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Titolo: Viaggi nell'Italia del Settecento (Storia d'Italia e d'Europa 51)

Autore: Maurizio Falghera

Narratore: Eugenio Farn

Formato: Unabridged

Durata: 1 hr and 54 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 10-11-17

Editore: Il Narratore s.r.l.

Categoria: History, European

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L'Italia nel '700 è, come sappiamo, ancora divisa in stati e staterelli che si "barcamenano" per tutto il secolo per conservare quel bizzarro equilibrio politico che sarà sconvolto solo nella seconda metà dell'800. Ma il "bel paese" comincia ad attrarre i primi colti e curiosi intellettuali europei che vanno alla ricerca degli antichi splendori, delle bellezze e delle tracce storiche di quel che l'Italia fu nel passato. Sono i primi "turisti" che approfittano del Grand Tour anche per curiosare nelle campagne e nelle città italiane e descrivere le abitudini, i costumi, le virtù e i vizi degli abitanti.

Montesquieu, Addison, Goethe, fra gli altri, ci hanno lasciato importanti testimonianze del loro soggiorno e con occhi di "stranieri" tracciano schizzi colorati, a tratti comici ed ironici, della vita che si conduceva a Roma, a Milano, a Venezia, a Napoli, coi loro teatri, con i personaggi più acclamati del bel canto, con le "macchiette" tipicamente italiane che ancor oggi si ricordano come tipici stereotipi della penisola.

Questo volume è realizzato a cura di Maurizio Falghera, con riferimento alle opere degli storici Riccardo Mezzanotte, Renata Leydi, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Montesquieu.

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Titolo: Regno Unito: nascita di un modello (Storia d'Italia e d'Europa 52)

Autore: Maurizio Falghera

Narratore: Eugenio Farn

Formato: Unabridged

Durata: 1 hr and 22 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 10-11-17

Editore: Il Narratore s.r.l.

Categoria: History, European

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Il Settecento inglese è un periodo di relativa stabilità politica ma di grande sviluppo economico e finanziario per l'isola. Al consolidamento delle trasformazioni in agricoltura e all'avvio della rivoluzione industriale corrispose un notevole incremento dei traffici commerciali.

Il Regno Unito (l'unione con la Scozia è del 1707) s'avviò a diventare la prima grande potenza capitalistica mondiale sancita anche dalla fondazione della Banca d'Inghilterra (1694). Tra la Gloriosa Rivoluzione e l'ascesa al trono degli Hannover, prese altresì connotati più precisi la monarchia costituzionale, al cui interno furono armonicamente compenetrati e bilanciati i tre princìpi corrispondenti alle tre forme classiche di governo: monarchico, espresso nella persona del re; aristocratico, considerato il peso della nobiltà e della Camera dei Lords; democratico, incarnato nella prevalenza politica della Camera dei Comuni. Il re, né di diritto divino né assoluto, si obbligava al rispetto della costituzione e delle norme da essa derivanti.

L'audiolibro si addentra, attraverso le opere degli scrittori più importanti del secolo (Swift, Addison, Defoe, Fielding, Sterne e altri), nei vari aspetti della nascente cultura borghese: il pragmatismo tipicamente britannico che interpreta in modo del tutto "terreno" le idee dell'Illuminismo, l'ironia e il sarcasmo del nuovo giornalismo (lo Spectator fra tutti), la determinazione a divenire un "modello" organico e liberale per le altre nazioni dell'Occidente fino ai nostri giorni. Questo volume è realizzato a cura di Maurizio Falghera, con riferimento alle opere degli storici Michele Straniero, Paolo Bertinetti, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe.

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Titolo: Francia: la fine dell'Ancien Régime (Storia d'Italia e d'Europa 54)

Autore: Maurizio Falghera

Narratore: Eugenio Farn

Formato: Unabridged

Durata: 1 hr and 18 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 10-11-17

Editore: Il Narratore s.r.l.

Categoria: History, European

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Quando si getta uno sguardo sulle cause che innescarono lo scoppio della Rivoluzione Francese, fenomeno multiforme e complesso, occorre tener presenti le condizioni sociali e culturali della Francia durante tutto il XVIII secolo: dalla profonda ed iniqua stratificazione della popolazione (monarchia, nobiltà, clero, borghesia, contadini) all'incessante progresso dei commerci e dei trasporti, dalla diffusione delle idee dell'Illuminismo alle fantasmagoriche, e costosissime, "liturgie" dei monarchi (i vari Luigi succedutisi durante il secolo).

