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    • The Birth of Liberty
    • By: Dan Jones
    • Narrated by: Dan Jones
    • Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-15
    • Language: English
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    • The Magna Carta is revered around the world as the founding document of Western liberty. Its principles - even its language - can be found in our Bill of Rights and in the Constitution. But what was this strange document and how did it gain such legendary status? Listen to find out more....

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    • The History of the French Revolution
    • By: Jeremy D. Popkin
    • Narrated by: Pete Cross, Jeremy D. Popkin
    • Length: 21 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-20
    • Language: English
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    • In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the revolution that puts the listener in the thick of the debates and the violence that led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a new society....

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    • The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773-1783
    • By: Joseph J. Ellis
    • Narrated by: Graham Winton
    • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-21
    • Language: English
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    • A culminating work on the American Founding by one of its leading historians, The Cause rethinks the American Revolution as we have known it....

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    • A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689
    • By: Jonathan Healey
    • Narrated by: Oliver Hembrough
    • Length: 19 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-23
    • Language: English
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    • The seventeenth century was a revolutionary age for the English. It started as they suddenly found themselves ruled by a Scotsman, and it ended in the shadow of an invasion by the Dutch. Under James I, England suffered terrorism and witch panics....

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    • By: Orlando Figes
    • Narrated by: Roger Davis
    • Length: 47 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 10-09-18
    • Language: English
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    • A People’s Tragedy follows workers, soldiers, intellectuals and villagers as their world is consumed by revolution and then degenerates into violence and dictatorship....

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    • The Story of America's First Spy Ring
    • By: Alexander Rose
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
    • Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-13
    • Language: English
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    • Based on remarkable new research, acclaimed historian Alexander Rose brings to life the true story of the spy ring that helped America win the Revolutionary War.....

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    • Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921
    • By: Antony Beevor
    • Narrated by: Rob Heaps
    • Length: 21 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-22
    • Language: English
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    • Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. The doomed White alliance of moderate socialists and reactionary monarchists stood little chance against Trotsky’s Red Army and the single-minded Communist dictatorship under Lenin....

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    • Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849
    • By: Christopher Clark
    • Narrated by: Christopher Clark
    • Length: 33 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-23
    • Language: English
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    • From the bestselling author of The Sleepwalkers comes an epic history of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe, and the charismatic figures who propelled them forward, with deep resonance and frightening parallels to today....

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    • From Enlightenment to Tyranny
    • By: Ian Davidson
    • Narrated by: Clive Chafer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-19
    • Language: English
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    • A vital and illuminating look at this profoundly important (and often perplexing) historical moment, by former Financial Times chief foreign affairs columnist Ian Davidson....

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    • A Chronicle of the French Revolution
    • By: Simon Schama
    • Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
    • Length: 36 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 398 ratings
    • From one of the truly preeminent historians of our time, this is a landmark book chronicling the French Revolution....

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    • The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
    • By: Antony Beevor
    • Narrated by: Sean Barrett
    • Length: 18 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-15
    • Language: English
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    • Antony Beevor has written a completely updated and revised account of one of the most bitter and hard-fought wars of the 20th century....

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    • A Continental History, 1750-1804
    • By: Alan Taylor
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 18 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-16
    • Language: English
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    • The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ideal framework for a democratic, prosperous nation....

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    • Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789
    • By: Joseph J. Ellis
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-15
    • Language: English
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    • From Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian Joseph J. Ellis, the unexpected story of why the thirteen colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decide to subordinate themselves anew....

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    • The Story of the Russian Revolution
    • By: China Mieville
    • Narrated by: John Banks
    • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-17
    • Language: English
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    • The renowned fantasy and science fiction writer China Mieville has long been inspired by the ideals of the Russian Revolution....

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    • By: David Hackett Fischer
    • Narrated by: Nelson Runger
    • Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,102 ratings
    • This New York Times best seller is a thrilling account of one of the most pivotal moments in United States history....

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    • By: Richard Pipes
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 41 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 07-16-19
    • Language: English
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    • Groundbreaking in its inclusiveness, enthralling in its narrative of a movement whose purpose, in the words of Leon Trotsky, was "to overthrow the world", The Russian Revolution draws conclusions that aroused great controversy....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Helen Graham
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
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    • Amid the many catastrophes of the 20th century, the Spanish Civil War continues to exert a particular fascination among history buffs and the layperson alike. This Very Short Introduction integrates the political, social, and cultural history of the Spanish Civil War....

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