Britain Empire

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    • How Britain Made the Modern World
    • By: Niall Ferguson
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble, Niall Ferguson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,149 ratings
    • Penguin presents the unabridged audiobook edition of Empire by Niall Ferguson, read by Jonathan Keeble....

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    • How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
    • By: Patrick J. Buchanan
    • Narrated by: Don Leslie
    • Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 671 ratings
    • Patrick Buchanan makes the case that, if not for the blunders of British statesmen - Winston Churchill first among them - the horrors of two world wars and the Holocaust might have been avoided....

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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 20 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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    • 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 74 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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    • 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 744 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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    • 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 22 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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    • The Global Expansion of Britain
    • By: John Darwin
    • Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White
    • Length: 18 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • John Darwin's After Tamerlane, a sweeping six-hundred-year history of empires around the globe, marked him as a historian of "massive erudition" and narrative mastery....

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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 39 ratings
    • Kwasi Kwarteng brings a unique perspective and impeccable academic credentials to a narrative history of the British Empire....

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    • The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766
    • By: Fred Anderson
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 29 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 655 ratings
    • In this vivid and compelling narrative, the Seven Years' War - long seen as a mere backdrop to the American Revolution - takes on a whole new significance. Relating the history of the war as it developed, Anderson shows how the complex array of forces brought into conflict helped both....

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    • A Novel of the Roman Empire
    • By: Ruth Downie
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Series: The Roman Empire, Book 1
    • Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3,255 ratings
    • Gaius Petrius Ruso is a down-on-his-luck army doctor now living in an inclement outpost of the Roman Empire. Soon he's caught in the middle of an investigation into the deaths of prostitutes....

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    • A History of the English Speaking Peoples, Volume I
    • By: Sir Winston Churchill
    • Narrated by: Christian Rodska
    • Length: 17 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,356 ratings
    • The English-speaking peoples comprise perhaps the greatest number of human beings sharing a common language in the world today....

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    • By: Niall Ferguson
    • Narrated by: Sean Barrett
    • Length: 15 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 140 ratings
    • The British Empire was the largest in all history: the nearest thing to global domination ever achieved. The world we know today is in large measure the product of Britain's age of empire....

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    • Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies
    • By: Matthew Parker
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
    • Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 124 ratings
    • To those who travel there today, the West Indies are unspoiled paradise islands. Yet that image conceals a turbulent, dramatic, and shocking history....

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    • Britain's Empire on the Brink
    • By: Matthew Parker
    • Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
    • Length: 27 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Moving from London to Kuala Lumpur, Australia to the West Indies, One Fine Day is a breathtaking portrait of the British Empire at both the peak of its global reach and the moment it began to topple....

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    • The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill
    • By: Candice Millard
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,568 ratings
    • At age 24 Winston Churchill was utterly convinced it was his destiny to become prime minister of England one day, despite the fact he had just lost his first election campaign for Parliament....

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    • By: Stephen W. Sears
    • Narrated by: Corrie James
    • Length: 30 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 118 ratings
    • Here is the story of how the English acquired their vast domain; how they ruled, maintained, and exploited it; and how, within decades, they presided over its dissolution....

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    • How Britain Came to Fight America
    • By: Nick Bunker
    • Narrated by: Robert Ian Mackenzie
    • Length: 17 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 09-23-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 163 ratings
    • The story of the American Revolution told from the unique perspective of British Parliament and the streets of London, rather than that of the Colonies....

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    • An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire
    • By: Julia Baird
    • Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
    • Length: 21 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • When Victoria was born, in 1819, the world was a very different place. Revolution would threaten many of Europe’s monarchies in the coming decades. In Britain, a generation of royals had indulged their whims at the public’s expense, and republican sentiment was growing....

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