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Peoples and Empires: A Short History of European Migration, Exploration, and Conquest, from Greece to the Present
Written by Anthony Pagden
Narrated by Robert O'Keefe
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Cambridge professor and renowned historian Anthony Pagden covers a vast subject in a compact package with Peoples and Empires. This wide-ranging and intellectually stimulating work examines the origins and history of the West with terse, efficient prose. With a captivating narration by Robert O'Keefe, listeners will find this work enjoyable and utterly absorbing.
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