Record details

• ISBN: 1933339039
• ISBN: 9781933339030
• Physical Description: 11 audio discs (approximately 12 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet
• Edition: Revised edition ; unabridged.
• Publisher: [Charles City, VA]. : Peace Hill Press, 2006.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Compact discs.

Duration: 12:00:00.

Formatted Contents Note:

Britain's empire -- West against East -- British invasions -- Resurrection and rebellion --American Civil War -- Two tries for freedom -- Two empires, three republics, and one kingdom -- Becoming modern -- Two more empires, two rebellions -- Canal to the East and a very dry desert -- Far parts of the world -- Unhappy unions -- Old-fashioned emperor and the Red Sultan -- Two Czars and two emperors -- Small countries with large invaders -- Expanding United States -- China's troubles -- Europe and the countries just East -- China, Vietnam -- and France -- Revolution in the Americas ... war in the world -- Revolution begins, and the Great War ends -- National uprisings -- "Peace" and a man of war -- King and II Duce -- Armies in China -- Great crash, and what came of it -- Civil War and invasion -- The Second World War -- End of World War II -- Partitioned countries -- Western bullies and American money -- Africa and China after World War II -- Communism in Asia -- Dictators in South America and Africa -- Cold War -- Struggles and assassinations -- Two short wars and one long one -- Two ways of fighting -- 1980s in the East and the Mideast -- 1980s in USSR -- Communism crumbles, but survives -- End of the twentieth century -- Table of dates -- a chronology of the Modern Age.

Disc 1. Foreword ; Victoria's England ; The Sepoy Mutiny ; Japan re-opens ; The Crimean War ; The great game ; Wandering through Africa ; Italy's "resurrection" ; The Taiping Rebellion --Disc 2. South against North ; After the Civil War ; Paraguay and the triple alliance ; The domination of Canada ; Two empires and three republics ; The Second Reich ; Rails, zones, and bulbs ; Japan's Meiji Restoration ; The Dutch East Indies -- Disc 3. The sick man of Europe ; The war of the Pacific ; The Suez Canal ; The Iron Outlaw ; Carving up Africa ; Ireland's troubles ; The Boers and the British -- Disc 4. Brazil's republic ; Abdulhamid the Red ; The next-to-last Czar of Russia ; Ethiopia and Italy ; The Korean battleground ; The Spanish-American War -- Disc 5. Moving West ; Stocks, philanthropists, and outlaws ; The Boxer Rebellion ; The Czar and the admiral ; Persia, its enemies, and its "friends" ; The Balkan mess ; The last emperor ; The Vietnamese restoration society -- Disc 6. The Mexican revolution ; World War I ; The Russian revolution ; The end of World War I ; The Easter uprising ; Indian nationalism ; The peace of Versailles ; The rise of Joseph Stalin -- Disc 7. The first king of Egypt ; Fascism in Italy ; Japan, China, and a pretend Emperor ; The long march ; Black Tuesday and a new deal ; Hitler's rise to power ; Red Spain, black Spain, a king, and a general ; Rebuilding the "Fatherland" -- Disc 8. The three-war war ; The holocaust ; The war that stretched across the world ; The atom bomb ; Muslims and Hindus in India ; The partitioning of Palestine ; The Suez crisis ; The Marshall plan -- Disc 9. One country, two different worlds ; Two republics of China ; Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Minh ; The Korean war ; Argentina's president and his wife ; Freedom in the Belgian Congo ; The space race ; Thirteen days in October -- Disc 10. The death of John F. Kennedy ; Civil rights ; The Vietnam war ; Trouble in the Middle East ; Soviet invasions ; Terrorism ; India after Partition ; Iran and Iraq -- Disc 11. Chernobyl and nuclear power ; The end of the Cold War ; Democracy in China? ; Communism crumbles ; The first Persian Gulf War -- Africa, independent -- Afterword.

Participant or Performer Note:

Read by Jim Weiss.

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Subject:

World history > Juvenile literature.
History, Modern > 19th century > Juvenile literature.
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Genre:

Children's audiobooks.