Modern World History

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    • By: Andrew Marr
    • Narrated by: David Timson
    • Length: 29 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-16
    • Language: English
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    • A History of Modern Britain confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics....

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    • By: Andrew Marr
    • Narrated by: Andrew Marr
    • Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 446 ratings
    • Nominated for the British Book Awards, Popular Non-Fiction Award, 2008.
      Shortlisted for the Audiobook Download of the Year, 2007.

      A History of Modern Britain confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics....

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    • How the British Navy Changed the Modern World
    • By: Arthur Herman
    • Narrated by: John Curless
    • Length: 29 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 19-12-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 327 ratings
    • The extraordinary story of how the British Royal Navy allowed one nation to rise to a level of power unprecedented in history....

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    • Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World
    • By: David Van Reybrouck, David Colmer - translator, David McKay
    • Narrated by: Neil Gardner
    • Length: 22 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-24
    • Language: English
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    • A story of staggering scope and drama, Revolusi is the masterful and definitive account of the epic revolution that sparked the decolonisation of the modern world....

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    • How Britain Made the Modern World
    • By: Niall Ferguson
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble, Niall Ferguson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 859 ratings
    • Penguin presents the unabridged audiobook edition of Empire by Niall Ferguson, read by Jonathan Keeble....

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    • Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun
    • By: Jonathan Clements
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 22-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 151 ratings
    • This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion....

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    • A Captivating Guide to the History of Greece, Starting from the Greek War of Independence Through the Balkan Wars, World War I and II, to the Present
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jay Herbert
    • Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Many people know about the glories of ancient Greece: the Acropolis, the Parthenon, the sculptures, the writings of Homer, and the adventures of Achilles and Jason and the Argonauts....

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    • A People’s History of the City That Shaped the Modern World
    • By: Brian Groom
    • Narrated by: David Judge
    • Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 23-05-24
    • Language: English
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    • Long before Manchester gave the world titans of industry, comedy, music and sport, it was the cosmopolitan Roman fort of Mamucium. But it was as the ‘shock city’ of the Industrial Revolution that Manchester really made its mark on the world stage....

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    • June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
    • By: Michael B. Oren
    • Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
    • Length: 17 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 190 ratings
    • In Israel and the West, it is called the Six Day War. In the Arab world, it is known as the June War or, simply, as "the Setback"....

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    • Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
    • By: Howard W. French
    • Narrated by: James Fouhey
    • Length: 16 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Born in Blackness reframes the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the economic ascendancy of Europe, anchoring of democracy in the West, and fulfillment of so-called Enlightenment ideals grew out of Europe's dehumanizing engagement with the "dark" continent....

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    • By: Andrew Marr
    • Narrated by: David Timson
    • Length: 20 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 147 ratings
    • Between the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the Second World War, the nation was shaken by war and peace....

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    • A Memoir of a CIA Officer in Afghanistan at the Inception of America’s Longest War
    • By: Duane Evans
    • Narrated by: Eric Martin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 28-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Veteran CIA officer Duane Evans' gripping memoir tracks his efforts to join one of CIA's elite teams bound for Afghanistan, a journey that eventually takes him to the front lines in Pakistan....

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    • Modern War Studies
    • By: Daniel J. Hughes, Richard L. DiNardo
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 21 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 27-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • Ranging over the entire history of the German Empire, Imperial Germany and War, 1871-1918 presents a picture of unprecedented scope and depth of one of the most widely studied, criticized, and imitated organizations in the modern world....

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    • The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World
    • By: Harvey Whitehouse
    • Narrated by: Harvey Whitehouse
    • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 13-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • One of the world's leading anthropologists reveals how our evolutionary past informed the birth and rise of global civilisation and uncovers the three evolutionary biases that shape our social behaviour: conformism, religiosity and tribalism....

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    • A Modern History
    • By: Abbas Amanat
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 41 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 07-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 79 ratings
    • This history of modern Iran is not a survey in the conventional sense but an ambitious exploration of the story of a nation. It offers a revealing look at how events, people, and institutions are shaped by currents that sometimes reach back hundreds of years....

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    • Maritime Culture, Continental Empires, and the Conflict That Made the Modern World
    • By: Andrew Lambert
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 27-11-18
    • Language: English
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    • Andrew Lambert, author of The Challenge, turns his attention to Athens, Carthage, Venice, the Dutch Republic, and Britain, examining how their identities as "seapowers" informed their actions and enabled them to achieve success disproportionate to their size....

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