The Story of the World, volume 4: The Modern Age

Other by Susan Wise Bauer

Released 2006

Tracklist

  • CD 1
  • 1
    Foreword
    6:33
  • 2
    Ch 01 - Britain's Empire - Victoria's England
    7:47
  • 3
    Ch 01 - Britain's Empire - The Sepoy Mutiny
    7:17
  • 4
    Ch 02 - West Against East - Japan Re-Opens
    7:14
  • 5
    Ch 02 - West Against East - The Crimean War
    7:47
  • 6
    Ch 03 - British Invasions - The Great Game
    9:50
  • 7
    Ch 03 - British Invasions - Wandering Through Africa
    7:55
  • 8
    Ch 04 - Resurrection and Rebellion - Italy's "Resurrection"
    9:18
  • 9
    Ch 04 - Resurrection and Rebellion - The Taiping Rebellion
    8:57
  • CD 2
  • 1
    Ch 05 - The American Civil War - South Against North
    8:27
  • 2
    Ch 05 - The American Civil War - After the Civil War
    7:45
  • 3
    Ch 06 - Two Tries For Freedom - Paraguay,Triple Alliance
    9:15
  • 4
    Ch 06 - The Tries For Freedom - The Dominion of Canada
    8:39
  • 5
    Ch 07 - Two Empires, Three Republics, One Kingdom - Two Empires and Three Republics
    9:44
  • 6
    Ch 07 - Two Empires, Three Republics, One Kingdom - The Second Reich
    8:11
  • 7
    Ch 08 - Becoming Modern - Rails, Zones and Bulbs
    7:47
  • 8
    Ch 08 - Becoming Modern - Japan's Meiji Restoration
    6:52
  • 9
    Ch 09 - Two More Empires, Two Rebellions - Dutch East Indies
    7:30
  • CD 3
  • 1
    Ch 09 - Two More Empires, Two Rebellions - The Sick Man of Europe
    9:17
  • 2
    Ch 10 - A Canal to the East and a Very Dry Desert - The War of the Pacific
    8:24
  • 3
    Ch 10 - A Canal to the East and a Very Dry Desert - The Suez Canal
    7:14
  • 4
    Ch 11 - The Far Parts of the World - The Iron Outlaw
    9:10
  • 5
    Ch 11 - The Far Parts of the World - Carving Up Africa
    7:59
  • 6
    Ch 12 - Unhappy Unions - Ireland's Troubles
    9:13
  • 7
    Ch 12 - Unhappy Unions - The Boers and the British
    11:31
  • CD 4
  • 1
    Ch 13 - The Old-Fashioned Emperor and the Red Sultan - Brazil's Republic
    9:39
  • 2
    Ch 13 - The Old-Fashioned Emperor and the Red Sultan - Abdulhamid the Red
    8:37
  • 3
    Ch 14 - Two Czars and Two Emperors - The Next-to-Last Czar of Russia
    7:57
  • 4
    Ch 14 - Two Czars and Two Emperors - Ethiopia and Italy
    8:32
  • 5
    Ch 15 - Small Countries With Large Invaders - The Korean Battleground
    8:09
  • 6
    Ch 15 - Small Countries With Large Invaders - The Spanish-American War
    9:59
  • CD 5
  • 1
    Ch 16 - The Expanding United States - Moving West
    9:09
  • 2
    Ch 16 - The Expanding United States - Stocks, Philanthropists, and Outlaws
    9:15
  • 3
    Ch 17 - China's Troubles - The Boxer Rebellion
    10:38
  • 4
    Ch 17 - China's Troubles - The Czar and the Admiral
    9:11
  • 5
    Ch 18 - Europe and Countries Just East - Persia, Its Enemies, and Its "Friends"
    11:28
  • 6
    Ch 18 - Europe and Countries Just East - The Balkan Mess
    10:20
  • 7
    Ch 19 - China, Vietnam -- and France - The Last Emperor
    6:44
  • 8
    Ch 19 - China, Vietnam -- and France - The Vietnamese Restoration Society
    6:02
  • CD 6
  • 1
    Ch 20 - Revolution In the Americas...War in the World - The Mexican Revolution
    10:07
  • 2
    Ch 20 - Revolution In the Americas...War in the World - World War I
    11:08
  • 3
    Ch 21 - A Revolution Begins, and the Great War Ends - The Russian Revolution
    11:14
  • 4
    Ch 21 - A Revolution Begins, and the Great War Ends - The End of World War I
