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Escuche este audio libro completo gratis en https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/903/ Título: Breve historia de la Segunda República Española [Brief history of the Second Spanish Republic]Autor: Luis E. Íñigo FernándezNarrador: Jordi VarelaFormato: UnabridgedDuración: 7 hrs and 46 minsIdioma: EspañolFecha de publicación: 01-23-18Editor: Audible StudiosCategorías: History, EuropeanResumen del editor:"La lectura y el conocimiento sobre este período de lahistoria de España son imprescindibles para entender nuestro presente." (BBC Historia, Diciembre 2010)"Aunque todos sabemos cómo acaba esta historia de la república española, Luis E. Iñigo Fernández hace que lavivamos con pasión manteniéndonos en vilo continuo como si al acabar escucharla nos fuéramos a llevar una sorpresa. Todo está vendido en el devenir de los republicanos en aquella época pero el autor no hace quela narración caiga en un aburrido ensayo de datos continuos." (www.hislibris.com)El 14 de Abril de 1931, una nación que se había acostado monárquica se despertó republicana: esta es la historia del fracaso de esa ilusión.La historia de la Segunda República española, es una historia de ilusiones frustradas, pero también una historia de esperanza y confianza en la regeneración de España. Un período fundamental para entender cómo y por qué España es hoy como es. En un estilo accesible que, sin embargo, atiende al rigor histórico y al estudio de los procesos en profundidad, Luis E. Íñigo nos presenta en Breve Historia de la Segunda República Española un panorama en el que pretende explicar las causas por las que la primera democracia española fracasó.El libro comienza presentando la situación española a principios del S. XX, necesaria para entender la disgregación inicial de las facciones republicanas y su progresiva unión, una vez puestos en situación nos llevade lleno a las elecciones municipales que provocaron la victoria de los republicanos y la marcha de Alfonso XIII. Tras este primer golpe de optimismo, los gobiernos republicanos tendrán que sobreponerse a no pocos enemigos: la crisis económica que impidió la reforma agraria, la Iglesia que se oponía a la laicidad de algunas leyes, las revueltas en Asturias y en Cataluña que fueron violentamente reprimidas, los intentos de Gil-Robles demodificar la república y convertirla en una autocracia, y, por último, las disputas internas de los propios republicanos, pequeñas fracturas que provocaron el derrumbe del gobierno y llevaron a España a la Guerra Civil.Razones para comprar la obra:La Segunda República no sólo es el primer intento de establecer un sistema democrático, no es sólo la antesala de la guerra fratricida que marcará nuestro S. XX, es una época fascinante de nuestra historia narrada en este caso de un modo sobresaliente.Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
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Ascolta questo libro audio completo gratuitamente su https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/903/ Titolo: Il Settecento (Storia d'Italia e d'Europa 47-54)Autore: variNarratore: Eugenio FarnFormato: UnabridgedDurata: 9 hrs and 59 minsLingua: ItalianoData di pubblicazione: 12-11-17Editore: Il Narratore s.r.l.Categoria: History, EuropeanRiepilogo Editore:Nella storia della civiltà europea il Settecento rappresenta una tappa fondamentale; è un'età di profondo e generale rinnovamento in tutti i campi: politico, sociale e culturale. La prima metà del secolo è segnata da tre guerre di successione: la guerra di successione spagnola (1704-12), la guerra di successione polacca (1733-35), la guerra di successione austriaca (1740-48). La situazione europea dopo la pace di Aquisgrana del 1748 presenta profondi cambiamenti rispetto alla fine del Seicento. Anzitutto le potenze principali sono ormai l'Inghilterra e la Francia. Si delineano poi tre nuove potenze: l'Impero Asburgico, il Regno di Prussia e la Russia zarista. La Spagna è ormai una potenza di secondo piano, anche se, con i Borboni, mantiene una certa influenza sull'Italia meridionale. La situazione politica italiana resta caratterizzata dalla decadenza politica e sociale e dalla dipendenza dalle potenze straniere, e gli stati del Bel Paese diventano spesso oggetto di scambio fra le grandi potenze europee. Ma il '700 vede anche grandi cambiamenti in campo tecnico, scientifico e filosofico. Con la Rivoluzione industriale vengono introdotte innovative tecnologie (in primis la macchina a vapore di Watt); in campo economico e sociale vi è la diffusione delle attività industriali, progrediscono i commerci e si afferma la borghesia come classe sociale intraprendente e dinamica; in campo politico le monarchie assolute conoscono un inarrestabile declino, accelerato dalle Rivoluzioni Americana e Francese. Tale rinnovamento trova il suo supporto culturale nell'Illuminismo. Questo audiolibro raccoglie insieme gli otto volumi della "Storia d'Italia e d'Europa" pubblicati e disponibili separatamente, dal vol. 47 "Il sogno dei filosofi" fino al vol. 54 "Francia: la fine dell'Ancien Régime"; un percorso storico descritto con un linguaggio chiaro e reso ancor più intelligibile dalla lettura esperta di Eugenio Farn.©2017 il Narratore S.r.l. (P)2017 il Narratore S.r.l.