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Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside denials of the Holocaust and the debate over the Alamo, Michel-Rolph Trouillot offers a stunning meditation on how power operates in the making and recording of history.
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The story of the Boston Massacre - when on a late winter evening in 1770, British soldiers shot five local men to death - is familiar to generations. But from the very beginning, many accounts have obscured a fascinating truth: the Massacre arose from conflicts that were as personal as they were political.
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if could give Zero I would. 5 chpts in & gave up!!
- De Anonymous User en 06-12-20
De: Serena Zabin
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Forced Founders
- Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia
- De: Woody Holton
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 7 h
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In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Holton shows that when Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and other elite Virginians joined their peers from other colonies in declaring independence from Britain, they acted partly in response to grassroots rebellions against their own rule.
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A great book.
- De Tommy Rodgers en 12-29-19
De: Woody Holton
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Liberty's Exiles
- American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World
- De: Maya Jasanoff
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 16 h y 10 m
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Maya Jasanoff won the National Book Critics Circle Award for her groundbreaking work Liberty's Exiles. After the American Revolution, 60,000 British loyalists fled the U.S. for Canada, the Caribbean, India, and other points abroad. Jasanoff traces their harrowing journeys across the globe, shedding light on their ambitions, the post-revolutionary world they encountered, and their legacies.
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Staggering in its Breadth
- De Anders P Morley en 02-21-21
De: Maya Jasanoff
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The Making of the English Working Class
- De: E.P. Thompson
- Narrado por: Shaun Grindell
- Duración: 34 h y 42 m
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During the formative years of the Industrial Revolution, English workers and artisans claimed a place in society that would shape the following centuries. But the capitalist elite did not form the working class - the workers shaped their own creations, developing a shared identity in the process. Despite their lack of power and the indignity forced upon them by the upper classes, the working class emerged as England's greatest cultural and political force.
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terrible terrible narrator
- De Theresa Barr en 08-28-24
De: E.P. Thompson
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Imagined Communities
- Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
- De: Benedict Anderson
- Narrado por: Kevin Foley
- Duración: 8 h y 8 m
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i>Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson's brilliant book on nationalism, forged a new field of study when it first appeared in 1983. Since then it has sold over a quarter of a million copies and is widely considered the most important book on the subject. In this greatly anticipated revised edition, Anderson updates and elaborates on the core question: What makes people live and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their names?
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Heavy debatable theory
- De adam bardaro en 04-16-19
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Thinking About History
- De: Sarah Maza
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Wiley
- Duración: 11 h y 30 m
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What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza's Thinking About History, a general introduction to the field of history that revels in its eclecticism and highlights the inherent tensions and controversies that shape it.
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Well structured
- De Deeni A Alqadasi en 10-05-24
De: Sarah Maza
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The Boston Massacre
- A Family History
- De: Serena Zabin
- Narrado por: Andrea Gallo
- Duración: 8 h y 40 m
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The story of the Boston Massacre - when on a late winter evening in 1770, British soldiers shot five local men to death - is familiar to generations. But from the very beginning, many accounts have obscured a fascinating truth: the Massacre arose from conflicts that were as personal as they were political.
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if could give Zero I would. 5 chpts in & gave up!!
- De Anonymous User en 06-12-20
De: Serena Zabin
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Forced Founders
- Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia
- De: Woody Holton
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 7 h
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In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Holton shows that when Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and other elite Virginians joined their peers from other colonies in declaring independence from Britain, they acted partly in response to grassroots rebellions against their own rule.
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A great book.
- De Tommy Rodgers en 12-29-19
De: Woody Holton
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Liberty's Exiles
- American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World
- De: Maya Jasanoff
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 16 h y 10 m
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Maya Jasanoff won the National Book Critics Circle Award for her groundbreaking work Liberty's Exiles. After the American Revolution, 60,000 British loyalists fled the U.S. for Canada, the Caribbean, India, and other points abroad. Jasanoff traces their harrowing journeys across the globe, shedding light on their ambitions, the post-revolutionary world they encountered, and their legacies.
