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Not So Black and White
- A History of Race from White Supremacy to Identity Politics
- By: Kenan Malik
- Narrated by: Homer Todiwala
- Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
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The ‘culture wars' have generated ferocious argument, but little clarity. This book takes the long view, explaining the real origins of ‘race' in Western thought, and tracing its path from those beginnings in the Enlightenment all the way to our own fractious world. In doing so, leading thinker Kenan Malik upends many assumptions underpinning today's heated debates around race, culture, whiteness and privilege.
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Never really hits the spot
- By Mr. Rupert A. Oldham on 22-08-23
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Not So Black and White
- A History of Race from White Supremacy to Identity Politics
- Narrated by: Homer Todiwala
- Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 25-05-23
- Language: English
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Mussolini's War
- Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943
- By: John Gooch
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 21 hrs and 10 mins
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While staying closely aligned with Hitler, Mussolini remained carefully neutral until the summer of 1940. Then, with the wholly unexpected and sudden collapse of the French and British armies, Mussolini declared war on the Allies in the hope of making territorial gains in Southern France and Africa. This decision proved a horrifying miscalculation, dooming Italy to its own prolonged and unwinnable war, immense casualties and an Allied invasion in 1943 which ushered in a terrible new era for the country.
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Succint and enilighening
- By Wilhelm Snyman on 18-05-20
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Mussolini's War
- Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 21 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 07-05-20
- Language: English
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Conquerors
- How Portugal Seized the Indian Ocean and Forged the First Global Empire
- By: Roger Crowley
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
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As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition of Vasco da Gama to India and beat the Spanish to the spice kingdoms of the East - then set about creating the first long-range maritime empire.
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Conquistadors versus Sinbad
- By Jim on 16-01-16
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Conquerors
- How Portugal Seized the Indian Ocean and Forged the First Global Empire
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 17-09-15
- Language: English
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The Architecture of Modern Empire
- By: Arundhati Roy, Naomi Klein - afterword
- Narrated by: Jeed Saddy
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
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‘I try to create links, to join the dots, to tell politics like a story, to make it real…’ Over a lifetime spent at the frontline of solidarity and resistance, Arundhati Roy’s words have lit a clear way through the darkness that surrounds us. Combining the skills of the architect she trained to be and the writer she became, she illuminates the hidden structures of modern empire like no one else, revealing their workings so that we can resist.
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The Architecture of Modern Empire
- Narrated by: Jeed Saddy
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 08-08-24
- Language: English
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Smoke Hole
- Looking to the Wild in the Time of the Spyglass
- By: Martin Shaw
- Narrated by: Martin Shaw
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
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At a time when we are all confronted by not one, but many crossroads in our modern lives - identity, technology, trust, politics, and a global pandemic - celebrated mythologist and wilderness guide Martin Shaw delivers Smoke Hole: three metaphors to help us understand our world, one that is assailed by the seductive promises of social media and shadowed by a health crisis that has brought loneliness and isolation to an all-time high.
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No superlative does justice.
- By inbr1ghtestday on 28-11-21
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Smoke Hole
- Looking to the Wild in the Time of the Spyglass
- Narrated by: Martin Shaw
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 20-05-21
- Language: English
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Courting India
- England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire
- By: Nandini Das
- Narrated by: Anu Anand
- Length: 20 hrs and 5 mins
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When Thomas Roe arrived in India in 1616 as James I’s first ambassador to the Mughal Empire, the English barely had a toehold in the subcontinent. Their understanding of South Asian trade and India was sketchy at best, and, to the Mughals, they were minor players on a very large stage. Roe was representing a kingdom that was beset by financial woes and deeply conflicted about its identity as a unified ‘Great Britain’ under the Stuart monarchy.
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Incredible
- By Rangel Jo�o on 27-06-23
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Courting India
- England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire
- Narrated by: Anu Anand
- Length: 20 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 08-06-23
- Language: English
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Sugar
- The world corrupted, from slavery to obesity
- By: James Walvin
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
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Prior to 1600, sugar was a costly luxury, the preserve of the rich. But with the rise of the European sugar colonies in the Americas in the 17th century, sugar became cheap, ubiquitous and hugely popular - an everyday necessity. As recently as the 1970s, very few people suggested that sugar posed a global health problem; yet today, sugar is regularly denounced as a dangerous addiction, on a par with tobacco, and the cause of a global obesity epidemic. While sugar consumption remains higher than ever.
