Middle East Empires

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    • How Britain Made the Middle East
    • By: Walter Reid
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 14 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Working from both primary and secondary sources, Walter Reid explores Britain's role in the creation of the modern Middle East and the rise of Zionism from the early years of the twentieth century to 1948....

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    • The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
    • By: David Fromkin
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 23 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 12-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 486 ratings
    • The Middle East has long been a region of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and ambitions. All of these conflicts are rooted in the region's political inheritance. David Fromkin reveals how and why the Allies drew lines on an empty map that remade the geography and politics....

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    • The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
    • By: Tom Holland
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 685 ratings
    • Tom Holland describes how the Arabs emerged to carve out a stupefyingly vast dominion in a matter of decades, overcoming seemingly insuperable odds....

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    • 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: 06-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 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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    • The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
    • By: Tom Holland
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,415 ratings
    • The story of how their citizens took on the Great King of Persia, and thereby saved not only themselves, but Western civilization as well, is as heart-stopping and fateful as any episode in history....

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    • The Death of Alexander the Great and the Bloody Fight for His Empire
    • By: James S. Romm
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 01-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 209 ratings
    • James Romm, professor of classics at Bard College, brings to life the cutthroat competition and the struggle for control of the Greek world's greatest empire....

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    • The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
    • By: Peter Hopkirk
    • Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
    • Length: 17 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 726 ratings
    • The Great Game between Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia was fought across desolate terrain from the Caucasus to China, over the lonely passes of the Parmirs and Karakorams....

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    • Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World
    • By: Alan Mikhail
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 08-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 233 ratings
    • Long neglected in world history, the Ottoman Empire was a hub of intellectual fervor, geopolitical power, and enlightened pluralistic rule. At the height of their authority in the 16th century, the Ottomans controlled more territory and ruled over more people than any world power....

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    • The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire
    • By: Eckart Frahm
    • Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
    • Length: 15 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 109 ratings
    • At its height in 660 BCE, the kingdom of Assyria stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. It was the first empire the world had ever seen. Here, historian Eckart Frahm tells the epic story of Assyria and its formative role in global history....

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    • By: Peter Mansfield
    • Narrated by: Richard Brown
    • Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 06-28-11
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 88 ratings
    • In this masterly work of synthesis, Peter Mansfield explores two centuries of history in the Middle East...

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    • A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes, and Empires
    • By: Tim Mackintosh-Smith
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 25 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 290 ratings
    • This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances....

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    • The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire
    • By: Judith Herrin
    • Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
    • Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Byzantium. The name evokes grandeur and exoticism—gold, cunning, and complexity. In this unique book, Judith Herrin unveils the riches of a quite different civilization....

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    • A History, 1720 to the Present
    • By: John Ghazvinian
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 27 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 222 ratings
    • In this rich, fascinating history, John Ghazvinian traces the complex story of the relations between these two nations back to the Persian Empire of the 18th century - the subject of great admiration by Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams....

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    • Una apasionante panorámica de la historia de Irán, desde los antiguos persas hasta el Irán moderno, pasando por el Imperio persa (Explorando el Oriente Próximo) [A Fascinating Overview of the History of Iran, from the Ancient Persians to Modern Iran, Passing Through the Persian Empire (Exploring the Middle East)]
    • By: Billy Wellman
    • Narrated by: Carlos Verne
    • Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-24
    • Language: Spanish
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Llena de acontecimientos emocionantes, actores memorables, conflictos sangrientos y florecientes logros culturales, la historia de Irán es un placer en el que sumergirse para cualquier mente curiosa.

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    • Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East
    • By: Nicholas Morton
    • Narrated by: Nick Biadon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 07-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • 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....

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    • The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization
    • By: Lars Brownworth
    • Narrated by: Lars Brownworth
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,881 ratings
    • Filled with unforgettable stories of emperors, generals, and religious patriarchs, as well as fascinating glimpses into the life of the ordinary citizen, Lost to the West reveals how much we owe to the Byzantine Empire that was the equal of any in its achievements, appetites, and enduring legacy....

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    • The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire
    • By: Robert G. Hoyland
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 233 ratings
    • In just over a hundred years - from the death of Muhammad in 632 to the beginning of the Abbasid Caliphate in 750 - the followers of the Prophet swept across the whole of the Middle East....

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    • A Captivating Guide to the Persian Empire and History of Iran, Starting from the Achaemenid Empire, Through the Parthian, Sasanian and Safavid Empire to the Afsharid and Qajar Dynasty
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Desmond Manny, Duke Holm, David Patton
    • Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • If you want to discover the captivating history of Iran, then listen to these five captivating manuscripts in one audiobook: Achaemenid Empire, Parthian Empire, Sasanian Empire, The Safavid Empire, and The Afsharid and Qajar Dynasty....

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    • Habsburgs, Ottomans, and the Battle for Europe
    • By: Andrew Wheatcroft
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • A gripping work by a master historian, The Enemy at the Gate offers a timely examination of an epic clash of civilizations....

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    • Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America
    • By: Peter Dale Scott
    • Narrated by: Raymond Todd
    • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 85 ratings
    • This is an ambitious, meticulous examination of how U.S. foreign policy since the 1960s has led to partial or total cover-ups of past domestic criminal acts....

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