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19th Century Audiobooks

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    How to be a Victorian

    by Ruth Goodman ...
    Narrated by Patience Tomlinson ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 1 min

    Penguin presents the audiobook edition of How to be a Victorian by Ruth Goodman, read by Patience Tomlinson.How to be a Victorian - a time traveller's guide to Victorian Britain by the BBC's Ruth GoodmanWe know what life was like for Victoria and Albert. But what was it like for a commoner like you or me? How did it feel to cook with coal and wash with tea leaves? Drink beer for breakfast and ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Jane Austen at Home

    A Biography

    by Lucy Worsley ...
    Narrated by Lucy Worsley, Ruth Redman ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 14 min

    'This is my kind of history: carefully researched but so vivid that you are convinced Lucy Worsley was actually there at the party - or the parsonage.' Antonia Fraser'A refreshingly unique perspective on Austen and her work and a beautifully nuanced exploration of gender, creativity, and domesticity.' Amanda ForemanOn the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen's death, historian Lucy Worsley leads us ... Read more

    $46.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Late Victorian Holocausts

    El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World

    by Mike Davis ...
    Narrated by James Patrick Cronin ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 41 min

    Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the nineteenth century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history. Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine: ... Read more

    $32.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Imperial Germany and War, 1871-1918

    by Daniel J. Hughes, Richard L. DiNardo ...
    Narrated by Nigel Patterson ...

    Unabridged

    21 hours 6 min

    An in-depth, finely detailed portrait of the German Army from its greatest victory in 1871 to its final collapse in 1918, this volume offers the most comprehensive account ever given of one of the critical pillars of the German Empire-and a chief architect of the military and political realities of late nineteenth-century Europe. Written by two of the world's leading authorities on the subject, ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Habsburgs

    The Rise and Fall of a World Power

    by Martyn Rady ...
    Narrated by Simon Bowie ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 58 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.In The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady tells the epic story of a dynasty and the world it built - and then lost - over nearly a millennium. From modest origins, the Habsburgs grew in power to gain control of the Holy Roman Empire in the fifteenth century. Then, in just a few decades, their possessions rapidly expanded to take in a large part of Europe stretching from Hungary to ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Checkpoint Charlie

    The Cold War, the Berlin Wall and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth

    by Iain MacGregor ...
    Narrated by Dugald Bruce-Lockhart ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 3 min

    'A lively, evocative account of the life and death of the world's most notorious wall. In capturing the essence of the old Cold War he may just have helped us to understand a bit more about the new one' The Times'Checkpoint Charlie is a fascinating and telling reminder of what was perhaps the most potent symbol of the Cold War . . . Iain MacGregor writes with great fluency and narrative drive' ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Heirs of the Founders

    The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants

    by H. W. Brands ...
    Narrated by Eric Jason Martin ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 55 min

    From New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how, in nineteenth-century America, a new set of political giants battled to complete the unfinished work of the Founding Fathers and decide the future of our democracyIn the early 1800s, three young men strode onto the national stage, elected to Congress at a moment when the Founding Fathers were beginning to ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Chinese Question

    The Gold Rushes and Global Politics

    by Mae M. Ngai ...
    Narrated by Cindy Kay ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 49 min

    Between 1848 and 1899, more gold was removed from the earth than had been mined in the 3,000 preceding years, bringing untold wealth to individuals and nations. But friction between Chinese and white settlers on the goldfields of California, Australia, and South Africa catalyzed a global battle over "the Chinese Question": would the United States and the British Empire outlaw Chinese immigration? ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Lost Kingdom

    The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation

    by Serhii Plokhy ...
    Narrated by Peter Ganim ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 2 min

    From a preeminent scholar of Eastern Europe and the prizewinning author of Chernobyl, the essential history of Russian imperialism.In 2014, Russia annexed the Crimea and attempted to seize a portion of Ukraine -- only the latest iteration of a centuries-long effort to expand Russian boundaries and create a pan-Russian nation. In Lost Kingdom, award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy argues that we ... Read more

    $51.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Paris, City of Dreams

    Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann, and the Creation of Paris

    by Mary McAuliffe ...
    Narrated by Tim H. Dixon ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 34 min

    Acclaimed historian Mary McAuliffe vividly recaptures the Paris of Napoleon III, Claude Monet, and Victor Hugo as Georges Haussmann tore down and rebuilt Paris into the beautiful City of Light we know today. Paris, City of Dreams traces the transformation of the City of Light during Napoleon III’s Second Empire into the beloved city of today. Together, Napoleon III and his right-hand man, Georges ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    A Short History of Russia

    by Mark Galeotti ...
    Narrated by Mark Galeotti ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 50 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Can anyone truly understand Russia? Let one of the world's leading experts show you how, using the fascinating history of a nation to illuminate its future.Russia is a country with no natural borders, no single ethnos, no true central identity. At the crossroads of Europe and Asia, it is everyone’s ‘other’. And yet it is one of the most powerful nations on earth, a master ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Phantom Terror: The Threat of Revolution and the Repression of Liberty 1789-1848

    by Adam Zamoyski ...
    Narrated by Geoff Holman ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 56 min

    A magnificent and timely examination of an age of fear, subversion, suppression and espionage, Adam Zamoyski explores the attempts of the governments of Europe to police the world in a struggle against obscure forces, seemingly dedicated to the overthrow of civilisation.The advent of the French Revolution confirmed the worst fears of the rulers of Europe. They saw their states as storm-tossed ... Read more

    $49.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Fall of Light

    by Niall Williams ...
    Narrated by Gerry O'Brien ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 45 min

