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Title: The Wall and the Gate
Subtitle: Israel, Palestine, and the Legal Battle for Human Rights
Author: Michael Sfard
Narrator: Jonathan Davis
Format: Unabridged
Length: 21 hrs and 22 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-23-18
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Genres: History, World
Publisher's Summary:
A farmer from a village in the occupied West Bank, cut off from his olive groves by the construction of Israel's controversial separation wall, asked Israeli human rights lawyer Michael Sfard to petition the courts to allow a gate to be built in the wall. While the gate would provide immediate relief for the farmer, would it not also confer legitimacy on the wall and on the court that deems it legal?
The defense of human rights is often marked by such ethical dilemmas, which are especially acute in Israel, where lawyers have for decades sought redress for the abuse of Palestinian rights in the country's High Court - that is, in the court of the abuser.
In The Wall and the Gate, Michael Sfard chronicles this struggle - a story that has never before been fully told - and in the process engages the core principles of human rights legal ethics. Sfard recounts the unfolding of key cases and issues, ranging from confiscation of land, deportations, the creation of settlements, punitive home demolitions, torture, and targeted killings - all actions considered violations of international law. In the process, he lays bare the reality of the occupation and the lives of the people who must contend with that reality. -
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Title: Egypt Reality and Ambitions
Author: Hussein Elasrag
Narrator: Fergus Nicoll
Format: Unabridged
Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-10-18
Publisher: Hussein Elasrag
Genres: History, World
Publisher's Summary:
When people came out in January 2011 for bread, freedom, and social justice, they did not expect some of them to be satisfied with subsidized bread after six years of revolution. This book considers the diverse forms of mass mobilization and contentious politics that emerged during the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 and its aftermath.
In addition to expose the role of the Muslim Brotherhood after the revolution. The book also presents the economic situation in Egypt and the most important challenges facing the Egyptian economy. -
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Title: The City: A Global History
Subtitle: Modern Library Chronicles Series, Book 21
Author: Joel Kotkin
Narrator: Nelson Runger
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-08-17
Publisher: Recorded Books
Genres: History, World
Publisher's Summary:
In this erudite and enjoyable Los Angeles Times best seller, Joel Kotkin explores the history of cities around the globe. He argues that urban areas must be places where there is a shared feeling of sacredness, civic identity, and moral order. These exciting concentrations of ideas and energy have long been and should continue to be meaningful in our daily lives.
Critic Reviews:
"[A]n accessible general introduction to the history of urban life, culture and spaces." (
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Title: Arab and Jew
Subtitle: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land, Revised Edition
Author: David K. Shipler
Narrator: Robert Blumenfeld
Format: Unabridged
Length: 27 hrs and 52 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-22-17
Publisher: Blackstone Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: History, World
Publisher's Summary:
Arab stereotype portrays the Jew as a brutal, violent coward. The Jewish stereotype portrays the Arab as a primitive creature of animal vengeance and cruel desires. In this monumental Pulitzer Prize-winning work, revised in 2002, David Shipler delves into the origins of these prejudices that have been intensified by war, terrorism, and nationalism. Shipler examines the process of indoctrination that begins in schools, the far-ranging effects of socioeconomic differences, and the historical conflicts between Islam and Judaism. And he writes of the people: the Arab woman in love with a Jew; the retired Israeli military officer; the Palestinian guerrilla; the handsome actor whose father is Arab and mother is Jewish. Their stories reflect not only the reality of wounded spirits, but also a glimmer of hope for eventual coexistence in the Promised Land.
Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. A 1986 New York Times Best Book. -
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Title: History of Communism
Author: IntroBooks
Narrator: Andrea Giordani
Format: Unabridged
Length: 42 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-14-17
Publisher: IntroBooks
Genres: History, Political
Publisher's Summary:
Philosopher and economist Karl Marx was known for his theory of Marxism on which the modern form of communism is based. Communism can be defined as the thought of economic equality where the concept of private property doesnt exist. The vision of communism was built by Marx on the technological and human possibilities that were available and visible at his time while also considering the fact that it would be adopted by the new socialist society. -
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Title: History of Philosophy: Overview of Eastern Philosophy, Western Philosophy, and the Most Important Thinkers through the Ages
Author: Michael J Stewart
Narrator: Sam Bubis
Format: Unabridged
Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-13-17
Publisher: Michael J Stewart
Genres: History, World
Publisher's Summary:
What do Aristotle, Buddha, Seneca, Nietzsche, Kabbalah, and Plato, have in common?
They worked tirelessly toward understanding and enlightenment.