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/903/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Marie Antoinette's WatchSubtitle: Adultery, Larceny, & Perpetual MotionAuthor: John BiggsNarrator: Rick BarrFormat: UnabridgedLength: 7 hrs and 46 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 09-14-17Publisher: Ray Bridge PressRatings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votesGenres: History, EuropeanPublisher's Summary:"Marie Antoinette's Watch is a wonderful book." - William Gibson, author of NeuromancerAcross continents and into and out of the hands of royalty, revolutionaries, smugglers, thieves, and the world's greatest tech engineers, was Marie Antoinette's watch, the "160" worth an estimated $40 million in today's dollars. Perhaps the most sought after personal technology device of the last 200 years, the timepiece, designed by the legendary Abraham-Louis Breguet, is the launching point for a thrilling and fluidly woven set of narratives that are, in part, forbidden love story, historical document, and police procedural.Marie Antoinette's Watch also deftly lays out the history of horology and the 18th Century engineering feats attained in Paris's answer to Silicon Valley, the Ile de la Cite, that made the watch the most intricate and prized personal device of its time - something that's come full circle today.In the hands of Techcrunch's East Coast Editor, John Biggs, Marie Antoinette's Watch is by turns edifying and lurid, historical and utterly modern. Culminating in a heist in a Tel Aviv antiquities museum in the 1980s, Biggs tells the story of how one object can transform countries, cultures, high technology, and time itself.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/903/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: 1666Subtitle: Plague, War and HellfireAuthor: Rebecca RidealNarrator: Billie Fulford-BrownFormat: UnabridgedLength: 8 hrs and 8 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 09-14-17Publisher: Audible StudiosGenres: History, EuropeanPublisher's Summary:1666 was a watershed year for England. The outbreak of the Great Plague, the eruption of the second Dutch War and the Great Fire of London all struck the country in rapid succession and with devastating repercussions.Shedding light on these dramatic events, historian Rebecca Rideal reveals an unprecedented period of terror and triumph. Based on original archival research and drawing on little-known sources, 1666: Plague, War and Hellfire takes listeners on a thrilling journey through a crucial turning point in English history, as seen through the eyes of an extraordinary cast of historical characters.While the central events of this significant year were ones of devastation and defeat, 1666 also offers a glimpse of the incredible scientific and artistic progress being made at that time, from Isaac Newton's discovery of gravity to Robert Hooke's microscopic wonders. It was in this year that John Milton completed Paradise Lost, Frances Stewart posed for the now-iconic image of Britannia, and a young architect named Christopher Wren proposed a plan for a new London - a stone phoenix to rise from the charred ashes of the old city.With flair and style, 1666 shows a city and a country on the cusp of modernity, and a series of events that forever altered the course of history.Cover image: The Great Fire of 1666, detail of a coloured woodcut by Matthaus Merian the Younger, courtesy of Swiss Re Company Archives, SRCA 10.122.727.01.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/903/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Everything You Need to Know About 'The Prince'Author: Charles River EditorsNarrator: Dan GallagherFormat: UnabridgedLength: 1 hr and 4 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 09-12-17Publisher: Charles River EditorsRatings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votesGenres: History, EuropeanPublisher's Summary:Niccolò Machiavelli was born in Florence on May 3, 1469, as Florence was undergoing its transition into the Renaissance, guided by the Medicis. Machiavelli was a public servant during the Republic, losing his office when the Medicis returned to power. Despite that, Machiavelli dedicated The Prince to the ruling Medici of the time, leading some today to still speculate whether the book was a satire. Regardless, The Prince remains one of the most influential political philosophies of history, and Machiavelli himself will forever be associated for the "ends justify the means" philosophy that he wrote about and which even today is called Machiavellian. The Prince was eventually published in 1532, though evidence exists that the manuscript was circulated before this point, which was deemed more polite than physical publication.Twenty-seven years later, in 1559, the text was, unsurprisingly, registered to the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (the Catholic Church's list of banned books) on the grounds of immorality. The text can generally be divided into four parts. Chapters 1-11 outline the different types of principalities, and the benefits and drawbacks of each, to "discuss how such principalities are to be ruled and preserved" (II.1). Chapters 12-14 discussed military force, including how to amass and maintain an army. But it is Chapters 15-23 that make the book infamous. In these chapters, Machiavelli discusses the importance (or unimportance) of morality, claiming, "it is necessary for a prince wishing to hold his own to know how to do wrong, and to make use of it or not according to necessity" (XV.2). Thus, the "ends" justify the "means."The Prince is just as notorious today as it was nearly 500 years ago, and Machiavelli's political philosophy has never been more relevant. Everything You Need to Know About 'The Prince' is the perfect resource for understanding Machiavelli's seminal treatise, explaining the historical context within which Machiavelli wrote it.
