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Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history. Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine: India, Northern China, and Northeastern Brazil.

From the Pulitzer Prize winner and number one international best-selling author of The World Is Flat, an essential and entertaining field guide to thriving in the 21st century. We all sense it - something big is going on. You feel it in your workplace. You feel it when you talk to your children. You can't miss it when you read the newspapers or watch the news. Our lives are speeding up - and it is dizzying.

In the scorching summer of 1878, with the Gilded Age in its infancy, three tenacious and brilliant scientists raced to Wyoming and Colorado to observe a rare total solar eclipse. One sought to discover a new planet. Another - an adventuresome female astronomer - fought to prove that science was not anathema to femininity. And a young megalomaniacal inventor, with the tabloid press fast on his heels, sought to test his scientific bona fides and light the world through his revelations.

Servilia is often cited as one of the most influential women of the late Roman Republic. During her second marriage, she began an affair with Julius Caesar, which probably lasted for the rest of his life and is further indicative of the force of her charm and her exceptional intelligence. 

The Late Middle Ages-the two centuries from c. 1300 to c. 1500 - might seem like a distant era, but students of history are still trying to reach a consensus about how it should be interpreted. Was it an era of calamity or rebirth? Was it still clearly medieval or the period in which humanity took its first decisive steps into modernity? These 24 provocative lectures introduce you to the age's major events, personalities, and developments, and arms you with the essentials you need to form your own ideas about this age of extremes.

The Late Night History podcast is hosted by writer and oral historian Matt Fratus. Join Matt in his quest to uncover history told through the unmatched experiences and unequaled expertise of his world-class guests. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/late-night-history/support

A weekly podcast delivering a fresh perspective on MidLife living. Join host Yvonne Marchese on her MidLife journey and in candid conversations with other MidLifers who are dreaming big and achieving great things.

Late Latinoamérica es un podcast creado por Colmena Lab para profundizar sobre las distintas realidades, culturas y problemáticas que afronta la región. Late Latinoamérica nace de la necesidad de contar con un espacio de análisis, discusión y visibilización de las principales problemáticas y propuestas que nacen de la primera línea de batalla, de los territorios y de las personas extraordinarias que buscan día a día transformar el mundo. Acompaña a los cofundadores de Colmena Lab Fabio Víquez y Violeta Sánchez a recorrer Latinoamérica de la mano de expertos, activistas, figuras ...

Like history? Listen. Professor Sturgeon teaches 3 intoxicated friends about history, even though they didn't ask him to. If you enjoy the show please help support our process. If you’d like to donate visit https://www.buymeacoffee.com/latenighthistory

Kevin Hillier talks to well-known and not-so-well-known authors about the stories they've told. Whether it is a musician, actor, sportsperson or colourful racing identity they all have a story to tell and they get their chance to tell the stories behind the stories in The Late Show Library.

The end of Roman Britain and the arrival of the invading Saxons forms part of the most disruptive period in Britain's history. Centuries of relative stability as a Roman province gave way to an age of conquest and destruction. It is a period which is difficult to comprehend, coming at the end of the Roman era and in the pre-dawn of the Medieval. It is a Dark Age, both in terms of our apparent lack of source material and in our understanding of events.

This Variety Show is a new take on "Hip Hop Radio" curated by "The Self-Proclaimed Pilot" discovering the absurdities of America.

Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire painted a portrait of the Roman Empire in a long, debilitating slide to oblivion, but now historians have reevaluated this picture to create a radically different understanding of the period now known as "late antiquity." Far from being a period of decline and fall, late antiquity marked one of history's great turning points.

Beginning with the reign of Diocletian in A.D. 284 and ending at the death of Justinian in 565, the Roman Empire completes a transition from paganism to Christianity which is one of the most remarkable events in history. How was it possible to alter an ancient civilization which had existed for millennia, and yet to maintain social and political order? As events unfolded, one part of the empire managed the process successfully, while the other part spiraled out of control.

Late Edition: Crime Beat Chronicles, a product of Lee Enterprises, is a collection of limited anthology style episodes exploring true stories as told by journalists from regional newspapers around America.

Czy Polska może istnieć bez Wilna? Ostatnie siedemdziesiąt lat udowadnia, że jest to możliwe, ale polska dusza mocno straciła na tej separacji. Jak magię miasta, porównywanego do Paryża i Jerozolimy, jedną ze stolic polskiej przedwojennej kultury i elegancji przełożyć na język zrozumiały dla współczesnego pokolenia? Wehikuł czasu, prowadzony przez znanych popularyzatorów historii, zaprasza na pokład.

Czy Polska może istnieć bez Lwowa? Ostatnie siedemdziesiąt lat udowadnia, że jest to możliwe, ale polska dusza mocno straciła na tej separacji. Jak magię miasta, porównywanego nieraz do Florencji, legendę stolicy polskiej przedwojennej kultury i elegancji, przełożyć na język zrozumiały dla współczesnego pokolenia? Wehikuł czasu, prowadzony przez znanych popularyzatorów historii, zaprasza na pokład.

Minione 70 lat udowodniło, że nasz kraj może istnieć bez Kresów Wschodnich, chociaż polska dusza wiele straciła na tej separacji. Po "Ostatnich latach polskiego Lwowa" oraz "Ostatnich latach polskiego Wilna" tym razem prezentujemy książkę poświęconą mniejszym ośrodkom kresowym. Znalazły się tu opowieści o przemytnikach z polsko-sowieckiego pogranicza, historie ówczesnych celebrytów, ich romanse i skandale, anegdoty z najpopularniejszych kurortów II RP, egzotyczne obrazki z Polesia, a także dzieje flotylli pińskiej i Korpusu Ochrony Pogranicza.

Agnus is a monthly podcast about the fields of Late Antique, Medieval, Byzantine, and Medieval Islamic studies. Each month, Glenn McDorman talks to a scholar about her or his recent work on topics ranging from literature to politics, and from religion to art.

Czechoslovakia, October 1937. Vast crowds have gathered to watch the threatened nation's most prestigious sporting contest: the Grand Pardubice steeplechase. Notoriously dangerous, the race is considered the ultimate test of manhood and fighting spirit. The Nazis have sent their paramilitary elite-SS officers on a mission to crush the 'subhuman Slavs'. The local cavalry officers have no hope of stopping them. But there is one other contestant: a countess riding a little golden mare.