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    • Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
    • By: C.L.R. James
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 506 ratings
    • This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive account of the Haitian Revolution of 1794-1803, a revolution that began in the wake of the Bastille but became the model for the Third World liberation movements from Africa to Cuba....

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    • What the British Did to India
    • By: Shashi Tharoor
    • Narrated by: Shashi Tharoor
    • Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 11-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 530 ratings
    • In the 18th century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, it had decreased six-fold. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew rebels from cannons, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched racism, and caused millions to die from starvation....

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    • A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa
    • By: Michael Gomez
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 19 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 12-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • A groundbreaking book that puts early and medieval West Africa on the map of global history....

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    • Firsthand Accounts of Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation Program
    • By: Hal Gold, Yuma Totani - foreword
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 08-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 281 ratings
    • Some of the cruelest deeds of Japan's war in Asia did not occur on the battlefield, but in quiet, antiseptic medical wards in obscure parts of China. Far from front lines and prying eyes, Japanese doctors and their assistants subjected human guinea pigs to gruesome medical experiments....

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    • By: Edward Said
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 19 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 02-16-11
    • Language: English
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    • A landmark work from the author of Orientalism, this book explores the connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it....

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    • War, Peace, and Conquest in the Roman World
    • By: Adrian Goldsworthy
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 490 ratings
    • Best-selling author Adrian Goldsworthy turns his attention to the Pax Romana, the famous peace and prosperity brought by the Roman Empire at its height in the first and second centuries AD....

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    • The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
    • By: Caroline Elkins
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 17 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-23
    • Language: English
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    • As part of the Allied forces, thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the British in World War II. But just a few years after the defeat of Hitler, the British colonial government detained nearly the entire population of Kenya's largest ethnic minority, the Kikuyu....

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    • The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 1830-1910
    • By: Steven Hahn
    • Narrated by: Barry Press
    • Series: The Penguin History of the United States, Book 3
    • Length: 27 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • In this monumental story of American imperial conquest and capitalist development, Steven Hahn dismantles the conventional histories of the 19th century....

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    • El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
    • By: Mike Davis
    • Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
    • Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-17
    • Language: English
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    • ike Davis discloses the relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history....

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    • John Hay, Mark Twain, and the Rise of American Imperialism
    • By: Mark Zwonitzer
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 25 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-16
    • Language: English
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    • John Hay, Lincoln's private secretary and later secretary of state, and Samuel Langhorne Clemens, famous as "Mark Twain", grew up 50 miles apart....

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    • The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
    • By: Vincent Brown
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-21
    • Language: English
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    • In the second half of the 18th century, a movement of enslaved West Africans in Jamaica (then called Coromantees) organized to throw off the yoke of slavery by violence....

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    • The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World
    • By: J. C. Sharman
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
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    • Empires of the Weak argues that Europeans had no general military superiority in the early modern era. J. C. Sharman shows instead that European expansion is better explained by deference to strong Asian and African polities, disease in the Americas, and maritime supremacy....

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    • How One Man's Private American Army Tried to Conquer Mexico, Nicaragua, and Honduras
    • By: Scott Martelle
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • In the decade before the onset of the Civil War, groups of Americans engaged in a series of longshot - and illegal - forays into Mexico, Cuba, and other Central American countries in hopes of taking them over....

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    • Indigenous Genocide, Racialized Slavery, Hyper-Capitalism, Militarist Imperialism and Other Overlooked Aspects of American Exceptionalism (Sunlight Editions)
    • By: Daniel Sjursen
    • Narrated by: Daniel Sjursen
    • Series: Truth to Power
    • Length: 24 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 154 ratings
    • Brilliant, listenable, and raw. Maj. (ret.) Danny Sjursen, who served combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and later taught history at West Point, delivers a true epic and the perfect companion to Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States....

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    • By: Juan Cole
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 07-26-07
    • Language: English
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    • In this vivid history, master storyteller and world-renowned historian Juan Cole tells the story of Napoleon's invasion of Egypt in 1798....

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    • A History of Mexico
    • By: T. R. Fehrenbach
    • Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Length: 35 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 181 ratings
    • T. R. Fehrenbach brilliantly delineates the contrasts and conflicts between the many Mexicos, unraveling the history while weaving a fascinating tapestry of beauty and brutality: the Amerindians, who wrought from the vulnerable land a great indigenous Meso-American civilization....

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