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German Revolution
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Discover the remarkable history of the German Revolution of 1918.... The brief history of the Weimar Republic is generally seen as an abbreviated intermission between the First and Second World Wars. It was the government, led by the Social Democratic Party, which took power, albeit with some trepidation, after Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated the German throne. Socialists saw this as the opportunity they had been waiting for, the day when workers would be the ones in power. For the conservatives who could not accept the German defeat in World War I, however, the Weimar Republic was a feeble entity which had capitulated to Germany’s enemies. The German Revolution of 1918-1919 told the story of a bruised nation attempting to overcome its military defeat at the hands of enemies who wanted to punish Germany for starting the war. Because Germany was caught in the vise of such irreconcilable political philosophies between the left and the right, the Weimar Republic, although it was the ruling power following the German Revolution, was destined to have a doomed, short life in Germany’s tragic 20th-century history. Discover a plethora of topics such as Sacrificing for the Fatherland The German spring offensive The seeds of Revolution The Christmas crisis Rosa Luxemburg and the Spartacist uprising The end of the Revolution And much more! So if you want a concise and informative book on the German Revolution of 1918, simply scroll up and click the "Buy Nw" button for instant access!
©2020 Hourly History (P)2020 Hourly History
A Concise History of the Rise and Fall of the Mongolian Empire
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The Mongol Empire emerged from the unification of Mongol and Turkic tribes of historical Mongolia under the leadership of Genghis Khan. Genghis Khan was proclaimed ruler of all Mongols in 1206. The empire grew rapidly under his rule and then under the rule of his descendants, who sent invasions in every direction. The vast transcontinental empire which connected the east with the west with an enforced Pax Mongolica allowed trade, technologies, commodities and ideologies to be disseminated and exchanged across Eurasia. The empire began to split as a result of wars over succession, as the grandchildren of Genghis Khan disputed whether the royal line should follow from Genghis's son and initial heir Ögedei, or one of his other sons such as Tolui, Chagatai, or Jochi. The Toluids prevailed after a bloody purge of Ögedeid and Chagataid factions, but disputes continued even among the descendants of Tolui. After Möngke Khan died, rival kurultai councils would simultaneously elect different successors, the brothers Ariq Böke and Kublai, who then not only had to defy each other, but also deal with challenges from descendants of other of Genghis's sons.
©2013 Henry Epps (P)2014 Henry Epps
Lost Kingdoms of Central America
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Thousands of years ago, people settled in the part of the world called Mesoamerica. This region consists of southern Mexico and most of Central America as it stretches between what is now called the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean. Although many different countries now exist within this space, it was the original home to just one civilisation: the Olmec. As time advanced, other well-known groups became dominant in the area. These were primarily the Aztecs and the Mayan. All these early civilizations that existed from approximately 1200 BCE to 900 CE were steeped with culture, tradition, commerce, and conflict. They also offer many mysteries and enigmas to modern understanding. These are the things that make people wonder about how the civilisations arose, gained such power, and why they disappeared. Travel back in time to the first days to discover the questions that still exist in the minds of archaeologists, historians, and others who strive to understand the ancient mysteries of Mesoamerica.
©2020 DTTV Publications (P)2021 DTTV Publications
Patria 2
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El valor, como el miedo, son contagiosos. De uno y otro lado los defensores y los atacantes realizan hazañas sorprendentes. Si, en el caso del ejército francés, su notable disciplina les da ventaja, en el caso mexicano los oficiales y suboficiales que combaten en la primera línea dan una consistencia enorme a la defensa. González Ortega añade: “Los vi serenos en medio de los fuegos, a unos a pecho descubierto y a otros en los muros que se les habían enco - mendado, esperando el empuje del invasor”. Ha pasado la revolución que tiró a Santa Anna, la Constitución del 57, la Guerra de Reforma y la intervención extranjera. El ejército francés avanza hacia el interior de México. En este segundo tomo se dará noticia de las tremendas batallas de Puebla, la caída de la Ciudad de México y del gobierno errante de Juárez. Será la historia del nacimiento de la chinaca, la guerra de guerrillas y la resistencia a ultranza contra los franceses. Patria cuenta 15 años de lucha por la libertad. Tras una década de investigación, en esta magnífica obra Paco Ignacio Taibo II retrata uno de los periodos más decisivos y fundacionales de nuestra historia nacional y consigue traernos un pasado que ilumina el presente. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
©2017 Paco Ignacio Taibo II (P)2019 Editorial Planeta México
100 of the Worst Ideas in History
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They are priceless, multifaceted jewels of misjudgment. Masterworks of the moronic. Steroid-juiced stupidity wearing a size 9XX dunce cap embroidered with one simple word: “Duh”. They are the colossally, often laughably bad notions that have leapt from the short-circuiting synapses of some of the world’s brightest (and dimmest) brains, then faithfully chronicled here in 100 of the Worst Ideas in History. On this rollicking romp through the bungles and stumbles of the distant and recent past, we’ll meet the US President who starts each day skinny-dipping in the Potomac. Drink in the dental hygiene product that actually rots your teeth. Get an earful of the hit singing group that can’t really sing. Meet the confused chauffeur who helped start a world war. Munch on the tasty new snack food that might just give you diarrhea. Review a dozen of the worst movies ever committed to celluloid. Plus so much more (of so much less). Prescribing a double shot of Clorox to kill a viral infection? That’s a run-of-the-mill noggin-scratcher compared to these stupendously stinky ideas - ones that have started wars, sunk countries, wrecked companies, scuttled careers, lost millions, endangered the Earth and left the bad idea’s mommy or daddy as red-faced as, well, your mom or dad will be when they learn that you like to dress your pit bull as one of the Backstreet Boys. It's all here for your listening pleasure: The magical, musical, audiobook 100 of the Worst Ideas in History. (Void if inhibited. Batteries not included. Action figures sold separately. Your mileage may vary. If excitement last more than four hours, please consult your psychiatrist).