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Ascolta questo libro audio completo gratuitamente su https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/903/ Titolo: Il sogno dei filosofi (Storia d'Italia e d'Europa 47)Autore: variNarratore: Eugenio FarnFormato: UnabridgedDurata: 1 hr and 20 minsLingua: ItalianoData di pubblicazione: 08-14-17Editore: Il Narratore s.r.l.Categoria: History, EuropeanRiepilogo Editore:L'Illuminismo fu un movimento filosofico, politico, sociale e culturale sviluppatosi intorno al XVIII secolo in Europa. Nacque in Inghilterra, ma ebbe il suo massimo sviluppo in Francia, poi in tutta Europa e raggiunse anche l'America. Il termine "Illuminismo" è passato a significare genericamente qualunque forma di pensiero che voglia "illuminare" la mente degli uomini, ottenebrata dall'ignoranza e dalla superstizione, servendosi della critica della ragione e dell'apporto della scienza. In questo audiolibro si esplorano le condizioni e i contesti storici che dettero vita al Secolo dei Lumi, il '700, con i suoi conflitti e le guerre tra sovrani e fra nazioni, si tratteggiano le figure che più contribuirono alla nascita e allo sviluppo del pensiero razionale (da Locke a Voltaire, da Montesquieu a Madame Geoffrin, da Hume a D'Alembert). Le idee dei filosofi e degli scienziati illuministi furono rottura consapevole nei confronti del passato e si diffusero in tutta Europa condizionando fortemente élites intellettuali, principi e sovrani. Questo volume è realizzato a cura di Maurizio Falghera, con riferimento alle opere degli storici Paolo Casini, Im Hof, Robert Balland. La lettura è di Eugenio Farn.©2017 il Narratore Srl (P)2017 il Narratore Srl
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/903/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: History of Russia from the Earliest Times: Vol. 1 [Russian Edition]Author: Sergey SolovyovNarrator: Leontina BrotskayaFormat: UnabridgedLength: 13 hrs and 36 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 07-14-17Publisher: IDDKGenres: History, EuropeanPublisher's Summary:A famous work of the great Russian historian Sergey Mikhaylovich Solovyov (1820-1879), who was a major achiever in Russian historical science in the 19th century. Solovyov is the "first among equals" in the galaxy of brilliant Russian historians, which includes Karamzin, Klyuchevsky, Kostomarov, Presnyakov, Granovsky, Platonov, and many others. The first volume of the work covers the period from the history of the Slavic tribes in ancient Russian territories through the end of the reign of Prince Yaroslav I (1054).Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/903/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Roman Guide to Slave Management [Russian Edition]Subtitle: A Treatise by Nobleman Marcus Sidonius FalxAuthor: Jerry TonerNarrator: Alexey MuzhitskiiFormat: UnabridgedLength: 5 hrs and 52 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 06-08-17Publisher: New Internet Technologies & Olimp-BusinessRatings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votesGenres: History, EuropeanPublisher's Summary:Marcus Sidonius Falx is an average Roman citizen. Born of a relatively well-off noble family, he lives on a palatial estate in Campania, dines with senators and generals, and, like all of his ancestors before him, owns countless slaves.Having spent most of his life managing his servants - many of them prisoners from Rome's military conquests - he decided to write a kind of owner's manual for his friends and countrymen.The result, The Roman Guide to Slave Management, is a sly, subversive guide to the realities of servitude in ancient Rome. Cambridge scholar Jerry Toner uses Falx, his fictional but true-to-life creation, to describe where and how to Romans bought slaves, how they could tell an obedient worker from a troublemaker, and even how the ruling class reacted to the inevitable slave revolts. Toner also adds commentary throughout, analyzing the callous words and casual brutality of Falx and his compatriots and putting it all in context for the modern listener.Written with a deep knowledge of ancient culture - and the depths of its cruelty - this is the Roman Empire as you've never seen it before.Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/903/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Victorian FreaksSubtitle: The Social Context of Freakery in BritainAuthor: Marlene TrompNarrator: Fred HumberstoneFormat: UnabridgedLength: 14 hrs and 28 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 06-02-17Publisher: University Press AudiobooksRatings: 3 of 5 out of 2 votesGenres: History, EuropeanPublisher's Summary:While "freaks" have captivated our imagination since well before the 19th century, the Victorians flocked to shows featuring dancing dwarves, bearded ladies, "missing links", and six-legged sheep. Indeed, this period has been described by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson as the epoch of "consolidation" for freakery: an era of social change, enormously popular freak shows, and taxonomic frenzy. Victorian Freaks: The Social Context of Freakery in Britain, edited by Marlene Tromp, turns to that rich nexus, examining the struggle over definitions of "freakery" and the unstable and sometimes conflicting ways in which freakery was understood and deployed. As the first study centralizing British culture, this collection discusses figures as varied as Joseph Merrick, "The Elephant Man"; Daniel Lambert, "King of the Fat Men"; Julia Pastrana, "The Bear Woman"; and Laloo, "The Marvellous Indian Boy" and his embedded, parasitic twin. Victorian Freaks contributors examine Victorian culture through the lens of freakery, interpreting the production of the freak against the landscape of capitalist consumption, the medical community, and the politics of empire, sexuality, and art. Collectively, these essays ask how freakery engaged with notions of normalcy and with its Victorian cultural context.This book is published by The Ohio State University Press.Critic Reviews:"A real, lasting contribution to scholarship, taking the field in a new, exciting direction." (Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies)"A welcome addition to the growing body of works on freaks and disability studies from a literary perspective." (Elsie Michie, Louisiana State University)"Victorian Freaks is particularly noteworthy." (Tamar Heller, author of Dead Secrets: Wilkie Collins and the Female Gothic)
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Ascolta questo libro audio completo gratuitamente su https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/903/ Titolo: I segreti di Istanbul. Storie, luoghi e leggende di una capitaleAutore: Corrado AugiasNarratore: Norman MozzatoFormato: UnabridgedDurata: 10 hrs and 17 minsLingua: ItalianoData di pubblicazione: 05-31-17Editore: Mondadori Libri S.p.A.Categoria: History, EuropeanRiepilogo Editore:Per dieci secoli Costantinopoli è stata l'altra Roma. Poi, in una giornata di primavera del 1453, tutto è cambiato. Roma s'inabissava, nasceva Istanbul. Una città eterna, prodigiosa, inquieta. Un luogo del mondo dove è possibile incrociare le storie di imperatrici belle e crudeli, di sultani folli e saggi, di schiave e avventurieri. Storie piccole e grandissime ritrovate e raccontate da un autore capace, come raramente accade, di fondere in un unico sguardo sapere e meraviglia. "Il modo migliore per arrivare a Istanbul sarebbe attraversando lentamente il Mar di Marmara fino a veder apparire 'une incomparable silhouette de ville'...". Questo libro è il racconto, potremmo forse dire il romanzo di Istanbul. Protagonista è una città eterna, prodigiosa, una città incarnata nelle sue stesse rovine. A comporne la trama sono le storie degli uomini e delle donne che l'hanno fondata, vissuta, abbandonata. Per secoli Bisanzio, Costantinopoli, Istanbul è stata una meta ricercata, talvolta fraintesa, altre volte amata, sempre guardata con stupore già dalla prima apparizione del suo straordinario profilo contro il cielo d'Oriente. Quel crescente di luna, che non a caso figura sulla bandiera della Repubblica turca, è - e insieme non è - la stessa luna che possiamo vedere in un qualunque cielo notturno europeo. Come il particolare profumo della città, i suoni, i richiami dei marinai, le luci riflesse sono - e non sono - le stesse di un porto del nostro continente. A renderli diversi è quella sensazione indefinita, quel contorno avvolgente, che una volta si chiamava "esotismo" e che ancora sopravvive. Senza sottrarsi al fascino di quell'esotismo, Augias ne solleva con garbo il velo per scoprire la sostanza più autentica della città, quella che il turista non sempre può o sa cogliere. E lo fa esplorando, indagando e raccontando le storie, i luoghi, le leggende della città. Storie di imperatrici bellissime e crudeli, di sultani capaci di molta saggezza e di altrettanta follia, di avventurieri, di sognatori, di schiave che diventano regine. Storie che restituiscono significato a spazi apparentemente vuoti, che cuciono insieme eventi lontanissimi nel tempo e nella geografia: Istanbul, Roma, Parigi. Ma la capacità seduttiva di Istanbul non dipende solo dalle tracce del suo passato: ha anche molto a che fare con il suo caos, la sporcizia, il fumo, le crepe, i detriti. Con la scelta, continuamente rimandata, di una vera, definitiva appartenenza. Di questa città inquieta - uno dei non molti posti che hanno contribuito a dare al mondo un destino -, Augias ci racconta il grande passato e l'enigmatico presente, trasmettendo al lettore quel senso di incantamento che ha caratterizzato il suo primo incontro con la città e che si è rinnovato a ogni visita successiva. I segreti di Istanbul è anche questo: la storia di un innamoramento improvviso e di una continua stupefatta scoperta. >> Questo audiobook in edizione integrale vi è offerto in esclusiva per Audible ed è disponibile solamente in formato audio digitale.©2016 Einaudi (P)2017 Einaudi
