Global History

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    • A Global History of World War II
    • By: Paul Thomas Chamberlin
    • Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
    • Length: 23 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 05-06-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Historian Paul Thomas Chamberlin provides a powerful, unsparing new history of World War II, recasting the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ascendant imperial powers.

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    • A Global History
    • By: Roderick Beaton
    • Narrated by: Anna Crowe
    • Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 11-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 115 ratings
    • More than 2,000 years ago, the Greek city-states, led by Athens and Sparta, laid the foundation for much of modern science, the arts, politics, and law. But the influence of the Greeks did not end with the rise and fall of this classical civilization....

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    • A New History of the World
    • By: Peter Frankopan
    • Narrated by: Mike Grady
    • Length: 25 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west—in the New World of the Americas. Today, it is the east which calls out to those in search of adventure and riches....

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    • Modern Library Chronicles Series, Book 21
    • By: Joel Kotkin
    • Narrated by: Nelson Runger
    • Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Joel Kotkin explores the history of cities around the globe. He argues that urban areas must be places where there is a shared feeling of sacredness, civic identity, and moral order....

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    • A Global History
    • By: Bruce Gordon
    • Narrated by: Richard Attlee
    • Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Bruce Gordon tells the astounding story of the Bible’s journey around the globe and across more than two thousand years, showing how it has shaped and been shaped by changing beliefs and believers’ radically different needs....

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    • A Global History of Christianity
    • By: Robert Louis Wilken
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 17 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • Beginning with the life of Jesus, Robert Louis Wilken narrates the dramatic spread and development of Christianity over the first thousand years of its history....

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    • A Global History of the First Psychedelic
    • By: Mike Jay
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 85 ratings
    • A definitive history of mescaline that explores its mind-altering effects across cultures, from ancient America to Western modernity....

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    • Questions and Answers for Humanity's 7 Oldest and Largest Faiths
    • By: Jill Carroll PhD
    • Narrated by: Leslie Howard
    • Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • If you’re interested in learning about world religions, this book is the place to start. Packed with informative fact sheets and answers to common questions, this beginner’s guide fills you in on the most important aspects of each religion.

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    • A Global History
    • By: Craig L. Symonds
    • Narrated by: Eric Martin
    • Length: 25 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,435 ratings
    • Craig Symonds shows how any limitations on naval warfare would become irrelevant before the decade was up. World War II at Sea offers a global perspective, focusing on the major engagements and personalities and revealing both their scale and their interconnection....

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    • A Warning to the Global Middle Class
    • By: Joel Kotkin
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 489 ratings
    • Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased dogmatism....

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    • A Global History
    • By: Jeremy Black
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Strategy has existed as long as there has been organized conflict. In this account, Jeremy Black explores the ever-changing relationship between purpose, force, implementation, and effectiveness in military strategy and its dramatic impact on the development of the global power system....

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    • A Global History
    • By: Lorenzo Veracini
    • Narrated by: Stewart Crank
    • Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Colonialism: A Global History interprets colonialism as an unequal relationship characterized by displacement and domination and reveals the ways in which this relationship has been constitutive of global modernity....

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    • A Global History
    • By: Peter Burke
    • Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • A rich, wide-ranging history of ignorance in all its forms, from antiquity to the present day....

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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 70 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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    • A Global History
    • By: Sven Beckert
    • Length: 40 hrs
    • Release date: 11-25-25
    • Language: English
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    • A landmark event eight years in the making, a brilliant global narrative that unravels the defining story of the past thousand years of human history.

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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 704 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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    • How the Unsolved Murder of a Doctor, a Secret Laboratory in New Orleans and Cancer-Causing Monkey Viruses Are Linked to Lee Harvey Oswald, the JFK Assassination, and Emerging Global Epidemics
    • By: Edward T. Haslam
    • Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
    • Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 807 ratings
    • The 1964 murder of a nationally known cancer researcher sets the stage for this gripping exposé of medical professionals enmeshed in covert government operations....

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    • When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself
    • By: Richard D. Wolff
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • The coronavirus pandemic, the deepening economic crash, dangerously divisive political responses, and exploding social tensions have thrown an already declining American capitalist system into a tailspin. The consequences of these mounting and intertwined crises will shape our future....

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    • A Global History of Nuclear Disasters
    • By: Serhii Plokhy
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 114 ratings
    • Atoms and Ashes recounts the dramatic history of nuclear accidents that have dogged the industry in its military and civil incarnations since the 1950s. Through the stories of six terrifying major incidents, Cold War expert Serhii Plokhy explores the risks of nuclear power....

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