Central Asian History

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    • A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present
    • By: Adeeb Khalid
    • Narrated by: Aaqil Ahmed
    • Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • Adeeb Khalid provides the first comprehensive history of Central Asia from the mid-18th century to today, shedding light on the historical forces that have shaped the region under imperial and Communist rule....

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    • Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane
    • By: S. Frederick Starr
    • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 25 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 503 ratings
    • Lost Enlightenment chronicles this forgotten age of achievement, seeks to explain its rise, and explores the competing theories about the cause of its eventual demise....

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    • A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present
    • By: Christopher I. Beckwith
    • Narrated by: Jim Lee
    • Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • With narration by Jim Lee, who tells the epic story of the rise and fall of the Silk Road empires....

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    • By: Colin Falconer
    • Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
    • Series: Epic Adventure
    • Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 136 ratings
    • From the Storehouse of Winds to the Palace of Myriad Tranquillities, from the Pamirs and Hindu Kush to the legendary Xanadu and the dazzling court of Khubilai Khan, this is romance and adventure on a breathtaking scale....

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    • By: Kenneth Harl
    • Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
    • Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 111 ratings
    • A narrative history of how Attila, Genghis Khan and the so-called barbarians of the steppes shaped world civilization....

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    • Exploring the Roof of the World
    • By: John Keay
    • Narrated by: Nick Holbek
    • Length: 15 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Himalaya is one of the world's most extraordinary geophysical, historical, environmental and social regions. Historian John Keay introduces us to the myriad mysteries of this vast, confounding and utterly fascinating corner of the planet....

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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 715 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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    • How the Mongols Changed the World
    • By: Marie Favereau
    • Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
    • Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • Favereau takes us inside one of the most powerful sources of cross-border integration in world history. The Horde was the central node in the Eurasian commercial boom of the 13th and 14th centuries and was a conduit for exchanges across thousands of miles....

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    • Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China
    • By: Robert D. Kaplan
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 08-22-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • Robert D. Kaplan explores Greater Middle East through reporting and travel writing to reveal deeper truths about the impacts of history on the present and how the requirements of stability over anarchy are often in conflict with the ideals of democratic governance.

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    • The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89
    • By: Rodric Braithwaite
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • The story of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan is well known: the expansionist Communists overwhelmed a poor country as a means of reaching a warm-water port on the Persian Gulf. It is a great story—but it never happened....

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    • The Ancient World Economy and the Empires of Parthia, Central Asia and Han China
    • By: Raoul McLaughlin
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 142 ratings
    • The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes investigates the trade routes between Rome and the powerful empires of inner Asia, including the Parthian regime which ruled ancient Persia (Iran)....

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    • Obsession, Betrayal, and the Deadly Quest for the Lost City of Alexandria
    • By: Edmund Richardson
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • This is a wild journey through nineteenth-century India and Afghanistan, with impeccably researched storytelling that shows us a world of espionage and dreamers, ne'er-do-wells and opportunists, extreme violence both personal and military, and boundless hope....

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    • One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations
    • By: Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,739 ratings
    • In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya....

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    • His Conquests, His Empire, His Legacy
    • By: Frank McLynn
    • Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
    • Length: 24 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 171 ratings
    • Frank McLynn brings vividly to life the strange world of the Mongols and describes Temujin's rise from boyhood outcast to becoming Genghis Khan....

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    • The Russian Nobleman Who Became the Last Khan of Mongolia
    • By: James Palmer
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 156 ratings
    • In the history of the modern world, there have been few characters more sadistic, sinister, and deeply demented as Baron Ungern-Sternberg....

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    • A History of the World through Islamic Eyes
    • By: Tamim Ansary
    • Narrated by: Tamim Ansary
    • Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,962 ratings
    • Until about 1800, the West and the Islamic realm were like two adjacent, parallel universes, each assuming itself to be the center of the world while ignoring the other....

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    • Afghanistan's Hundred-Year War
    • By: Phil Halton
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • The first step toward achieving a "solution" to the Afghanistan "problem" is to have a clear-eyed view of what is really driving it....

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