Global Empire

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    • Futurica Trilogy 2
    • By: Jan Söderqvist, Alexander Bard
    • Narrated by: Bert Deivert
    • Series: Futurica Trilogy, Book 2
    • Length: 15 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 06-16-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • "The Global Empire" has correctly been described as Bard & Söderqvist's philosophically most profound work. In this book, they explore what a world view is...

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    • A Global History
    • By: Sven Beckert
    • Narrated by: Jim Frangione
    • Length: 20 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 565 ratings
    • Sven Beckert's rich, fascinating audiobook tells the story of how European entrepreneurs and powerful statesmen recast the world's most significant manufacturing industry....

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    • The Battle for Global Empire and the End of the Ancient World
    • By: Tom Holland
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 168 ratings
    • In the 6th century AD, the Near East was divided between two venerable empires: the Persian and the Roman. A hundred years on and one had vanished forever, while the other seemed almost finished....

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    • How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
    • By: Roger Crowley
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 730 ratings
    • Within a short time span, a tiny country whose population did not exceed a million created a maritime empire that stretched from Brazil to Nagasaki....

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    • The Woman Behind the Global Beauty Empire
    • By: Stacy A. Cordery
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-24
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A sweeping biography of one of the most influential and successful business-women in American history, BECOMING ELIZABETH ARDEN opens the Red Door to a world of wealth, glamor, and the profitable business of beauty

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    • The Global Battle to Regulate Technology
    • By: Anu Bradford
    • Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
    • Length: 21 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 07-23-24
    • Language: English
    • 2.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The global battle among the three dominant digital powers-the United States, China, and the European Union-is intensifying. All three regimes are racing to regulate tech companies, with each advancing a competing vision for the digital economy while attempting to expand its sphere of influence....

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    • Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire
    • By: Brad Stone
    • Narrated by: Pete Larkin
    • Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 909 ratings
    • Almost 10 years ago, Bloomberg journalist Brad Stone captured the rise of Amazon in his best seller The Everything Store. Since then, Amazon has expanded exponentially....

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    • Why Geopolitics Hastens Climate Catastrophe
    • By: Gerard Toal
    • Narrated by: Al Kessel
    • Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-24
    • Language: English
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    • In the last few years, it has become abundantly clear that the effects of accelerating climate change will be catastrophic. Yet why do nation-states find it so difficult to implement transnational policies? In Oceans Rise, Empires Fall, Gerard Toal identifies geopolitics as the culprit.

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    • The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire
    • By: Joseph Sassoon
    • Narrated by: James Lurie
    • Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • For more than two centuries, from the 18th to the 20th, they were one of the richest families in the world, known as "the Rothschilds of the East"....

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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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    • The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia
    • By: Pankaj Mishra
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • A little more than a century ago, original thinkers across Asia, working independently, sought to frame a distinctly Asian intellectual tradition....

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    • The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
    • By: Tom Holland
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 669 ratings
    • Tom Holland describes how the Arabs emerged to carve out a stupefyingly vast dominion in a matter of decades, overcoming seemingly insuperable odds....

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    • The Episcopal Church in Global Context
    • By: Jennifer C. Snow
    • Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee
    • Length: 15 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Mission, Race, and Empire presents a new history of the Episcopal Church from its origins in the early British Empire up to the present, told through the lenses of empire and race....

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    • Unraveling Empire for a Global World
    • By: Kwok Pui-lan
    • Narrated by: Cindy Kay
    • Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Postcolonial Politics and Theology seeks to reform and reimagine the field of political theology—uprooting it from the colonial soil—using the comparative lenses of postcolonial politics and theology to bring attention to the realities of the Global South....

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    • The History of the Conspiracy Theory About the Global Empire of Tartaria
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: David Van Der Molen
    • Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
    • Release date: 12-28-22
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • The phenomenon of “conspiracy” or “fringe” theories has always been with people, which makes sense since captivating and entertaining hypotheses arouse the public interest with seemingly sound conclusions that are often based on incomplete, unrelated, or erroneous suppositions....

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    • How America Weaponized the World Economy
    • By: Henry Farrell, Abraham Newman
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • A deeply researched investigation that reveals how the United States is like a spider at the heart of an international web of surveillance and control, which it weaves in the form of globe-spanning networks such as fiber optic cables and obscure payment systems....

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    • The Global History of Empire Since 1405
    • By: John Darwin
    • Narrated by: Peter Johnson
    • Length: 20 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • Tamerlane, the Ottomans, the Mughals, the Manchus, the British, the Japanese, the Nazis, and the Soviets: All built empires meant to last forever; all were to fail....

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    • How Edmond J. Safra Built a Global Financial Empire
    • By: Daniel Gross
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 12-13-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Financial journalist and historian Daniel Gross, who, like Edmond Safra, traces his heritage to Aleppo, Syria, reconstructs the public life of an intensely private man.

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    • How Portugal Seized the Indian Ocean and Forged the First Global Empire
    • By: Roger Crowley
    • Narrated by: John Sackville
    • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten....

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