Se ci si pone infatti la domanda: "perchè la rivoluzione avvenne proprio in Francia e proprio in quel momento?", le risposte non possono essere che divergenti e contrastanti. In realtà l'Ancien Régime non aveva più alcuna ragione d'essere e la sua fine, morale prima che politica, religiosa prima che economica, non aveva bisogno d'altro che di essere sanzionata dalla ragione indiscutibile del tempo nuovo.

Questo volume è realizzato a cura di Maurizio Falghera, con riferimento alle opere degli storici Alessandro Barbero, Nancy Mitford, Cesare Bermani,Gaetano Salvemini, Georges Lefebvre.

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Title: Navigating the Spanish Lake

Subtitle: The Pacific in the Iberian World, 1521-1898 (Perspectives on the Global Past)

Author: Rainer F. Buschmann, Edward R. Slack, James B. Tueller

Narrator: Michael Piotrasch

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-03-17

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Genres: History, European

Publisher's Summary:

Navigating the Spanish Lake examines Spain's long presence in the Pacific Ocean (1521-1898) in the context of its global empire. Building on a growing body of literature on the Atlantic world and indigenous peoples in the Pacific, this pioneering book investigates the historiographical "Spanish Lake" as an artifact that unites the Pacific Rim (the Americas and Asia) and Basin (Oceania) with the Iberian Atlantic. Incorporating an impressive array of unpublished archival materials on Spain's two most important island possessions (Guam and the Philippines) and foreign policy in the South Sea, the book brings the Pacific into the prevailing Atlanticentric scholarship, challenging many standard interpretations. By examining Castile's cultural heritage in the Pacific through the lens of archipelagic Hispanization, the authors bring a new comparative methodology to an important field of research.

The book opens with a macrohistorical perspective of the conceptual and literal Spanish Lake. The chapters that follow explore both the Iberian vision of the Pacific and indigenous counternarratives; chart the history of a Chinese mestizo regiment that emerged after Britain's occupation of Manila in 1762-1764; and examine how Chamorros responded to waves of newcomers making their way to Guam from Europe, the Americas, and Asia. An epilogue analyzes the decline of Spanish influence against a backdrop of European and American imperial ambitions and reflects on the legacies of archipelagic Hispanization into the 21st century.

Specialists and students of Pacific studies, world history, the Spanish colonial era, maritime history, early modern Europe, and Asian studies will welcome Navigating the Spanish Lake as a persuasive reorientation of the Pacific in both Iberian and world history.

"The originality of this book lies in the way it recenters both history and geography from Europe to the Americas, from the Atlantic to the Pacific." (From the foreword by John R. Gillis, Professor of History Emeritus, Rutgers University)

Members Reviews:

Short, rather academic but informative on the relationship between Mexico and Spanish Asia.

This is a short read, rather on the academic side. It's partly an examination of how the Spanish (officials, historians and others) viewed the Pacific. The Spanish were deeply involved in parts of the Pacific from the 1500s, for trade and missionary activity, and the famed galleon trade started in the mid 1500s and lasted for 250 years, an immensely important activity (the book says 3/4 of Spanish silver mined in the Americas went to China, fueling an extensive trade. Spanish colonies included the Philippines (not all the islands) and the Marianas (Guam) and lasted until 1898, generations after the American empire was lost.

Chapter 1 is the best section. It loos at the "lake" up to 1800. I had not known that the islands were part of New Spain, that is, administratively part of Mexico. There was, over the years, a fairly sizable movement of peoples, Asians to Mexico and Americans to Asia. Some of the stories are remarkable. An informal saint for most of her life, living in Pueblain Mexico, Catarina de San Juan was born a slave in Mughal India. And the Franciscan San Felipe de Jesus (the name he is known by) was a Mexican martyred in Japan.

