The Dress Diary
Secrets from a Victorian Woman's Wardrobe
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Kate Strasdin
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In 1838, a young woman was given a diary on her wedding day. Collecting snippets of fabric from a range of garments—some her own, others donated by family and friends—she carefully annotated each one, creating a unique record of their lives. Her name was Mrs. Anne Sykes.
Nearly two hundred years later, the diary fell into the hands of Kate Strasdin, a fashion historian and museum curator. Using her expertise, Strasdin spent the next six years unraveling the secrets contained within the album's pages, and the lives of the people within. Her findings are remarkable. Piece by piece, she charts Anne's journey from the mills of Lancashire to the port of Singapore before tracing her return to England in later years. Fragments of cloth become windows into Victorian life: pirates in Borneo, the complicated etiquette of mourning, poisonous dyes, the British Empire in full swing, rioting over working conditions, and the terrible human cost of Britain's cotton industry. This is life writing that celebrates ordinary people: not the grandees of traditional written histories, but the hidden figures, the participants in everyday life. Through the evidence of waistcoats, ball gowns, and mourning outfits, Strasdin lays bare the whole of human experience in the most intimate of mediums: the clothes we choose to wear.
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- De Amazon Customer en 10-18-21
De: Clare Hunter
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The Season
- A Social History of the Debutante
- De: Kristen Richardson
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 9 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 82
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 67
Kristen Richardson, from a family of debutantes, chose not to debut. But as her curiosity drove her to research this enduring custom, she learned that it, and debutantes, are not as simple as they seem. The story begins in England 600 years ago when wealthy fathers needed an efficient way to find appropriate husbands for their daughters. Elizabeth I's exclusive presentations at her court expanded into London's full season of dances, dinners, and courting, extending eventually to the many corners of the British empire and beyond.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Interesting Facts But Reads Like A College Paper
- De Megan Dorsey en 12-14-19
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The Husband Hunters
- American Heiresses Who Married into the British Aristocracy
- De: Anne de Courcy
- Narrado por: Clare Corbett
- Duración: 10 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 685
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 582
Towards the end of the 19th century and for the first few years of the 20th, a strange invasion took place in Britain. The citadel of power, privilege, and breeding in which the titled, land-owning governing class had barricaded itself for so long was breached. The incomers were a group of young women who, 50 years earlier, would have been looked on as the alien denizens of another world - the New World, to be precise. From 1874 - the year that Jennie Jerome, the first known "Dollar Princess", married Randolph Churchill - to 1905, dozens of young American heiresses married into the British peerage....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bondfide Valuable History Lesson
- De A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. en 09-21-18
De: Anne de Courcy
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A Brief History of Life in Victorian Britain
- De: Michael Paterson
- Narrado por: Mark Meadows
- Duración: 11 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 87
The Victorian era has dominated the popular imagination like no other period, but these myths and stories also give a very distorted view of the 19th century. The early Victorians were much stranger than we usually imagine, and their world would have felt very different from our own. It was only during the long reign of the Queen that a modern society emerged in unexpected ways.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Brief, But Insightful
- De Troy en 07-17-13
De: Michael Paterson
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Vanderbilt
- The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
- De: Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe
- Narrado por: Anderson Cooper
- Duración: 8 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,887
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5,109
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5,082
New York Times best-selling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times best-selling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty - his mother’s family, the Vanderbilts.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting Approach to a Well Known History
- De HistoryNerd en 09-24-21
De: Anderson Cooper, y otros
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The Time Traveler's Guide to Regency Britain
- De: Ian Mortimer
- Narrado por: Ian Mortimer
- Duración: 17 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 165
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 142
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 140
In the latest volume of his celebrated series of Time Traveler's Guides, Ian Mortimer turns to what is arguably the most-loved period in British history—the Regency, or Georgian England. A time of exuberance, thrills, frills, and unchecked bad behavior, it was perhaps the last age of true freedom before the arrival of the stifling world of Victorian morality. At the same time, it was a period of transition. Conveying the sights, sounds, and smells of the Regency period, this is history at its most exciting—the past not as something to be studied, but as lived experience.
