English 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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    • By: Edward Said
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 19 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 02-16-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 194 ratings
    • A landmark work from the author of Orientalism, this book explores the connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it....

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    • Firsthand Accounts of Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation Program
    • By: Hal Gold, Yuma Totani - foreword
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 08-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 269 ratings
    • Some of the cruelest deeds of Japan's war in Asia did not occur on the battlefield, but in quiet, antiseptic medical wards in obscure parts of China. Far from front lines and prying eyes, Japanese doctors and their assistants subjected human guinea pigs to gruesome medical experiments....

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    • What Everyone Needs to Know
    • By: Richard D. Mahoney
    • Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
    • Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • In this new addition to the popular What Everyone Needs to Know series, Richard D. Mahoney links historical legacies, cultural features, and the relentless dynamics of the illegal drug industry to unravel the enigma of Colombia....

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    • Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance
    • By: Noam Chomsky, Marv Waterstone
    • Narrated by: Donald Corren
    • Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 398 ratings
    • Is there an alternative to capitalism? In this landmark text Chomsky and Waterstone chart a critical map for a more just and sustainable society....

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    • War, Peace, and Conquest in the Roman World
    • By: Adrian Goldsworthy
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 481 ratings
    • Best-selling author Adrian Goldsworthy turns his attention to the Pax Romana, the famous peace and prosperity brought by the Roman Empire at its height in the first and second centuries AD....

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    • El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
    • By: Mike Davis
    • Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
    • Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • ike Davis discloses the relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history....

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    • A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa
    • By: Michael Gomez
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 19 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 12-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • A groundbreaking book that puts early and medieval West Africa on the map of global history....

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    • A History of Mexico
    • By: T. R. Fehrenbach
    • Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Length: 35 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 176 ratings
    • T. R. Fehrenbach brilliantly delineates the contrasts and conflicts between the many Mexicos, unraveling the history while weaving a fascinating tapestry of beauty and brutality: the Amerindians, who wrought from the vulnerable land a great indigenous Meso-American civilization....

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    • By: David Harvey
    • Narrated by: Clive Chafer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 370 ratings
    • Neoliberalism - the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so....

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    • Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
    • By: C.L.R. James
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 488 ratings
    • This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive account of the Haitian Revolution of 1794-1803, a revolution that began in the wake of the Bastille but became the model for the Third World liberation movements from Africa to Cuba....

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    • The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 1830-1910
    • By: Steven Hahn
    • Narrated by: Barry Press
    • Series: The Penguin History of the United States, Book 3
    • Length: 27 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • In this monumental story of American imperial conquest and capitalist development, Steven Hahn dismantles the conventional histories of the 19th century....

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    • Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia
    • By: Gregg Mitman
    • Narrated by: Amir Abdullah
    • Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • A riveting narrative of ecology and disease, of commerce and science, and of racial politics and political maneuvering, Empire of Rubber uncovers the hidden story of a corporate empire whose tentacles reach into the present....

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    • Modern Horror and the Origins of American Empire
    • By: W. Scott Poole
    • Narrated by: Enrique McGavin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • The panoramic story of how the horror genre transformed into one of the most incisive critiques of unchecked American imperial power....

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    • The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman
    • By: Greg Grandin
    • Narrated by: Brian O'Neill
    • Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • A new account of America's most controversial diplomat that moves beyond praise or condemnation to reveal Kissinger as the architect of America's current imperial stance....

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    • Neoliberalism, the Pandemic and the Urgent Need for Social Change
    • By: Noam Chomsky, C.J. Polychroniou
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • Noam Chomsky sheds light into the phenomenon of Trumpism, exposes the catastrophic nature and impact of Trump's policies on people, the environment, and the planet as a whole, and captures the dynamics of the brutal class warfare launched by the masters of capital....

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    • By: Vladimir Ilich Lenin
    • Narrated by: Richard Webb
    • Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • This 100-year-old book still explains our endless wars. As the extraordinary death and suffering of World War I unfolded, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin tried to explain why so many nations agreed to sacrifice so many people in such a brutal way....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Ali Rattansi
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Racism: A Very Short Introduction incorporates the latest research to demystify the subject of racism and explore its history, science, and culture. It sheds light not only on how racism has evolved since its earliest beginnings, but will also explore the embodiments of racism....

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