Western Civilization History

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    • The West and the Rest
    • By: Niall Ferguson
    • Narrated by: Niall Ferguson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-11
    • Language: English
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    • The rise to global predominance of Western civilization is the single most important historical phenomenon of the past five hundred years....

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    • Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 05-22-07
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • From anonymous 10th-century troubadours to world-renowned 20th-century composers, this comprehensive commentary explores the roots of the most influential music genres of our time....

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    • A Captivating Guide to West African History, Starting from Ancient Civilizations Through the Medieval Period to the Present
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
    • Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Beginning in prehistoric times, West Africa has always been an incredible region. Early nomadic tribes settled into some of the earliest communities on Earth and learned how to work with metal. This audiobook covers some of the most important events in West Africa’s history....

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    • The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
    • By: Tom Holland
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,397 ratings
    • The story of how their citizens took on the Great King of Persia, and thereby saved not only themselves, but Western civilization as well, is as heart-stopping and fateful as any episode in history....

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    • A New History in Fourteen Lives
    • By: Naoíse Mac Sweeney
    • Narrated by: Shaheen Khan
    • Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Prize-winning historian Naoíse Mac Sweeney delivers a captivating exploration of how “Western Civilization”—the concept of a single cultural inheritance extending from ancient Greece to modern times—is a powerful figment of our collective imagination....

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    • A 4,000 Year History
    • By: Josephine Quinn
    • Narrated by: Alix Dunmore
    • Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • An award-winning Oxford history professor overturns the way the West thinks about itself, tracing its innovations and traditions to societies from all over the world and making the case that the West is, and always has been, truly global.

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    • The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
    • By: Iain McGilchrist
    • Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
    • Length: 27 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 574 ratings
    • This pioneering account sets out to understand the structure of the human brain - the place where mind meets matter. Until recently, the left hemisphere of our brain has been seen as the "rational" side, the superior partner to the right....

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    • From Dante to Galileo: The Transformation of Western Civilization
    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 94 ratings
    • The Florentines presents a sweeping and magisterial 400-year history of both the city and the people who gave birth to the Renaissance....

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    • How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization
    • By: Vishal Mangalwadi
    • Narrated by: Peter Lawrence
    • Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 320 ratings
    • Learn how the Bible transformed the social, political, and religious institutions that have sustained Western culture for the past millennium, and discover how secular corruption endangers the stability and longevity of Western civilization....

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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 26 ratings
    • A groundbreaking book that puts early and medieval West Africa on the map of global history....

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    • A View from the Future
    • By: Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway
    • Narrated by: Lesa Lockford
    • Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Dramatizing science in ways traditional nonfiction cannot, The Collapse of Western Civilization reasserts the importance of scientists and the work they do, providing a welcome moment of clarity amid the cacophony of climate-change literature....

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    • By: Samuel Gregg
    • Narrated by: John McLain
    • Length: 6 hrs
    • Release date: 06-25-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 158 ratings
    • Western civilization's genius is in its synthesis of reason and faith. These foundations are under assault today from Islamists and radical secularists. Unless Western society recovers its confidence in this synthesis...our future is limited.....

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    • The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
    • By: Mark Pendergrast
    • Narrated by: Matthew Boston
    • Length: 16 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks. In this updated edition of the classic work, Mark Pendergrast reviews the dramatic changes in coffee culture over the past decade....

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    • Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization
    • By: Arthur Herman
    • Narrated by: Paul Hecht
    • Length: 25 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 525 ratings
    • The Cave and the Light reveals how two Greek philosophers became the twin fountainheads of Western culture, and how their rivalry gave Western civilization its unique dynamism down to the present....

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    • Exploring the Anasazi World of the Southwest
    • By: David Roberts
    • Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 121 ratings
    • An exuberant, hands-on fly-on-the-wall account that combines the thrill of canyoneering and rock climbing with the intellectual sleuthing of archaeology to explore the Anasazi....

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    • How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization
    • By: Jonathan Lyons
    • Narrated by: Jay Snyder
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 107 ratings
    • Here is the story of how medieval Arab scholars made dazzling advances in science and philosophy, and of the Europeans who brought this knowledge back to the West....

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    • A 4,000-Year History
    • By: Josephine Quinn
    • Narrated by: Alix Dunmore
    • Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 02-29-24
    • Language: English
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    • In a bold and magisterial work of immense scope, Josephine Quinn argues that the real story of the West is much bigger than this established paradigm leads us to believe. So much of our shared history has been lost....

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    • How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
    • By: Joseph Henrich
    • Narrated by: Korey Jackson
    • Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 469 ratings
    • In The WEIRDest People in the World, Joseph Henrich draws on cutting-edge research in anthropology, psychology, economics, and evolutionary biology to explore these questions and more....

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