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2 out of 5 stars
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SKIP THIS BOOK
- De Lady Aristotle en 09-05-22
De: Ian Mortimer
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Corsets and Codpieces
- A History of Outrageous Fashion, from Roman Times to the Modern Era
- De: Karen Bowman
- Narrado por: Susan Duerden
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 103
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 93
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 90
Have you ever wondered why we wear the type of clothes we do? Packed with outlandish outfits, this exciting history of fashion trends reveals the flamboyant fashions adopted (and discarded) by our ancestors. In the days before cosmetic surgery, people used bum rolls and bombastic breeches to augment their figures, painted their faces with poisonous concoctions, and doused themselves with scent to cover body odor.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A poorly researched and weirdly sexist read
- De Interregnum Rex en 08-26-17
De: Karen Bowman
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All That She Carried
- The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
- De: Tiya Miles
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 344
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 296
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 296
In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose faced a crisis: the imminent sale of her daughter Ashley. Thinking quickly, she packed a cotton bag for her with a few items, and, soon after, the nine-year-old girl was separated from her mother and sold. Decades later, Ashley’s granddaughter Ruth embroidered this family history on the sack in spare, haunting language. Historian Tiya Miles carefully traces these women’s faint presence in archival records, and, where archives fall short, she turns to objects, art, and the environment to write a singular history of slavery.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Astonishing Feat of Scholarship, Imagination and Empathy
- De Cin en 06-30-21
De: Tiya Miles
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The Five
- The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
- De: Hallie Rubenhold
- Narrado por: Louise Brealey
- Duración: 10 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,364
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,180
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,174
Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine, and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. What they had in common was the year of their murders: 1888. The person responsible was never identified, but the character created by the press to fill that gap has become far more famous than any of these five women. For more than a century, newspapers have been keen to tell us that "the Ripper" preyed on prostitutes. Not only is this untrue, as historian Hallie Rubenhold has discovered, but it has prevented the real stories of these fascinating women from being told.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Everyone needs to read/listen to this book
- De AAHickman en 12-05-19
De: Hallie Rubenhold
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To Marry an English Lord
- De: Gail MacColl, Carol McD. Wallace
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 430
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 386
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 387
From the Gilded Age until 1914, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles - just like Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, the first of the Downton Abbey characters Julian Fellowes was inspired to create after reading To Marry An English Lord. Filled with vivid personalities, gossipy anecdotes, grand houses, and a wealth of period details-plus quotes and the finer points of Victorian and Edwardian etiquette - To Marry An English Lord is social history at its liveliest and most accessible.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not Great on Audio
- De Lynne en 03-10-16
De: Gail MacColl, y otros
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Remembering Shanghai
- A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and Scoundrels
- De: Isabel Sun Chao, Claire Chao
- Narrado por: Rachel Yong, Claire Chao, Isabel Sun Chao
- Duración: 7 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 69
Meticulously researched, Remembering Shanghai follows five generations, from vibrant Shanghai to the bright lights of Hong Kong. By turns harrowing and heartwarming, this vivid memoir explores identity and loss against the epic backdrop of a country in turmoil.
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5 out of 5 stars
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touching stories of resilience and family
- De Rodger en 01-17-21
De: Isabel Sun Chao, y otros
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Mademoiselle
- Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History
- De: Rhonda Garelick
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 16 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 173
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 152
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 148
Little black dresses. Fake pearls. Jersey knit. Blazers. Ballet flats. Today - and for nearly the last hundred years - we all see some version of Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel every time we pass a woman on the street. But few among us realize that Chanel’s role in the events of the twentieth century was as pervasive as her influence on fashion, or how deeply she absorbed and then brilliantly reimagined the historical currents around her.
