Western European History

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    • The Fate of Human Societies
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
    • Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12,325 ratings
    • Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....

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    • A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
    • By: David Grann
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham, David Grann
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,095 ratings
    • On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell....

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    • The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
    • By: Isabel Wilkerson
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 22 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-10
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13,854 ratings
    • From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history....

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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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    • The Rise and Fall of States and Nations
    • By: Norman Davies
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 30 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 231 ratings
    • There is something profoundly romantic about lost civilizations. Davies peers through the cracks in the mainstream accounts of modern-day states to dazzle us with extraordinary stories of barely remembered pasts, and of the traces they left behind....

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    • By: David I. Kertzer
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • A riveting story that has been ignored by modern historians, The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara will prompt intense interest and discussion as it lays bare attitudes of the Catholic Church....

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    • A Captivating Guide to the Caribbean Island's Ancient Roots, Taínos and Caribs, Colonial Past, and Modern Times (European Exploration and Settlement)
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Uncover the vibrant saga of triumph, tragedy, and transformation that underpins the Dominican Republic's storied past. This audiobook invites you on more than just a journey through time—it invites you to explore the soul of a nation.

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    • A Captivating Guide to Caribbean History, Starting from Christopher Columbus Through the Wars of Religion, Slavery, and Colonial ... (European Exploration and Settlement)
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-22
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • The history of the Caribbean is an exciting ride, but few outside of the region know much about it in depth beyond Columbus’s discovery. This audiobook will lead you through the history of the region, which witnessed some of the world’s most important events....

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    • By: William Chester Jordan
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Series: Penguin History of Europe Series, Book 3
    • Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • It was an age of hope, accomplishment, and expansion. Europe's High Middle Ages spanned the Crusades, the building of Chartres Cathedral, Dante's Inferno, and Thomas Aquinas. The era seemed to be flowering into a renaissance - until the disastrous 14th century rained catastrophe....

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    • Popes, Kings, and the Birth of the West
    • By: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    • Narrated by: Michael Beck
    • Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Western exceptionalism - the idea that European civilizations are freer, wealthier, and less violent - is a widespread and powerful political idea. It has been a source of peace and prosperity in some societies, and of ethnic cleansing and havoc in others....

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    • The Relentless Revolutionary
    • By: John Clubbe
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 19 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • A fascinating and in-depth exploration of how the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and Napoleon shaped Beethoven's political ideals and inspired his groundbreaking compositions....

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    • A Short History of European Migration, Exploration, and Conquest, from Greece to the Present [Modern Library Chronicles]
    • By: Anthony Pagden
    • Narrated by: Joel Leffert
    • Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • This wide-ranging and intellectually stimulating work examines the origins and history of the West with terse, efficient prose....

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    • By: G. K. Chesterton
    • Narrated by: Fred Williams
    • Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 12-14-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 187 ratings
    • Orthodoxy is Chesterton's great apologia for the Christian faith, which was prompted by a serious attack in 1903 against Christianity by well-known newspaper editor Robert Blatchford....

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    • Power Struggles and Rebellions, 1943-1948
    • By: Gerd-Rainer Horn
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-20
    • Language: English
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    • The Moment of Liberation in Western Europe: Power Struggles & Rebellions, 1943-1948, regards the final two years of World War II and the immediate post-liberation period as a moment in 20th century history....

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    • The Mysterious Theft of the Mona Lisa
    • By: R. A. Scotti
    • Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
    • Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • In Paris at the start of a radically new century, the most famous face in the history of art stepped out of her frame and into a sensational mystery....

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    • 12 Writers on Continuity and Change in Havana and Across the Country
    • By: Leila Guerriero
    • Narrated by: Frankie Corzo, Lorenzo Irizarry
    • Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Spanning politics and art, music and baseball, Cuba on the Verge is a timely look at a society’s profound transformation - from inside and out....

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    • The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
    • By: Andrea Wulf
    • Narrated by: Julie Teal
    • Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 09-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Magnificent Rebels is a riveting, eye-opening biography of the first Romantics: a revolutionary group of friends based in the small German town of Jena whose modern ideas transformed society and the way we lead our lives today....

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    • A Captivating Guide to the Spanish Explorers, Conquest of the Americas, Cultural Exchange, and Legacy (European Exploration and Settlement)
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
    • Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-24
    • Language: English
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    • Have you ever heard about the Spaniard Cabeza de Vaca, who survived eight years wandering from Florida to Texas? Find his story and more in this audiobook!

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