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/903/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Tuileries PalaceSubtitle: The History and Legacy of France's Famous Royal PalaceAuthor: Charles River EditorsNarrator: Jim D. JohnstonFormat: UnabridgedLength: 1 hr and 20 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 05-18-17Publisher: Charles River EditorsRatings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votesGenres: History, EuropeanPublisher's Summary:"The massacre followed the sacrificial logic of the scapegoat: unable to vent their violence upon its intended object, the king, the revolutionaries chose victims who symbolised the sovereign power of the king and whose deaths could serve to unify the people.... The destruction of the Swiss Guard allowed the revolutionaries to usurp and transform the royal notion of the body politic. This outcome is captured by reports the massacre of the Swiss was accompanied by cries of 'Vive la nation!', replacing 'Vive le roi!'" Jesse GoldhammerSince the earliest days of civilization, people have built homes not just for shelter, but to proclaim their status in the world. There is evidence from the earliest known cultures that one way in which rulers showcased power was by building a more elaborate home than those around them had. Through the centuries, as homes grew larger and better furnished, those in charge had to make their homes even larger and furnish and decorate them even more, to the extent that by the time of the Middle Ages, some homes were actually castles designed to withstand combat and allow entire communities to survive attacks by invaders. Though the need for such large dwellings eventually passed, the desire for them did not, and so the castle gave way to the palace, a building the size of a castle but as elegant as its owner could afford to make it.France, like all European countries, has had its fair share of palaces over time, but none suffered the rise and fall of fortune like the Tuileries. Built by a widow with a flair for architecture, it grew for more than a decade, along with the royal family that it housed.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/903/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Mysterious Great BritainSubtitle: Monsters, Mysteries, and Magic Across the British NationAuthor: Charles River EditorsNarrator: Scott ClemFormat: UnabridgedLength: 3 hrs and 29 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 05-01-17Publisher: Charles River EditorsGenres: History, EuropeanPublisher's Summary:Great Britain is an ancient land steeped in history and tradition, filled with prehistoric ruins, majestic castles, and a countryside sculpted from millennia of human habitation. Its rolling countryside is dotted with prehistoric burial mounds and stone circles. Brooding castles hold tales of bloodshed and honor. Medieval churches have elaborate stained glass windows and gruesome carvings, reflecting a mixture of hope and darkness. Every hamlet and village has tales that go back centuries, and folk festivals with roots in pagan times.Not everything in Great Britain is as it appears, however. Some say this is a land haunted by spirits, a place of strange disappearances and unexplained phenomena. For centuries, people have told tales of ghosts stalking its historic buildings, strange creatures lurking in its primeval forests, and unexplained paths linking its ancient sites. There is no shortage when it comes to the strange stories the region has to offer, and the legends and lore have compelled many to dig a little deeper and even explore this wonderful land for themselves.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/903/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: History of FranceAuthor: IntroBooksNarrator: Andrea GiordaniFormat: UnabridgedLength: 43 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 04-25-17Publisher: IntroBooksRatings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votesGenres: History, EuropeanPublisher's Summary:The kingdom of France of the medieval ages emerged from the Western dominion of Europe. It was called Charlemagne's empire of Carolingians. During those days the territory was prominently called Western Francis. It was during the later years in and around 987 that the prominence of this Western Francis heightened with the formation of the Hugh Capet. The house of Capet is quite significant in the French history. Causes of French revolutions later on, the civil wars, the Viking threat, and many other interesting aspects make the history of France a very interesting subject for anyone from any part of the world.