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Thorough and thought provoking
- By MP on 06-01-19
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Sugar
- The world corrupted, from slavery to obesity
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 13-07-17
- Language: English
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Broken Threads
- My Family from Empire to Independence
- By: Mishal Husain
- Narrated by: Mishal Husain
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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An extraordinary history of Mishal Husain’s four grandparents, whose lives were shaped by the tumultuous politics and prejudices of empire, war and partition. Through a narrative odyssey that traces the complexities of her own ancestry, Mishal Husain sheds incredible light on a landmark historical period. Mary, a devout Catholic of Anglo-Indian parentage, leaves a struggling family to train as a nurse. Tahirah was born to middle-class Muslim parents and grows up with an emphasis on education and aspiration.
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Human stories
- By Viola on 20-09-24
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Broken Threads
- My Family from Empire to Independence
- Narrated by: Mishal Husain
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 06-06-24
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Indonesia
- Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of Southeast Asia's Largest Nation
- By: Tim Hannigan
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
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Indonesia is by far the largest nation in Southeast Asia and has the fourth-largest population in the world after the United States. Indonesian history and culture are especially relevant today as the island nation is an emerging power in the region with a dynamic new leader. It is a land of incredible diversity and unending paradoxes that has a long and rich history stretching back a thousand years and more.
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This book is wonderful
- By gi on 06-06-20
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A Brief History of Indonesia
- Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of Southeast Asia's Largest Nation
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 30-04-19
- Language: English
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Revolusi
- 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
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On a sunny Friday morning in August 1945, a handful of tired people raised a homemade cotton flag and on behalf of 68 million compatriots announced the birth of a new nation. With the fourth largest population in the world, inhabiting islands that span an eighth of the globe, Indonesia became the first colonised country to declare its independence after the Second World War.
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A triumph
- By Jonnydee on 29-03-24
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Revolusi
- Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World
- Narrated by: Neil Gardner
- Length: 22 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 08-02-24
- Language: English
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Imperial Island
- A History of Empire in Modern Britain
- By: Charlotte Lydia Riley
- Narrated by: Charlotte Lydia Riley
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
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This riveting new history shows how having an empire and losing it has shaped modern Britain. Drawing on a mass of original research into the thoughts and feelings of the British people, pop culture, sport and media, Imperial Island tells a story of people on the move and of people trapped in the past, of the end of empire and the birth of multiculturalism, a chronicle of violence and a testament to togetherness. It is the story that best explains Britain today.
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A must for all Britons
- By D Wade on 01-10-23
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Imperial Island
- A History of Empire in Modern Britain
- Narrated by: Charlotte Lydia Riley
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 24-08-23
- Language: English
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Colonialism
- A Moral Reckoning
- By: Nigel Biggar
- Narrated by: Matt Bates
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
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In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed that we had arrived at the ‘End of History’—that the global dominance of liberal democracy had been secured forever. Now, however, with Russia rattling its sabre on the borders of Europe and China rising to challenge the post-1945 world order, the liberal West faces major threats. These threats are not only external. Especially in the Anglosphere, the ‘decolonisation’ movement corrodes the West’s self-confidence by retelling the history of European and American colonial dominance.
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A robust rebuttal of anti-colonialism
- By J. D. Fitzpatrick on 14-02-23
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Colonialism
- A Moral Reckoning
- Narrated by: Matt Bates
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 02-02-23
- Language: English
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The Patient Assassin
- A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj
- By: Anita Anand
- Narrated by: Anita Anand
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
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Anita Anand tells the remarkable story of one Indian's 20-year quest for revenge, taking him around the world in search of those he held responsible for the Amritsar massacre of 1919, which cost the lives of hundreds. When Sir Michael O'Dwyer, the lieutenant governor of Punjab, ordered brigadier general Reginald Dyer to Amritsar, he wanted him to bring the troublesome city to heel. Sir Michael had become increasingly alarmed at the effect Gandhi was having on his province as well as recent demonstrations, strikes and shows of Hindu-Muslim unity.
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a common template
- By Erin Daly on 27-04-19
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The Patient Assassin
- A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj
- Narrated by: Anita Anand
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 04-04-19
- Language: English
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In Defense of German Colonialism
- And How Its Critics Empowered Nazis, Communists, and the Enemies of the West
- By: Bruce Gilley
- Narrated by: Damon Abernathy
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
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Famed historian, university professor, and author of the groundbreaking "The Case for Colonialism" Bruce Gilley demonstrates that, contrary to modern presuppositions, German colonialism from its early roots to the mid-twentieth century served overall as a global force for good in the world, elevating the lives of its subjects and encouraging scientific development while allowing native cultures to flourish within its governance.
