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 1,818 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....

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    • By: Alistair Horne
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 20 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 11-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 210 ratings
    • Alistair Horne portrays an array of incidents to show us how Paris endures through each age, is altered but always emerges more brilliant and beautiful than ever. The Seven Ages of Paris is a great historian's tribute to a city he loves and has spent a lifetime learning to know....

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    • 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 1,982 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.

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    • 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 181 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....

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    • 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 1,052 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....

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    • 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 29 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.

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    • 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....

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    • 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 115 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....

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    • Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
    • By: Walter Scheidel
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 17 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 306 ratings
    • Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes....

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    • The Wonder of the Age
    • By: John Rhodehamel
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • Rhodehamel examines George Washington as a public figure, arguing that the man - who first achieved fame in his early twenties - is inextricably bound to his mythic status....

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    • 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.

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    • By: John Keegan
    • Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
    • Length: 19 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 348 ratings
    • Starting with the premise that all civilizations owe their origins to warmaking, Keegan probes the meanings, motivations, and methods underlying war in different societies....

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    • The Myth of a Golden Age
    • By: Ada Palmer
    • Narrated by: Candida Gubbins
    • Length: 30 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • An irreverent new take on the Renaissance, which reveals it as anything but Europe’s golden age.

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    • Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
    • By: Dan Carlin
    • Narrated by: Dan Carlin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10,357 ratings
    • In The End Is Always Near, Dan Carlin looks at questions and historical events that force us to consider what sounds like fantasy; that we might suffer the same fate that all previous eras did....

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    • An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
    • By: Simon Schama
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Length: 20 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Simon Schama explores the mysterious contradictions of the Dutch nation that invented itself from the ground up, attained an unprecedented level of affluence, and lived in constant dread of being corrupted by happiness.

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    • 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 207 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....

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    • 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 356 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....

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    • By: Lawrence Block, as John Warren Wells
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • What Do You Do When You're A Kid And: --You find that your heterosexuality is shaken when you become part of a lesbian triangle? --You are a boy ...

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