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    Reflections on the Revolution in France & Rights of Man , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 171min
    The Giants of Political Thought series is an easy and entertaining way to broaden your mind and your awareness of great ideas. Reflections on the Revolution in France is a slashing attack on the French Revolution by one of Britain’s most famous statesmen. Liberty and social order, Burke argues, are maintained by the traditional rights and duties embedded in custom and law. And when these traditions are overthrown in revolutions, society is threatened with chaos, bloodshed and despotism. In Rights of Man, Thomas Paine argues that the French Revolution was based on the same principles as the American Revolution: natural rights, an implied “social contract,” and the right of revolution against oppressive governments. Paine, unlike Burke, sees government as the primary threat to social order. He has little regard for traditional institutions, if those institutions are oppressive and unjust. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Craig Deitschman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/001562/bk_blak_001562_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Drive to the East: Settling Accounts, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1528min
    In 1914, the First World War ignited a brutal conflict in North America, with the United States finally defeating the Confederate States. In 1917, the Great War ended and an era of simmering hatred began, fueled by the despotism of a few and the sacrifice of many. Now it's 1942. The USA and CSA are locked in a tangle of jagged, blood-soaked battle lines, modern weaponry, desperate strategies, and the kind of violence that only the damned could conjure up for their enemies and themselves. In Richmond, Confederate president and dictator Jake Featherston is shocked by what his own aircraft have done in Philadelphia - killing US president Al Smith in a barrage of bombs. Featherston presses ahead with a secret plan carried out on the dusty plains of Texas, where a so-called detention camp hides a far more evil purpose. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Costanzo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/006297/bk_tant_006297_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 633min
    Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Inglorious Empire, written and read by Shashi Tharoor.  In the 18th century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased sixfold. The empire blew rebels from cannon, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched institutionalised racism and caused millions to die from starvation.  British imperialism justified itself as enlightened despotism for the benefit of the governed, but Shashi Tharoor demolishes this position, demonstrating how every supposed imperial 'gift' - from the railways to the rule of law - was designed in Britain's interests alone. He goes on to show how Britain's Industrial Revolution was founded on India's deindustrialisation and the destruction of its textile industry.  In this bold and incisive reassessment of colonialism, Tharoor exposes to devastating effect the inglorious reality of Britain's stained Indian legacy.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Shashi Tharoor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pauk/001104/bk_pauk_001104_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Human Rights and Judicial Review in Australia and Canada
    Human Rights and Judicial Review in Australia and Canada ab 47.99 € als epub eBook: The Newest Despotism?. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Erzählungen,
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    The Dialogue in Hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieu
    The Dialogue in Hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieu ab 211.99 € als gebundene Ausgabe: Humanitarian Despotism and the Conditions of Modern Tyranny. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Wissenschaft, Politikwissenschaft,
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    The Political Economy of Modern Iran
    The Political Economy of Modern Iran ab 58.99 € als pdf eBook: Despotism and Pseudo-Modernism 1926-1979. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Fachthemen & Wissenschaft, Politikwissenschaft,
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    Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
    A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world The product of a decade of intrepid research, Stalin is a landmark achievement. Stephen Kotkin offers a biography that, at long last, is equal to this shrewd, sociopathic, charismatic dictator in all his dimensions. We see a man inclined to despotism who could be utterly charming; a pragmatic ideologue; a leader who obsessed over slights yet was a precocious geostrategic thinker-unique among Bolsheviks-and yet who made egregious strategic blunders. Through it all, we see Stalin's unflinching persistence, his sheer force of will-perhaps the ultimate key to understanding his indelible mark on history. Drawing on Kotkin's exhaustive study of Soviet archival materials as well as vast scholarly literature, Stalin recasts the way we think about the Soviet Union, revolution, dictatorship, the twentieth century, and indeed the art of history itself.
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    The Natural History Of Secession
    The Natural History Of Secession ab 50.99 € als gebundene Ausgabe: Or Despotism And Democracy At Necessary Eternal Exterminating War (1865). Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Gebundene Ausgaben,
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    A Brief History of Korea
    A Brief History of Korea ab 15.99 € als epub eBook: Isolation War Despotism and Revival: The Fascinating Story of a Resilient But Divided People. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Geschichte & Dokus,
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    Summary and Analysis of It Can't Happen Here , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 54min
    This is a summary and analysis of It Can't Happen Here and not the original book. With news of the dictatorship Adolph Hitler is building in Germany and the fascist regime taking root in Italy, Lewis Sinclair attacks the basic American precept that something of that magnitude cannot happen here. As the election of the century heats up, it becomes apparent to Doremus Jessup that Senator Berzelius Windrip was well on his way to defeating incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the entire Republican Party. Upon his election, Windrip begins doing the unthinkable as he disbands the states and does away with all political parties except a new one entitled Corporate America Party. As Windrip gains more and more power, a noble fight takes place as Doremus Jessup and others in the New Underground go to war to fight despotism. Inside this Osmosis Jones summary: Summary of each chapter Highlights (key points) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jack Nolan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/080988/bk_acx0_080988_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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