Roman Britain
A New History: Revised Edition
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This illuminating account of Britain as a Roman province sets the Roman conquest and occupation of the island within the larger context of Romano-British society and how it functioned.
The author first outlines events from the Iron Age period immediately preceding the conquest in AD 43 to the emperor Honorius's advice to the Britons in 410 to fend for themselves. He then tackles the issues facing Britons after the absorption of their culture by an invading army, including the role of government and the military in the province, religion, commerce, technology, and daily life. For this revised edition, the text and bibliography have been updated to reflect the latest discoveries and research in recent years.
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In 1647, the Parliamentarians were divided. They had won the first civil war and the king was in custody, but disagreements over the way forward had led to a stalemate. As the leader of one party, Oliver Cromwell found himself again at the center of events. In the second volume of his pioneering biography, Ronald Hutton traces Cromwell's career from 1647 through to his seizure of supreme power.
De: Ronald Hutton
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Blood and Mistletoe
- The History of the Druids in Britain
- De: Ronald Hutton
- Narrado por: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Duración: 31 h y 16 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1
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Crushed by the Romans in the first century A.D., the ancient Druids of Britain left almost no reliable evidence behind. Historian Ronald Hutton shows how this lack of definite information has allowed succeeding British generations to reimagine, reinterpret, and reinvent the Druids. Hutton's captivating book is the first to encompass two thousand years of Druid history and to explore the evolution of English, Scottish, and Welsh attitudes toward the forever ambiguous figures of the ancient Celtic world.
De: Ronald Hutton
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Modern History
- A Captivating Guide to the Key Events, Cultures, and Transformations Shaping Europe, America, Africa, and Asia in the Contemporary World
- De: Captivating History
- Narrado por: Jason Zenobia
- Duración: 23 h y 54 m
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General1 out of 5 stars 1
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Unlock the key moments and movements that shaped our present-day world with this all-encompassing audiobook. Inside, you’ll find six detailed manuscripts, each offering a captivating guide to the modern history of different regions—Europe, America, Latin America, Africa, China, and Japan. Whether you're a history enthusiast or just looking to expand your knowledge, this audiobook provides an accessible and engaging way to understand the forces that have molded our world.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Waste of time
- De Richard en 01-28-25
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Theoderic the Great
- King of Goths, Ruler of Romans
- De: Hans-Ulrich Wiemer, John Noel Dillon - translator
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 23 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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In the year 493, the leader of a vast confederation of Gothic warriors, their wives, and children personally cut down Odoacer, the man famous for deposing the last Roman emperor in 476. That leader became Theoderic the Great (454-526). This engaging history of his life and reign immerses listeners in the world of the warrior-king who ushered in decades of peace and stability in Italy as king of Goths and Romans.
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4 out of 5 stars
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More for historians than general readers
- De Bill Staley en 10-29-23
De: Hans-Ulrich Wiemer, y otros
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God's Battalions
- The Case for the Crusades
- De: Rodney Stark
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 7 h y 18 m
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A respected and controversial scholar argues that the Crusades were a justified war waged against Muslim terror and aggression. This book takes on the current vogue in liberal thinking to argue that, in fact, the Crusades were not unprovoked. They were not the first round of European colonialism. They were not conducted for land, loot, or converts. The Crusaders were not barbarians who victimized the cultivated Muslims. They sincerely believed that they served in God’s Battalions.
De: Rodney Stark
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The Roman Emperor Aurelian
- Restorer of the World: New Revised Edition
- De: John F. White
- Narrado por: Keval Shah
- Duración: 12 h y 15 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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The ancient Sibylline prophecies had foretold that the Roman Empire would last for 1000 years. As the time for the expected dissolution approached in the middle of the third century AD, the empire was lapsing into chaos, with seemingly interminable civil wars over the imperial succession. The western empire had seceded under a rebel emperor and the eastern empire was controlled by another usurper. Barbarians took advantage of the anarchy to kill and plunder all over the provinces.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Coins- Early and Often
- De Colin MacKenzie en 12-16-23
De: John F. White
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The First Kingdom
- De: Max Adams
- Narrado por: Kris Dyer
- Duración: 16 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Somewhere in the dim void between the departure from Britain of the Roman legions at the start of the fifth century and the days of the venerable Bede, the kingdoms of Early Medieval Britain were formed. But by whom? And out of what? Max Adams scrutinises the narrative handed down to us by later historians and chronicles, stripping away the most lurid nonsense about Arthur and synthesising the research of the last 40 years to tease out strands of reality from myth.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very interesting, but not in my truck
- De Liz en 03-03-21
De: Max Adams
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Discovering Life's Story: Biology's Beginnings
- De: Joy Hakim
- Narrado por: Erin Tripp
- Duración: 3 h y 32 m
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hen did we start learning the scientific secrets of life? Step back to the Islamic Golden Age, when scholars ask questions about life science and medicine that will establish those fields. Chart a path through the Renaissance, as Leonardo da Vinci dissects cadavers by candlelight to learn human anatomy firsthand. In this first of four volumes spanning hundreds of years of scientific innovation and discovery, follow the evolution of life science up to the late 1800s, when a Dutch biologist finds a tiny infectious particle destroying tobacco crops and gives this particle a new name: virus.
