Global History

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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 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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    • A Global History
    • By: Julia Lovell
    • Narrated by: Nancy Wu
    • Length: 21 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 98 ratings
    • For decades, the West has dismissed Maoism as an outdated historical and political phenomenon. Since the 1980s, China seems to have abandoned the utopian turmoil of Mao’s revolution in favor of authoritarian capitalism. But Mao and his ideas remain central to the People’s Republic....

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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 109 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 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 1 rating
    • 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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    • How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine
    • By: Jim Downs
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Most stories of medical progress come with ready-made heroes. John Snow traced the origins of London's 1854 cholera outbreak to a water pump, leading to the birth of epidemiology....

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    • A Global History of the Olympics
    • By: David Goldblatt
    • Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
    • Length: 18 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 07-26-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • In The Games, Goldblatt delivers a magisterial history of the biggest sporting event of them all: the Olympics. He tells the epic story of the games....

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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 16 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: Martin Marty
    • Narrated by: Nelson Runger
    • Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • In his comprehensive yet concise The Christian World, Marty outlines the life and teachings of Christ and details how his followers spread the gospel to the world....

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    • A Global History of Soccer
    • By: David Goldblatt, David Goldblatt - foreword
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 38 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • In this extraordinary tour de force, David Goldblatt tells the full story of soccer's rise from chaotic folk ritual to the world's most popular sport - now poised to fully establish itself in the USA....

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    • Origins of the Global Drug Trade
    • By: Benjamin Breen
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • In The Age of Intoxication, Benjamin Breen offers a window into a time when drugs were not yet separated into categories - illicit and licit, recreational and medicinal, modern and traditional - and there was no barrier between the drug dealer and the pharmacist....

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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 to Prepare for the Coming Climate Disruption
    • By: Alice C. Hill, Leonardo Martinez-Diaz
    • Narrated by: Christina Delaine
    • Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Building a Resilient Tomorrow starts with two central facts: Climate impacts will continue to occur, and we can make changes now to mitigate their effects....

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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 104 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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    • 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 1,385 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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    • 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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    • 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: 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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    • A Global History of Financial Bubbles
    • By: William Quinn, John D. Turner
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • Why do stock and housing markets sometimes experience amazing booms followed by massive busts, and why is this happening more and more frequently? In order to answer these questions, William Quinn and John D. Turner take us on a riveting ride through the history of financial bubbles....

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