Enlightenment History

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    • The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790
    • By: Ritchie Robertson
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 40 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-21
    • Language: English
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    • This magisterial history - sure to become the definitive work on the subject - recasts the Enlightenment as a period not solely consumed with rationale and reason, but rather as a pursuit of practical means to achieve greater human happiness....

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    • Ideas, Revolution, and Democratic Defeat, 1748-1830
    • By: Jonathan I. Israel
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 60 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 12-14-21
    • Language: English
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    • The Enlightenment That Failed explores the growing rift between those Enlightenment trends and initiatives that appealed exclusively to elites and those aspiring to enlighten all of society by raising mankind's awareness, freedoms, and educational level generally....

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    • An Idea and Its History
    • By: J. C. D. Clark
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Length: 19 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 12-24-24
    • Language: English
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    • There are many books claiming to explain the Enlightenment, but most assume that it was a thing. J. C. D. Clark shows what it actually was, namely a historiographical concept.

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    • The Rise of Modern Philosophy
    • By: Anthony Gottlieb
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-16
    • Language: English
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    • In The Dream of Enlightenment, Anthony Gottlieb expertly navigates a second great explosion of thought, taking us to northern Europe in the wake of its wars of religion....

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    • Gastronomic Tales of Revolution, War, and Enlightenment
    • By: Stephane Henaut, Jeni Mitchell
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-19
    • Language: English
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    • A witty exploration of the facts and legends surrounding some of the most popular French foods and wines by a French cheesemonger and an American academic, A Bite-Sized History of France tells the compelling and often surprising story of France from the Roman era to modern times....

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    • By: Hourly History
    • Narrated by: John Riddle
    • Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
    • Release date: 10-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • From its beginnings as a loosely definable group of philosophical ideas to the culmination of its revolutionary effect on public life in Europe, the Age of Enlightenment is the defining intellectual and cultural movement of the modern world....

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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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 892 ratings
    • 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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    • The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
    • By: Steven Pinker
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 19 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7,216 ratings
    • The follow-up to Pinker's groundbreaking The Better Angels of Our Nature presents the big picture of human progress: People are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives....

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    • The Rise of Modern Philosophy
    • By: Anthony Gottlieb
    • Narrated by: Anthony Gottlieb
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 195 ratings
    • In The Dream of Enlightenment, Anthony Gottlieb expertly navigates a second great explosion of thought, taking us to northern Europe in the wake of its wars of religion....

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    • Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations
    • By: Craig Nelson
    • Narrated by: Paul Hecht
    • Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-11
    • Language: English
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    • John Adams told Thomas Jefferson that “history is to ascribe the American Revolution to Thomas Paine"....

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    • And Why It Still Matters
    • By: Anthony Pagden
    • Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
    • Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 126 ratings
    • One of our most renowned and brilliant historians takes a fresh look at the revolutionary intellectual movement that laid the foundation for the modern world....

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    • A Captivating Guide to the Age of Reason and a Period of Major Industrialization
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-20
    • Language: English
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    • If you want to discover the captivating history of the Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution, then this two-in-one books bundle is for you. Includes: Age of Enlightenment and The Industrial Revolution....

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    • Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind
    • By: Michael Massing
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 34 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 290 ratings
    • This deeply textured dual biography and fascinating intellectual history examines two of the greatest minds of European history - Desiderius Erasmus and Martin Luther - and their heated rivalry....

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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 504 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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    • The Resurgence of Intellectual Life from the End of Antiquity to the Dawn of the Enlightenment
    • By: Charles Freeman
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 27 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-23
    • Language: English
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    • Charles Freeman, lauded historical scholar and author of The Closing of the Western Mind (“A triumph”—The Times), explores the rebirth of Western thought in the centuries that followed the demise of the classical era....

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    • The Ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the Present
    • By: Oswyn Murray
    • Narrated by: Justin Avoth
    • Length: 16 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • The study of ancient Greece has been central to Western conceptions of history since the Renaissance. The Muse of History traces the shifting patterns of this preoccupation in the last three centuries.

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    • By: David Graeber
    • Narrated by: Roger Davis
    • Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • Pirates have long lived in the realm of romance and fantasy, symbolizing risk, lawlessness, and radical visions of freedom. But at the root of this mythology is a rich history of pirate societies....

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    • By: Andrew S. Curran
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 07-24-19
    • Language: English
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    • Denis Diderot is often associated with the decades-long battle to bring the world's first comprehensive Encyclopedie into existence. But his most daring writing took place in the shadows....

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