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Title: After Dunkirk

Subtitle: D-Day and How We Planned the Second Front

Author: John Dalgleish

Narrator: Tim Dalgleish

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-28-17

Publisher: Wonky Octopus Press

Genres: History, European

Publisher's Summary:

In this minor war classic, first published by Victor Gollancz in 1945, Major John Dalgleish R.A.S.C., Daily Express journalist and BBC commentator, provides a short account of the planning for D-Day.

A complete history of the so called Second Front would run to a million words and still be incomplete. The present volume is intended to be a bird's-eye view of what happened behind the veil of secrecy, which shrouded the two years of planning, after the disaster of Dunkirk, and before the success of D-Day.

Major John Dalgleish R.A.S.C. was directly involved in the complex planning of the Second Front, the pre-planning for D-Day, and the Allied Invasion of France. He led a colorful life as a journalist for the Daily Express and as a BBC commentator. Later, he married a famous film star of his day, Wendy Barrie, who before she fell from the public eye, (due to an ill-considered relationship with the gangster Bugsy Siegel), starred in many Hollywood movies with the likes of Charles Laughton, James Stewart, Humphrey Bogart, Edward G Robinson, and many others.

After the war, John Dalgleish continued his sometimes, mildly nefarious lifestyle, by restyling himself as a businessman. He worked in the diamond mines of South Africa and introduced the first sapphire gramophone needles into Britain. He had mixed results in business and is described by Tim Dalgleish, the editor of After Dunkirk, as, "A cross between Oscar Schindler and Richard Branson."

He also published, I Was an Eighth Army Soldier, an account of the Allied Campaign in North Africa, and was editor of the war time newspaper, Tiger News. A new edition of the former, and an audiobook about the latter, are to be published shortly.

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Titolo: Il dispotismo illuminato austriaco (Storia d'Italia e d'Europa 48)

Autore: vari

Narratore: Eugenio Farn

Formato: Unabridged

Durata: 56 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 08-14-17

Editore: Il Narratore s.r.l.

Categoria: History, European

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Risolto il problema della successione con la "Prammatica sanzione" (1713), l'ascesa al trono d'Austria della figlia di Carlo VI, Maria Teresa d'Asburgo (1717-1780), aprì una fase di riforme anche per l'Austria.

L'intero apparato di governo fu rinnovato, furono unificate le cancellerie d'Austria e di Boemia e le rispettive corti di appello. Maria Teresa fondò inoltre collegi per l'educazione e la formazione del personale statale. Nonostante tutto l'eredità di Maria Teresa non fu riconosciuta da diversi stati tedeschi, che, spalleggiati dalla Francia e dalla Spagna, precipitarono l'Europa centrale in quella che fu nota come guerra di successione austriaca e Federico II di Prussia fu il più implacabile dei suoi nemici.

Ma le riforme teresiane furono superate in quantità e qualità da quelle del figlio dell'imperatrice: Giuseppe II. Dal 1780 al 1790 regnò sul trono che era stato di Maria Teresa. Intervenne in materia religiosa, soppresse proprietà ecclesiastiche, trasformò le università in istituzioni statali. Lo stato si fece carico dell'istruzione di base, che fu resa obbligatoria e laicizzata. La pubblica amministrazione fu resa più professionale: le sue gerarchie furono organizzate in base al merito e aperte a nuovi ceti sociali. Anche la giustizia sociale fu investita dalla politica riformatrice di Giuseppe: fu approvato un nuovo codice penale e soprattutto l'abolizione della servitù della gleba.

Questo volume è realizzato a cura di Maurizio Falghera, con riferimento alle opere degli storici Franz Herre, Edgarda Ferri, Cesare Bermani. La lettura è di Eugenio Farn.

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Titolo: La Prussia di Federico II (Storia d'Italia e d'Europa 49)

Autore: vari

Narratore: Eugenio Farn

Formato: Unabridged

Durata: 54 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 08-14-17

Editore: Il Narratore s.r.l.

Categoria: History, European

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Il termine "assolutismo illuminato" fa riferimento alle idee e ai comportamenti di quei sovrani europei che nel '700 dichiaravano di volersi servire del potere per il bene dei loro sudditi e che si professavano amici e discepoli dei philosophes francesi.

