The Medieval Legacy (The Great Courses)
By: Carol Symes
3.93
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Though it ended five centuries ago, the medieval era continues to reverberate through our world in …
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1. Living the French Revolution and the Age of Napoleon
By: None , Suzanne M. Desan
4.26
Format: 24 pages, Audible Audio
The 25 years between the onset of the French Revolution in 1789 and the Bourbon Restoration after N… read more
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- history
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2. The Vikings
By: Kenneth W. Harl
4.09
Format: None pages, Audio Cassette
Parts one,two, and three. Each part contains six audio cassettes and course guidebook in a clamshel… read more
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- history
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3. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory 1874-1932
By: William Manchester
3.44
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
s/t: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory 1874-1932 When Winston Spencer Churchill was born … read more
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- history
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4. Food: A Cultural Culinary History
By: Ken Albala
4.55
Format: 160 pages, Audible Audio
Eating is an indispensable human activity. As a result, whether we realize it or not, the drive to … read more
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5. A History of England from the Tudors to the Stuarts (Great Courses, #8470)
By: Robert O. Bucholz
3.57
Format: None pages, Audio CD
During the 229-year period from 1485 to 1714, England transformed itself from a minor feudal state … read more
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6. The History of Ancient Egypt (The Great Courses #350)
By: Bob Brier
0.00
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
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7. Books that matter: the history of the decline and fall of the roman empire
By: Leo Damrosch
3.00
Format: None pages, Audiobook
In Books That Matter: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Professor Damrosch i… read more
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8. The Early Middle Ages
By: Philip Daileader
4.20
Format: None pages, Audiobook
We often call them the "Dark Ages," he era which spanned the decline and fall of Rome's western emp… read more
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9. The American Civil War (Great Courses, #885)
By: Gary W. Gallagher
3.25
Format: None pages, Audio CD
Professor Gallagher is aleading authority on the Civil War. He is the author of several books and d… read more
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10. The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I
By: Douglas Brunt
4.23
Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition
This instant New York Times bestselling “dynamic detective story” (The New York Times) reveals the … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"But the prevailing and indelible lesson, learned through traumatic personal experience, was his understanding of the family’s security. War and industrial innovation could destroy the life a family h…"-Douglas Brunt, The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I
11. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
12. Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age
By: Tom Holland
4.22
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Pax is the third in a trilogy of books narrating the history of the Roman Empire. The series that b… read more
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- nonfiction
13. After The Plague
By: Simon Doubleday
3.46
Format: 11 pages, Audible Audio
10 hours and 24 minutes As the Black Death swept across Europe, killing up to a half of the popu… read more
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- nonfiction
14. England: From the Fall of Rome to the Norman Conquest
By: Jennifer Paxton
4.28
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
Great Courses Plus Dr. Jennifer Paxton is Assistant Director of the University Honors Program and … read more
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15. The Black Death: New Lessons from Recent Research
By: Dorsey Armstrong
4.08
Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio
2 hours and 43 minutes The world has been fundamentally changed by the shock and devastation of … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
16. Ancient Writing and the History of the Alphabet
By: John McWhorter
3.99
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
The ubiquity of the written word in our everyday lives can make it easy to forget how recent the de… read more
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- nonfiction
17. Early Humans: Ice, Stone, and Survival
By: Suzanne Pilaar Birch
3.89
Format: None pages, Audiobook
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18. The Rest is History: The Official Book from the Makers of the Hit Podcast
By: Tom Holland
3.85
Format: 522 pages, Kindle Edition
Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys... there's a new history book in town. Fro… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
19. The Greatest Controversies of Early Christian History
By: Bart D. Ehrman
4.14
Format: None pages, Audio CD
Without the presence of Christianity, our world would be considerably different. Whether we view it… read more
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20. The Florentines: From Dante to Galileo: The Transformation of Western Civilization
By: Paul Strathern
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and magisterial four-hundred-year history of both the city and the people who gave birth… read more
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- nonfiction
21. Renaissance: The Transformation of the West
By: Jennifer McNabb
4.03
Format: 27 pages, Audible Audio
26 hours and 35 minutes While it's easy to get caught up - and, rightfully so - in the art of th… read more
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22. How the Crusades Changed History
By: Philip Daileader
3.86
Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio
11 hours 52 mins Hundreds of years have passed since the last crusader knight laid down his swor… read more
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23. Communism in Power: From Stalin to Mao
By: Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
3.98
Format: 6 pages, Audible Audio
5 hours and 50 minutes Trace the growth of communism from Stalin’s consolidation of power to the… read more
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- nonfiction
24. A History of Video Games
By: Jeremy Parish
3.67
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Since their arrival in the mid-20th century, video games have become a sprawling, multi-billion dol… read more
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25. Human Prehistory and the First Civilizations
By: Brian M. Fagan
3.81
Format: 18 pages, Audible Audio
Where do we come from? How did our ancestors settle this planet? How did the great historic civiliz… read more
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- nonfiction
26. American Monsters
By: Adam Jortner
3.99
Format: 5 pages, Audible Audio
4 hours and 55 minutes Cackling witches in Puritan communities calling forth Satan. Sea serpents… read more
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27. The Celtic World
By: Jennifer Paxton
4.09
Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio
Following the surge of interest and pride in Celtic identity since the 19th century, much of what w… read more
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28. Creation Stories of the Ancient World
By: Joseph Lam
3.90
Format: 5 pages, Audiobook
Length: 4 hours and 57 minutes Creation stories, found within many ancient cultures, are traditi… read more
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- nonfiction
29. The Medieval Legacy (The Great Courses)
By: Carol Symes
3.93
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Though it ended five centuries ago, the medieval era continues to reverberate through our world in … read more
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30. The Middle Ages Around the World
By: Joyce E. Salisbury
4.12
Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio
12 hours and 15 minutes The Middle Ages was a time of major historical shifts and transformation… read more
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31. How the Spanish Civil War Became Europe’s Battlefield
By: Pamela Beth Radcliff
3.71
Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio
The Spanish Civil War was a local conflict on the margins of Europe—a short yet bloody series of ba… read more
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