©2014 Michael N. Smith and Eric Kasum (P)2021 Michael N. Smith and Eric Kasum
Scars of Independence
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A magisterial new work that rewrites the story of America's founding The American Revolution is often portrayed as an orderly, restrained rebellion, with brave patriots defending their noble ideals against an oppressive empire. It's a stirring narrative, and one the founders did their best to encourage after the war. But as historian Holger Hoock shows in this deeply researched and elegantly written account of America’s founding, the Revolution was not only a high-minded battle over principles, but also a profoundly violent civil war—one that shaped the nation, and the British Empire, in ways we have only begun to understand. In Scars of Independence, Hoock writes the violence back into the story of the Revolution. American Patriots persecuted and tortured Loyalists. British troops massacred enemy soldiers and raped colonial women. Prisoners were starved on disease-ridden ships and in subterranean cells. African-Americans fighting for or against independence suffered disproportionately, and Washington's army waged a genocidal campaign against the Iroquois. In vivid, authoritative prose, Hoock's new reckoning also examines the moral dilemmas posed by this all-pervasive violence, as the British found themselves torn between unlimited war and restraint toward fellow subjects, while the Patriots documented war crimes in an ingenious effort to unify the fledgling nation. For two centuries we have whitewashed this history of the Revolution. Scars of Independence forces a more honest appraisal, revealing the inherent tensions between moral purpose and violent tendencies in America's past. In so doing, it offers a new origins story that is both relevant and necessary—an important reminder that forging a nation is rarely bloodless.
©2017 Holger Hoock (P)2017 Random House Audio
Rise of the Novel
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Thousands of novels are published around the world every year. There are so many readily available, it would take multiple lifetimes for a single person to even read a fraction of them. But it hasn’t always been that way. While humans have always been storytellers, the novel as we recognize it today is a relatively new art form in the timeline of human culture. Of all the ways we tell stories, why has the novel become such a perennial favorite? How did the novel go from a narrative experiment with a low-brow reputation to a cultural touchstone and focal point of modern literature? In the 24 lectures of Rise of the Novel, you will take a journey from the birth of the novel to the height of the form in the mid-19th century - and better understand what this literary form can tell us about human nature and our unquenchable thirst for great stories. With Professor Emeritus Leo Damrosch of Harvard University as your guide, you will dive into some of the most notable works that helped create and shape the novel over the course of more than three centuries, looking at the social and historical influences that coincided with shifts in literary taste along the way. Beginning with Don Quixote - held up by many scholars as the foundational text from which the novel form would spring - Professor Damrosch will lead you through works both tragic and comic, brief and diffuse, epic and domestic. From early works like La Princesse de Clèves and Robinson Crusoe to pinnacles of the form in the 19th century such as Emma and Middlemarch - along with a few novels that are less familiar today but well worth knowing - you will dive into works with different perspectives and intentions that have all impacted our culture in their own way. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2020 The Great Courses (P)2020 The Teaching Company, LLC
Age of Discovery
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If you want to discover the captivating history of the Age of Discovery, then pay attention.... The Age of Discovery began in the early part of the 15th century and carried on through most of the 17th century. It is sometimes also referred to as the Age of Exploration. This was a time when the people of Europe began to travel, discover, and explore more of the world than ever before, mapping and naming the places they found. They bravely went out on the seas to learn about the world, often never sure if they would find anything at all, let alone ever return home. The explorations made during this time would impact the shape of the world going forward in many ways. Colonization, trade, and education all changed due to the expansion of the known world, as well as international relationships. In Age of Discovery: A Captivating Guide to an Era of Exploration in European History, Including Discoveries Such as Christopher Columbus’ Voyages to the Americas and Vasco da Gama’s Sea Route to India, you will discover topics such as: Prince Henry the Navigator Bartolomeu Dias Vasco da Gama Albuquerque Christopher Columbus The Latter Voyages of Christopher Columbus Amerigo Vespucci Ponce de León Diogo Lopes de Sequeira Hernán Cortés Ferdinand Magellan John Cabot The Younger Columbus The Laws of Burgos Jacques Cartier Francisco Vázquez de Coronado Francis Drake Walter Raleigh and the Two Failed Colonies The East India Trading Company The Jamestown Colony The Pilgrims of the Mayflower The Dutch East India Company Food, Agriculture, and Livestock Disease, Slavery, and Religion And much, much more! So if you want to learn more about the Age of Discovery, scroll up and buy now!