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/903/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Fourth CrusadeSubtitle: The History of the Crusade That Resulted in the Sack of ConstantinopleAuthor: Charles River EditorsNarrator: Dan GallagherFormat: UnabridgedLength: 1 hr and 20 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 03-29-17Publisher: Charles River EditorsGenres: History, EuropeanPublisher's Summary:The Fourth Crusade from 1202-1204 is significant in medieval history because it was the first time a crusade was directed against another Christian group. It was also significant since it encompassed two of the four major sieges of Constantinople, and it also sparked a third in 1235 (an unsuccessful attempt to reverse the Latin gains in 1204). Given that legacy, it's ironic that like the Crusades before it, the Fourth Crusade was originally intended as an invasion of Egypt, which had been conquered by Saladin and his uncle nearly four decades earlier. Egypt had been joined with Syria into one Muslim empire under Saladin, but it had fallen apart into two separate realms after his death shortly after the Third Crusade in 1193. Following that crusade, the main objective of the Crusaders in the 13th century was to conquer Egypt and use it as a beachhead against the Muslims in Syria who threatened Christian Palestine, a goal that should have been beneficial to all of Christendom in both the West and East. Instead, during the Fourth Crusade, tensions between the Latin Christians of Western Europe and the Greek Christians of Constantinople came to a head after a century and three previous Crusades. This resulted in a critical breakdown of communications that resulted in an internal war within Christendom and led to the sack of Constantinople by the Crusaders.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/903/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Legends and Myths from Wales: South-Eastern WalesAuthor: Graham WatkinsNarrator: Graham WatkinsFormat: UnabridgedLength: 1 hr and 41 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 03-02-17Publisher: Graham WatkinsGenres: History, EuropeanPublisher's Summary:In this book you will find a selection of 16 well known legends, each of which relates to a particular place in South-eastern Wales.Wales is a land rich in folklore and legend. The beauty and mystery of the land enchants us with tales from the past. Meet Sir Gawain as he returns to Camelot and tips his uncle, King Arthur into the Afon Wysg before discovering his true identity. Discover the tragic love story of the Maid of Sker and her selfish father. Learn about the Blue Knight of Gwent who married Gwladus the Dark and built a great castle at Raglan. Explore the legend of reluctant King Tewdrig who tried to save his kingdom. Hear the story of William de Braose, the Ogre of Abergavenny. Learn the fate of the Pirate Dolphyn when Sir Harry took his revenge, how Jack o' Kent tricked the Devil and how Daffyd Gam got his name. These are just a few of the legends reproduced in this audiobook.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/903/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Warfare in the Era of Pike and ShotSubtitle: The History and Legacy of the Military Strategies That Ushered in Modern WarfareAuthor: Charles River EditorsNarrator: Scott ClemFormat: UnabridgedLength: 1 hr and 19 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 03-02-17Publisher: Charles River EditorsGenres: History, EuropeanPublisher's Summary:In the time period between the fall of Rome and the spread of the Renaissance across the European continent, many of today's European nations were formed, the Catholic Church rose to great prominence, some of history's most famous wars occurred, and a social class system was instituted that lasted over 1,000 years. A lot of activity took place during a period frequently labeled derogatorily as the Dark Ages, and while that period of time is mostly referred to as the Middle Ages instead of the Dark Ages today, it has still retained the stigma of being a sort of lost period of time in which Western civilization made no worthwhile progress after the advances of the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome.In reality, this oversimplification of the Middle Ages overlooks the progress made in the studies of sciences and philosophy. If anything, the one aspect of the Middle Ages that has been romanticized is medieval warfare. Indeed, the Middle Ages have long sparked people's imaginations thanks to imagery of armored knights battling on horseback and armies of men trying to breach the walls of formidable castles. What is generally forgotten is that medieval warfare was constantly adapting to the times as leaders adopted new techniques and technology, and common infantry became increasingly important throughout the period. There was