Walk the path of the great thinkers of the past with History of Philosophy: Overview of Eastern Philosophy, Western Philosophy, and the Most Important Thinkers through the Ages. War, innovation, courage, and revolution shaped the world as it is today, but the great philosophers of the past shaped our thoughts, religions, and minds. They worked as teachers, spiritual leaders, and scholars to harness the power of logic and critical thinking, creating a foundation of thought that led to humankind's understanding of the unity of life and the universe.
You will learn how:
This quick survey of the history of philosophy offers a glimpse into the thoughts that unite humanity, and the great thinkers who embraced the study of the cosmos. Start your journey down the path to enlightenment today. -
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Title: The American Revolution and the Declaration of Independence
Subtitle: The Essays of George H. Smith
Author: George H Smith
Narrator: VoiceBunny
Format: Unabridged
Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-01-17
Publisher: Cato Institute
Genres: History, Political
Publisher's Summary:
For almost a century after the U.S. Constitution went into effect, few Americans seem to have questioned the legitimacy of the Revolution. Since the Progressive generation of historians began the work of serious criticism and revision, however, students of American life have largely learned to live with a more complicated understanding of the revolutionary legacy. Smith's treatment of the era charts space for libertarians to both criticize and revere the American heritage. -
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Title: Managing Our Perception of the Third Reich
Subtitle: An Historiographical Challenge
Author: Weronika Kuzniar
Narrator: Slava Morozov
Format: Unabridged
Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-31-17
Publisher: Veronikas Research & Essay Service
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: History, Political
Publisher's Summary:
University professors, white nationalists, liberals, MGTOW, Brits, Anglo-Americans, and Zionists alike all have a stake in managing the world's perception of Nazi Germany and World War II. Why? What are they trying to hide and why do they go to such extremes, including serial harassment and cyberbullying, to control and micromanage the narrative for the rest of us? This concentrated analysis of the World War II and postwar narrative by author Weronika Kuzniar answers these questions and many more in a relaxed, listener-friendly style. On the Web: https://wilkmocy.com -
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Título: Santa Anna: La Vida y el Legado del Mítico Presidente y General Mexicano [Santa Anna: The Life and Legacy of the Mexican President and General]
Autor: Charles River Editors, Gustavo Vazquez Lozano
Narrador: Nicolas Villanueva
Formato: Unabridged
Duración: 1 hr and 41 mins
Idioma: Español
Fecha de publicación: 10-31-17
Editor: Charles River Editors
Categorías: History, Political
Resumen del editor:
Han pasado casi 150 años de su muerte y todavía se usa una riqueza de apelativos para referirse a Antonio López de Santa Anna, presidente de México en once ocasiones. Hoy, la mayoría de sus compatriotas lo considera el traidor más grande de la historia. No siempre fue así. De hecho, cuando él vivía no hubo político o general más reverenciado, necesario y famoso en México - aunque en intervalos también el más odiado - que el General Santa Anna. Justo Sierra, el eminente escritor e historiador que lo observó en persona siendo un niño, escribió que las masas llegaron a verlo como un mesías, "el pueblo tenía una vaga confianza de que él podía hacer milagros"; Sierra escribió que Santa Anna era "el hombre necesario, el hombre de las crisis, nuestro deus ex machina". Las clases políticas que primero se alzaban contra él y lo enviaban al exilio, un par de años después iban a buscarlo a suplicarle que salvara México, cuando la nación se les deshacía entre las manos. Santa Anna regresaba a su país, seducía, unía a la gente, formaba ejércitos de la nada para combatir la nueva amenaza que aleteara sobre el país: España, Estados Unidos, Francia.
Al igual que los antiguos césares, Santa Anna encarnaba el poder político y militar, pero también se procuró un aura quasi divina. La mitad del tiempo fue adorado por sus compatriotas, lo mismo la aristocracia de los salones de la ciudad de México que las clases campesinas, que veían en él al salvador de la patria. En este sentido, parecía un hombre salido de otros tiempos, un insecto atrapado en ámbar, un emperador de la antigua Roma, un rey davídico. Fue presidente once veces (un triunfo inigualado en la historia) pero no fue un dictador en el sentido tradicional de la palabra, porque - juntando sus once periodos - estuvo sentado en la silla no más de cinco años. Mucho menos que Juárez. A Santa Anna, el poder le aburría. Prefería, como Alejandro o Napoleón, ir él mismo al frente de los ejércitos, arriesgar la vida, poner el pecho frente a las balas, volver cubierto de gloria o morir en el campo de batalla.