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Staggering in its Breadth
- De Anders P Morley en 02-21-21
De: Maya Jasanoff
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The Making of the English Working Class
- De: E.P. Thompson
- Narrado por: Shaun Grindell
- Duración: 34 h y 42 m
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During the formative years of the Industrial Revolution, English workers and artisans claimed a place in society that would shape the following centuries. But the capitalist elite did not form the working class - the workers shaped their own creations, developing a shared identity in the process. Despite their lack of power and the indignity forced upon them by the upper classes, the working class emerged as England's greatest cultural and political force.
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terrible terrible narrator
- De Theresa Barr en 08-28-24
De: E.P. Thompson
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Imagined Communities
- Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
- De: Benedict Anderson
- Narrado por: Kevin Foley
- Duración: 8 h y 8 m
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i>Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson's brilliant book on nationalism, forged a new field of study when it first appeared in 1983. Since then it has sold over a quarter of a million copies and is widely considered the most important book on the subject. In this greatly anticipated revised edition, Anderson updates and elaborates on the core question: What makes people live and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their names?
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Heavy debatable theory
- De adam bardaro en 04-16-19
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Gay New York
- Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
- De: George Chauncey
- Narrado por: Graham Halstead
- Duración: 18 h y 40 m
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Gay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet, where gay men were isolated, invisible, and self-hating. Drawing on a rich trove of diaries, legal records, and other unpublished documents, George Chauncey constructs a fascinating portrait of a vibrant, cohesive gay world that is not supposed to have existed. Gay New York forever changed how we think about the history of gay life in New York City, and beyond.
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An Eye Opening History!
- De Nelson en 04-26-22
De: George Chauncey
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The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic
- Reconstruction, 1860-1920
- De: Manisha Sinha
- Narrado por: Deepa Samuel
- Duración: 21 h y 14 m
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A sweeping narrative that remakes our understanding of perhaps the most consequential period in American history, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic shows how the great contest of that age is also the great contest of our age—and serves as a necessary reminder of how young and fragile our democracy truly is.
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Managing through narration
- De Julie en 06-18-24
De: Manisha Sinha
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On Settler Colonialism
- Ideology, Violence, and Justice
- De: Adam Kirsch
- Narrado por: Adam Barr
- Duración: 3 h y 55 m
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Since Hamas's attack on Israel last October 7, the term "settler colonialism" has become central to public debate in the United States. A concept new to most Americans, but already established and influential in academic circles, settler colonialism is shaping the way many people think about the history of the United States, Israel and Palestine, and a host of political issues. This short book is the first to examine settler colonialism critically for a general audience.
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Snooze
- De Cobi en 01-11-25
De: Adam Kirsch
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The Denial of Death
- De: Ernest Becker
- Narrado por: Raymond Todd
- Duración: 11 h y 46 m
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned answer to the "why" of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie: man's refusal to acknowledge his own mortality. In doing so, he sheds new light on the nature of humanity and issues a call to life and its living that still resonates more than 30 years after its writing.
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Not for the closed-minded
- De Yhatze en 05-27-17
De: Ernest Becker
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Hitler's People
- The Faces of the Third Reich
- De: Richard J. Evans
- Narrado por: Leighton Pugh
- Duración: 21 h y 26 m
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Richard Evans, author of the acclaimed The Third Reich Trilogy and over two dozen other volumes on modern Europe, is our preeminent scholar of Nazi Germany. Having spent half a century searching for the truths behind one of the most horrifying episodes in human history, in Hitler’s People, he brings us back to the original site of the Nazi movement: namely, the lives of its most important members. Working in concentric circles out from Hitler and his closest allies, Evans forms a typological framework of Germany society under Nazi rule from the top down.
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Excellent presentation.
