Local History

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    • Auteur(s): Catherine Holder Spude
    • Narrateur(s): Laura Schreiber
    • Durée: 10 h et 49 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-10-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Prostitution, gambling, and saloons were a vital, if not universally welcome, part of life in frontier boomtowns. In Saloons, Prostitutes, and Temperance in Alaska Territory, Catherine Holder Spude explores the rise and fall of these enterprises in Skagway, Alaska....

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    • On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City
    • Auteur(s): Robin Nagle
    • Narrateur(s): Robin Nagle
    • Durée: 7 h et 29 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-05-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Nagle chronicles New York City's 400-year struggle with trash and traces the city's waste-management efforts from a time when filth overwhelmed the streets to the far more rigorous practices of today, when the Big Apple is as clean as it's ever been.

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A History of Politics and Race in Texas (The Texas Bookshelf)
    • Auteur(s): Bill Minutaglio
    • Narrateur(s): John Guccion
    • Série: The Texas Bookshelf, Livre 3
    • Durée: 15 h et 2 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-01-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • For John Nance “Cactus Jack” Garner, there was one simple rule in politics: “You’ve got to bloody your knuckles.” It’s a maxim that applies in so many ways to the state of Texas, where the struggle for power has often unfolded through underhanded politicking....

    Prix courant: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Fire in the Boundary Waters
    • Auteur(s): Cary J. Griffith
    • Narrateur(s): Jonathan Yen
    • Durée: 10 h et 44 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-05-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Cary J. Griffith tells the story of the Ham Lake fire, at the time the most destructive wildfire in modern Minnesota history—the blaze, the firefighters' battle, the human toll

    Prix courant: 26,30$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Race, Water, and the Coming Storm
    • Auteur(s): Susan Crawford, Annette Gordon-Reed - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): Carrie Coello
    • Durée: 10 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-04-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • At least thirteen million Americans will have to move away from American coasts in the coming decades, as rising sea levels and increasingly severe storms put lives at risk and cause billions of dollars in damages.

    Prix courant: 26,30$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Ronald Reagan, the White South, and the Transformation of the Republican Party
    • Auteur(s): Jonathan Bartho
    • Narrateur(s): Frank Block
    • Durée: 10 h et 53 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-04-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Jonathan Bartho's Whistling Dixie explores the interdependent political relationship between Ronald Reagan and the white conservative South-a relationship that had a profound impact on Reagan's own career and the political landscape of the South and the entire United States.

    Prix courant: 21,92$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Mississippi River in North American History
    • Auteur(s): Paul Schneider
    • Narrateur(s): Alan Sklar
    • Durée: 13 h et 37 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-10-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In Old Man River, Paul Schneider tells the story of the river at the center of America's rich history - the Mississippi....

    Prix courant: 23,38$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Murder, Vengeance, and the Desolation of a Texas Community
    • Auteur(s): Monte Akers
    • Narrateur(s): Todd Waites
    • Durée: 9 h et 57 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-09-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • What happened in Kirven, Texas, in May 1922, has been forgotten by the outside world. It was a coworker's whispered words, "Kirven is where they burned the [Negroes]"....

    Prix courant: 26,82$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Tragic Story of Dawson, New Mexico, and Its Twin Mining Disasters
    • Auteur(s): Nick Pappas, Richard Melzer - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): Paul Brion
    • Durée: 7 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-11-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Veteran journalist Nick Pappas tells the tragic story of what was once New Mexico's largest and most modern company town and of how the strong, determined residents of the community coped with two heartbreaking catastrophes....

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    • The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths 1784-1790
    • Auteur(s): Theodore Roosevelt
    • Narrateur(s): Joseph Tabler
    • Série: The Winning of the West, Livre 3
    • Durée: 8 h et 49 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-12-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • We all know of Theodore Roosevelt being the US president from 1901 to 1909, an American politician, statesman, soldier, conservationist, and naturalist. But few know of him being an acclaimed historian....

    Prix courant: 20,20$ ou 1 crédit

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    • An American History
    • Auteur(s): Kristin L. Hoganson
    • Narrateur(s): Gabra Zackman
    • Durée: 9 h et 51 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-04-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • When Kristin L. Hoganson arrived in Champaign, Illinois, after teaching at Harvard, studying at Yale, and living in the DC metro area with various stints overseas, she expected to find her new home, well, isolated. Even provincial....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Offbeat Oregon History, Volume 1
    • Auteur(s): Finn J.D. John
    • Narrateur(s): Finn J.D. John
    • Série: Offbeat Oregon History, Livre 1
    • Durée: 9 h et 59 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-04-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Heroes and rascals...shipwrecks and lost gold... Since 2008, the Offbeat Oregon History syndicated newspaper column has entertained and informed Oregonians with the weirdest, quirkiest, funniest, and most outrageous true stories in the surprisingly long history of their young state....

    Prix courant: 20,19$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Francis Parkman
    • Narrateur(s): Tom North
    • Durée: 11 h et 40 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-06-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Francis Parkman was a noted 19th Century American historian who wrote widely about the American West.

    Prix courant: 3,50$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Cattleman, the Wind Prospector, and a War Out West
    • Auteur(s): Amy Gamerman
    • Narrateur(s): Anna Sale
    • Durée: 17 h
    • Date de publication: 2025-01-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • A dazzling piece of narrative nonfiction about land lust and the American West, The Crazies tells the story of a wind farm that triggers a 21st century range war between a struggling fifth-generation rancher and the billionaires next door.

    Prix courant: 28,94$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Environment and the Making of San Francisco
    • Auteur(s): Philip J. Dreyfus
    • Narrateur(s): Marcus Freeman
    • Durée: 8 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-04-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Few cities are so dramatically identified with their environment as San Francisco—the landscape of hills, the expansive bay, the engulfing fog, and even the deadly fault line shifting below.

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Legacy of the Lower Mississippi Valley
    • Auteur(s): Heath Hood
    • Narrateur(s): David MacClain
    • Durée: 28 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-10-22
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Delve into the rich history and culture of the Tunican-speaking peoples who once thrived in the Mississippi River Valley.

    Prix courant: 4,95$ ou 1 crédit

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    • What America Can Learn from the Strange Genius of Texas
    • Auteur(s): Erica Grieder
    • Narrateur(s): Bernadette Dunne
    • Durée: 8 h et 9 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-04-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right, Grieder traces the political history of a state that was always larger than life....

    Prix courant: 20,15$ 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
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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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