History Makers: 50 Iconic Figures That Shaped the World As We Know It
Biographical Portraits of Leaders, Reformers, and Cultural InnovatorsBy Arthur E. P. Brome Weigall, Jacob Abbott, A. H. Beesly, Edward Spencer Beesly, Evelyn S. Shuckburgh, John Charles Tarver, Philo, Stephen Phillips, George Lang, Alice Stopford Green, G. K. Chesterton, Alfred von Reumont, Miss Pardoe, John S. C. Abbott, Alfred John Church, Edward Everett Hale, Woodrow Wilson, William Milligan Sloane, Madame de Rémusat, Joseph Moyle Sherer, Sarah H. Bradford, Sarah Ellen Blackwell, John Torrey Morse, William E. Barton, George Hesekiel, Kenneth Robert Henderson Mackenzie, Edward Tyas Cook, Romain Rolland
Length546h 46m
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History Makers: 50 Iconic Figures That Shaped the World As We Know It assembles biographical portraits into a capacious study of leadership, reform, conquest, artistic influence, and intellectual change. Ranging from documentary-inflected history and political biography to moral essay, cultural criticism, and vividly narrated life-writing, the volume situates famous individuals within the forces that made their achievements consequential. Its varied treatments of rulers, revolutionaries, thinkers, religious figures, and public reformers reveal history not as a single heroic line but as a contested field of institutions, ideals, and personalities. The contributors include historians, classicists, journalists, novelists, theologians, political commentators, and major public intellectuals, bringing distinct national traditions and interpretive methods to their subjects. Voices associated with Victorian historical writing, liberal political thought, religious biography, European cultural history, and early twentieth-century humanism collectively enrich the anthology's scope. Their different emphases—on character, evidence, social conditions, ethical consequence, and narrative drama—place the collection within the broad tradition of popular yet serious historical biography. Recommended for students and general readers alike, this volume offers an unusually broad encounter with the people through whom large historical transformations can be studied. Its multiplicity of styles and judgments invites comparison, critical reading, and discussion of how reputations are made. Readers will find both an accessible introduction to major historical actors and a valuable meditation on biography's power to connect individual lives with world history.
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GenreBiography and Memoir, Literary Classics
Length546 hrs 46 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (Annotated)
26PREFACE
2The Life and Times of Akhenaton, Pharaoh of Egypt
27Chapter III.
3INTRODUCTION.
28Chapter V.
4I. THE PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS OF AKHENATON.
29Chapter VI.
54. THE GOODNESS OF ATON.
30Chapter VIII.
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67. AKHENATON’S HEALTH GIVES WAY.
31Chapter IX.
7Cyrus the Great
32Chapter XI.
8PREFACE.
33Chapter XII.
9Chapter III.
34Alexander the Great
10Chapter IV.
35PREFACE.
11Chapter V.
36Chapter III.
12Chapter VII.
37Chapter IV.
13Chapter IX.
38Chapter VI.
14Chapter X.
39Chapter VIII.
15Chapter XII.
40Chapter IX.
16Darius the Great
41Chapter XI.
17PREFACE.
42Hannibal
18Chapter III.
43PREFACE
19Chapter IV.
44Chapter III.
20Chapter VI.
45Chapter V.
21Chapter VIII.
46Chapter VI.
22Chapter IX.
47Chapter VIII.
23Chapter XI.
48Chapter X.
24Chapter XII.
49Chapter XI.
25Romulus
50Footnote
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