No era un hombre que poseyera una gran cultura, pero sabía cómo utilizar el sentimiento de su época, lo cual es una forma sutil de decir que era un avezado aventurero. Tenía aire presidencial. Le encantaba lucirse de cualquier forma posible.
Sin duda, Santa Anna merece un juicio más objetivo que el de la historia oficial. Por sus pecados pagó, en parte viviendo demasiado tiempo, hasta ser una figura prehistórica. Hubiera sido mejor para su reputación de haber partido antes. Como pocas personas del continente americano, su vida es digna de ser leída. En ella hay de todo: gloria, tragedia, intriga, amor, destierro y olvido. -
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Title: A Moonless, Starless Sky
Subtitle: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa
Author: Alexis Okeowo
Narrator: Kamali Minter
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-03-17
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 11 votes
Genres: History, World
Publisher's Summary:
In the tradition of Behind the Beautiful Forevers, this is a masterful, humane work of literary journalism by New Yorker staff writer Alexis Okeowo - a vivid narrative of Africans who are courageously resisting their continent's wave of fundamentalism.
In A Moonless, Starless Sky Okeowo weaves together four narratives that form a powerful tapestry of modern Africa: a young couple, kidnap victims of Joseph Kony's LRA; a Mauritanian waging a lonely campaign against modern-day slavery; a women's basketball team flourishing amid war-torn Somalia; and a vigilante who takes up arms against the extremist group Boko Haram.
This debut book by one of America's most acclaimed young journalists illuminates the inner lives of ordinary people doing the extraordinary - lives that are too often hidden, underreported, or ignored by the rest of the world.
Critic Reviews:
"From an abolitionist who once owned a slave to women basketball players in a war zone, Alexis Okeowo has an alert and thoughtful eye for the unexpected. The portraits and voices she brings us from Africa are so vivid that the reader can easily forget the determination and bravery it must have taken to gather them in these unhappy corners of the continent." (Adam Hochschild, New York Times best-selling author of King Leopold's Ghost and Spain in Our Hearts)
"Alexis Okeowo has gone to the hardest continent and come away with a series of tales about the fight against fanaticism and despair. The result is a deeply sensitive portrait of modern Africa and a microscope on the human condition in the most difficult circumstances." (Dexter Filkins, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Forever War) -
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Title: Alcohol
Subtitle: A History
Author: Rod Phillips
Narrator: Fajer Al-Kaisi
Format: Unabridged
Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-13-17
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: History, World
Publisher's Summary:
Whether as wine, beer, or spirits, alcohol has had a constant and often controversial role in social life. In his innovative book on the attitudes toward and consumption of alcohol, Rod Phillips surveys a 9,000-year cultural and economic history, uncovering the tensions between alcoholic drinks as healthy staples of daily diets and as objects of social, political, and religious anxiety. In the urban centers of Europe and America, where it was seen as healthier than untreated water, alcohol gained a foothold as the drink of choice, but it has been more regulated by governmental and religious authorities more than any other commodity. As a potential source of social disruption, alcohol created volatile boundaries of acceptable and unacceptable consumption and broke through barriers of class, race, and gender.
Phillips follows the ever-changing cultural meanings of these potent potables and makes the surprising argument that some societies have entered "post-alcohol" phases. His is the first book to examine and explain the meanings and effects of alcohol in such depth, from global and long-term perspectives. -
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Title: On Revolution
Author: Hannah Arendt
Narrator: Tavia Gilbert
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-07-17
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 5 votes
Genres: History, World
Publisher's Summary:
Hannah Arendt's penetrating observations on the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, have been fundamental to our understanding of our political landscape. On Revolution is her classic exploration of a phenomenon that has reshaped the globe. From the 18th-century rebellions in America and France to the explosive changes of the 20th century, Arendt traces the changing face of revolution and its relationship to war while underscoring the crucial role such events will play in the future. Illuminating and prescient, this timeless work will fascinate anyone who seeks to decipher the forces that shape our tumultuous age. -
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Title: Ninety Percent of Everything
Subtitle: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate
Author: Rose George
Narrator: Pearl Hewitt
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-25-17
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 46 votes
Genres: History, World
Publisher's Summary:
On ship-tracking websites, the waters are black with dots. Each dot is a ship; each ship is laden with boxes; each box is laden with goods. In postindustrial economies, we no longer produce but buy. We buy, so we must ship. Without all those dots, the world would not work.