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1 out of 5 stars
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An Unlikable Portrait
- De Sara en 09-25-16
De: Rhonda Garelick
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The Cartiers
- The Untold Story of the Family Behind the Jewelry Empire
- De: Francesca Cartier Brickell
- Narrado por: Hattie Morahan
- Duración: 23 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 551
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 472
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 471
The Cartiers is the revealing tale of a jewelry dynasty—four generations, from revolutionary France to the 1970s. At its heart are the three Cartier brothers whose motto was “Never copy, only create” and who made their family firm internationally famous in the early days of the twentieth century, thanks to their unique and complementary talents.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful Experience to Listen to This Story
- De BB en 01-12-20
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Victorian London
- The Life of a City, 1840-1870
- De: Liza Picard
- Narrado por: Anton Lesser
- Duración: 6 h y 39 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 41
Like her previous books, this book will be the result of the author's passionate interest in the realities of everyday life, and the conditions in which most people lived, so often left out of history books. This period of mid-Victorian London encompasses a huge range of subjects.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unforgettable journey into the past
- De Adeliese Baumann en 05-27-18
De: Liza Picard
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The Last Castle
- The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation’s Largest Home
- De: Denise Kiernan
- Narrado por: Denise Kiernan
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 996
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 888
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 884
Orphaned at a young age, Edith Stuyvesant Dresser claimed lineage from one of New York's best known families. She grew up in Newport and Paris, and her engagement and marriage to George Vanderbilt was one of the most watched events of Gilded Age society. But none of this prepared her to be mistress of Biltmore House. Before their marriage, the wealthy and bookish Vanderbilt had dedicated his life to creating a spectacular European-style estate on 125,000 acres of North Carolina wilderness.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Very factual
- De Jennifer en 11-28-17
De: Denise Kiernan
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The Earl and the Pharaoh
- From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun
- De: The Countess of Carnarvon
- Narrado por: The Countess of Carnarvon
- Duración: 13 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 38
Bestselling author the Countess of Carnarvon tells the thrilling behind-the-scenes story of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun on its centennial, and explores the unparalleled life of family ancestor George Herbert—the famed Egyptologist, world-traveler, and 5th Earl of Carnarvon behind it—whose country house, Highclere Castle, is the setting of the beloved series Downton Abbey.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Plodding Family History…Akin to Listening to Paint Dry
- De J. Willis-Opalenik en 10-31-23
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Martha Washington
- An American Life
- De: Patricia Brady
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 79
With this revelatory and painstakingly researched book, Martha Washington, the invisible woman of American history, at last gets the biography she deserves. In place of the domestic frump of popular imagination, Patricia Brady resurrects the wealthy, attractive, and vivacious young widow who captivated the youthful George Washington. And even as it brings Martha Washington into sharper and more accurate focus, this sterling life sheds light on her marriage, her society, and the precedents she established for future First Ladies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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DAR Book Club
- De Kimberly Dillard en 12-26-23
De: Patricia Brady
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Alice Behind Wonderland
- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Simon Winchester
- Duración: 2 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 104
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 88
On a summer's day in 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church College in Oxford, Charles Dodgson, a lecturer in mathematics, photographed six-year-old Alice Liddell, the daughter of the college dean, with a Thomas Ottewill Registered Double Folding camera, recently purchased in London. Simon Winchester deftly uses the resulting image - as unsettling as it is famous, and the subject of bottomless speculation - as the vehicle for a brief excursion behind the lens, a focal point on the origins of a classic work of English literature.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not Long Enough
- De thefrogman en 06-18-12
De: Simon Winchester
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Fabric
- The Hidden History of the Material World
- De: Victoria Finlay
- Narrado por: Carla Kissane
- Duración: 17 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 36
How is a handmade fabric helping save an ancient forest? Why is a famous fabric pattern from India best known by the name of a Scottish town? How is a Chinese dragon robe a diagram of the whole universe? What is the difference between how the Greek Fates and the Viking Norns used threads to tell our destiny? In Fabric, bestselling author Victoria Finlay spins us round the globe, weaving stories of our relationship with cloth and asking how and why people through the ages have made it, worn it, invented it, and made symbols out of it. And sometimes why they have fought for it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfect Book for Needleworking
- De LaVonne en 11-18-23
De: Victoria Finlay
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Worn
- A People's History of Clothing
- De: Sofi Thanhauser
- Narrado por: Rebecca Lowman
- Duración: 13 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 78
Sofi Thanhauser brilliantly tells five stories—Linen, Cotton, Silk, Synthetics, Wool—about the clothes we wear and where they come from, illuminating our world in unexpected ways. She takes us from the opulent court of Louis XIV to the labor camps in modern-day Chinese-occupied Xinjiang. We see how textiles were once dyed with lichen, shells, bark, saffron, and beetles, displaying distinctive regional weaves and knits, and how the modern Western garment industry has refashioned our attire into the homogenous and disposable uniforms popularized by fast-fashion brands.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Horrors of the industrial revolution Continued
- De Susan en 01-28-22
De: Sofi Thanhauser
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The Sewing Girl's Tale
- A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America
- De: John Wood Sweet
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 137
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 109
On a moonless night in the summer of 1793 a crime was committed in the back room of a New York brothel—the kind of crime that even victims usually kept secret. Instead, seventeen-year-old seamstress Lanah Sawyer did what virtually no one in US history had done before: she charged a gentleman with rape. Her accusation sparked a raw courtroom drama and a relentless struggle for vindication that threatened both Lanah’s and her assailant’s lives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great for history buffs!
