Imperialism History

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    • By: Edward Said
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 19 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 02-16-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 194 ratings
    • A landmark work from the author of Orientalism, this book explores the connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it....

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    • How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain
    • By: Sathnam Sanghera, Marlon James - foreword
    • Narrated by: Homer Todiwala, Marlon James
    • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • A best-selling journalist’s illuminating tour through the hidden legacies and modern realities of British empire that exposes how much of the present-day United Kingdom is actually rooted in its colonial past....

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    • By: David Harvey
    • Narrated by: Clive Chafer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 365 ratings
    • Neoliberalism - the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so....

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    • A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa
    • By: Michael Gomez
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 19 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 12-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • A groundbreaking book that puts early and medieval West Africa on the map of global history....

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    • The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History of Western Encounters with China
    • By: Tonio Andrade
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-21
    • Language: English
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    • The Last Embassy tells the story of the Dutch mission of 1795, bringing to light a dramatic but little-known episode that transforms our understanding of the history of China and the West....

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    • A Global History of America’s Endless Conflicts, From Columbus to the Islamic State
    • By: David Vine
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • The United States has been at war or has invaded other countries almost every year since independence. David Vine traces this pattern of bloody conflict from Columbus' 1494 arrival in Guantanamo Bay through the 250-year expansion of a global US empire....

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    • By: Vladimir Lenin
    • Narrated by: Michael Richards
    • Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 11-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • Vladimir Lenin’s 1916 essay "Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism", is a synthesis of Lenin's development of economic theories that Karl Marx formulated in Das Kapital....

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    • What Everyone Needs to Know
    • By: Richard D. Mahoney
    • Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
    • Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • In this new addition to the popular What Everyone Needs to Know series, Richard D. Mahoney links historical legacies, cultural features, and the relentless dynamics of the illegal drug industry to unravel the enigma of Colombia....

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    • Firsthand Accounts of Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation Program
    • By: Hal Gold, Yuma Totani - foreword
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 08-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 267 ratings
    • Some of the cruelest deeds of Japan's war in Asia did not occur on the battlefield, but in quiet, antiseptic medical wards in obscure parts of China. Far from front lines and prying eyes, Japanese doctors and their assistants subjected human guinea pigs to gruesome medical experiments....

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    • A History of Mexico
    • By: T. R. Fehrenbach
    • Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Length: 35 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 175 ratings
    • T. R. Fehrenbach brilliantly delineates the contrasts and conflicts between the many Mexicos, unraveling the history while weaving a fascinating tapestry of beauty and brutality: the Amerindians, who wrought from the vulnerable land a great indigenous Meso-American civilization....

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    • What the British Did to India
    • By: Shashi Tharoor
    • Narrated by: Shashi Tharoor
    • Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 11-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 512 ratings
    • In the 18th century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, it had decreased six-fold. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew rebels from cannons, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched racism, and caused millions to die from starvation....

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    • Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance
    • By: Noam Chomsky, Marv Waterstone
    • Narrated by: Donald Corren
    • Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 397 ratings
    • Is there an alternative to capitalism? In this landmark text Chomsky and Waterstone chart a critical map for a more just and sustainable society....

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    • War, Peace, and Conquest in the Roman World
    • By: Adrian Goldsworthy
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 480 ratings
    • Best-selling author Adrian Goldsworthy turns his attention to the Pax Romana, the famous peace and prosperity brought by the Roman Empire at its height in the first and second centuries AD....

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    • Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
    • By: C.L.R. James
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 484 ratings
    • This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive account of the Haitian Revolution of 1794-1803, a revolution that began in the wake of the Bastille but became the model for the Third World liberation movements from Africa to Cuba....

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    • Empire and the Deep State
    • By: Aaron Good
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 111 ratings
    • American Exception seeks to explain the breakdown of US democracy, in particular to understand the uncanny continuity of American foreign policy, the breakdown of the rule of law, and the extreme concentration of wealth and power into an overworld of the corporate rich....

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    • El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
    • By: Mike Davis
    • Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
    • Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
    • ike Davis discloses the relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history....

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