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    • A Cultural History of Alcohol
    • De: Iain Gately
    • Narrado por: Matthew Lloyd Davies
    • Duración: 21 h y 36 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-14-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 114 calificaciones
    • Drink investigates the history of this Jekyll and Hyde of fluids, tracing mankind's love/hate relationship with alcohol from ancient Egypt to the present day....

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    • A Cultural and Political History
    • De: Thomas Barfield
    • Narrado por: Robin Bloodworth
    • Duración: 17 h y 22 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-21-12
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 237 calificaciones
    • Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from the Mughal Empire in the 16th century to the Taliban resurgence today....

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    • A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century
    • De: W. David Marx
    • Duración: 13 h
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-18-25
    • Idioma: Inglés
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    • A revealing exploration of a quarter century of cultural stagnation, examining the commercial and technological forces that have come to dominate contemporary culture—from music and fashion to art, film, TV, and beyond.

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    • Commemorative Edition
    • De: Nelson Mandela
    • Narrado por: Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, Joe Richman
    • Duración: 1 h y 17 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-05-14
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 115 calificaciones
    • Ultimately, over 50 hours of archival recordings and many more hours of contemporary interviews with the living witnesses to South Africa's turbulent history....

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    • A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
    • De: Yang Jisheng, Stacy Mosher - translator, Guo Jian - translator
    • Narrado por: Nancy Wu
    • Duración: 26 h y 19 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-30-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 calificaciones
    • Following his groundbreaking and award-winning history of the Great Famine, Yang Jisheng presents the only history of the Cultural Revolution by an independent scholar based in mainland China, and makes a crucial contribution to understanding those years' lasting influence today....

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    • A Social and Cultural History
    • De: Aaron W. Marrs
    • Narrado por: Danny Campbell
    • Duración: 10 h y 19 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-25-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
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    • In the first half of the nineteenth century, transportation in the United States underwent an extraordinary transformation. In The American Transportation Revolution, Aaron W. Marrs explores the cultural influence of steamboats and railroads, which fascinated Americans across the country.

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    • A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization
    • De: Iain Gately
    • Narrado por: Christopher Grove
    • Duración: 12 h y 35 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-13-15
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 267 calificaciones
    • Informed and erudite, Tobacco is a vivid and provocative look into the complex history of this precious plant....

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    • Reflexiones críticas para una Nueva Derecha [Critical Reflections for a New Right]
    • De: Agustin Laje
    • Narrado por: Jesús Molina
    • Duración: 22 h y 33 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-01-22
    • Idioma: Español
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 calificaciones
    • En el mundo contemporáneo, la sociedad y la cultura cambian a gran velocidad. La voluntad de dirigir esos cambios está en la base de las batallas culturales que hoy se viven en todas partes....

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    • A Cultural History of the Passport
    • De: Patrick Bixby
    • Narrado por: Tim Fannon
    • Duración: 8 h y 27 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-25-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 calificaciones
    • Discover the surprising global history of how the passport has shaped art, thought, and human experience to define the modern world....

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    • A Cultural History of America's Most Cherished Holiday
    • De: Stephen Nissenbaum
    • Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
    • Duración: 13 h y 17 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-26-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 calificaciones
    • Drawing on a wealth of research, this "fascinating" book (The New York Times Book Review) charts the invention of our current Yuletide traditions, from St. Nicholas to the Christmas tree and, perhaps most radically, the practice of giving gifts to children.

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • De: Eric Avila
    • Narrado por: Tanya Eby
    • Duración: 4 h y 16 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-14-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 calificaciones
    • This Very Short Introduction recounts the history of American culture and its creation by diverse social and ethnic groups. In doing so, it emphasizes the historic role of culture in relation to broader social, political, and economic developments....

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    • A Cultural History of the North Sea and the Transformation of Europe
    • De: Michael Pye
    • Narrado por: Steven Crossley
    • Duración: 15 h y 24 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-12-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 calificaciones
    • An epic adventure ranging from the terror of the Vikings to the golden age of cities: Michael Pye tells the amazing story of how modernity emerged on the shores of the North Sea....

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    • A History of Multicultural America
    • De: Ronald Takaki
    • Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
    • Duración: 18 h y 35 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-28-11
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 282 calificaciones
    • Upon its first publication, A Different Mirror was hailed by critics and academics everywhere as a dramatic new retelling of our nation's past.....

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    • A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning
    • De: Jeremy Lent, Fritjof Capra - foreword
    • Narrado por: Derek Perkins
    • Duración: 19 h y 14 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-19-17
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 248 calificaciones
    • This fresh perspective on crucial questions of history identifies the root metaphors that cultures have used to construct meaning in their world....

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    • A Cultural History
    • De: Joshua Bennett
    • Narrado por: Joshua Bennett
    • Duración: 6 h y 55 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-28-23
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 calificaciones
    • In 2009, when he was twenty years old, Joshua Bennett was invited to perform a spoken word poem for Barack and Michelle Obama, at the same White House "Poetry Jam" where Lin-Manuel Miranda declaimed the opening bars of a work-in-progress that would soon revolutionize American theater....

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    • A Cultural History of Neoliberalism, from the Sixties to the Reagan Revolution
    • De: Daniel Robert McClure
    • Narrado por: Steve Menasche
    • Duración: 20 h y 26 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-08-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
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    • Neoliberalism took shape in the 1930s and 1940s as a transnational political philosophy and system of economic, political, and cultural relations. As neoliberal ideas gained political currency in the 1960s and 1970s, reactionary cultural turn catalyzed their ascension....

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    • A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness
    • De: M. Leona Godin
    • Narrado por: M. Leona Godin
    • Duración: 11 h y 7 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-01-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 24 calificaciones
    • From Homer to Helen Keller, from Dune to Stevie Wonder, from the invention of braille to the science of echolocation, M. Leona Godin explores the fascinating history of blindness, interweaving it with her own story of gradually losing her sight...

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    • A Family at the Heart of a Century in Chinese History
    • De: Lan Yan
    • Narrado por: Angela Lin
    • Duración: 10 h y 54 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-28-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 calificaciones
    • Through the sweeping cultural and historical transformations of China, entrepreneur Lan Yan traces her family’s history through early 20th century to present day....

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    • American Social Policy, 1950 - 1980
    • De: Charles Murray
    • Narrado por: Robert Morris
    • Duración: 9 h y 26 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-27-12
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 316 calificaciones
    • This remarkable book demonstrates how the social programs of the 1960s and ’70s had the unintended effect of slowing and even reversing earlier progress in reducing poverty, crime, and discrimination....

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    • A Cultural History of American Comic Books
    • De: Jean-Paul Gabilliet
    • Narrado por: Scot Wilcox
    • Duración: 17 h y 9 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-15-17
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 calificaciones
    • Originally published in France and long sought in English translation....

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