    7:48
  • 5
    Ch 22 - National Uprisings - The Easter Uprising
    9:49
  • 6
    Ch 22 - National Uprisings - Indian Nationalism
    7:59
  • 7
    Ch 23 - "Peace" and a Man of War - The Peace of Versailles
    10:35
  • 8
    Ch 23 - "Peace" and a Man of War - The Rise of Joseph Stalin
    9:03
  • CD 7
  • 1
    Ch 24 - The King and Il Duce - The First King of Egypt
    7:53
  • 2
    Ch 24 - The King and Il Duce - Fascism in Italy
    10:33
  • 3
    Ch 25 - Armies in China - Japan, China, and a Pretend Emperor
    9:01
  • 4
    Ch 25 - Armies in China - The Long March
    9:30
  • 5
    Ch 26 - The Great Crash, and What Came of It - Black Tuesday and a New Deal
    10:24
  • 6
    Ch 26 - The Great Crash, and What Came of It - Hitler's Rise to Power
    6:53
  • 7
    Ch 27 - Civil War and Invasion - Red Spain, Black Spain, a King, and a General
    10:51
  • 8
    Ch 27 - Civil War and Invasion - Rebuilding the "Fatherland"
    9:32
  • CD 8
  • 1
    Ch 28 - The Second World War - The Three-War War
    9:51
  • 2
    Ch 28 - The Second World War - The Holocaust
    7:56
  • 3
    Ch 29 - The End of World War II - The War that Stretched Across the World
    14:01
  • 4
    Ch 29 - The End of World War II - The Atom Bomb
    8:19
  • 5
    Ch 30 - Partitioned Countries - Muslims and Hindus in India
    7:26
  • 6
    Ch 30 - Partitioned Countries - The Partitioning of Palestine
    6:41
  • 7
    Ch 31 - Western Bullies and American Money - The Suez Crisis
    10:22
  • 8
    Ch 31 - Western Bullies and American Money - The Marshall Plan
    9:53
  • CD 9
  • 1
    Ch 32 - Africa and China After World War II - One Country, Two Different Worlds
    9:05
  • 2
    Ch 32 - Africa and China After World War II - Two Republics of China
    6:55
  • 3
    Ch 33 - Communism in Asia - Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Minh
    8:42
  • 4
    Ch 33 - Communism in Asia - The Korean War
    7:36
  • 5
    Ch 34 - Dictators in South America and Africa - Argentina's President and His Wife
    10:58
  • 6
    Ch 34 - Dictators in South America and Africa - Freedom in the Belgian Congo
    8:49
  • 7
    Ch 35 - The Cold War - The Space Race
    8:09
  • 8
    Ch 35 - The Cold War - Thirteen Days in October
    13:53
  • CD 10
  • 1
    Ch 36 - Struggles and Assassinations - The Death of John F. Kennedy
    10:32
  • 2
    Ch 36 - Struggles and Assassinations - Civil Rights
    12:24
  • 3
    Ch 37 - Two Short Wars and One Long One - The Vietnam War
    9:40
  • 4
    Ch 37 - Two Short Wars and One Long One - Trouble in the Middle East
    10:06
  • 5
    Ch 38 - Two Ways of Fighting - Soviet Invasions
    7:50
  • 6
    Ch 38 - Two Ways of Fighting - Terrorism
    8:32
  • 7
    Ch 39 - The 1980s in the East and Mideast - India after Partition
    8:56
  • 8
    Ch 39 - The 1980s in the East and Mideast - Iran and Iraq
    10:22
  • CD 11
  • 1
    Ch 40 - The 1980s in the USSR - Chernobyl and Nuclear Power
    10:09
  • 2
    Ch 40 - The 1980s in the USSR - The End of the Cold War
    6:19
  • 3
    Ch 41 - Communism Crumbles but Survives - Democracy in China?
    8:43
  • 4
    Ch 41 - Communism Crumbles but Survives - Communism Crumbles
    5:56
  • 5
    Ch 42 - The End of the Twentieth Century - The First Persian Gulf War
    7:33
  • 6
    Ch 42 - The End of the Twentieth Century - Africa, Independent
    9:04
  • 7
    Afterward
    1:35

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