British Colonialism

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    • A History of the British Empire
    • By: Caroline Elkins
    • Narrated by: Adam Barr
    • Length: 31 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • From a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that probes the country's pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century and traces how these practices were exported, modified, and institutionalized in colonies around the globe....

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    • The Corporations That Built British Colonialism
    • By: Philip J. Stern
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Challenging conventional wisdom about where power is held on a global scale, Stern complicates the supposedly firm distinction between private enterprise and the state, offering a new history of the British Empire, as well as a new history of the corporation....

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    • What the British Did to India
    • By: Shashi Tharoor
    • Narrated by: Shashi Tharoor
    • Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 11-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 513 ratings
    • In the 18th century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, it had decreased six-fold. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew rebels from cannons, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched racism, and caused millions to die from starvation....

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    • How British Imperialism Shaped the Globe
    • By: Sathnam Sanghera
    • Narrated by: Homer Todiwala
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Bestselling author and journalist Sathnam Sanghera explores the global legacy of the British Empire, and the ways it continues to influence economics, politics, and culture around the world....

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    • By: V. S. Naipaul
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Written in the politically turbulent 1970s, Guerrillas takes aim at the sacred cows and myths of revolutionaries and at flaws in Marxist and revolutionary ideology - at the idea that one can predict or manipulate how the "revolution" will turn out....

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    • From the East India Company to the Road to Independence and the Partition of India
    • By: Nigel Durve
    • Narrated by: Jack Jacobs
    • Length: 2 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The Indian diaspora and its descendants are one of the most significant minorities in Britain today. This audiobook will examine the vast contributions they have made in influencing and shaping modern-day British culture....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Daniel Mason
    • Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-02
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • An extraordinary first novel that tells the story of a British piano tuner sent deep into Burma...

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    • A Moral Reckoning
    • By: Nigel Biggar
    • Narrated by: Matt Bates
    • Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • 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.....

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    • Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire
    • By: Simon Winchester
    • Narrated by: Simon Winchester
    • Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 216 ratings
    • Originally published in 1985, Outposts is Simon Winchester's journey to find the vanishing empire, "on which the sun never sets"....

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    • History
    • By: iMinds
    • Narrated by: Todd MacDonald
    • Length: 5 mins
    • Release date: 11-20-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • Learn about the history of Colonialism with iMindsJNR audio learning series for younger minds....

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    • A History of the British Empire
    • By: Caroline Elkins
    • Narrated by: Adam Barr
    • Length: 31 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a searing study of the British Empire that interrogates the pervasive use of violence throughout the 20th century and traces how these practices were exported, modified and institutionalised in colonies around the globe....

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    • A Global History
    • By: Lorenzo Veracini
    • Narrated by: Stewart Crank
    • Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Colonialism: A Global History interprets colonialism as an unequal relationship characterized by displacement and domination and reveals the ways in which this relationship has been constitutive of global modernity....

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    • How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe
    • By: Sathnam Sanghera
    • Narrated by: Homer Todiwala
    • Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 01-25-24
    • Language: English
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    • Empireworld traces the legacies of British empire across the globe....

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    • The History of the British Queen's Rangers During the Revolutionary War
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Mark Norman
    • Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
    • Release date: 01-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • The American Revolution is replete with seminal moments that every American learns in school....

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    • By: Rose Tremain
    • Narrated by: Katie McGrath
    • Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • In the city of Bath, in the year 1865, an extraordinary young woman renowned for her nursing skills is convinced that some other destiny will one day show itself to her....

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    • By: Jenny Ashcroft
    • Narrated by: Aysha Kala
    • Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 01-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • It's New Year's Eve in Bombay, 1913, and Madeline Bright, new to the sweltering heat and alluring opulence of colonial India, is yearning for all she has left behind in England....

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    • What the British Did to India
    • By: Shashi Tharoor
    • Narrated by: Shashi Tharoor
    • Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 88 ratings
    • Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Inglorious Empire written and read by Shashi Tharoor....

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    • Unravelling Africa's History One Country at a Time
    • By: Astrid Madimba, Chinny Ukata
    • Narrated by: Astrid Madimba, Chinny Ukata
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • It's a Continent aims to counter the misconception that Africa is a country by breaking down this vast, beautiful and complex continent into regions and countries....

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    • A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj
    • By: Anita Anand
    • Narrated by: Anita Anand
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • 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....

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