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  • Slave Empire

    How Slavery Built Modern Britain

    by Padraic X. Scanlan ...
    'Engrossing and powerful . . . rich and thought-provoking'Fara Dabhoiwala, Guardian'Path-breaking . . . a major rewriting of history'Mihir Bose, Irish Times'Slave Empire is lucid, elegant and forensic. It deals with appalling horrors in cool and convincing prose.'The EconomistThe British empire, in sentimental myth, was more free, more just and more fair than ... ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Rot

    An Imperial History of the Irish Famine

    by Padraic X. Scanlan ...
    A revelatory new history of the Irish Great Famine, showing how the British Empire caused Ireland’s most infamous disaster.“Vigorous and engaging.” —Fintan O’Toole, The New YorkerIn 1845, European potato fields were attacked by a novel pathogen. But it was only in Ireland that the blight’s devastation reached apocalyptic levels, leaving more than a million dead and forcing millions more to ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Freedom's Debtors

    British Antislavery in Sierra Leone in the Age of Revolution

    by Padraic X. Scanlan ...
    A history of the abolition of the British slave trade in Sierra Leone and how the British used its success to justify colonialism in Africa British anti-slavery, widely seen as a great sacrifice of economic and political capital on the altar of humanitarianism, was in fact profitable, militarily useful, and crucial to the expansion of British power in West Africa. After the slave trade was ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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    Rot

    An Imperial History of the Irish Famine

    by Padraic X. Scanlan ...
    Narrated by Stephen Hogan ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 20 min

    A revelatory new history of the Irish Great Famine, showing how the British Empire caused Ireland’s most infamous disaster.“Vigorous and engaging.” —Fintan O’Toole, The New YorkerIn 1845, European potato fields were attacked by a novel pathogen. But it was only in Ireland that the blight’s devastation reached apocalyptic levels, leaving more than a million dead and forcing millions more to ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

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  • The Stones of Britain

    A History of Britain through its Geology

    by Jon Cannon ...
    'Cannon has a keen descriptive eye and a striking, lyrical turn of phrase . . . a rich, warm, authoritative book' TLSThis is the definitive tale of how our island history is written in stone.The Stones of Britain is about how rocks make places, exploring the connection between geology and landscape, the stones beneath the surface and the history that has played out above it. It movingly ... Read more

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    The Afghans

    Three Lives Through War, Love, and Revolt

    by Åsne Seierstad ...
    Narrated by Laila Pyne ...

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    Bloomsbury presents The Afghans by Åsne Seierstad, read by Laila Pyne.A KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR"An astonishing feat of writing and reporting and one of the finest books written on Afghanistan in a generation." —Eliza Griswold, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Amity and Prosperity“A valuable addition to the canon of literature on the country . . . [Seierstad] manages to achieve a rare intimacy ... Read more

    $30.00 USD

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    The Rage of Party

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    Narrated by Justin Avoth ...

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    THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025A CAPX AND ENGELSBERG IDEAS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025The late 17th century saw the rise of a new phenomenon that would transform Britain forever: party politics.Beginning with a furious dispute over whether to allow a Roman Catholic - James II - to become king, the division between Whig and Tory marked the chief political battlelines of a ferociously polarised ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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    Elemental: The New Geography of Climate Change and How We Survive It

    The first comprehensive account of the geopolitics of climate change

    by Arthur Snell ...
    Narrated by Arthur Snell ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 28 min

    'An extraordinary mastery of geopolitics, combining years on the ground in the most challenging places, a raw instinct for politics and a deep ethical concern for the world in the face of climate catastrophe. A masterpiece.' - RORY STEWART'A powerful, passionate and utterly convincing book.' - LORD PETER RICKETTSFrom the water-stressed mountains of the Arabian Peninsula to ... ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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    Uncommon Ground

    Rethinking our relationship with the countryside

    by Patrick Galbraith ...
    Narrated by Patrick Galbraith ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 35 min

    ‘A curious-minded and subtle intervention in the politics of the countryside’ Sunday Times'Galbraith spent three years investigating the truth about rural Britain and how we treat it. Uncommon Ground is the brilliant result' Daily Telegraph'Very funny. Acutely observed. An attempt to look beyond the usual clichés of country life' Observer“B... ... Read more

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    Wreckers

    Disaster in the Age of Discovery

    by Simon Park ...
    Narrated by Esh Alladi ...

    Unabridged

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    **Brought to you by Penguin.Wreckers** sinks the old narratives of imperialism, revealing the violent, chaotic and improvised reality of empire-building from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries.While figures such as Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama and Ferdinand Magellan are celebrated for their maritime achievements – reaching the Americas, India, and circumnavigating the globe – focusing ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Elemental: The New Geography of Climate Change and How We Survive It

    The first comprehensive account of the geopolitics of climate change

    by Arthur Snell ...
    'An extraordinary mastery of geopolitics, combining years on the ground in the most challenging places, a raw instinct for politics and a deep ethical concern for the world in the face of climate catastrophe. A masterpiece.' - RORY STEWART'A powerful, passionate and utterly convincing book.' - LORD PETER RICKETTSFrom the water-stressed mountains of the Arabian Peninsula to ... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    The Rebel Empresses

    Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France, Power and Glamour in the Struggle for Europe

    by Nancy Goldstone ...
    Narrated by Tamsin Kennard ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 34 min

    From the acclaimed author of In the Shadow of the Empress comes the thrilling chronicle of two of the most influential and glamorous women in nineteenth-century Europe—Elisabeth, empress of Austria, and Eugénie, empress of France—and their efforts to rule amid the scandal, intrigue, tragedy, and violence of their era.When they married Emperors Franz Joseph and Napoleon III, respectively, Elisabeth ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

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