American Economic History

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    • A New Generation Confronts the Broken Promise to Black America
    • Auteur(s): Reniqua Allen
    • Narrateur(s): Shayna Small
    • Durée: 12 h et 17 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-01-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Young Black Americans have been trying to realize the promise of the American Dream for centuries and coping with the reality of its limitations for just as long. Now, a new generation is pursuing success, happiness, and freedom - on their own terms....

    Prix courant: 32,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Rich
    • Auteur(s): Jacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson
    • Narrateur(s): Holter Graham
    • Durée: 17 h et 23 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-03-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Like every other prospering democracy, the United States developed a mixed economy that channeled the spirit of capitalism into strong growth and healthy social development....

    Prix courant: 29,13$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Dreamers, Mavericks, and the Making of an Oil Frontier
    • Auteur(s): Maya Rao
    • Narrateur(s): Ellen Archer
    • Durée: 11 h et 6 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-05-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • A lyrical work of narrative nonfiction that portrays how the largest domestic oil discovery in half a century transformed a corner of the American West into a crucible of breakneck capitalism. Maya Rao set out to join a wave of drifters, dreamers, entrepreneurs, and criminals....

    Prix courant: 28,27$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Visual History of the Impact of Racism in America
    • Auteur(s): Living Cities, Aminah Pilgrim
    • Narrateur(s): Chanté McCormick
    • Durée: 6 h et 38 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-01-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Discover how - and why - Black, Indigenous, and people of color in America experience societal, economic, and infrastructural inequality throughout history covering everything from Columbus’ arrival in 1492 to the War on Drugs to the Black Lives Matter movement....

    Prix courant: 17,47$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South
    • Auteur(s): Keri Leigh Merritt
    • Narrateur(s): Keri Leigh Merritt
    • Durée: 17 h et 32 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-04-12
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • With the rising global demand for cotton - and thus, slaves - in the 1840s and 1850s, the need for white laborers in the American South was drastically reduced, creating a large underclass who were unemployed or underemployed....

    Prix courant: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town
    • Auteur(s): Ellen Griffith Spears
    • Narrateur(s): Bernadette Dunne
    • Durée: 14 h et 21 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-04-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In the mid-1990s, residents of Anniston, Alabama, began a legal fight against the agrochemical company Monsanto over the dumping of PCBs in the city's historically African American and white working-class west side....

    Prix courant: 25,20$ ou 1 crédit

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    • From the Collapse of Communism to the Rise of Radical Islam
    • Auteur(s): William J. Bennett
    • Narrateur(s): Jon Gauger
    • Série: America: The Last Best Hope, Livre 3
    • Durée: 10 h et 57 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-07-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • America began to breathe easy at the close of the Cold War and loosened its grip on the fear of nuclear confrontation for the first time since World War Two. Peace was palpable, but in retrospect the years between 1988 and 2008 were as rocky as they were uncertain....

    Prix courant: 32,62$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Money, Power, and the Pursuit of Self-Interest Have Imperiled the American Dream
    • Auteur(s): John Ehrenreich
    • Narrateur(s): James Romick
    • Durée: 8 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-07-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Just as the industrial capitalism of the 19th century gave way to corporate capitalism in the 20th, recent decades have witnessed corporate capitalism evolving....

    Prix courant: 26,40$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How President Lincoln Constructed the Great American Economy
    • Auteur(s): John F. Wasik
    • Narrateur(s): Bob Souer
    • Durée: 8 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-04-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Lincolnomics revives the disremembered history of how Lincoln paved the way for Eisenhower's interstate highways and FDR's social amenities....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Unauthorized Report About What Really Caused the Great Recession
    • Auteur(s): Paul Sperry
    • Narrateur(s): Milton Bagby
    • Durée: 8 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-10-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The Great American Bank Robbery maps out in detail exactly how Washington social engineers and their accomplices reshaped banking regulations and housing policies and gutted time-tested underwriting standards that led to the worst financial calamity since the 1930s....

    Prix courant: 29,13$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years' War over the American Dollar
    • Auteur(s): H. W. Brands
    • Narrateur(s): Lloyd James
    • Durée: 5 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2006-10-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • A best-selling historian's gripping account of the powerful men who controlled America's financial destiny. From the first days of the United States, a battle raged over money....

    Prix courant: 17,81$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Chronicles of American Money
    • Auteur(s): Lance Morrow
    • Narrateur(s): Tom Parks
    • Durée: 6 h et 23 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-10-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • This book is about the partnership of God and Mammon in the New World - about how Americans have made money and lost money, and about how they have thought about that obsessive and peculiarly American subject. Money is the basic American thing, the life's blood of the country....

    Prix courant: 17,81$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Great American Secret: How Private Wealth Is Changing the World
    • Auteur(s): Joel Fleishman
    • Narrateur(s): Brett Barry
    • Durée: 12 h et 13 min
    • Date de publication: 2009-09-19
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Private foundations have been the dynamo of social change since their invention at the beginning of the last century....

    Prix courant: 37,53$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Our Founding Father's Private Business Pursuits Changed America and the World
    • Auteur(s): John Berlau
    • Narrateur(s): Corey Gagne
    • Durée: 4 h et 46 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-06-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • George Washington: general, statesman...businessman? Most people don't know that Washington was the country's first true entrepreneur, responsible for innovations in several industries....

    Prix courant: 10,67$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice
    • Auteur(s): Michael K. Honey
    • Narrateur(s): JD Jackson
    • Durée: 7 h et 38 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-07-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Drawing on a new generation of scholarship about the civil rights era, To the Promised Land goes beyond the iconic view of King as an advocate of racial harmony to explore his profound commitment to the poor and working class....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Boob Jobs, Credit Cards and Our Quest for Perfection
    • Auteur(s): Laurie Essig
    • Narrateur(s): Natalie Gold
    • Durée: 7 h et 31 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-12-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The riveting story of how cosmetic surgery and plastic money melted together to create a subprime mortgage crisis of the body....

    Prix courant: 26,82$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Search for the American Character
    • Auteur(s): Jack Hitt
    • Narrateur(s): Peter Colburn
    • Durée: 10 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-05-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • America’s self-invented tinkerers are back at it in their metaphorical garages - fiddling with everything from solar-powered cars to space elevators.

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Visions of a New Society in Modern American Thought
    • Auteur(s): Howard Brick
    • Narrateur(s): Randal Schaffer
    • Durée: 14 h et 23 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-06-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Transcending Capitalism explains why many mid-century American social theorists came to believe it was no longer meaningful to describe Western society as "capitalist"....

    Prix courant: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Ferdinand Pecora's Investigation of the Great Crash Forever Changed American Finance
    • Auteur(s): Michael Perino
    • Narrateur(s): George K. Wilson
    • Durée: 14 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-10-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In The Hellhound of Wall Street, Michael Perino recounts in riveting detail the 1933 hearings that put Wall Street on trial for the Great Crash....

    Prix courant: 24,49$ ou 1 crédit

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