Americas Urban History

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    • How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
    • Auteur(s): Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
    • Narrateur(s): Janina Edwards
    • Durée: 12 h et 29 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-03-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Narrating the story of a sea-change in housing policy and its dire impact on African Americans, Race for Profit reveals how the urban core was transformed into a new frontier of cynical extraction....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
    • Auteur(s): Erik Larson
    • Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
    • Durée: 14 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2002-12-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 257 évaluations
    • The true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death....

    Prix courant: 29,14$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Good Neighbourhoods, Crazy Politics and the Invention of Toronto
    • Auteur(s): Edward Keenan
    • Narrateur(s): Adam Paul
    • Durée: 6 h et 2 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-10-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Since 2010, Toronto's headlines have been consumed by the outrageous personal foibles and government-slashing, anti-urbanist policies of Mayor Rob Ford....

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
    • Auteur(s): Khalil Gibran Muhammad
    • Narrateur(s): Mirron Willis
    • Durée: 12 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-08-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Lynch mobs, chain gangs, and popular views of black Southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow South are well known. We know less about the role of the urban North in shaping views of race....

    Prix courant: 20,04$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Strange History of New York's Oldest Street
    • Auteur(s): Stephen Paul DeVillo
    • Narrateur(s): Daniel Henning
    • Durée: 10 h et 20 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-06-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • It was the street your mother warned you about - even if you lived in San Francisco. Long associated with skid row, saloons, freak shows, violence, and vice, the Bowery often showed the worst New York City had to offer. Yet there were times when it showed its best as well....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles
    • Auteur(s): Gary Krist
    • Narrateur(s): Rob Shapiro
    • Durée: 11 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-05-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Little more than a century ago, the southern coast of California - bone-dry, harbor-less, isolated by deserts and mountain ranges - seemed destined to remain scrappy farmland. Then, as if overnight, one of the world’s iconic cities emerged....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
    • Auteur(s): Donovan X. Ramsey
    • Narrateur(s): Donovan X. Ramsey
    • Durée: 11 h et 33 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-07-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • The crack epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s is arguably the least examined crisis in American history....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
    • Auteur(s): Saidiya Hartman
    • Narrateur(s): Allyson Johnson
    • Durée: 10 h et 5 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-04-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 évaluations
    • Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the 20th century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes....

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    • Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation
    • Auteur(s): Thomas Dyja
    • Narrateur(s): Jacques Roy, Thomas Dyja - introduction
    • Durée: 17 h et 23 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-03-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • A lively, immersive history by an award-winning urbanist of New York City’s transformation, and the lessons it offers for the city’s future....

    Prix courant: 29,13$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America's Bohemian Music Capital
    • Auteur(s): David Browne
    • Narrateur(s): Sean Runnette
    • Durée: 15 h et 9 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-09-17
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • The definitive history of the rise and heyday of the revolutionary Greenwich Village music scene, based on new research and first-hand interviews with many of its legendary performers.

    Prix courant: 32,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The 300-Year Quest to Dewater the Crescent City
    • Auteur(s): Richard Campanella
    • Narrateur(s): Chris Abernathy
    • Durée: 13 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-01-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In Draining New Orleans, renowned geographer Richard Campanella recounts the epic challenges and ingenious efforts to dewater the Crescent City....

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    • Fast Times, Wild Rides, and the Untold Story of America's Most Dangerous Amusement Park
    • Auteur(s): Andy Mulvihill, Jake Rossen
    • Narrateur(s): Michael Satow
    • Durée: 9 h et 41 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-06-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • The outlandish, hilarious, terrifying, and almost impossible-to-believe story of the legendary, dangerous amusement park where millions were entertained and almost as many bruises were sustained, told through the eyes of the founder's son....

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    • A History of a New Religion
    • Auteur(s): Hugh B. Urban
    • Narrateur(s): Contessa Brewer
    • Durée: 9 h et 52 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-05-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Scientology is one of the wealthiest and most powerful new religions to emerge in the past century....

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    • An American Autopsy
    • Auteur(s): Charlie LeDuff
    • Narrateur(s): Eric Martin
    • Durée: 7 h et 21 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-05-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 évaluations
    • In the heart of America, a metropolis is quietly destroying itself. Detroit, once the richest city in the nation, is now its poorest....

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    • The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, its Chaotic Founding... its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis
    • Auteur(s): Sam Anderson
    • Narrateur(s): Sam Anderson
    • Durée: 14 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-08-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 évaluations
    • Oklahoma City was born from chaos. It was founded in a bizarre but momentous "Land Run" in 1889, when thousands of people lined up along the borders of Oklahoma Territory and rushed in at noon to stake their claims. Since then, it has been a city torn...

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    • Coming to Terms with Los Angeles
    • Auteur(s): David Ulin
    • Narrateur(s): LJ Ganser
    • Durée: 4 h et 56 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-04-01
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • David L. Ulin offers a compelling inquiry into the evolving landscape of Los Angeles. Part personal narrative, part investigation of the city as both idea and environment, Sidewalking is many things....

    Prix courant: 19,77$ ou 1 crédit

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    • 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City
    • Auteur(s): Jonathan Mahler
    • Narrateur(s): Kyle Tait
    • Durée: 11 h et 56 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-03-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • A passionate and dramatic account of a year in the life of a city, when baseball and crime reigned supreme, and when several remarkable figures emerged to steer New York clear of one of its most harrowing periods....

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