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Brought to you by Penguin. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that interrogates the pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century and traces how these practices were exported, modified, and institutionalized in colonies around the globe...

Alexandra Reeves investigates how Colombia became the global cocaine trade epicenter, exploring criminal empires, political failures, and Cold War geopolitics that transformed the nation into history's most powerful narco-state. Each episode reveals the forces behind the crisis. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

"Laurence Rees brilliantly combines powerful eye-witness testimony, vivid narrative and compelling analysis in this superb account of how two terrible dictators led their countries in the most destructive and inhumane war in history."―Professor Sir Ian Kershaw, author of Hitler: Hubris and...

Storytelling, a tradition that built human civilization, may soon destroy it Humans are storytelling animals. Stories are what make our societies possible. Countless books celebrate their virtues. But Jonathan Gottschall, an expert on the science of stories, argues that there is a dark side to...

Bonjour à tous, bienvenue dans un visage une histoire.Aujourd’hui, je vous raconte l’histoire de Laura âgée de 31 ans. En 2021, cette femme a rencontré un homme qui travaillait, comme elle, dans le secteur de l'immobilier. Du jour au lendemain, il s'est mis à la frapper. De plus en plus violents, les coups ont duré des années, jusqu'à ce qu'elle frôle la mort. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

A People's History of Violence's Private RSS FEED Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

La Fondation Inalco, grâce au soutien de la Fondation Rothschild - Institut Alain de Rothschild, propose un cycle de conférences sur les violences sexuelles et violences de genre dans le monde. Il fait dialoguer des spécialistes du genre aux profils variés sur des aires culturelles extrêmement diverses, afin d’enrichir et de prolonger la réflexion entamée dans le cadre du parcours de licence « Genres et sexualités dans le monde » de l'Inalco. En 2023-2024, le cycle a pour thématique « La construction du genre, au-delà de la binarité ». Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/...

A new episodic podcast about the history of violence, from terrorism to taekwondo.

This is my very interesting podcast on different forms of violence mostly related to minors females. Including reviews. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join Ayokunmi in discussing the "Echoes of Gun Violence", the podcast where we discuss the impact gun violence has on society. Ayokunmi covers different aspects on the topic gun violence. So sit back, relax, and tune in to "Echoes of Gun Violence" for some deep conversations and a good time.

Isaac and Peter scavenge their way through the remnants of history's great affairs, assassinations, crimes, conspiracies, coverups, and trials, uncovering the reality obscured by the interests of the rich the powerful, and the worst offender: True Crime.

Imperial conquest and colonization depended on pervasive raiding, slaving, and plunder. European empires amassed global power by asserting a right to use unilateral force at their discretion. They Called It Peace is a panoramic history of how these routines of violence remapped the contours of empire and reordered the world from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries.

A penetrating history of the year World War II became a global conflict and humankind confronted both destruction and deliverance on a planetary scale, “offering an intriguing perspective on a world at war” (Richard Overy, New York Times–bestselling author of Blood and Ruins) By the end of...

Desde una perspectiva centrada en los ciudadanos de a pie, a los que se les pone rostro y voz, Retaguardia roja indaga en las lógicas subyacentes a la violencia que se desplegó de forma brutal contra los adversarios políticos en la zona republicana durante la guerra civil española (1936-1939).

Colombia's recent past has been characterized by what its Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez once called "a biblical holocaust" of human savagery. Along with the scourge of drug-related massacres facing the country, politically-motivated assassinations (averaging 30 per day in the 1990s), widespread disappearances, rapes, and kidnappings have run rampant through the country for decades. 

Conversations about places where faith and politics overlap, with particular interest in extremism and violence. Run by the Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence www.csbvbristol.org.uk. Meet our hosting team. Helen Paynter is a Baptist minister and biblical specialist, and director of the Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence. Matthew Feldman is an expert on the radical right and director of the Centre for the Analysis of the Radical Right, although he speaks here in a private capacity. Maria Power is a Catholic social historian and an expert on peace-making initiatives in Northern ...