a gradual consolidation of power in the region after the fragmentation of the Early Middle Ages, and it brought about the rise of more centralized states that could field large armies.Meanwhile, political and technological progress led to continuous change of tactics and equipment. By the end of the period, warfare was radically changing thanks to the rise of gunpowder weapons such as the handgonne and the bombard. By the middle of the 15th century, artillery was knocking down castle walls that had stood for generations, while infantry were also proving their worth with powerful longbows and tight formations of polearms that upset the long dominance of mounted, heavily armored knights. Handheld firearms such as the matchlock were becoming more common and changing the face of the battlefield by making armor obsolete. New types of soldiers had to be trained and developed, and new tactics had to take into account the emerging era of black powder weapons, ushering in a time of great change in military strategy, tactics, and technology.The era of pike and shot was one of rapid development and experimentation by generals, monarchs, and regular soldiers as they came to grip with the new face of battle. It was also a rather short period; by 1700, the flintlock, a more efficient weapon than the matchlock, had become universal among European armies, and its improved accuracy and faster rate of fire made the tight pike formations obsolete.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/903/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Last Days of New ParisAuthor: China MiévilleNarrator: Ralph ListerFormat: UnabridgedLength: 5 hrs and 42 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 02-23-17Publisher: Macmillan Digital AudioRatings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votesGenres: History, EuropeanPublisher's Summary:A thriller of a war that never was - of survival in an impossible city - of surreal cataclysm. In The Last Days of New Paris, China Miéville entwines true historical events and people with his daring, uniquely imaginative brand of fiction, reconfiguring history and art into something new.It's 1941. In the chaos of wartime Marseille, American engineer and occult disciple Jack Parsons stumbles onto a clandestine anti-Nazi group, including surrealist theorist André Breton. In the strange games of dissident diplomats, exiled revolutionaries, and avant-garde artists, Parsons finds and channels hope. But what he unwittingly unleashes is the power of dreams and nightmares, changing the war and the world for ever.In 1950, a lone surrealist fighter, Thibaut, walks a new, hallucinogenic Paris, where Nazis and the Resistance are trapped in unending conflict and the streets are stalked by living images and texts - and by the forces of hell. To escape the city, Thibaut must join forces with Sam, an American photographer intent on recording the ruins, and make common cause with a powerful, enigmatic figure of chance and rebellion: the exquisite corpse.But Sam is being hunted. And new secrets will emerge that will test all their loyalties - to each other, to Paris old and new, and to reality itself.
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Ascolta questo libro audio completo gratuitamente su https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/903/ Titolo: La Spagna nel secolo del Barocco (Storia d'Italia e d'Europa 42)Autore: variNarratore: Eugenio FarnFormato: UnabridgedDurata: 54 minsLingua: ItalianoData di pubblicazione: 02-14-17Editore: Il Narratore s.r.l.Categoria: History, EuropeanRiepilogo Editore:Gli Asburgo furono la dinastia regnante in Spagna tra il Cinquecento e il Seicento. L'imperatore Carlo V (Carlo I di Spagna) lasciò in eredità ai suoi discendenti un enorme complesso territoriale senza paragone nella storia, che si estendeva dalle Filippine al Messico e dai Paesi Bassi allo Stretto di Magellano facendo della Spagna una delle nazioni protagoniste delle vicende europee del secolo del Barocco. L'audiolibro descrive brevemente la storia dei vari regnanti spagnoli, la decadenza economica e sociale della penisola iberica, i continui soprusi da parte dell'aristocrazia e del clero cattolico nei confronti di contadini, di moriscos e di ebrei. In questa condizione di crisi si affermano però anche importanti personalità in campo artistico come Cervantes, con il suo Don Chisciotte, e Velazquez, il grande pittore di corte. Questo volume è realizzato a cura di Maurizio Falghera, con riferimento alle opere degli storici Michele Straniero, Giorgio Politi, Carlo Maria Cipolla.©2017 il Narratore Srl (P)2017 il Narratore Srl