De: Joy Hakim
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The Roads to Rome
- A History of Imperial Expansion
- De: Catherine Fletcher
- Narrado por: Catherine Fletcher
- Duración: 13 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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The Roads to Rome is a journey into a past that remains intimately connected to our present. Traveling from Scotland to Cádiz to Istanbul and back to Rome, the listener meanders through nations and empires that have risen and fallen. We encounter spies, bandits, innkeepers, a Byzantine noblewoman on the run, aristocrats on their Grand Tour, Napoleon, John Keats, the Shelleys, Frederick Douglass, and Mussolini.
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The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective
- De: Sara Lodge
- Narrado por: Christine Rendel
- Duración: 12 h y 8 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 4
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From Wilkie Collins to the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the traditional image of the Victorian detective is male. Few people realize that women detectives successfully investigated Victorian Britain, working both with the police and for private agencies, which they sometimes managed themselves. Sara Lodge recovers these forgotten women’s lives. She also reveals the sensational role played by the fantasy female detective in Victorian melodrama and popular fiction, enthralling a public who relished the spectacle of a cross-dressing, fist-swinging heroine.
De: Sara Lodge
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Machiavelli
- A Biography
- De: Miles J. Unger
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 15 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Niccolò Machiavelli is the most influential political writer of all time. His name has become synonymous with cynical scheming and the selfish pursuit of power, but the real Machiavelli, says Miles Unger, was a deeply humane and perceptive writer whose controversial theories were a response to the violence and corruption he saw around him. Machiavelli’s philosophy was shaped by the tumultuous age in which he lived, an age of towering geniuses and brutal tyrants. His first political mission was to spy on the fire-and-brimstone preacher Savonarola.
De: Miles J. Unger
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A Brief History of Roman Britain
- Brief Histories
- De: Joan P. Alcock
- Narrado por: Lisa Coleman
- Duración: 11 h y 44 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 40
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In 55 B.C. Julius Caesar came, saw, conquered and then left. It was not until A.D. 43 that the Emperor Claudius crossed the channel and made Britain the western outpost of the Roman Empire that would span from the Scottish border to Persia. For the next 400 years the island would be transformed. Within that period would see the rise of Londinium, almost immediately burnt to the ground in A.D. 60 by Boudicca; Hadrian's Wall, which was constructed in A.D. 112 to keep the northern tribes at bay, as well as the birth of the Emperor Constantine in third century York.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Incredibly tedious
- De Lauri Donahue en 10-26-13
De: Joan P. Alcock
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Pretend We're Dead
- The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Women in Rock in the '90s
- De: Tanya Pearson
- Narrado por: Kendra Hoffman, Carrington MacDuffie, Suehyla El-Attar
- Duración: 7 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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In 2018, during an interview with journalist Tanya Pearson, Shirley Manson lamented: "It’s a blanket fact that after September 11th, nonconformist women were taken off the radio.” This comment echoed a reality Pearson had personally witnessed as a musician and a fan, and launched her into a quest to figure out just what happened to these extraordinary female figures. Pretend We’re Dead seeks to answer two big questions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The well investigated content and personal interviews
- De meg jones en 01-29-25
De: Tanya Pearson
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Baltic
- The Future of Europe
- De: Oliver Moody
- Narrado por: Kaffe Keating
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 8
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The Baltic's time has come. It is not only critical to Europe's security and increasingly a centre of political and military power in its own right; it is a reservoir of ideas and experiences that could shape the continent's future. This books explores the history, their culture, their peculiarities and national dilemmas of all nine Baltic countries. At its core is a search for fresh answers to Europe's problems, at a point where the continent's previously dominant powers appear tired and divided.
De: Oliver Moody
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The Wolf-Girl, the Greeks, and the Gods
- A Tale of the Persian Wars
- De: Tom Holland
- Narrado por: Victoria Fox
- Duración: 5 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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The Trojan War is ancient history. The gods of Olympus are silent and have not appeared to mortals for generations. In the city-state of Sparta, young Gorgo’s mother gives a warning with her dying breath: the Persians are coming. The princess Gorgo, weaned on her nurse’s stories of gods and shapeshifters, never forgets her mother’s last words. When at last the drums of war begin to sound, she is swept up in a dangerous game of politics, treachery, and vengeance.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfect Marriage of History and Fantasy
- De Jonathan Baron en 02-13-25
De: Tom Holland