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The other side...
- By H. P. on 09-02-23
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In Defense of German Colonialism
- And How Its Critics Empowered Nazis, Communists, and the Enemies of the West
- Narrated by: Damon Abernathy
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 02-08-22
- Language: English
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On the Shadow Tracks
- A Journey Through Occupied Myanmar
- By: Clare Hammond
- Narrated by: Clare Hammond
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
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In 2016, while working as a journalist in Yangon, Clare Hammond discovered an obscure map that showed a web of new railways spanning the length and breadth of the country - railways not shown on any other publicly available maps. She was determined to uncover the railways' origins, purpose, and most of all, the silence that surrounded them. She would spend three months travelling on these mysterious railways, and the next five years piecing their story together.
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Outstanding
- By Mr. A. on 25-06-24
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On the Shadow Tracks
- A Journey Through Occupied Myanmar
- Narrated by: Clare Hammond
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 06-06-24
- Language: English
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Bitter Lemons of Cyprus
- By: Lawrence Durrell
- Narrated by: Andrew Sachs
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
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Lawrence Durrell's evocative memoir of living in Cyprus, just before the Greek/Turkish partition. This is a touching and atmospheric account of a place, now changed, where the two races lived side by side.
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Abridged and then some
- By Sam Roebuck on 04-08-16
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Bitter Lemons of Cyprus
- Narrated by: Andrew Sachs
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 01-05-07
- Language: English
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A Flat Place
- By: Noreen Masud
- Narrated by: Shazia Nicholls
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
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Noreen Masud has always loved flatlands. Her earliest memory is of a wide, flat field glimpsed from the back seat of her father's car in Lahore. As an adult in Britain she has discovered many more flat landscapes to love: Orford Ness, the Cambridgeshire Fens, Morecambe Bay, Orkney. These bare, haunted expanses remind her of the flat place inside herself: the place created by trauma. Noreen suffers from complex post traumatic stress disorder: the product of a profoundly disrupted and unstable childhood.
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Stunning prose
- By Lindsey Moore on 10-08-23
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A Flat Place
- Narrated by: Shazia Nicholls
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 27-04-23
- Language: English
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Hospicing Modernity
- Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism
- By: Vanessa Machado de Oliveira
- Narrated by: Dougald Hine, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
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This book is not easy: It contains no quick-fix plan for a better, brighter tomorrow, and gives no ready-made answers. Instead, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira presents us with a challenge: to grow up, step up, and show up for ourselves, our communities, and the living Earth, and to interrupt the modern behavior patterns that are killing the planet we’re part of.
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Important book for our times.
- By Kindle Customer on 11-02-23
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Hospicing Modernity
- Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism
- Narrated by: Dougald Hine, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 04-01-22
- Language: English
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Our Island Stories
- Country Walks Through Colonial Britain
- By: Corinne Fowler
- Narrated by: Corinne Fowler
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
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The countryside is almost sacred to many Britons. There is a depth of feeling about rural places, the moors and lochs, valleys and mountains, cottages and country houses. Yet the British countryside, so integral to our national identity, is rarely seen as having anything to do with British colonialism. In Our Island Stories, Corinne Fowler brings rural life and colonial rule together with transformative results. Through ten country walks with varied companions, Fowler combines local and global history, connecting the Cotswolds to Calcutta, Dolgellau to Virginia, and Grasmere to Canton.
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Drawing together many threads
- By D. Cottam on 30-07-24
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Our Island Stories
- Country Walks Through Colonial Britain
- Narrated by: Corinne Fowler
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 02-05-24
- Language: English
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Britain's Gulag
- The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya
- By: Caroline Elkins
- Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
- Length: 17 hrs and 27 mins
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Only a few years after Britain defeated fascism came the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya - a mass armed rebellion by the Kikuyu people, demanding the return of their land and freedom. The draconian response of Britain's colonial government was to detain nearly the entire Kikuyu population of 1.5 million and to portray them as sub-human savages. Detainees in their thousands - possibly a hundred thousand or more - died from exhaustion, disease, starvation and systemic physical brutality. For decades these events remained untold.
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Britain's Gulag
- The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya
- Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
- Length: 17 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 27-06-24
- Language: English
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