- De LibertyHillbilly en 02-09-23
De: John Wood Sweet
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Only the Clothes on Her Back
- Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States
- De: Laura F. Edwards
- Narrado por: Stephanie Richardson
- Duración: 12 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 12
Only the Clothes on Her Back uncovers practices, commonly known then, but now long forgotten, which made textiles - clothing, cloth, bedding, and accessories, such as shoes and hats - a unique form of property that people without rights could own and exchange. The value of textiles depended on law, and it was law that turned these goods into a secure form of property for marginalized people, who not only used these textiles as currency, credit, and capital, but also as entree into the new republic's economy and governing institutions.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Buy the book
- De Susan en 12-29-22
De: Laura F. Edwards
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The Fabric of Civilization
- How Textiles Made the World
- De: Virginia I. Postrel
- Narrado por: Caroline Cole
- Duración: 9 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 200
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 168
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 168
The story of humanity is the story of textiles - as old as civilization itself. Since the first thread was spun, the need for textiles has driven technology, business, politics, and culture. In The Fabric of Civilization, Virginia Postrel synthesizes groundbreaking research from archaeology, economics, and science to reveal a surprising history. From Minoans exporting wool colored with precious purple dye to Egypt, to Romans arrayed in costly Chinese silk, the cloth trade paved the crossroads of the ancient world.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Pop journalism article lengthened into a book
- De Anonymous User en 02-05-22
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The Golden Thread
- How Fabric Changed History
- De: Kassia St. Clair
- Narrado por: Helen Johns
- Duración: 11 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 280
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 241
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 239
From colorful 30,000-year-old threads found on the floor of a Georgian cave to the Indian calicoes that sparked the Industrial Revolution, The Golden Thread weaves an illuminating story of human ingenuity. Design journalist Kassia St. Clair guides us through the technological advancements and cultural customs that would redefine human civilization - from the fabric that allowed mankind to achieve extraordinary things (traverse the oceans and shatter athletic records) and survive in unlikely places (outer space and the South Pole).
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent for those interested in textiles
- De Adeliese Baumann en 12-14-19
De: Kassia St. Clair
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Fabric
- The Hidden History of the Material World
- De: Victoria Finlay
- Narrado por: Carla Kissane
- Duración: 17 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 36
How is a handmade fabric helping save an ancient forest? Why is a famous fabric pattern from India best known by the name of a Scottish town? How is a Chinese dragon robe a diagram of the whole universe? What is the difference between how the Greek Fates and the Viking Norns used threads to tell our destiny? In Fabric, bestselling author Victoria Finlay spins us round the globe, weaving stories of our relationship with cloth and asking how and why people through the ages have made it, worn it, invented it, and made symbols out of it. And sometimes why they have fought for it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfect Book for Needleworking
- De LaVonne en 11-18-23
De: Victoria Finlay
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Worn
- A People's History of Clothing
- De: Sofi Thanhauser
- Narrado por: Rebecca Lowman
- Duración: 13 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 78
Sofi Thanhauser brilliantly tells five stories—Linen, Cotton, Silk, Synthetics, Wool—about the clothes we wear and where they come from, illuminating our world in unexpected ways. She takes us from the opulent court of Louis XIV to the labor camps in modern-day Chinese-occupied Xinjiang. We see how textiles were once dyed with lichen, shells, bark, saffron, and beetles, displaying distinctive regional weaves and knits, and how the modern Western garment industry has refashioned our attire into the homogenous and disposable uniforms popularized by fast-fashion brands.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Horrors of the industrial revolution Continued
- De Susan en 01-28-22
De: Sofi Thanhauser
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The Sewing Girl's Tale
- A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America
- De: John Wood Sweet
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 137
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 109
On a moonless night in the summer of 1793 a crime was committed in the back room of a New York brothel—the kind of crime that even victims usually kept secret. Instead, seventeen-year-old seamstress Lanah Sawyer did what virtually no one in US history had done before: she charged a gentleman with rape. Her accusation sparked a raw courtroom drama and a relentless struggle for vindication that threatened both Lanah’s and her assailant’s lives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great for history buffs!