©2020 Captivating History (P)2020 Captivating History
The Intellectual Devotional: American History
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Modeled after those bedside books of prayer and contemplation that millions turn to for daily spiritual guidance and growth, the national best-seller The Intellectual Devotional, offering secular wisdom and cerebral nourishment, drew a year's worth of readings from seven different fields of knowledge. In this follow-up volume, authors David S. Kidder and Noah D. Oppenheim have turned to the rich legacy of American history for their selections. From Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin to Martin Luther King Jr., from the Federalist Papers to Watergate, the giant figures, cultural touchstones, and pivotal events in our national heritage provide a bountiful source of reflection and education that will refresh knowledge, revitalize the mind, and open new horizons of intellectual discovery.
©2007 TID Volumes, LLC (P)2007 Audio Renaissance, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishers LLC
The Fun Knowledge Encyclopedia Volume 2: The Crazy Stories Behind the World's Most Interesting Facts
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Facts. The world just seems to revolve around them, and you never know for sure where they will lead you next. From discovering who actually invented glue, to what various words or names mean, the whole world would be a more boring place if it were not for different facts. You probably even know someone who always has some cool piece of knowledge that blows your mind. Perhaps you wish that you had some of those nuggets of information at your own disposal. Our encyclopedia is crammed full of those small pieces of information that will suddenly make the world seem like a more logical place to live. Covering a wide array of both topics as well as categories, you never know where our audiobook of facts is going to take you next. From fun-based ideas to those that are more serious alongside those things that just make you sit up and think, "Wow, I never knew that!" You will ultimately become that person that always seems to have those cool points that they can just throw into any conversation. So, sit back and enjoy the journey that you are about to go on with hours of facts that will hit every part of you. Easy to follow and interest around every corner, this encyclopedia is the kind of audiobook you have always been looking for, and if it’s not, then there will more than likely be some fact that would explain to you why that is the case.
©2018 LAK Publishing (P)2018 LAK Publishing
Hitlers furier
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Det traditionelle billede af de tyske kvinder som trofaste hustruer, der passede hjemmefronten, blegner ved Wendy Lowers Hitlers furier, en rystende beretning om de 500.000 unge tyske kvinder, som befandt sig på Østfronten, hvor de bevidnede og deltog i nazisternes folkemord under Anden Verdenskrig. Disse unge kvinder - sygeplejersker, sekretærer, hustruer og elskerinder - så det fremvoksende nazi-imperiums østfront som et sted med rige karriere- og ægteskabsmuligheder, men forestillede sig næppe, hvad de ville komme til at se og gøre der. "Hitlers furier" tegner et billede af en - i moralsk forstand - fortabt generation af unge kvinder, der blev født i et kaotisk Tyskland efter nederlaget i Første Verdenskrig og blev grebet af den nationalistiske begejstringsbølge i den nazistiske bevægelse. På baggrund af 20 års holocauststudier, adgang til hidtil ukendt materiale fra russiske arkiver og interviews med overlevende tyske vidner viser Wendy Lower, at disse kvinder var andet og mere end bare skrivebordsmordere og behageligt fritidsselskab for de tyske mænd. Hun fortæller, hvordan de tog del i mishandlingen af jøder i ghettoerne i Polen, Ukraine og Hviderusland, at de var vidner til massakrer, hvor de ikke bare serverede forfriskninger, men også tog deres tørn i massenedskydningerne. Og som det måske mest skræmmende fortæller hun om SS-hustruer og småbørnsmødre, hvis brutalitet og grusomhed ikke står tilbage for særlig meget i verdenshistorien. "Hitlers furier" var nomineret til den amerikanske National Book Award for Nonfiction 2013.
