historians of the Spanish world, here is a fresh and fascinating account of Spain's early conquests in the Americas. Hugh Thomas shows Spain at the dawn of the sixteenth century as a world power on the brink of greatness. For Spain and for the world, the decision to send Christopher Columbus west was epochal—the dividing line between the medieval and the modern.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great sweep of history from Spain to America
- De Anonymous User en 12-31-24
De: Hugh Thomas
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Ramesses the Great
- Egypt's King of Kings
- De: Toby Wilkinson
- Narrado por: Robbie Stevens
- Duración: 6 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Ramesses II ruled the Nile Valley and the wider Egyptian empire from 1279 to 1213 B.C., one of the longest reigns in pharaonic history. He was a cultural innovator, a relentless self-promoter, and an astute diplomat—the peace treaty signed after the Battle of Kadesh was the first in recorded history. He outbuilt every other Egyptian pharaoh, leaving behind the temples of Abu Simbel; the great hypostyle hall of Karnak; the tomb for his wife Nefertari; and his own memorial, the Ramesseum.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great stuff. Minimal notes.
- De Raymond Smith en 05-18-23
De: Toby Wilkinson
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Spice
- The 16th-Century Contest That Shaped the Modern World
- De: Roger Crowley
- Narrado por: Samuel Roukin
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 44
Spices drove the early modern world economy, and for Europeans they represented riches on an unprecedented scale. Cloves and nutmeg could reach Europe only via a complex web of trade routes, and for decades Spanish and Portuguese explorers competed to find their elusive source. But when the Portuguese finally reached the spice islands of the Moluccas in 1511, they set in motion a fierce competition for control.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Spice or Megellan?
- De BarbieAlaska en 06-21-24
De: Roger Crowley
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The Water Margin
- Outlaws of the Marsh
- De: Shi Naian, J. H. Jackson - translator, Edwin Lowe - translator
- Narrado por: Jonathan Booth
- Duración: 33 h y 41 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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The Water Margin is one of the most popular classics of early Chinese literature. It tells the vigorous story of 108 characters who, falling foul of the established state authorities, are forced to become outlaws. They form a bandit community in Liangshan Marsh, becoming such a formidable force in their own right that they threaten the power of government itself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exciting! Each story entwined with one another!
- De Kananai en 04-03-24
De: Shi Naian, y otros
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The Horde
- How the Mongols Changed the World
- De: Marie Favereau
- Narrado por: Anne Flosnik
- Duración: 12 h y 8 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 64
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Favereau takes us inside one of the most powerful sources of cross-border integration in world history. The Horde was the central node in the Eurasian commercial boom of the 13th and 14th centuries and was a conduit for exchanges across thousands of miles. Its unique political regime - a complex power-sharing arrangement among the khan and the nobility - rewarded skillful administrators and diplomats and fostered an economic order that was mobile, organized, and innovative.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Golden Horde complete history, well done
- De Amazon Customer en 03-10-22
De: Marie Favereau
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The First Emperor of China
- De: Jonathan Clements
- Narrado por: Kathleen Li
- Duración: 7 h y 1 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Ying Zheng was born to rule the world, claiming descent from gods, crowned king while still a child. He was the product of a heartless, brutal regime devoted to domination, groomed from an early age to become the First Emperor of China after a century of scheming by his ancestors.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A captivating story
- De Gilad en 02-06-25
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A Great Place to Have a War
- America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA
- De: Joshua Kurlantzick
- Narrado por: Tim Campbell
- Duración: 9 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 156
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In 1960 President Eisenhower was focused on Laos, a tiny Southeast Asian nation few Americans had ever heard of. Washington feared the country would fall to Communism, triggering a domino effect in the rest of Southeast Asia. So in January 1961, Eisenhower approved the CIA's Operation Momentum, a plan to create a proxy army of ethnic Hmong to fight Communist forces in Laos. While remaining hidden from the American public and most of Congress, Momentum became the largest CIA paramilitary operation in the history of the United States.
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5 out of 5 stars
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illuminating read of Laos' relationship with USA
- De Daniel en 12-28-18
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Imperial China
- An Audio Guide
- De: Peter Lorge
- Narrado por: John Voce
- Duración: 8 h y 16 m
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In 221 BCE, the Qin state conquered its neighbours and created the first unified Chinese empire in history. So began the imperial era, where dynasties claiming divine assent ruled for more than 2000 years. Borders shifted, and emperors struggled to exert control over every region of their territories. Elites held that they were inheritors of a rich, pre-imperial culture, while their society produced world-changing inventions such as the compass, printing, gunpowder and the gun. Imperial China itself was altered as it came into contact with others through trade, exploration and war.
De: Peter Lorge
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Travellers in the Golden Realm
- How Mughal India Connected England to the World
- De: Lubaaba Al-Azami
- Narrado por: Monica Sagar
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1
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Narración:2 out of 5 stars 1
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Before the East India Company and before the British Empire, England was a pariah state. Seeking better fortunes, 16th and 17th century merchants, pilgrims and outcasts ventured to the kingdom of the mighty Mughals, attempting to sell coarse woollen broadcloth along the silk roads; playing courtiers in the Mughal palaces in pursuit of love; or simply touring the sub-continent in search of an elephant to ride.
De: Lubaaba Al-Azami
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The Great Transformation
- China’s Road from Revolution to Reform
- De: Chen Jian, Odd Arne Westad
- Narrado por: Feodor Chin
- Duración: 14 h
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General5 out of 5 stars 20
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 19
Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian chronicle how an impoverished and terrorized China experienced radical political changes in the long 1970s and how ordinary people broke free from the beliefs that had shaped their lives during Mao’s Cultural Revolution. These changes, and the unprecedented and sustained economic growth that followed, transformed China and the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent history but the narration’s mispronunciation takes away from the story
- De Anonymous User en 04-19-25
De: Chen Jian, y otros
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