- De LibertyHillbilly en 02-09-23
De: John Wood Sweet
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Only the Clothes on Her Back
- Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States
- De: Laura F. Edwards
- Narrado por: Stephanie Richardson
- Duración: 12 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 12
Only the Clothes on Her Back uncovers practices, commonly known then, but now long forgotten, which made textiles - clothing, cloth, bedding, and accessories, such as shoes and hats - a unique form of property that people without rights could own and exchange. The value of textiles depended on law, and it was law that turned these goods into a secure form of property for marginalized people, who not only used these textiles as currency, credit, and capital, but also as entree into the new republic's economy and governing institutions.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Buy the book
- De Susan en 12-29-22
De: Laura F. Edwards
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The Fabric of Civilization
- How Textiles Made the World
- De: Virginia I. Postrel
- Narrado por: Caroline Cole
- Duración: 9 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 200
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 168
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 168
The story of humanity is the story of textiles - as old as civilization itself. Since the first thread was spun, the need for textiles has driven technology, business, politics, and culture. In The Fabric of Civilization, Virginia Postrel synthesizes groundbreaking research from archaeology, economics, and science to reveal a surprising history. From Minoans exporting wool colored with precious purple dye to Egypt, to Romans arrayed in costly Chinese silk, the cloth trade paved the crossroads of the ancient world.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Pop journalism article lengthened into a book
- De Anonymous User en 02-05-22
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The Golden Thread
- How Fabric Changed History
- De: Kassia St. Clair
- Narrado por: Helen Johns
- Duración: 11 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 280
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 241
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 239
From colorful 30,000-year-old threads found on the floor of a Georgian cave to the Indian calicoes that sparked the Industrial Revolution, The Golden Thread weaves an illuminating story of human ingenuity. Design journalist Kassia St. Clair guides us through the technological advancements and cultural customs that would redefine human civilization - from the fabric that allowed mankind to achieve extraordinary things (traverse the oceans and shatter athletic records) and survive in unlikely places (outer space and the South Pole).
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent for those interested in textiles
- De Adeliese Baumann en 12-14-19
De: Kassia St. Clair
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Threads of Life
- A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle
- De: Clare Hunter
- Narrado por: Siobhan Redmond
- Duración: 12 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 60
From the political propaganda of the Bayeux Tapestry, World War I soldiers coping with PTSD, and the maps sewn by schoolgirls in the New World, to the AIDS quilt, Hmong story clothes, and pink pussyhats, women and men have used the language of sewing to make their voices heard, even in the most desperate of circumstances. Threads of Life is a chronicle of identity, protest, memory, power, and politics told through the stories of needlework.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Textile bucket list.
- De Amazon Customer en 10-18-21
De: Clare Hunter
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Jewels
- A Secret History
- De: Victoria Finlay
- Narrado por: Victoria Finlay
- Duración: 14 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 20
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 19
Throughout history, precious stones have inspired passions and poetry, quests and curses, sacred writings and unsacred actions. In this scintillating book, journalist Victoria Finlay embarks on her own globe-circling search for the real stories behind some of the gems we prize most. Blending adventure travel, geology, exciting new research, and her own irresistible charm, Finlay has fashioned a treasure hunt for some of the most valuable, glamorous, and mysterious substances on earth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Just as good as her other books
- De Snoopy en 08-25-24
De: Victoria Finlay
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Fashion Killa
- How Hip-Hop Revolutionized High Fashion
- De: Sowmya Krishnamurthy
- Narrado por: Angel Pean
- Duración: 7 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 4
Fashion Killa is a classic tale of a modern renaissance; of an exclusionary industry gate-crashed by innovators; of impresarios—Sean “Diddy” Combs, Dapper Dan, Virgil Abloh—hoisting hip-hop from the streets to the stratosphere; of supernovas—Lil’ Kim, Cardi B, and Kimora Lee Simmons—allying with kingmakers—Anna Wintour, Donatella Versace, Tommy Hilfiger, and Ralph Lauren; of traditionalist fashion houses—Louis Vuitton, Fendi, and Saint Laurent—transformed into temples of rap gods.