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Ascolta questo libro audio completo gratuitamente su https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/903/ Titolo: L'impero della Svezia (Storia d'Italia e d'Europa 44)Autore: variNarratore: Eugenio FarnFormato: UnabridgedDurata: 1 hr and 2 minsLingua: ItalianoData di pubblicazione: 02-14-17Editore: Il Narratore s.r.l.Categoria: History, EuropeanRiepilogo Editore:Nella storiografia moderna il secolo XVII nell'Europa del Nord è conosciuto come il periodo dell'impero svedese sebbene formalmente la Svezia non sia mai stata un vero e proprio 'impero' in senso terminologico, ma sia rimasta sempre un 'regno'. L'audiolibro racconta la storia di questa nazione a partire dalla dinastia dei Vasa fino alle soglie dell'assolutismo regio della fine del secolo, centrando l'attenzione soprattutto sul regnante che più di tutti ha caratterizzato la storia dello stato scandinavo: Gustavo II Adolfo. Ma non mancano riferimenti ad un'altra figura storica, Cristina di Svezia che tanto fece parlare di sè per le sue 'stravaganze' religiose e artistiche. Così pure si descrivono le condizioni sociali ed economiche degli abitanti della penisola scandinava. Questo volume è realizzato a cura di Maurizio Falghera, con riferimento alle opere degli storici Ingvar Anderson, Wikipedia, Luigi Gerli.©2017 il Narratore Srl (P)2017 il Narratore Srl
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/903/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The GuillotineSubtitle: The History of the World's Most Notorious Method of ExecutionAuthor: Charles River EditorsNarrator: Jim D. JohnstonFormat: UnabridgedLength: 1 hr and 19 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 02-07-17Publisher: Charles River EditorsGenres: History, EuropeanPublisher's Summary:The Guillotine. Its very name recalls scenes of horror during the French Revolution, as nobles lost their heads while gangs of people cheered and Madame Defarge knitted. Some of history's most famous people lost their heads at the guillotine, including Marie Antoinette, King Louis XVI of France, and Robespierre, and the apparatus is immediately recognizable across the world, not just for its appearance but for all the stories in which it featured prominently.However, the truth behind this device is much more complicated than its short-lived use during France's Reign of Terror. For one thing, societies have been executing people since ancient times and have used various devices, the guillotine being just one. Even as early as the 13th century, there were moves among some to make the arduous task of state-sanctioned executions quicker and easier, and in time, the evolution of various devices helped bring about the invention of the guillotine. Though many, their names have now faded into history.But a funny thing happened along the way as people became less and less enamored of killing each other, even those who had themselves committed murder. As the Age of Enlightenment spread in the mid-1700s, so did a sense that government should not take lives at all, or if they did, that they should do so as quickly and painlessly as possible. Thus it was that the guillotine was created, not to hurt others so much as to dispatch those condemned as painlessly as possible. It is but a sad coincidence that its design was perfected on the eve of one of the bloodiest eras in French history; had it been developed at another point in time, it might very well have been hailed as a merciful way to mete out justice.Like all important devices, the guillotine did not remain unchanged during its centuries of use. Its design was periodically tweaked for decades until the latter half of the 19th century, when it was completely redesigned, likely in light of a growing hostility toward capital punishment in general and beheadings in particular. By this time, such notable Frenchmen as Victor Hugo had spoken out against the right of the state to take a human life. Even the Sanson family, who had served as France's executioners for more nearly 200 years, had given up their work, and it fell to others to master the new apparatus. These men would be increasingly maligned for their work as a more civilized world insisted that it was not for the state to conduct executions.That said, it often surprises people to learn that the guillotine remained in use through the middle part of the 20th century, outliving other barbaric practices like slavery by nearly 100 years. Though the government outlawed public executions in the mid-1930s, men and women continued to be beheaded in the name of justice long after the end of World War II. But ultimately, the times were changing, and Nazi and Japanese atrocities had opened the eyes of many to man's ability to hurt fellow man. Killing was even less attractive to those who had already killed in the name of patriotism, and their voices raised, higher and higher, until ultimately the device that had dispatched royalty and paupers alike was finally used for the last time. As one author wrote, "May it never be used again."
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