Government History

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    • 9th Edition
    • Auteur(s): Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, Mark D. Steinberg
    • Narrateur(s): Rich Miller
    • Durée: 33 h et 16 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-09-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Now extensively revised in this ninth edition, A History of Russia covers the entire span of the country's history, from ancient times to the post-communist present.

    Prix courant: 39,47 $

    • What the Seasons of History Tell Us About How and When This Crisis Will End
    • Auteur(s): Neil Howe
    • Narrateur(s): Neil Howe
    • Durée: 20 h et 29 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-07-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 évaluations
    • Twenty-five years ago, Neil Howe and the late William Strauss dazzled the world with a provocative new theory of American history. Looking back at the last 500 years, they’d uncovered a distinct pattern: modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting roughly 80 to 100 years....

    Prix courant: 35,86 $

    • Polk, Clay, Lincoln and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico
    • Auteur(s): Amy S. Greenberg
    • Narrateur(s): Caroline Shaffer
    • Durée: 12 h et 46 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-11-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • > A Wicked War presents the definitive history of the 1846 war between the United States and Mexico - a conflict that turned America into a continental power....

    Prix courant: 28,81 $

    • Auteur(s): Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappe
    • Narrateur(s): George Newbern
    • Durée: 5 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-01-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 évaluations
    • Operation Protective Edge, Israel's 2014 assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dead and cleared the way for another Israeli land grab. The need to stand in solidarity with Palestinians has never been greater....

    Prix courant: 17,81 $

    • A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
    • Auteur(s): Daniel J. Boorstin, Douglas Rushkoff - afterword
    • Narrateur(s): Timothy Danko
    • Durée: 10 h et 50 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-09-18
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • First published in 1962, this wonderfully provocative book introduced the notion of "pseudo-events" - events such as press conferences and presidential debates, which are manufactured solely in order to be reported....

    Prix courant: 20,13 $

    • An American Story
    • Auteur(s): Joshua Prager
    • Narrateur(s): Elisabeth Rodgers
    • Durée: 18 h et 41 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-09-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • A masterpiece of reporting on the Supreme Court’s most divisive case, Roe v. Wade, and the unknown lives at its heart....

    Prix courant: 33,40 $

    • A Saga of the Russian Revolution
    • Auteur(s): Yuri Slezkine, Claire Bloom - director
    • Narrateur(s): Stefan Rudnicki
    • Durée: 45 h et 9 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-08-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction....

    Prix courant: 26,27 $

    • An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base
    • Auteur(s): Annie Jacobsen
    • Narrateur(s): Annie Jacobsen
    • Durée: 16 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-05-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 144 évaluations
    • It is the most famous military installation in the world. And it doesn't exist. Located a mere s75 miles outside of Las Vegas in Nevada's desert, the base has never been acknowledged by the US government - but Area 51 has captivated imaginations for decades....

    Prix courant: 39,38 $

    • Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
    • Auteur(s): Robin D. G. Kelley
    • Narrateur(s): David Sadzin
    • Durée: 13 h et 40 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-11-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the Civil Rights movement, Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and '40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial equality....

    Prix courant: 27,83 $

    • 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 $

    • A Tale of Good and Evil
    • Auteur(s): Michael Malice
    • Narrateur(s): Michael Malice
    • Durée: 9 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-02-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 90 évaluations
    • The Bolsheviks promised that they were building a new society, a workers’ paradise that would change the nature of mankind itself. What they ended up constructing was the largest prison the world had ever seen: a Union of Soviet Socialist Republics that spanned half the globe....

    Prix courant: 25,00 $

    • A Cultural and Political History
    • Auteur(s): Thomas Barfield
    • Narrateur(s): Robin Bloodworth
    • Durée: 17 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-09-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from the Mughal Empire in the 16th century to the Taliban resurgence today....

    Prix courant: 40,25 $

    • The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America
    • Auteur(s): Saul Cornell
    • Narrateur(s): Kevin T. Collins
    • Durée: 9 h et 27 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-07-24
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Americans are deeply divided over the Second Amendment. Some passionately assert that the Amendment protects an individual's right to own guns. Others, that it does no more than protect the right of states to maintain militias....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $

    • The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
    • Auteur(s): Sonia Purnell
    • Narrateur(s): Juliet Stevenson
    • Durée: 13 h et 54 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-04-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 91 évaluations
    • A never-before-told story of Virginia Hall, the American spy who changed the course of World War II, from the author of Clementine....

    Prix courant: 26,22 $

    • A Radical History
    • Auteur(s): Johanna Fernández
    • Narrateur(s): Joana Garcia
    • Durée: 23 h et 46 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-02-16
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Johanna Fernandez demonstrates how the Young Lords redefined the character of protest, the color of politics, and the cadence of popular urban culture in the age of great dreams....

    Prix courant: 33,40 $

    • The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
    • Auteur(s): Steven Pinker
    • Narrateur(s): Arthur Morey
    • Durée: 19 h et 49 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-02-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 583 évaluations
    • The follow-up to Pinker's groundbreaking The Better Angels of Our Nature presents the big picture of human progress: People are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives....

    Prix courant: 32,05 $

    • Auteur(s): Francis Fukuyama
    • Narrateur(s): L. J. Ganser
    • Durée: 15 h et 51 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-08-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 évaluations
    • Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. Francis Fukuyama's prescient analysis of religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes, and war is essential....

    Prix courant: 37,53 $

    • Auteur(s): Mattias Desmet
    • Narrateur(s): Dan Crue
    • Durée: 7 h et 53 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-06-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 126 évaluations
    • Totalitarianism is not a coincidence and does not form in a vacuum. It arises from a collective psychosis that has followed a predictable script throughout history. Mattias Desmet deconstructs the societal conditions that allow this collective psychosis to take hold....

    Prix courant: 26,19 $

    • Love, Madness, and Revolution in the Andes
    • Auteur(s): Orin Starn, Miguel La Serna
    • Narrateur(s): Robert Fass
    • Durée: 12 h et 35 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-06-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Described by a US State Department cable as "cold-blooded and bestial", Shining Path orchestrated bombings, assassinations, and massacres across the cities, countryside, and jungles of Peru in a murderous campaign to seize power in the 1980s....

    Prix courant: 27,83 $

    • A Political History
    • Auteur(s): Sarah Milov
    • Narrateur(s): Janet Metzger
    • Durée: 14 h et 31 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-12-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Tobacco is the quintessential American product. From Jamestown to the Marlboro Man, the plant occupied the heart of the nation's economy and expressed its enduring myths. But today smoking rates have declined and smokers are exiled from many public spaces...

    Prix courant: 27,83 $