Revolution History

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    • By: Howard Zinn
    • Narrated by: Jeff Zinn
    • Length: 34 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 12-14-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,465 ratings
    • For much of his life, historian Howard Zinn chronicled American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version taught in schools - with its emphasis on great men in high places - to focus on the street, the home, and the workplace....

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    • By: Leon Trotsky
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Booth
    • Length: 53 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 04-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the most cataclysmic events in world history, profoundly shaping politics, international relations, social patterns, economics and science in the century that followed....

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    • By: Hannah Arendt
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 244 ratings
    • Hannah Arendt's penetrating observations on the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, have been fundamental to our understanding of our political landscape....

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    • The History of England, Book 4
    • By: Peter Ackroyd
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Series: The History of England, Book 4
    • Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 131 ratings
    • In Revolution, Peter Ackroyd takes listeners from William of Orange's accession following the Glorious Revolution to the Regency....

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    • How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence
    • By: Ray Raphael
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 12-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • A sweeping narrative of the wartime experience, A People's History of the American Revolution is the first book to view the Revolution through the eyes of common folk. Their stories have long been overlooked in the mythic telling of America's founding....

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    • A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957
    • By: Frank Dikotter
    • Narrated by: Bruce Mann
    • Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 153 ratings
    • Following the defeat of Chiang Kai-shek in 1949, after a bloody civil war, Mao hoisted the red flag over Beijing's Forbidden City, and the world watched as the Communist revolution began to wash away the old order....

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    • Revolution and Terror in America's Colony
    • By: Nelson A. Denis
    • Narrated by: Luis Vega
    • Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 06-03-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • The powerful, untold story of the 1950 revolution in Puerto Rico and the long history of U.S. intervention on the island, that the New York Times says "could not be more timely."

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    • By: Richard Pipes
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 41 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 07-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 311 ratings
    • Groundbreaking in its inclusiveness, enthralling in its narrative of a movement whose purpose, in the words of Leon Trotsky, was "to overthrow the world", The Russian Revolution draws conclusions that aroused great controversy....

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    • The History of the French Revolution
    • By: Jeremy D. Popkin
    • Narrated by: Pete Cross, Jeremy D. Popkin
    • Length: 21 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 339 ratings
    • In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the revolution that puts the listener in the thick of the debates and the violence that led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a new society....

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    • The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution
    • By: R. R. Palmer, Isser Woloch - foreword
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • The Reign of Terror continues to fascinate scholars as one of the bloodiest periods in French history, when the Committee of Public Safety strove to defend the first Republic from its many enemies, creating a climate of fear and suspicion in revolutionary France....

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    • An American Family
    • By: Annette Gordon-Reed
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 30 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 856 ratings
    • This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently....

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    • An Intimate History
    • By: Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns
    • Length: 20 hrs
    • Release date: 11-11-25
    • Language: English
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    • The American Revolution was at once a war for independence, a civil war, and a world war. In this sumptuous volume, historian Geoffrey C. Ward ably steers us through the international forces at play, telling the story not from the top down but from the bottom up

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    • By: Gordon S. Wood
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 24 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 85 ratings
    • This classic work explains the evolution of American political thought from the Declaration of Independence to the ratification of the Constitution. In so doing, it greatly illuminates the origins of the present American political system....

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    • A Continental History, 1750-1804
    • By: Alan Taylor
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 18 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 531 ratings
    • The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ideal framework for a democratic, prosperous nation....

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    • Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
    • By: R. F. Kuang
    • Narrated by: Chris Lew Kum Hoi, Billie Fulford-Brown
    • Length: 21 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,651 ratings
    • 1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he’ll enroll in Oxford University’s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation....

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    • Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921
    • By: Antony Beevor
    • Narrated by: Rob Heaps
    • Length: 21 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 130 ratings
    • Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. The doomed White alliance of moderate socialists and reactionary monarchists stood little chance against Trotsky’s Red Army and the single-minded Communist dictatorship under Lenin....

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    • A New History of the Scientific Revolution
    • By: David Wootton
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Length: 22 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 137 ratings
    • A groundbreaking examination of the greatest event in history, the Scientific Revolution, and how it came to change the way we understand ourselves and our world....

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