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    • Liberty, Equality, Solidarity
    • By: David S. Mason
    • Narrated by: Charles Henderson Norman
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 03-24-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • Highlighting the key events, ideas, and individuals that have shaped modern Europe, this fresh and lively book provides a concise history of the continent....

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    • The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
    • By: David Fromkin
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 23 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 12-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 469 ratings
    • The Middle East has long been a region of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and ambitions. All of these conflicts are rooted in the region's political inheritance. David Fromkin reveals how and why the Allies drew lines on an empty map that remade the geography and politics....

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    • A Personal History of Modern Ireland
    • By: Fintan O'Toole
    • Narrated by: Aidan Kelly
    • Length: 22 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 477 ratings
    • In We Don't Know Ourselves, Fintan O'Toole weaves his own experiences into Irish social, cultural, and economic change, showing how Ireland, in just one lifetime, has gone from a reactionary "backwater" to an almost totally open society....

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    • How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World
    • By: Arthur Herman
    • Narrated by: John Curless
    • Length: 29 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,091 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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    • A New History
    • By: Neil Oliver
    • Narrated by: James A. Gillies
    • Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 11-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 430 ratings
    • Drawing on the latest discoveries that have only recently come to light, Scottish archaeologist Neil Oliver goes on the trail of the real Vikings....

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    • By: John Julius Norwich
    • Narrated by: John Julius Norwich
    • Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 376 ratings
    • John Julius Norwich - called a "true master of narrative history" by Simon Sebag Montefiore - returns with the book he has spent his distinguished career wanting to write, A History of France, a portrait of the past two centuries of the country he loves best....

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    • In Search of the Soul of the North
    • By: Robert Ferguson
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • Scandinavia is the epitome of cool: We fill our homes with Nordic furniture; we envy their humane social welfare system and their healthy outdoor lifestyle....

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    • The Five Revolutions That Made Modern Europe: 1648-1815
    • By: Tim Blanning
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Series: Penguin History of Europe Series, Book 6
    • Length: 35 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • Between the end of the Thirty Years' War and the Battle of Waterloo, Europe underwent an extraordinary transformation that saw five of the modern world's great revolutions - scientific, industrial, American, French, and romantic....

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    • How the World Became Modern
    • By: Stephen Greenblatt
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3,451 ratings
    • Greenblatt transports listeners to the dawn of the Renaissance and chronicles the life of an intrepid book lover who rescued a crucial Roman philosophical text from certain oblivion....

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    • A Biography of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, 1872-1905
    • By: Timothy Snyder
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Timothy Snyder opens a new path in the understanding of modern nationalism and 20th-century socialism by presenting the often overlooked life of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, an important Polish thinker at the beginning of the 20th century. Listen to learn more about Kelles-Krauz....

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    • A History
    • By: Norman Davies
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 61 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 591 ratings
    • Here is a masterpiece of historical narrative that stretches from the Ice Age to the Atomic Age, as it tells the story of Europe, East and West....

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    • A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
    • By: Michel Foucault
    • Narrated by: Dave Gillies
    • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 147 ratings
    • Madness and Civilization will change the way in which you think about society. Evoking shock, pity, and fascination, it might also make you question the way you think about yourself....

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    • How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
    • By: Judith Flanders
    • Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Length: 19 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 98 ratings
    • In this fascinating exploration of murder in 19th-century England, Judith Flanders examines some of the most gripping cases that captivated the Victorians and gave rise to the first detective fiction....

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    • Birthplace of the Modern Mind
    • By: Justin Pollard, Howard Reid
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,026 ratings
    • Founded by Alexander the Great and built by self-styled Greek pharaohs, the city of Alexandria at its height dwarfed both Athens and Rome....

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    • A Captivating Guide to European History, Classical Antiquity, The Middle Ages, The Renaissance and Early Modern Europe
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Richard L. Walton
    • Length: 15 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • If you want to discover the captivating history of Europe, then this audiobook might be what you're looking for. It includes five books that cover topics like ancient history, influence of ancient Greece and Rome, fall of the Roman Empire, the Renaissance, important events, and much more....

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    • The World from the Twenties to the Nineties
    • By: Paul Johnson
    • Narrated by: Nadia May
    • Length: 37 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 440 ratings
    • This fast-paced, all-encompassing narrative history offers a full-scale, if controversial, analysis of how the modern age came into being and where it is heading....

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    • How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World
    • By: Amir Alexander
    • Narrated by: Ira Rosenberg
    • Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 09-02-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 121 ratings
    • Pulsing with drama and excitement, Infinitesimal celebrates the spirit of discovery, innovation, and intellectual achievement - and it will forever change the way you look at a simple line....

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    • The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World
    • By: Cullen Murphy
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 111 ratings
    • The Inquisition conducted its last execution in 1826-the victim was a Spanish schoolmaster convicted of heresy....

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