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Our Beloved Kin
- A New History of King Philip’s War
- De: Lisa Brooks
- Narrado por: Rainy Fields
- Duración: 16 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 35
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Narración:3 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
With rigorous original scholarship and creative narration, Lisa Brooks recovers a complex picture of war, captivity, and Native resistance during the "First Indian War" (later named King Philip's War) by relaying the stories of Weetamoo, a female Wampanoag leader, and James Printer, a Nipmuc scholar, whose stories converge in the captivity of Mary Rowlandson. Brooks leads us to a new understanding of the history of colonial New England and of American origins.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Poor reading
- De An Amazonian en 09-01-19
- Our Beloved Kin
- A New History of King Philip’s War
- De: Lisa Brooks
- Narrado por: Rainy Fields
Good book, terrible reading
Revisado: 06-15-21
This is an example of how reliant audiobooks are on a competent performance. While i can forgive the narrator, Rainy Fields, for being tripped up by the many algonquin names, i found her generally halting and arduously enunciated reading difficult to listen to. Her frequent pauses, apparently neither for emphasis, nor for punctuation, made otherwise simple sentences difficult to follow. Every sentence sounded like she was reading it aloud for the very first time, and made me long for the printed page. I strongly suggest re-recording this with a more fluent reader.
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The Counter-Revolution of 1776
- Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America
- De: Gerald Horne
- Narrado por: Larry Herron
- Duración: 12 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 272
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 234
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 230
The successful 1776 revolt against British rule in North America has been hailed almost universally as a great step forward for humanity. But the Africans then living in the colonies overwhelmingly sided with the British. In this trailblazing book, Gerald Horne shows that in the prelude to 1776, the abolition of slavery seemed all but inevitable in London, delighting Africans as much as it outraged slaveholders, and sparking the colonial revolt.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A revelation, a paradigm shift and a new view
- De Diana Black Kennedy en 03-28-18
- The Counter-Revolution of 1776
- Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America
- De: Gerald Horne
- Narrado por: Larry Herron
This audiobook was not edited for accuracy
Revisado: 06-20-20
This is an important and thought-provoking text that made me reevaluate my understanding of the 17th and 18th centuries in the New World European colonies. That is why it is all the more disappointing that the audiobook performance is so packed with verbal flubs and confident mispronunciations (e.g. “recalitrant” for recalcitrant, “epitet” for epithet, “deloozed” for deluged, etc.). I heard errors on almost every page, and thats not counting potential departures from the text that I would’ve been unaware of without a hard copy in hand. The sloppy reading does a lot of injury to the author’s eloquent writing. This audiobook recording does not seem to have been edited for quality and accuracy of the reading. I would suggest that the problem sections be re-recorded, but they are so numerous, I’m not sure if it’s practical. Probably best to just buy the physical book elsewhere.
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