24 must-read nonfiction books like The Great Revolutions of Modern History by Lynne Ann Hartnett

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The Great Revolutions of Modern History

By: Lynne Ann Hartnett

3.59

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Survey some of the most important revolutions from the past 300 years of world history.

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Great Revolutions of Modern History by Lynne Ann Hartnett , here is a list of 24 books like this:

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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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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2. Turning Points in Modern History

By: Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

4.09

Format: 116 pages, Audio CD

This series contains 24 lectures, each one focusing on a different "turning point" since 1400. read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. Maya to Aztec: Ancient Mesoamerica Revealed

By: Edwin Barnhart

3.80

Format: 152 pages, Audible Audio

Centuries ago, Spanish conquistadors searching for gold and new lands encountered a group of indepe… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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4. Lords of the Sea: The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy & the Birth of Democracy

By: John R. Hale

4.80

Format: None pages,

The epic true story of Themistocles and the Battle of Salamis, and a rousing history of the world's… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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5. The Fall and Rise of China (Great Courses, #8370)

By: Richard Baum

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Audio CD

The Fall and Rise of China, taught by China expert and Professor Richard Baum of the University of … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

6. An Economic History of the World since 1400

By: None

5.00

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

Most of us have a limited understanding of the powerful role economics has played in shaping human … read more

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7. Shakespeare: The Word and the Action (The Great Courses, #273)

By: Peter Saccio

3.81

Format: None pages,

Shakespeare is the leading playwright, and probably the leading writer, in Western civilization. Hi… read more

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8. Utopia and Terror in the 20th Century (Great Courses, #8313)

By: Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

3.21

Format: 192 pages,

Lecture series read more

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9. Elements of Jazz: From Cakewalks to Fusion

By: Bill Messenger

4.09

Format: None pages,

The uniquely American music and art form, jazz, is one of America's great contributions to world cu… read more

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10. Great World Religions: Judaism The Teaching Company

By: Isaiah M. Gafni

3.00

Format: None pages, Audio Cassette

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11. Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918

By: Katja Hoyer

4.17

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. The Story of Russia

By: Orlando Figes

4.27

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

“This is the essential backstory, the history book that you need if you want to understand modern R… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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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
  • history
  • audiobook
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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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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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15. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A timely investigation into the campus assault on free speech and what it means for students, educa… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Virtues become vices when they are carried to an extreme."

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

"Avoiding triggers is a symptom of PTSD, not a treatment for it."

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

"Practice the virtue of "intellectual humility." Intellectual humility is the recognition that our reasoning is so flawed, so prone to bias, that we can rarely be certain that we are right."

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

"The college admissions process nowadays makes it harder for high school students to enjoy school and pursue intrinsic fulfillment. The process "warps the values of students drawn into a competitive f…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

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16. Ancient Mesopotamia: Life in the Cradle of Civilization

By: Amanda H. Podany

4.19

Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio

When we imagine what life might have been like thousands of years in the past, the images we often … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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17. The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism

By: Jen Gunter

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Just as she did in her groundbreaking bestseller The Vagina Bible, Dr. Jen Gunter, the internet’s m… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. 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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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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19. The Rise of Communism: From Marx to Lenin

By: Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

3.90

Format: 220 pages, Audible Audio

Listening Length: 5 hours and 31 minutes How did communism become such a pervasive economic and … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. The Mongol Empire

By: Craig G. Benjamin

3.89

Format: 345 pages, Audible Audio

Listening Length 11 hours and 34 minutes The Mongol Empire was the largest empire the world has… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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21. Charlemagne Father of Europe

By: Philip Daileader

3.76

Format: None pages, Audiobook

In Charlemagne: Father of Europe, you will look back on Charlemagne’s rule and the way his dynasty … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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22. Ashes of the Sun (Burningblade & Silvereye, #1)

By: Django Wexler

3.97

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

Long ago, a magical war destroyed an empire, and a new one was built in its ashes. But still the ol… read more

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  • audiobook
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23. Blood of the Chosen (Burningblade & Silvereye, #2)

By: Django Wexler

4.15

Format: 503 pages, Kindle Edition

Standing on opposite sides of a looming civil war, two siblings discover that not even ties of bloo… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Communism in Power: From Stalin to Mao by Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

24. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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25. Real History of Pirates, The

By: Manushag N. Powell

3.89

Format: None pages, Audiobook

There’s an apocryphal story that Alexander the Great once captured a notorious pirate named Diomede… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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26. The Italians Before Italy: Conflict and Competition in the Mediterranean

By: Kenneth R. Bartlett

4.00

Format: 12 pages, Audio CD

(24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture) Course Lecture Titles 1. ItalyA Geographical Expression 2. … read more

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  • history
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27. The Secret World of Espionage

By: The Great Courses

3.51

Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio

The world of espionage is shrouded in mystery—even to those in it—but so much of what we think we k… read more

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  • nonfiction
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28. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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  • history
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"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

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29. The Great Revolutions of Modern History

By: Lynne Ann Hartnett

3.59

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Survey some of the most important revolutions from the past 300 years of world history. read more

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  • politics
  • history
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  • audiobook
Cover of Where Tyranny Begins: The Justice Department, the FBI, and the War on Democracy by David Rohde

30. Where Tyranny Begins: The Justice Department, the FBI, and the War on Democracy

By: David Rohde

4.16

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

How Donald Trump subverted the law and Merrick Garland misjudged the need to hold him accountable b… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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31. The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World

By: Noam Chomsky

4.50

Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition

From one of the world’s most prominent thinkers comes an urgent warning of the threat that US power… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

25 must-read audiobook books like The Great Revolutions of Modern History by Lynne Ann Hartnett

Transform Your Habits

Living the French Revolution and the Age of Napoleon

None , Suzanne M. Desan

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Turning Points in Modern History

Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Maya to Aztec: Ancient Mesoamerica Revealed

Edwin Barnhart

3.80

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The Fall and Rise of China (Great Courses, #8370)

Richard Baum

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Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar

Tom Holland

4.15

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Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

Tom Holland

4.22

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Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849

Christopher Clark

4.18

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