Americas Urban History

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    • Transience and San Francisco's Urban History, 1848–1917
    • Auteur(s): James Mallery
    • Narrateur(s): Chaz Allen
    • Durée: 10 h et 2 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-10-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • San Francisco’s reputation for accommodating progressive and unconventional identities can find its roots in the waves of transients and migrants that flocked to San Francisco between the gold rush and World War I.

    Prix courant: 31,27$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America
    • Auteur(s): Kali Nicole Gross
    • Narrateur(s): Janina Edwards
    • Durée: 5 h et 20 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-11-17
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Shortly after a dismembered torso was discovered by a pond outside Philadelphia in 1887, investigators homed in on two suspects: Hannah Mary Tabbs, a married, working-class Black woman, and George Wilson, a former neighbor whom Tabbs implicated after her arrest....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A History
    • Auteur(s): David G. McComb
    • Narrateur(s): R.T. McKnight
    • Durée: 9 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-12-02
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • The rise of Texas cities is a fascinating story that has not been previously told....

    Prix courant: 26,82$ ou 1 crédit

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    • An Olfactory History of 19th-Century Urban America (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
    • Auteur(s): Melanie A. Kiechle
    • Narrateur(s): Dana Brewer Harris
    • Durée: 10 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-11-22
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • What did 19th-century cities smell like? And how did odors matter in the formation of a modern environmental consciousness? Smell Detectives follows the 19th-century Americans who used their noses to make sense of the sanitary challenges caused by rapid urban and industrial growth....

    Prix courant: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • People, Planning, Preservation, and Urban Renewal, 1915-2020 (Urban Life, Landscape and Policy)
    • Auteur(s): Dennis E. Gale
    • Narrateur(s): Kevin Moriarty
    • Durée: 10 h et 18 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-02-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The origins of gentrification date back to World War I - only it was sometimes known as “remodeling” then. Dennis Gale’s insightful book The Misunderstood History of Gentrification provides a recontextualization of American gentrification, planning, and policymaking....

    Prix courant: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Making and Meaning of the New York City Landscape
    • Auteur(s): David M. Scobey
    • Narrateur(s): Jim Feldman
    • Durée: 11 h et 40 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-09-10
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Empire City tells the story of the dreams that inspired the changes in the landscape and the problems that eluded solution....

    Prix courant: 33,01$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The History of America’s Most Persistent Urban Tales About Strange Birds, Serpents and Wolfmen
    • Auteur(s): Charles River Editors
    • Narrateur(s): KC Wayman
    • Durée: 1 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-10-06
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • People have always been fascinated with the hidden, the mysterious, and the unexplained. Every society has its tall tales and ghost stories, its odd legends, and heroes....

    Prix courant: 7,11$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Urban Power, Earthly Ruin (California Studies in Critical Human Geography, Book 3)
    • Auteur(s): Gray Brechin
    • Narrateur(s): Gray Brechin
    • Série: California Studies in Critical Human Geography, Livre 3
    • Durée: 13 h et 41 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-11-06
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Imperial San Francisco is the epic saga of how all great cities parasitize their hinterlands for the sake of those elites who own and run them by using the mass media at their command to shape the thought of those who unwittingly serve their interests....

    Prix courant: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the Present
    • Auteur(s): Alex Krieger
    • Narrateur(s): Mike Chamberlain
    • Durée: 12 h et 3 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-03-31
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Krieger's compelling narrative reminds us, as we formulate new ideals today, that we chase our visions surrounded by the glories and failures of dreams gone by....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Urban Development in America's Borderlands, 1600-1830
    • Auteur(s): Joseph P. Alessi
    • Narrateur(s): Ellery Truesdell
    • Durée: 11 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-09-16
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In 1811, while escorting members of John Jacob Astor’s Pacific Fur Company up the Columbia River, their Chinookan guide refused to advance beyond a particular point that marked a boundary between his people and another indigenous group....

    Prix courant: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Journey to the Mecca of Black America
    • Auteur(s): Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
    • Narrateur(s): Karen Chilton
    • Durée: 8 h et 46 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-11-29
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • As gentrification encroaches on historic Harlem, Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award recipient Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts untangles the myth and meaning of its storied legacy.....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • 250 Years of Imperial Quest and Urban Crisis
    • Auteur(s): Henry W Berger
    • Narrateur(s): Nate Daniels
    • Durée: 10 h et 50 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-06-01
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • St. Louis, despite its status as an inland river city, has stood at the crossroads of international matters for much of its history....

    Prix courant: 33,01$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Race, Class, Immigration, and the Construction of Urban Reputations
    • Auteur(s): Pepper Glass
    • Narrateur(s): John Ford-Dunker
    • Durée: 7 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-01-17
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • How do we draw the lines between "good" and "bad" neighborhoods? How do we know “ghettos”? This book questions the widely held assumption that divisions between urban areas are reflections of varying amounts of crime, deprivation, and other social, cultural, and economic problems....

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): R. J. King
    • Narrateur(s): R. J. King
    • Durée: 6 h et 33 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-02-04
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • This is the story of how a crude French settlement along the Detroit River in 1701 became the birthplace of the automotive industry in 1900....

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America
    • Auteur(s): Carl Abbott
    • Narrateur(s): Rhett Samuel Price
    • Durée: 13 h et 59 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-01-16
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Cities rather than individual pioneers have been the driving force in the settlement and economic development of the western half of North America....

    Prix courant: 33,01$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • Auteur(s): Eric Avila
    • Narrateur(s): Tanya Eby
    • Durée: 4 h et 16 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-08-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 14,47$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Brief History of New York City in 40 Animals
    • Auteur(s): Thomas Hynes
    • Narrateur(s): Daniel Henning
    • Durée: 5 h et 2 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-05-26
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Wild City is a paean to New York City and its complex, and often surprising, relationship to its non-human residents, large and small....

    Prix courant: 20,97$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The History New York City’s Most Famous Streets
    • Auteur(s): Charles River Editors
    • Narrateur(s): Scott Clem
    • Durée: 2 h et 49 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-09-25
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Of all the great cities in the world, few personify their country like New York City. As America’s largest city and best known immigration gateway into the country, NYC represents the beauty, diversity, and sheer strength of the United States....

    Prix courant: 8,71$ ou 1 crédit

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