History Ages

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    • A New History of the Middle Ages
    • By: Dan Jones
    • Narrated by: Dan Jones
    • Length: 24 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,825 ratings
    • When the once-mighty city of Rome was sacked by barbarians in 410 and lay in ruins, it signaled the end of an era—and the beginning of a thousand years of profound transformation....

    Regular price: $27.00

    • Hidden Histories of the Viking Age
    • By: Eleanor Barraclough
    • Narrated by: Eleanor Barraclough
    • Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • In imagining a Viking, a certain image springs to mind: a barbaric warrior, leaping ashore from a longboat, and ready to terrorize the hapless local population of a northern European town. Yet while such characters define our imagination of the Viking Age today, they were in the minority.

    Regular price: $17.49

    • A History of Freedom in Modern Life
    • By: Sophia Rosenfeld
    • Narrated by: Greg D. Barnett
    • Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Taking listeners from the seventeenth century to today, Sophia Rosenfeld tells the long history of the invention of choice as the defining feature of modern freedom.

    Regular price: $21.49

    • Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
    • By: Jon Gertner
    • Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
    • Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,056 ratings
    • In The Idea Factory, New York Times Magazine writer Jon Gertner reveals how Bell Labs served as an incubator for scientific innovation from the 1920s through the 1980s....

    Regular price: $25.79

    • The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire
    • By: Tore Skeie
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • The first major book on Vikings by a Scandinavian author to be published in English reframes the struggle for a North Sea empire and puts listeners in the mindset of Vikings, providing new insight into their goals, values, and what they chose to live and die for....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • The Age of the Great Kings
    • By: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
    • Narrated by: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
    • Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 192 ratings
    • The Achaemenid Persian kings ruled over the largest empire of antiquity, stretching from Libya to the steppes of Asia and from Ethiopia to Pakistan. In Persians, historian Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones tells the epic story of this dynasty and the world it ruled....

    Regular price: $35.09

    • A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
    • By: Yuval Noah Harari
    • Narrated by: Vidish Athavale
    • Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,044 ratings
    • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world.

    Regular price: $24.75

    • By: Frances Gies, Joseph Gies
    • Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Historians have only recently awakened to the importance of the family, the basic social unit throughout human history. This book traces the development of marriage and the family from the Middle Ages to the early modern era....

    Regular price: $13.97

    • From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
    • By: Chris Harman
    • Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
    • Length: 29 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 272 ratings
    • Chris Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals....

    Regular price: $23.64

    • The Survival of Civilizations
    • By: Eric H. Cline
    • Narrated by: John Chancer, Eric H. Cline
    • Series: Turning Points in Ancient History
    • Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 163 ratings
    • This audiobook tells the gripping story of what happened after the Bronze Age collapsed—why some civilizations endured, why some gave way to new ones, and why some disappeared forever.

    Regular price: $20.00

    • The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
    • By: Eric Jay Dolin
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,342 ratings
    • Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the dramatic and surprising history of American piracy's "Golden Age" - spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s - when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
    • By: Rob Goodman, Jimmy Soni
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 07-18-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 532 ratings
    • Claude Shannon was a tinkerer, a playful wunderkind, a groundbreaking polymath, and a digital pioneer whose insights made the Information Age possible....

    Regular price: $18.05

    • 1914-1991
    • By: Eric Hobsbawm
    • Narrated by: Hugh Kermode
    • Length: 25 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 98 ratings
    • Dividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, the Golden Age, and the Landslide, Hobsbawm marshals a vast array of data into a volume of unparalleled inclusiveness, vibrancy, and insight, a work that ranks with his classics The Age of Empire and The Age of Revolution....

    Regular price: $30.09

    • The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present
    • By: Eric R. Kandel
    • Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
    • Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 116 ratings
    • A brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight takes us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind and how mind and brain relate to art....

    Regular price: $25.79

    • The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream
    • By: H.W. Brands
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 17 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 415 ratings
    • When gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill on the American River, it completely transformed the territory of California....

    Regular price: $24.75

    • Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization
    • By: Roland Ennos
    • Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
    • Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 209 ratings
    • “A lively history of biology, mechanics, and culture that stretches back 60 million years” (Nature) The Age of Wood reinterprets human history and shows how our ability to exploit wood’s unique properties has profoundly shaped our bodies and minds....

    Regular price: $18.74

    • Illuminating the Dark Ages 400-1000
    • By: Chris Wickham
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Series: Penguin History of Europe Series, Book 2
    • Length: 32 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 359 ratings
    • Historian Chris Wickham defies the conventional view of the Dark Ages in European history with a work of remarkable scope and rigorous yet accessible scholarship. The Inheritance of Rome presents a fresh understanding of the crucible in which Europe would ultimately be created....

    Regular price: $30.09

    • A History of the English Speaking Peoples, Volume III
    • By: Sir Winston Churchill
    • Narrated by: Christian Rodska
    • Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 636 ratings
    • This is the third volume in Churchill's famous account. During the long period of 1688 to 1815, three revolutions took place, and all led to war between the British and the French....

    Regular price: $21.50

    • A History of Financial Speculation
    • By: Edward Chancellor
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 367 ratings
    • Devil Take the Hindmost is a lively, original, and challenging history of stock market speculation from the 17th century to the present day. Edward Chancellor traces the origins of the speculative spirit back to ancient Rome and chronicles its revival in the modern world....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • 1875-1914
    • By: Eric Hobsbawm
    • Narrated by: Hugh Kermode
    • Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 114 ratings
    • Hobsbawm discusses the evolution of European economics, politics, arts, sciences, and cultural life from the height of the industrial revolution to the First World War....

    Regular price: $21.49