Il più famoso di questi fu il re di Prussia Federico II il Grande, scrittore prolifico, musicista di un certo valore, irreligioso, amico di Voltaire. Egli amava rifarsi al contratto sociale e dichiarava che il re "è solo il primo servitore obbligato a operare con onestà, saggezza e totale abnegazione, come se ad ogni momento potesse essere chiamato a rendere conto della sua amministrazione ai concittadini".

Il suo genio militare si rivelò nella guerra di Successione austriaca e rifulse soprattutto nella guerra dei Sette anni; egli riuscì a restituire colpo su colpo e a difendere il possesso della Slesia che aveva occupato. Non cessò mai di modernizzare il suo esercito grazie anche all'espansione territoriale e all'immigrazione, favorita dalla grande tolleranza religiosa prussiana. In campo amministrativo non portò innovazioni sostanziali ma curò molto la preparazione dei quadri burocratici. Altre innovazioni furono la libertà di stampa, il codice civile prussiano, l'abolizione della tortura, la limitazione della pena di morte e l'istruzione elementare obbligatoria per tutti.

Questo volume è realizzato a cura di Maurizio Falghera, con riferimento alle opere degli storici Alessandro Barbero, Nancy Mitford, Cesare Bermani. La lettura è di Eugenio Farn.

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Titel: Über die Natur des Krieges (Vom Kriege 1)

Autor:: Carl von Clausewitz

Erzähler: Thomas Gehringer

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 2 hrs and 41 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 08-03-17

Herausgeber: hoerbuch.cc

Bewertung: 5 von 5 von 1 Stimmen

Kategorien: History, World

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

1812 konnte sich Carl von Clausewitz als Offizier der russischen Armee von der Schlagkraft der französischen Grande Armee überzeugen. Unter diesem Eindruck entwarf er eine Theorie des Krieges. Seine Bestandteile - Politik, Strategie und Taktik - werden untersucht und logischen Regeln unterworfen und politisch-militärische Führungsbegriffe entwickelt - Aufgaben, Verantwortung und Kompetenzen von Politik, Strategie und Taktik werden gegeneinander abgegrenzt. "Der Krieg ist die Fortsetzung der Politik mit anderen Mitteln." Das bedeutendste Werk, das jemals über die Kriegsführung verfasst wurde, es reicht weit über den militärischen Bereich hinaus. Seinen Rang verdankt es insbesondere den Thesen vom politischen Charakter des Krieges, von seiner Doppelnatur als traditionellem und revolutionärem Krieg und seiner Bestimmung als Gewaltakt, der der Erfüllung des eigenen Willens dient.

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The ebook version of "Vom Kriege"

This ebook compares well with my printed copy of the book, and I can recommend it to anyone who wants to read the german original.

There is a table of contents, and the italics in the text (for emphasis) have been retained. Changing fontsizes did work well (smaller and larger), and I where I checked were the german letters (ä, ö, ü) correct (which is not always the case). The text seems to be the complete and unrevised edition available as book (the german is not the language of the late 18th century which Clausewitz used, but of the later edition, which was meant for the early 20th century).

great book

Clausewitz reduces the discussion of war to the discussion of two individuals battling. His book so becomes a usage manual for the world we live in, and the ultimate means to ends. It has been a long time since he wrote it, and some of the presentation takes effort, but at the same time pays more by offering a glimpse into times past.

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Title: The Partition of British India

Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Division of the British Raj into India and Pakistan

Author: Charles River Editors

Narrator: Scott Clem

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-02-17

Publisher: Charles River Editors

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

Beyond its obvious influence in areas like trade and commerce, the East India Company also served as a point of cultural contact between Western Europeans, South Asians, and East Asians. Quintessentially British practices such as tea drinking were made possible by East India Company trade. The products and cultural practices traveling back and forth on East India Company ships from one continent to another also reconfigured the way societies around the globe viewed sexuality, gender, class, and labor. On a much darker level, the East India Company fueled white supremacy and European concepts of Orientalism.

Ultimately, the company's activity across the Indian subcontinent led to further British involvement there, and the British Raj, a period of British dominance and rule over India that formally began in 1857 and lasted until 1947, remains a highly debated topic amongst historians, political scientists, the British people, and the people of modern India.