©2017 Lindhardt og Ringhof. Translated by Anders Nygaard (P)2017 Lindhardt og Ringhof
Blood on the River
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A breathtakingly original work of history that uncovers a massive enslaved persons’ revolt that almost changed the face of the Americas On Sunday, February 27, 1763, thousands of slaves in the Dutch colony of Berbice - in present-day Guyana - launched a massive rebellion that came amazingly close to succeeding. Surrounded by jungle and savannah, the revolutionaries (many of them African-born) and Europeans struck and parried for an entire year. In the end, the Dutch prevailed because of one unique advantage - their ability to get soldiers and supplies from neighboring colonies and from Europe. Blood on the River is the explosive story of this little-known revolution, one that almost changed the face of the Americas. Drawing on 900 interrogation transcripts collected by the Dutch when the Berbice rebellion finally collapsed, and which were subsequently buried in Dutch archives, historian Marjoleine Kars reconstructs an extraordinarily rich day-by-day account of this pivotal event. Blood on the River provides a rare in-depth look at the political vision of enslaved people at the dawn of the Age of Revolution and introduces us to a set of real characters, vividly drawn against the exotic tableau of a riverine world of plantations, rain forest, and Carib allies who controlled a vast South American hinterland. An astonishing original work of history, Blood on the River will change our understanding of revolutions, slavery, and the story of freedom in the New World.
©2020 Marjoleine Kars (P)2020 Audible, Inc.
The Third Horseman
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How a seven-year cycle of rain, cold, disease, and warfare created the worst famine in European history. In May 1315 it started to rain. It didn't stop anywhere in north Europe until August. Next came the four coldest winters in a millennium. Two separate animal epidemics killed nearly 80 percent of northern Europe's livestock. Wars between Scotland and England, France and Flanders, and two rival claimants to the Holy Roman Empire destroyed all remaining farmland. After seven years, the combination of lost harvests, warfare, and pestilence would claim six million lives - one eighth of Europe's total population. William Rosen draws on a wide array of disciplines, from military history to feudal law to agricultural economics and climatology, to trace the succession of traumas that caused the Great Famine. With dramatic appearances by Scotland's William Wallace, the luckless Edward II, and his treacherous Queen Isabella, history's best documented episode of catastrophic climate change comes alive, with powerful implications for future calamities.
©2014 William Rosen (P)2014 Blackstone Audio
Norse Mythology: Gods, Heroes and the Nine Worlds of Norse Mythology (Norse Myths - Norse Gods - Viking Mythology - Viking Gods - Thor - Loki - Odin - ... - Egyptian - Mythology Trilogy Book 2)
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Norse Mythology is not only a relic of history but a fascinating record that exhibits humanities unending stream of creativity. This audiobook delves into the past and emerges with a legion of breath taking accounts of events, gods, heroes, creatures, worlds, and much more. Inside you will learn about... Gods and Goddesses The Nine Worlds Heroes and Legends Mythological Creatures Ten Little Known Facts about Norse Mythology Whether you are a helpless fan of Norse Mythology or one of history this book will serve you in more ways than one. As the content is sourced from translations of the Old Norse literature, this will give you an authoritative insight in to the pre-Christian society of Europe.
©2015 Stephan Weaver (P)2017 Stephan Weaver
100+1 Trivia Questions with Interesting Facts: General Knowledge
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Are you looking for a fun way to spend your evening with your friends and also learn something new and interesting? You don't have to spend money and go to a pub quiz or any trivia questions event! You can enjoy your own pub quiz trivia questions event right at your home! Do you know what country has the highest number of castles and chateaux per capita in the world? Do you know what is the name of a famous actor, who, after coming back from Navy, he started working as a lorry driver, a laborer, a model, and a coffin washer? Did you know, there are three times as many sheep as citizens living in Australia? Discover these and many other interesting facts in this entertaining audiobook. Get your friends and family together, and enjoy a wonderful evening! Who will win?
©2019 Michael Harris (P)2019 Michael Harris
How History Gets Things Wrong
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Why we learn the wrong things from narrative history, and how our love for stories is hard-wired. To understand something, you need to know its history. Right? Wrong, says Alex Rosenberg in How History Gets Things Wrong. Feeling especially well-informed after reading a book of popular history on the best-seller list? Don't. Narrative history is always, always wrong. It not just incomplete or inaccurate but deeply wrong, as wrong as Ptolemaic astronomy. We no longer believe that the earth is the center of the universe. Why do we still believe in historical narrative? Our attachment to history as a vehicle for understanding has a long Darwinian pedigree and a genetic basis. Our love of stories is hard-wired. Neuroscience reveals that human evolution shaped a tool useful for survival into a defective theory of human nature. Stories historians tell, Rosenberg continues, are not only wrong but harmful. Israel and Palestine, for example, have dueling narratives of dispossession that prevent one side from compromising with the other. Henry Kissinger applied lessons drawn from the Congress of Vienna to American foreign policy with disastrous results. Human evolution improved primate mind reading - the ability to anticipate the behavior of others, whether predators, prey, or cooperators - to get us to the top of the African food chain. Now, however, this hard-wired capacity makes us think we can understand history - what the Kaiser was thinking in 1914, why Hitler declared war on the United States - by uncovering the narratives of what happened and why. In fact, Rosenberg argues, we will only understand history if we don't make it into a story.
©2018 Brilliance Audio, Inc.by Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
Proof!
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An eye-opening narrative of how geometric principles fundamentally shaped our world
One night in 1661, Nicholas Fouquet, a superintendent under Louis XIV, was arrested. His crime was peculiar: He had dared to construct a grand geometrical garden. In doing so, he violated an irrefutable hierarchy: that geometry, in its perfection, was a testament to divine right. The elegant, symmetrical designs were more than just ornament; they were proofs of incontestable certainty, and thus the authority to rule. But how did the French royalty fall in love with this peculiar landscape design? Wherefore Versailles?
In Proof!, the award-winning historian Amir Alexander argues that Euclidean geometry has been uniquely responsible for how our societies are structured. It has shaped how our cities are built and been used as a rationale to explain political structures. The proofs in Euclid's Elements were not only just true, but were certain by reason alone. Alexander tracks the rediscovery of Euclidean geometry in 15th-century Italy and recounts the French royalty's centuries-long love affair with geometrical gardening, which acted as a visual symbol of the king's consolidation of power during a time of violence and upheaval, and which culminated with the gardens at Versailles. Proof! tells the monumental story of the geometries that were carved into our world, the beliefs they supported, and the ways they shape our lives to this day.
©2019 Amir Alexander (P)2019 Blackstone Publishing
Agricola, Germania, A Dialogue Concerning Oratory
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These three vibrant texts show different sides of the Roman historian Tacitus (c56–c102 CE), best known for his principal (and much longer) legacies of The Annals and The Histories. Agricola was a successful general and governor of Britain (77-83CE), a task which he carried out with firmness and probity - in contrast to much of the corruption and repression in place during the reign of Emperor Domitian. Included in his account are the prebattle speeches of both Agricola and the Briton Calgacus. Tacitus' account of Germania shows a very different land with its many tribes, their habits and qualities in a strongly rural and resistant environment. A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, by contrast, is placed decidedly at the heart of Roman culture, a survey of rhetoric and the art of eloquence. The ability to speak clearly and well was admired throughout the Greek and Roman eras; educated men were expected to have received training in form and delivery: exordium, narration, period. Tacitus presents individuals who display the art of oratory in various forms, referring to the giants of the past - the speeches of Cicero, Brutus, Caesar and many others were kept in volumes and studied. And they question whether eloquence and the skills of oratory had declined in the age.
Public Domain (P)2016 Ukemi Productions Ltd
American History Now
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American History Now collects 18 original historiographic essays that survey recent scholarship in American history and trace the shifting lines of interpretation and debate in the field. The new generation of historians showcased in American History Now posed new questions and developed new approaches to scholarship to revise the prevailing interpretations of the chronological periods from the colonial era to the Reagan years. Covering the established subfields of women's history, African American history, and immigration history, the book also considers the history of capitalism, Native American history, environmental history, religious history, cultural history, and the history of the United States in the world.
©2011 American Historical Association (P)2016 Redwood Audiobooks
History of Christianity
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Cross necklaces were the center of the life of the Christians. Tertullian, one of the great church fathers mentioned the faithful followers of Christianity as the cross devotees. Great devotion of the Christians towards the Christ cross is defined as the symbol for Lord, St. Paulinus for Nola. Archaeologists found cross marks in the ancient civilizations between 2nd and the 5th centuries. Drawings as well as the etchings on the walls, and even in the catacombs at Rome, and the walls of the burial chambers of the first and second centuries, had cross symbols in many sites. As a matter of fact, Christianity history dates back even a thousand years before that.
©2016 Can Akdeniz (P)2016 Can Akdeniz