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Color
- A Natural History of the Palette
- De: Victoria Finlay
- Narrado por: Victoria Finlay
- Duración: 15 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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In this vivid and captivating journey through the colors of an artist’s palette, Victoria Finlay takes us on an enthralling adventure around the world and through the ages, illuminating how the colors we choose to value have determined the history of culture itself. Color is full of extraordinary people, events, and anecdotes—painted all the more dazzling by Finlay’s engaging style. The colors that craft our world have never looked so bright.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A scrumptious, colorful adventure. Must read
- De Esio Trot en 07-26-23
De: Victoria Finlay
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Dress Codes
- How the Laws of Fashion Made History
- De: Richard Thompson Ford
- Narrado por: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Duración: 13 h y 48 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 29
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For centuries, clothing has been a wearable status symbol; fashion, a weapon in struggles for social change; and dress codes, a way to maintain political control. Dress codes evolved along with the social and political ideals of the day, but they always reflected struggles for power and status.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Unlistenable
- De Lauren en 08-01-23
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The Pillow Book
- De: Sei Shōnagon
- Narrado por: Georgina Sutton
- Duración: 11 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon is a fascinating, detailed account of Japanese court life in the closing years of the 10th century. Written by a lady of the court at the height of Heian culture, this book enthrals with its lively gossip, witty observations and subtle impressions. Lady Shōnagon was an erstwhile rival of Lady Murasaki, whose novel, The Tale of Genji, fictionalized the elite world Lady Shōnagon so eloquently relates.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exquisite. Truly!
- De Erick DuPree en 01-10-23
De: Sei Shōnagon
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Silk
- A World History
- De: Aarathi Prasad
- Narrado por: Hannah Curtis
- Duración: 11 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 9
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 9
Throughout history, across cultures and countries, silk has reigned as the undeniable queen of fabrics, yet its origins and evolution remain a mystery. In a gorgeous and sweeping narrative, Silk weaves together its intricate story and the indelible mark it has left on humanity.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- De Amazon Customer en 12-30-24
De: Aarathi Prasad
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Women's Work
- The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
- De: Elizabeth Wayland Barber
- Narrado por: Donna Postel
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 213
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 181
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 180
Twenty thousand years ago, women were making and wearing the first clothing created from spun fibers. In fact, right up to the Industrial Revolution the fiber arts were an enormous economic force, belonging primarily to women. Despite the great toil required in making cloth and clothing, most books on ancient history and economics have no information on them. Much of this gap results from the extreme perishability of what women produced, but it seems clear that until now descriptions of prehistoric and early historic cultures have omitted virtually half the picture.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Respectful treatment of the archeological record.
- De fiberflair en 02-23-21
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Embroidering Her Truth
- Mary, Queen of Scots and the Language of Power
- De: Clare Hunter
- Narrado por: Siobhan Redmond
- Duración: 14 h y 9 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 13
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 12
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 12
At her execution Mary, Queen of Scots wore red. Widely known as the colour of strength and passion, it was in fact worn by Mary as the Catholic symbol of martyrdom. In 16th-century Europe, women's voices were suppressed and silenced. Even for a queen like Mary, her prime duty was to bear sons. In an age when textiles expressed power, Mary exploited them to emphasise her female agency.
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3 out of 5 stars
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It's a fashion history book much more then Mary's.
- De Alexandra Tatinashvili en 04-03-22
De: Clare Hunter
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Dog Smart
- Life-Changing Lessons in Canine Intelligence
- De: Jennifer S. Holland
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 9 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 24
This delightful narrative takes listeners on a powerful search to unlock the secrets of dog cognition, based on evidence from trainers, owners, behaviorists, and the animals themselves. With in-depth reporting and more than a few personal adventures, best-selling author Jennifer S. Holland digs into what intelligence really means.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Understand your dog better
- De Rick en 06-24-24
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Witches, Midwives & Nurses, 2nd Ed
- A History of Women Healers
- De: Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English
- Narrado por: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
- Duración: 1 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 10
Witches, Midwives, and Nurses examines how women-led healing was delegitimized to make way for patriarchy, capitalism, and the emerging medical industry.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Informative of the lineage of Midwives
- De Heidi en 07-26-24
De: Barbara Ehrenreich, y otros
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The Lady in the Tower
- The Fall of Anne Boleyn
- De: Alison Weir
- Narrado por: Judith Boyd
- Duración: 16 h y 52 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 15
The imprisonment and execution of Queen Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife, in 1536 was unprecedented in English history and never before has there been a book devoted entirely to her fall. But here Alison Weir has reassessed the evidence and created a richly researched and detailed portrait of the last days of one of the most influential and important figures in English history.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great book, bad narration.
- De Nancy V en 01-03-25
De: Alison Weir
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- 09-12-23
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This book was phenomenal! I loved everything about it and will definitely be listening to it again!
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- 01-09-24
Fascinating History
A very interesting diary, about women thru fabric and fashion. Enjoyed and would recommend it takes us away from our daily life and the life of another era of women’s lives.
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-13-23
Interesting and well-written!
Anyone that works with fabric, or has an interest in fabric, should read this book.
I loved how the personal life of the woman was intertwined with bits of history.
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