Tag: History

Free Download Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic (Audiobook)
English | August 20, 2019 | ASIN: B07WM26FYC | MP3@VBR kbps | 8h 51m | 272.05 MB
Author: Mike Jay
Narrator: Paul Brion
A definitive history of mescaline that explores its mind-altering effects across cultures, from ancient America to Western modernity

Free Download Liberty’s Dawn: A People’s History of the Industrial Revolution (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CCBBYW5Q | 2023 | 13 hours and 36 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 365 MB
Author: Emma Griffin
Narrator: Christine Rendel
This "provocative study" looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working class (the New Yorker). The era didn’t just bring about misery and poverty. On the contrary, Emma Griffin shows how it raised incomes, improved literacy, and offered exciting opportunities for political action. For many, this was a period of new, and much valued, sexual and cultural freedom. This rich personal account focuses on the social impact of the Industrial Revolution, rather than its economic and political histories.

Free Download Korea: A New History of South and North (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CDMKN5VW | 2023 | 8 hours and 32 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 232 MB
Author: Victor Cha, Ramon Pacheco Pardo
Narrator: Julian Elfer
A major new history of North and South Korea, from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Korea has a long, riveting history-it is also a divided nation. South Korea is a vibrant democracy, the tenth largest economy, and is home to a world-renowned culture. North Korea is ruled by the most authoritarian regime in the world, a poor country in a rich region, and is best known for the cult of personality surrounding the ruling Kim family. But both Koreas share a unique common history. Victor Cha and Ramon Pacheco Pardo draw on decades of research to explore the history of modern Korea, from the late nineteenth century, Japanese occupation, and Cold War division to the present day. A small country caught amongst the world’s largest powers-including China, Japan, Russia, and the United States-Korea’s fate has been closely connected to its geography and the strength of its leadership and society. This comprehensive history sheds light on the evolving identities of the two Koreas, explaining the sharp differences between North and South, and prospects for unification.

Free Download Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B09V9CH6ZD | 2023 | 17 hours and 13 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 494 MB
Author: Kenneth W. Harl
Narrator: Corey M. Snow
A narrative history of how Attila, Genghis Khan and the so-called barbarians of the steppes shaped world civilization. The barbarian nomads of the Eurasian steppes have played a decisive role in world history, but their achievements have gone largely unnoticed. These nomadic tribes have produced some of the world’s greatest conquerors: Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan and Tamerlane, among others. Their deeds still resonate today. Indeed, these nomads built long-lasting empires, facilitated the first global trade of the Silk Road and disseminated religions, technology, knowledge and goods of every description that enriched and changed the lives of so many across Europe, China and the Middle East.

Free Download Conquer We Must: A Military History of Britain, 1914-1945 (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CCQLVRG8 | 2023 | 27 hours and 21 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 758 MB
Author: Robin Prior
Narrator: Liam Gerrard
A major new account of Britain’s military strategy between 1914-1945, including the two world wars and everything between. The First and Second World Wars were separated by a mere two decades, making the period 1914-1945 an unprecedentedly intense and violent era of history. But how did Britain develop its complex military strategy during these wars, and how were decisions made by those at the top? Robin Prior examines the influence politicians had on military operations, in the first history to assess both world wars together.

Free Download Colonialism: A Global History (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CCQK55J7 | 2023 | 8 hours and 54 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 242 MB
Author: Lorenzo Veracini
Narrator: Stewart Crank
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. The volume focuses on colonialism’s dynamism, adaptability, and resilience. It appraises a number of successive global colonial ‘waves’, each constituting a specific form of colonial domination, each different from the previous ones, each affecting different locales at different times, and each characterized by a particular method of exploiting colonized populations and territories.

Free Download Class War: A Literary History (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CCBGVGX7 | 2023 | 10 hours and 52 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 296 MB
Author: Mark Steven
Narrator: Elliot Fitzpatrick
A bold new history of the global class war. A thrilling and vivid work of history, Class War weaves together literature and politics to chart the making and unmaking of social class through revolutionary combat. In a narrative that spans the globe and more than two centuries of history, Mark Steven traces the history of class war from the Haitian Revolution to Black Lives Matter. Surveying the literature of revolution, from the poetry of Shelley and Byron to the novels of Émile Zola and Jack London, exploring the writings of Frantz Fanon, Che Guevara, and Assata Shakur, Class War reveals the interplay between military action and the politics of class, showing how solidarity flourishes in times of conflict. Written with verve and ranging across diverse historical settings, Class War traverses industrial battles, guerrilla insurgencies, and anticolonial resistance, as well as large-scale combat operations waged against capitalism’s regimes and its interstate system. In our age of economic crisis, ecological catastrophe, and planetary unrest, Steven tells the stories of those whose actions will help guide future militants toward a revolutionary horizon.

Free Download Beatrice’s Last Smile: A New History of the Middle Ages (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CD2PP1J3 | 2023 | 21 hours and 12 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 604 MB
Author: Mark Gregory Pegg
Narrator: Richard Burnip
A new history of the Middle Ages, revealing how Christianity and Islam evolved out of a shared cultural and religious ferment, and how this shaped the development of the West. The medieval world, stretching from the Mediterranean to the North Sea, from the Asian Steppes to the Straits of Gibraltar and North Africa, from the Nile to the Volga, lasted from the fourth to the sixteenth centuries. This geographical and temporal breadth (including the early decades of European conquest and settlement in the Americas), is much larger and longer than that imagined by medieval historians only half a century ago. New and exciting scholarship from the last three decades continues to shape this expansive vision, powerfully enhancing our insight into what it means to talk about medieval Europe specifically and western culture in general. In Beatrice’s Last Smile, Mark Pegg offers a synthesis of the most innovative scholarship on the Middle Ages of the last thirty years.

Free Download Assignment China: An Oral History of American Journalists in the People’s Republic (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C7SPDH8D | 2023 | 17 hours and 33 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 501 MB
Author: Mike Chinoy
Narrator: Eric Jason Martin
Reporting on China has long been one of the most challenging and crucial of journalistic assignments. Nonetheless, American media coverage of China has profoundly influenced U.S. government policy and shaped public opinion not only domestically but also, given the clout and reach of U.S. news organizations, around the world. This book tells the story of how American journalists have covered China-from the civil war of the 1940s through the COVID-19 pandemic-in their own words. Mike Chinoy assembles a remarkable collection of personal accounts from eminent journalists.

Free Download A Secret History of Christianity: Jesus, the Last Inkling, and the Evolution of Consciousness (Audiobook)
English | September 02, 2019 | ASIN: B07X27GQ9B | M4B@128 kbps | 6h 45m | 368 MB
Author and Narrator: Mark Vernon
Christianity is in crisis in the West. The Inkling friend of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, Owen Barfield, analysed why. He developed an account of our spiritual predicament that is radical and illuminating.