Modern American History

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    • The Creation of the Modern American State
    • Auteur(s): William J. Novak
    • Narrateur(s): A.W. Miller
    • Durée: 12 h et 24 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-09-06
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In the period between the Civil War and the New Deal, American governance was transformed. William J. Novak shows how Americans translated new conceptions of citizenship, social welfare, and economic democracy into demands for law and policy that delivered services and vindicated rights....

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    • Citizen-Soldiers and the American Way of War, 1919-1939
    • Auteur(s): William J. Woolley
    • Narrateur(s): Todd McLaren
    • Durée: 14 h et 4 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-06-28
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • The modern US Army was largely created in the years between the two world wars. Prior to World War I, officers in leadership positions were increasingly convinced that building a new army could not take place as a series of random developments but had to be guided by military policy....

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    • The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership
    • Auteur(s): Brea Baker
    • Narrateur(s): Brea Baker
    • Durée: 8 h et 21 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-06-18
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Why is less than 1% of rural land in the U.S. owned by Black people? An acclaimed writer and activist explores the impact of land theft and violent displacement on racial wealth gaps, arguing that justice stems from the literal roots of the earth....

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    • The Camps and Coerced Labor During World War II (Politics and Culture in Modern America)
    • Auteur(s): Stephanie D. Hinnershitz
    • Narrateur(s): Susanna Jiang
    • Durée: 13 h et 33 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-09-11
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Between 1942 and 1945, the U.S. government wrongfully imprisoned thousands of Japanese American citizens and profited from their labor. Japanese American Incarceration recasts the forced removal and incarceration of approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II....

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    • Collected from the Bible and Ancient and Modern History, Containing the Universal History of the Colored and the Indian Race, from the Creation of the World to the Present Time
    • Auteur(s): R.B. Lewis
    • Narrateur(s): Rodney Louis Tompkins
    • Durée: 20 h et 41 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-11-04
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Robert Benjamin Lewis (1802 - 1858) was an African American and Native American author, inventor, and entrepreneur. In the ethnological work Light and Truth, Lewis claims that Adam and Eve were people of color, as were the Egyptians and many great figures....

    Prix courant: 48,24$ 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
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    • Transcending Capitalism explains why many mid-century American social theorists came to believe it was no longer meaningful to describe Western society as "capitalist"....

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    • Modern Historians Revisit and Reconsider the Civil War from Lincoln's Election to the Emancipation Proclamation
    • Auteur(s): Ted Widmer - editor
    • Narrateur(s): Jennifer Van Dyck, Mark Boyett, Kevin Pariseau
    • Durée: 19 h et 2 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-07-01
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • A major new collection of modern commentary - from scholars, historians, and Civil War buffs - on the significant events of the Civil War....

    Prix courant: 50,06$ ou 1 crédit

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    • World War II and the Rise of the Modern American Brand
    • Auteur(s): Barry Silverstein
    • Narrateur(s): Barry Silverstein
    • Durée: 4 h et 56 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-09-13
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • World War II had a profound impact on American brands. In addition to brands directly aligning their products with the war effort, some brands used the war as a clever way to engender positive perceptions by distributing products to American forces....

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    • Andrew Marshall and the Shaping of Modern American Defense Strategy
    • Auteur(s): Andrew Krepinevich, Barry Watts
    • Narrateur(s): Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Durée: 11 h et 56 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-01-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • The Last Warrior tells Andrew Marshall's story for the first time, in the process providing an unparalleled history of the evolution of the American defense establishment.....

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    • A Story of Women, Mysticism, and the Making of Modern America
    • Auteur(s): Lucile Scott, Joey Soloway - introduction
    • Narrateur(s): Nicol Zanzarella
    • Durée: 9 h et 5 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-10-06
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • A history of mystic resistance and liberation and of five women who transcended the expected to transform America....

    Prix courant: 26,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-1945 [Modern Library Chronicles]
    • Auteur(s): Paul Fussell
    • Narrateur(s): Joel Leffert
    • Durée: 4 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2005-08-01
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • From the acclaimed Modern Library Chronicles comes an exploration of a promising theory that when put to practice wreaked havoc on the world....

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    • Jim Crow New Orleans and the Roots of Modern Police Brutality
    • Auteur(s): Jeffrey S. Adler
    • Narrateur(s): Arnell Powell
    • Durée: 7 h et 42 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-04-23
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In Bluecoated Terror, Jeffrey S. Adler draws on rich archival accounts to show how racialized police brutality is part of a larger system of state oppression with roots in the early twentieth-century South, particularly New Orleans.

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    • West Point Engineers and the Rise of Modern New York, 1817-1898
    • Auteur(s): Jon Scott Logel
    • Narrateur(s): Mark Kamish
    • Durée: 8 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-08-14
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Between 1817 and 1898, New York City evolved from a vital Atlantic port of trade to the center of American commerce and culture....

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    • Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and the Election of 1828
    • Auteur(s): Lynn Hudson Parson
    • Narrateur(s): Milton Bagby
    • Durée: 10 h et 9 min
    • Date de publication: 2009-12-21
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • The 1828 presidential election, which pitted Major General Andrew Jackson against incumbent John Quincy Adams, has long been hailed as a watershed moment in American political history....

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    • The AFL, Black Players, and the Evolution of Modern Football
    • Auteur(s): Charles Ross
    • Narrateur(s): Jim Woods
    • Durée: 6 h et 12 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-10-07
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In Mavericks, Money and Men, football historian Charles Ross chronicles the AFL's key events, including Buck Buchanan becoming the first overall draft pick in 1963....

    Prix courant: 26,82$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Television Manipulated College Football, from the Birth of the Modern NCAA to the Creation of the BCS
    • Auteur(s): Keith Dunnavant
    • Narrateur(s): Jay Snyder
    • Durée: 9 h et 23 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-09-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • For more than a half century, television has played a primary role in securing college football's place as one of America's most popular spectator sports....

    Prix courant: 33,01$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The New York Riots of 1964 and the War on Crime (Politics and Culture in Modern America)
    • Auteur(s): Michael W. Flamm
    • Narrateur(s): Marlin May
    • Durée: 14 h et 10 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-02-22
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • On the morning of July 16, 1964, a white police officer in New York City shot and killed a black teenager, James Powell. Two nights later, a peaceful demonstration in Harlem degenerated into violent protests....

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    • A Brief History
    • Auteur(s): Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
    • Narrateur(s): Karen White
    • Durée: 7 h et 38 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-04-01
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Long before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by European explorers with centuries of belief and thought in tow....

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    • How a Mormon, a Socialist, and an African American Elected by the People Were Excluded from Office
    • Auteur(s): Robert M. Lichtman
    • Narrateur(s): Joe Barrett
    • Durée: 11 h et 5 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-01-11
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In Barred by Congress: How a Mormon, a Socialist, and an African American Elected by the People Were Excluded from Office, Robert M. Lichtman provides a definitive history of congressional exclusion and expulsion cases....

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