- De Arnie en 08-28-24
De: Richard J. Evans
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The Longest Con
- How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism
- De: Joe Conason
- Narrado por: Steve Marvel
- Duración: 10 h y 55 m
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The Longest Con tells the fascinating story of the partisan con artists who have corrupted conservative politics in our time, creating a toxic phenomenon that culminated in the election of Donald Trump, a bumptious fraud whose checkered career and tawdry retinue, including his presidential cabinet, have featured almost every variety of scam. But long before he appeared, Trump's path to power was blazed by the motley horde of swindlers and quacks who preceded him.
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America Needs to Know the Truth and Dangers of Trump
- De Tiberius en 12-01-24
De: Joe Conason
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White Malice
- The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa
- De: Susan Williams
- Narrado por: Chanté McCormick
- Duración: 21 h y 14 m
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In White Malice, Susan Williams unearths the covert operations pursued by the CIA from Ghana to the Congo to the UN in an effort to frustrate and deny Africa’s new generation of nationalist leaders. This dramatically upends the conventional belief that the African nations failed to establish effective, democratic states on their own accord. As the old European powers moved out, the US moved in.
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A very good read.
- De Amazon Customer en 11-20-22
De: Susan Williams
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Seeing Like a State
- De: James C. Scott
- Narrado por: Michael Kramer
- Duración: 16 h y 6 m
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Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go tragically awry? Author James C. Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields. Centrally managed social plans misfire, Scott argues, when they impose schematic visions that do violence to complex interdependencies that are not - and cannot - be fully understood. Further, the success of designs for social organization depends upon the recognition that local, practical knowledge is as important as formal, epistemic knowledge.
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Beats a dead horse and then beats it again
- De Nathan Parker en 10-29-20
De: James C. Scott
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How the South Won the Civil War
- Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
- De: Heather Cox Richardson
- Narrado por: Heather Cox Richardson
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," Heather Cox Richardson argues in this provocative work that democracy's blood-soaked victory was ephemeral. The system that had sustained the defeated South moved westward and there established a foothold. It was a natural fit. Settlers from the East had for decades been pushing into the West, where the seizure of Mexican lands at the end of the Mexican-American War and treatment of Native Americans cemented racial hierarchies....
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Disappointing book that wasted such potential.
- De Amazon Customer en 08-07-21
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Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here
- The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
- De: Jonathan Blitzer
- Narrado por: Jonathan Blitzer, André Santana
- Duración: 18 h y 14 m
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Everyone who makes the journey faces an impossible choice. Hundreds of thousands of people who arrive every year at the US-Mexico border travel far from their homes. For years, the majority came from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, but many more have begun their journey much farther away. Some flee persecution, others crime or hunger. They may have already been deported, but the United States remains their only hope for safety and prosperity. They will take their chances.
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How America Created its Own Border Problem
- De Amazon Customer en 04-19-24
De: Jonathan Blitzer
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Bloodlands
- Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
- De: Timothy Snyder
- Narrado por: Ralph Cosham
- Duración: 19 h y 14 m
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Bloodlands is a new kind of European history, presenting the mass murders committed by the Nazi and Stalinist regimes as two aspects of a single history, in the time and place where they occurred: between Germany and Russia, when Hitler and Stalin both held power. Assiduously researched, deeply humane, and utterly definitive, Bloodlands will be required listening for anyone seeking to understand the central tragedy of modern history.
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a warning for the future
- De judith en 11-06-19
De: Timothy Snyder
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Autocracy, Inc.
- The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
- De: Anne Applebaum
- Narrado por: Anne Applebaum
- Duración: 4 h y 48 m
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We think we know what an autocratic state looks like: There is an all-powerful leader at the top. He controls the police. The police threaten the people with violence. There are evil collaborators, and maybe some brave dissidents. But in the 21st century, that bears little resemblance to reality. Nowadays, autocracies are underpinned not by one dictator, but by sophisticated networks composed of kleptocratic financial structures, surveillance technologies, and professional propagandists, all of which operate across multiple regimes, from China to Russia to Iran.
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A Triumphant Work -Puts It All Together With Laser Clarity
- De Sjhoffman en 09-19-24
De: Anne Applebaum