Early Modern Audiobooks

Philosophical Studies in La Comedie Humaine (La Comedie Humaine) is a series of works that aim in part to reflect on history through the use of fiction. "Catherine de' Medici" is one such "study" that contains fictional "story" elements as well as detailed historical...

This popular science book was written at the end of the 17th century. It is a series of conversations between an intrepid philosopher and a countess as they walk in a garden and gaze at the stars. The philosopher explains the heliocentric (centered on the sun) model of the solar system and ponders...

The British colonies occupying most of the Atlantic coast increased in number and power. New France also grew more assertive. The ongoing animosity between the rivals never faltered. There is little open war as long as the two crowns are at peace. From 1660 to 1688, the Stuart rulers of England...

As expected, the sixth installment of the series deals with the events of the northern settlement concurrently with the southern territory. The opening explains: "The migration to the New World of the Pilgrims and Puritans marked the beginning of permanent settlement in New England, children...

In this remarkably detailed and comprehensive fifth part, Mary Johnston takes us from discovery and settlement to the development of the first colonies, specifically Virginia, Maryland, North and South Carolina, and Georgia....

The People and Environment of America's Earliest Period. - Summary by Jim Locke...

This is volume 19 of The Chronicles of Canada series. This is the account of La Verendryes' quest for an overland route to the Pacific Ocean....

Fur hunters were explorers who carved their way across the continent and into the furthest reaches of a northern empire as large as Europe. But as these explorers pushed their canoes up the Saskatchewan River, across the Rocky Mountains and down the Columbia River, they were looking for fur. When...

The name is taken from the great Book of Nature. It's a Mohawk birth name meaning two logs joined together, a sign of strength; a woman hopes that one day her child will be a brave man of the Mohawk tribe. If she had known earlier, her wish was not limited to this, whether in spirit or physical...

This is the history of Pontiac's Conspiracy, 1763-1765. It includes the siege of Detroit and his ultimate defeat....