    Francis Foley is a proud, stubborn man, and cannot stand to be beholden to anyone. Quick to anger and slow to forgiveness, it is his temper that, one day, costs his sons their home -- and their mother. This will not be the last of their losses however: as the four boys and their father embark on an odyssey to find untenanted land they can call their own, their already diminished family is divided ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The File

    Origins of the Munich Massacre

    by San Charles Haddad ...
    Narrated by Paul Boehmer ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 44 min

    Three people living in Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Jerusalem embark on distinct journeys that converge at "the file"; their efforts to admit Palestine to the Olympics in the early twentieth century. Their pivotal roles in history have been purposely omitted from official record, kept secret, or forgotten. Why? Because of the "Nazi Olympics" in 1936 in Berlin. And because of the death in 1972 of eleven ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Bad Girls

    A History of Rebels and Renegades

    by Caitlin Davies ...
    Narrated by Rose Akroyd ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 15 min

    LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITINGA history of a century of women, punishment and crime in HM Prison Holloway.Society has never known what to do with its rebellious women.Those who defied expectations about feminine behaviour have long been considered dangerous and unnatural, and ever since the Victorian era they have been removed from public view, locked up and often ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Abraham Lincoln: A Life 1861

    From Springfield to Washington, Inauguration, and Distributing Patronage

    by Michael Burlingame ...
    Narrated by Sean Pratt ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 23 min

    Publishers Weekly describes this book as “the most meticulously researched Lincoln biography ever written. Burlingame's Lincoln comes alive as the author unfolds vast amounts of new research while breathing new life into familiar stories. It is the essential title for the bicentennial.” Publishers Weekly also notes, “The book need not be heard in one sitting. Each part stands alone.” Now Gildan ... Read more

    $41.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Fierce Bad Rabbits

    The Tales Behind Children's Picture Books

    by Clare Pollard ...
    Narrated by Clare Pollard ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 34 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.What is The Tiger Who Came to Tea really about?What has Meg and Mog got to do with Polish embroidery?Why is death in picture books so often represented by being eaten?Fierce Bad Rabbits takes us on an eye-opening journey in a pea-green boat through the history of picture books. From Edward Lear through to Julia Donaldson, Clare Poll... ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Other Face of Battle

    America's Forgotten Wars and the Experience of Combat

    by Wayne E. Lee, David L. Preston, David Silbey, Anthony E. Carlson ...
    Narrated by Danny Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 28 min

    Taking its title from The Face of Battle, John Keegan's canonical book on the nature of warfare, The Other Face of Battle, illuminates the American experience of fighting in "irregular" and "intercultural" wars over the centuries. Sometimes known as "forgotten" wars, in part because they lacked triumphant clarity, they are the focus of the book. David Preston, David Silbey, and Anthony Carlson ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Napoleon and the Art of Leadership

    How a Flawed Genius Changed the History of Europe and the World

    by William Nester ...
    Narrated by Matthew Josdal ...

    Unabridged

    22 hours 21 min

    No one in history has provoked more controversy than Napoleon Bonaparte. Was he an enlightened ruler or brutal tyrant? Was he an insatiable warmonger or a defender of France against the aggression of the other great powers? Was he kind or cruel, farsighted or blinkered, a sophisticate or a philistine, a builder or a destroyer? One thing is certain, if the art of leadership is about getting what ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Enlightenment that Failed

    Ideas, Revolution, and Democratic Defeat, 1748-1830

    by Jonathan I. Israel ...
    Narrated by James Cameron Stewart ...

    Unabridged

    60 hours 58 min

    The Enlightenment that Failed explores the growing rift between those Enlightenment trends and initiatives that appealed exclusively to elites and those aspiring to enlighten all of society by raising mankind's awareness, freedoms, and educational level generally. Jonathan I. Israel explains why the democratic and radical secularizing tendency of the Western Enlightenment, after gaining some ... Read more

    $58.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Cattle Kate: The Controversial Life and Legend of the Wyoming Territory’s Most Famous Woman Outlaw

    by Charles River Editors ...
    Narrated by Kelly McGee ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 28 min

    In the span of scarcely more than a half century, the West developed from a handful of scattered fur trapping enterprises predominantly inhabited by males to a region full of burgeoning rustic communities, and before the government’s official “closure” of the frontier as a lawless expanse, Western societies were essentially living apart from traditional American rule of law. What judicial ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Tom Horn: The Controversial Life and Legacy of One of the Wild West’s Most Famous Gunslingers

    by Charles River Editors ...
    Narrated by Bill Hare ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 21 min

    In the span of scarcely more than a half century, the West developed from a handful of scattered fur trapping enterprises predominantly inhabited by males to a region full of burgeoning rustic communities, and before the government’s official “closure” of the frontier as a lawless expanse, Western societies were essentially living apart from traditional American rule of law. What judicial ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    David Farragut and David Dixon Porter: The Lives and Careers of the Adoptive Brothers Who Became the U.S. Navy’s First Admirals

    by Charles River Editors ...
    Narrated by Gregory T. Luzitano ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours

    Americans have long been fascinated by the Civil War, marveling at the size of the battles, the leadership of the generals, and the courage of the soldiers. Since the war's start over 150 years ago, the battles have been subjected to endless debate among historians and the generals themselves. The Civil War was the deadliest conflict in American history, and had the two sides realized it would ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Whig Party, The: The History and Legacy of the Influential Political Party in 19th Century America

    by Charles River Editors ...
    Narrated by Gregory T. Luzitano ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 25 min

    The Missouri Compromise of 1820 staved off the slavery crisis for the time being, but by setting a line that excluded slave states above the parallel, it would also become incredibly contentious. It was against that backdrop and the election of Andrew Jackson that the Whigs emerged as opponents to the Jacksonian Democrats during a period of American history known as the Second Party System (1828 ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial