"The [six]-volume Basic History has gained a well-deserved reputation for combining insight with simple narrative style."--AudioFile
Carson's full-scale treatment of American history combines scholarly exactness with evocative passages that lead the listener to a clearer understanding of the people and events, the triumphs and the shortcomings, which have shaped this nation.
Starting with the "filling out" of the West, this fourth volume goes beyond the standard historical facts and events of these formative fifty
years of American history. Included are crisp and incisive discussions of Darwinism and Socialism and their effects upon American society.
Also covered are civil service reform; regulation and the courts; the rise of labor unions; the Spanish-American War; the Panama Canal; World War I; Bolshevism and the spread of Totalitarianism; Nazism in Germany; monetarism and prosperity; and the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, Harding, and Coolidge.
Various
Peformed By : Full Cast Production
Listen & Live
Runtime : 6 hours
Categories : Dramatizations American Pre 1900 Military
$24.95 $16.25
An audio anthology of the most dramatic moments in American history. More info...
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Christopher Lee
Peformed By : Various
BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Runtime : 11 hours 30 minutes
Categories : Non Fiction British Pre 1900
$31.99
Using a range of contemporary documents, this is an informative, engaging and fascinating insight into the rise - and eventual fall - of the British Empire. More info...
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Gilbert White
Peformed By : James Taylor
Audio Books Ltd
Runtime : 10 hours 45 minutes
Categories : Biographical British Pre 1900 Biographical Knowledge & Learning
$31.49
'The Natural History of Selborne' has become part of that curious concoction of ideas and artefacts, which are seen as somehow defining "the English way of life." More info...
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Simon Schama
Peformed By : Timothy West
BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Runtime : 10 hours 55 minutes
Categories : British History Pre 1900
$39.25
The second volume of Simon Schama's compelling chronicle of the British Isles. More info...
Written By : Pete McCarthy
Narrated By : Pete McCarthy
Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks
Length : 2 hours
Type : Autobiography Biographical Travel
Price : $16.75
The audio of the million-selling book - Pete McCarthy's hilarious journey in search of his Irish roots.
McCarthy's tale of his hilarious trip around Ireland has gained thousands of fans all over the world.
Pete was born in Warrington to an Irish mother and an English father and spent happy summer holidays in Cork. Years later, reflecting on the many places he has visited as a travel broadcaster, Pete admits that he feels more at home in Ireland than anywhere. To find out whether this is due to rose-coloured spectacles or to a deeper tie with the country of his ancestors, Pete sets off on a trip around Ireland and discovers that it has changed in surprising ways.
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