British Imperialism

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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 513 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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    • How History Makes History
    • By: Priya Satia
    • Narrated by: Tanya Rodriguez, Priya Satia
    • Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • For generations, British thinkers told the history of an empire whose story was still very much in the making. Priya Satia shows how these historians not only interpreted the major political events of their time but also shaped the future that followed....

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    • The Corporations That Built British Colonialism
    • By: Philip J. Stern
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Challenging conventional wisdom about where power is held on a global scale, Stern complicates the supposedly firm distinction between private enterprise and the state, offering a new history of the British Empire, as well as a new history of the corporation....

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    • The History and Legacy of Great Britain's Imperialism in India and the Indian Subcontinent
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Scott Clem
    • Length: 1 hr and 20 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-16
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • The British East India Company served as one of the key players in the formation of the British Empire....

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    • The History and Legacy of British Imperialism in Modern South Africa and Zimbabwe
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In 1795, the British, emerging after the Napoleonic Wars as the globe’s naval superpower, assumed control of the Cape as part of the spoils of war. In doing so, they recognized the enormous strategic value of the Cape as global shipping routes were developing and expanding....

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    • How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe
    • By: Sathnam Sanghera
    • Narrated by: Homer Todiwala
    • Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 01-25-24
    • Language: English
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    • Empireworld traces the legacies of British empire across the globe....

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    • How British Imperialism Shaped the Globe
    • By: Sathnam Sanghera
    • Narrated by: Homer Todiwala
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Bestselling author and journalist Sathnam Sanghera explores the global legacy of the British Empire, and the ways it continues to influence economics, politics, and culture around the world....

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    • A History of the British Empire
    • By: Caroline Elkins
    • Narrated by: Adam Barr
    • Length: 31 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a searing study of the British Empire that interrogates the pervasive use of violence throughout the 20th century and traces how these practices were exported, modified and institutionalised in colonies around the globe....

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    • A True Story of Colonial Loot and Restless Objects
    • By: Noah Angell
    • Narrated by: Noah Angell
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-24
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Ghosts of the British Museum fuses storytelling, folklore and history, digs deep into our imperial past and unmasks the world's oldest national museum as a site of ongoing conflict, where under the guise of preservation, restless objects are held against their will....

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    • Freemasons and British Imperialism, 1717-1927
    • By: Jessica L. Harland-Jacobs
    • Narrated by: Brett Barry
    • Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-20-10
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • They built some of the first communal structures on the empire's frontiers....

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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: 05-17-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 88 ratings
    • Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Inglorious Empire written and read by Shashi Tharoor....

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    • Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire
    • By: Simon Winchester
    • Narrated by: Simon Winchester
    • Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 216 ratings
    • Originally published in 1985, Outposts is Simon Winchester's journey to find the vanishing empire, "on which the sun never sets"....

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    • A Tale of Two Islands
    • By: Hazel V. Carby
    • Narrated by: Hazel V. Carby
    • Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • “Where are you from?” was the question hounding Hazel Carby as a girl in post-war London. One of the so-called brown babies of the Windrush generation, born to a Jamaican father and Welsh mother....

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    • By: Vladimir Lenin
    • Narrated by: Peter Wickham
    • Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Written in 1916 against the backdrop of the First World War, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism explains the flaws and power of capitalism, which inevitably lead to monopolies, imperialism and colonialism....

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    • A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj
    • By: Anita Anand
    • Narrated by: Anita Anand
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Anita Anand tells the remarkable story of one Indian's 20-year quest for revenge, taking him around the world in search of those he held responsible for the Amritsar massacre of 1919, which cost the lives of hundreds....

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    • How the British Conquered Themselves
    • By: Peter Mitchell
    • Narrated by: Alan Gilchrist
    • Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-22
    • Language: English
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    • A strong emotional attachment to the memory of empire runs deep in British culture. In recent years, that memory has become a battleground in a long-drawn ideological war, inflecting debates on race, class, gender, culture, the UK’s future and its place in the world....

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    • How the World Took on the British Empire
    • By: David Veevers
    • Narrated by: David Veevers
    • Length: 18 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-23
    • Language: English
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    • The story of the British Empire is a familiar one: Britain came, it saw, it conquered, forging a glorious world empire upon which the sun never set....

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    • A Personal History of the British Empire in the Middle East
    • By: Sabrina Mahfouz
    • Narrated by: Sabrina Mahfouz
    • Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-22
    • Language: English
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    • Part history, part polemic and part intimate memoir, These Bodies of Water is a tapestry of writing that tells the story of Britain's relationship with the Middle East in the most revealing terms....

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    • A History of Empire in Modern Britain
    • By: Charlotte Lydia Riley
    • Narrated by: Charlotte Lydia Riley
    • Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-23
    • Language: English
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    • This riveting new history shows how having an empire and losing it has shaped modern Britain....

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