Thanks to its commercial complexion and the power invested in a board of directors, British rule in India was characterized by economic monopolies, aggressive trade practices, punitive taxation, and the impoverishment of vast regions of India. Much of the company's industry was based on a policy of producing and exporting raw materials from India, and importing manufactured goods to satisfy an almost unlimited local market. Home industries and the domestic cottage textile industry, in particular, were heavily impacted by this, and with the addition of land taxes, and a general regime of economic exploitation, the British East India Company grew to be a heavy burden on the shoulders of ordinary Indians.

It stands to reason, therefore, as India began the countdown to independence after World War II, that the Indian Muslim leadership would begin to express anxiety over the prospect of universal suffrage and majority rule. At less than 20 percent of the population, Indian Muslims would inevitably find themselves overwhelmed by the Hindu majority, and as the British prepared to divest themselves of India, ancient enmities between Hindu and Muslim, long papered over by the secular and remote government of Britain, began once again to surface.

The Partition of British India: The History and Legacy of the Division of the British Raj into India and Pakistan, looks at the complicated process by which the British partitioned British India.

Members Reviews:

not worth the read

this book lacked very important details of events leading to the partition. it didn't have much to offer about the provisional government and why it failed. I expected a more through material

Sound and Crisp

Great account! very crisp and unbiased. Would highly recommend it. Great foundation for further readings on Partition.

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Title: Tommy's Honor

Subtitle: The Story of Old Tom Morris and Young Tom Morris, Golf's Founding Father and Son

Author: Kevin Cook

Narrator: James A. Gillies

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-17

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: History, European

Publisher's Summary:

Bringing to life golf's founding father and son, Tommy's Honor is a stirring tribute to two legendary players and a vivid evocation of their colorful, rip-roaring times.

The Morrises were towering figures in their day. Old Tom began life as a nobody - he was the son of a weaver and a maid. But he was born in St. Andrews, Scotland, the cradle of golf, and the game was in his blood. He became the champion golfer of Scotland. As "Keeper of the Green" at the town's ancient links, Tom deployed golf's first lawnmower and banished sheep from the fairways.

Then Young Tommy's career took off. Handsome Tommy Morris was a more daring player than his father. Soon he surpassed Old Tom and dominated the game. But just as he reached his peak, Tommy's life took a tragic turn, leading to his death at the age of 24. That shock is at the heart of Tommy's Honor. It left Tom to pick up the pieces - to honor his son by keeping Tommy's memory alive.

Tommy's Honor is both fascinating history and a moving personal saga. But this audiobook isn't only for golfers. It's for every son who has fought to escape a father's shadow and for every father who has guided a son toward manhood, then found it hard to let him go.

Critic Reviews:

"Golf history at its absolute best." (Booklist, starred review)

Members Reviews:

Essential Golf History, Beautifully Told!

Although I've played golf for over 50 years, and am familiar with 20th century golf history, I have just started playing "Hickory Golf", using 100 year old hickory shaft clubs, and reproduction golf balls of the 1920s era. We even dress the part, wearing knickers or plus fours, dress shirts, a tie, tweed jacket and cap...Well, you get the idea. This new-found interest led me to the story of modern golf's origins in Scotland, beautifully (and poignantly) detailed in "Tommy's Honor". Author Kevin Cook brought 19th Century Scotland alive with his in-depth research and skill portraying the Morris Family of St. Andrews. It's tough to describe a golf match and keep it interesting; Mr. Cook accomplishes this feat 20 times over!

Everything pertinent to golf's formative years is included in "Tommy's Honor": Culture and Class Lines; development of balls and clubs; how world-renowned courses evolved from pastures and pathways to the stunning fairways and greens we're familiar with. Best of all, Old Tom Morris and his oldest son, Tom Morris, Junior are presented not as icons, but as real people, albeit superbly talented and visionary ones!

My fellow Hickory Golfers and I are really looking forward to the film adaptation of "Tommy's Honor", which will be released next month (April, 2017). If it's half as compelling as this book, it will be a hit!

Tommy and Old Tom came alive during the 2015 Open Chamionship

Reading Tommy's Honor while watching the 2015 Open in St. Andrews, Scotland, made each experience extra special. Viewing the layout of the course in 2015 built from the mind and back braking work of Tom Morris and his helpers 150 years ago was an exciting leap in the history of the sport of golf. I hope each of the players had the opportunity to read this book before they hit their first tee shot.