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    • A History
    • By: Hakim Adi
    • Narrated by: Brenda Iyalla
    • Length: 22 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Acclaimed historian Hakim Adi presents a major new history of Britain that will transform our understanding of this country's past....

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    • How Britain's Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World
    • By: Lizzie Collingham
    • Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 72 ratings
    • In The Taste of Empire, acclaimed historian Lizzie Collingham tells the story of how the British Empire's quest for food shaped the modern world. Told through 20 meals....

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    • A History
    • By: Eugene Rogan
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 27 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 669 ratings
    • In this definitive history of the modern Arab world, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan draws extensively on Arab sources and texts to place the Arab experience in its crucial historical context....

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    • The Second World War and the East Africa Campaign
    • By: Andrew Stewart
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • Surprisingly neglected in accounts of Allied wartime triumphs, in 1941 British and Commonwealth forces completed a stunning and important victory in East Africa....

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    • The Untold Story
    • By: Miranda Kaufmann
    • Narrated by: Corrie James
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • A Black porter publicly whips a White English gentleman in a Gloucestershire manor house. A heavily pregnant African woman is abandoned on an Indonesian island....

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    • Britain and the Benin Bronzes
    • By: Barnaby Phillips
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • This is the story of the "Benin Bronzes", their creation, theft, and what should happen to them now. When first exhibited in London, they caused a sensation and helped reshape European attitudes towards Africa....

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    • The History and Legacy of the European Subjugation of South Africa
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
    • Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • The Colonization of South Africa: The History and Legacy of the European Subjugation of South Africa looks at the controversial expeditions, fighting, and results...you will learn about the colonization of South Africa like never before....

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    • By: Winston Churchill
    • Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
    • Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • As Under Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1907, Winston S. Churchill toured Britain's territories in East Africa....

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    • The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa
    • By: Martin Meredith
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 19 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 241 ratings
    • Southern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of little interest to the outside world....

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    • The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
    • By: Caroline Elkins
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 17 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • As part of the Allied forces, thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the British in World War II. But just a few years after the defeat of Hitler, the British colonial government detained nearly the entire population of Kenya's largest ethnic minority, the Kikuyu....

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    • The Slaves, the British, and the American Revolution
    • By: Simon Schama
    • Narrated by: Simon Schama
    • Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 134 ratings
    • Told in the voices of the slaves and the white abolitionists who aided them, Simon Schama vividly details the odyssey of these escaped blacks, shedding light on an extraordinary chapter in America's birth....

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    • The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation
    • By: Kris Manjapra
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles, Kris Manjapra
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • If the 1619 Project illuminated the ways in which life in the United States has been shaped by the existence of slavery, this book focuses on emancipation and how its afterlife further codified the racial caste system—instead of obliterating it....

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    • Third Edition
    • By: Eric Williams
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 9 hrs
    • Release date: 04-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide....

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    • The Anglo-Zulu War, Book 1
    • By: James Mace
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Waters
    • Series: The Anglo-Zulu War, Book 1
    • Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 121 ratings
    • It is December 1878, and war looms on the horizon in South Africa. British high commissioner Sir Henry Bartle-Frere seeks to dismantle the powerful neighboring kingdom of the Zulus....

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    • The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya
    • By: Caroline Elkins
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 17 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Caroline Elkins conducted years of research to piece together this story, unearthing reams of documents and interviewing several hundred Kikuyu survivors. Britain's Gulag reveals the full savagery of the Mau Mau war and the ruthless determination with which Britain sought to control its empire.

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    • By: Frances Osborne
    • Narrated by: Susan Duerden
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • In an age of bolters - women who broke the rules and fled their marriages - Idina Sackville was the most celebrated of them all......

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    • The History and Legacy of the Nation From European Colonization to the End of the Apartheid Era
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
    • Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • South Africa: The History and Legacy of the Nation from European Colonization to the End of the Apartheid Era looks at the controversial history of the country, from the initial European explorers to the successful struggle to dismantle apartheid....

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    • Britain's Legacies in the Modern World
    • By: Kwasi Kwarteng
    • Narrated by: Kwasi Kwarteng, Elliot Levey
    • Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 02-22-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • Kwasi Kwarteng brings a unique perspective and impeccable academic credentials to a narrative history of the British Empire....

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    • The History and Legacy of the Conflicts That Cemented British Control of South Africa
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
    • Length: 2 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • The modern history of Africa was, until very recently, written on behalf of the indigenous races by the white man, who had forcefully entered the continent during a particularly hubristic and dynamic phase of European history....

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