Freight shipping has been no less revolutionary than the printing press or the Internet, yet it is all but invisible. Away from public scrutiny, shipping revels in suspect practices, dubious operators, and a shady system. Infesting our waters, poisoning our air, and a prime culprit of acoustic pollution, shipping is environmentally indefensible. And then there are the pirates.
Rose George, acclaimed chronicler of what we would rather ignore, sails from Rotterdam to Suez to Singapore on ships the length of football fields and the height of Niagara Falls; she patrols the Indian Ocean with an antipiracy task force; she joins seafaring chaplains and investigates the harm that ships inflict on endangered whales.
Sharply informative and entertaining, Ninety Percent of Everything reveals the workings and perils of an unseen world that holds the key to our economy, our environment, and our very civilization.
Critic Reviews:
Consistently absorbing...Timely as well as deft...George's spirited book cracks open a vast, treacherous and largely ignored world. (
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Title: Pirate Women
Subtitle: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas
Author: Laura Sook Duncombe
Narrator: Hillary Huber
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-04-17
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 33 votes
Genres: History, World
Publisher's Summary:
In the first-ever history of the world's female buccaneers, Pirate Women: the Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas tells the story of women, both real and legendary, who through the ages sailed alongside - and sometimes in command of - their male counterparts. These women came from all walks of life but had one thing in common: a desire for freedom. History has largely ignored these female swashbucklers - until now. Here are their stories, from ancient Norse princess Alfhild and warrior Rusla to Sayyida al-Hurra of the Barbary corsairs; from Grace O'Malley, who terrorized shipping operations around the British Isles during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, to Cheng I Sao, who commanded a fleet of 400 ships off China in the early 19th century. Author Laura Sook Duncombe also looks beyond the stories to the storytellers and mythmakers. What biases and agendas motivated them? What did they leave out? Pirate Women explores why and how these stories are told and passed down and how history changes depending on who is recording it. It's the most comprehensive overview of women pirates in one volume and chock-full of swashbuckling adventures that pull these unique women from the shadows into the spotlight that they deserve.
Critic Reviews:
"Duncombe's well-researched account will appeal to history and women's studies aficionados, lovers of myth and lore, and all interested in viewing the past through a new lens." (Booklist) -
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Title: The Landscape of History
Subtitle: How Historians Map the Past
Author: John Lewis Gaddis
Narrator: Jack Chekijian
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-14-17
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes
Genres: History, World
Publisher's Summary:
What is history, and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? One of the most accomplished historians at work today, John Lewis Gaddis, answers these and other questions in this short, witty, and humane book. The Landscape of History provides a searching look at the historian's craft as well as a strong argument for why a historical consciousness should matter to us today. Gaddis points out that while the historical method is more sophisticated than most historians realize, it doesn't require unintelligible prose to explain. Like cartographers mapping landscapes, historians represent what they can never replicate. In doing so, they combine the techniques of artists, geologists, paleontologists, and evolutionary biologists. Their approaches parallel, in intriguing ways, the new sciences of chaos, complexity, and criticality. They don't much resemble what happens in the social sciences, where the pursuit of independent variables functioning with static systems seems increasingly divorced from the world as we know it. So who's really being scientific, and who isn't? This question, too, is one Gaddis explores in ways that are certain to spark interdisciplinary controversy.
Critic Reviews:
"A bold and challenging book, unafraid of inviting controversy. It provides a strong statement for our time of both the limits and the value of the historical enterprise." (
New York Times) -
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Title: Stalin and the Scientists
Subtitle: A History of Triumph and Tragedy 1905-1953
Author: Simon Ings
Narrator: Barnaby Edwards
Format: Unabridged
Length: 16 hrs and 59 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-08-17
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: History, Political
Publisher's Summary:
An epic story of courage, genius and terrible folly, this is the first history of how the Soviet Union's scientists became both the glory and the laughingstock of the intellectual world.
Simon Ings weaves together what happened when a handful of impoverished and underemployed graduates, professors and entrepreneurs, as well as collectors and charlatans, bound themselves to a failing government to create a world superpower. And he shows how Stalin's obsessions derailed a great experiment in 'rational government'. -
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Title: Enemies of the People
Author: Sam Jordison
Narrator: Rich Keeble
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-01-17
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Genres: History, Political
Publisher's Summary:
There was once a fashionable theory that history was determined not by individuals but by economic and geopolitical forces. Recent years have proved that idea abundantly wrong.
From Nigel Farage to Donald Trump via (inevitably) Vladimir Putin, we have largely been governed, endangered and thrown into confusion by a pack of angry men. (Nearly always men. Nearly always white). Men whose ambition is inversely proportional to their ability - and stability. Post-truth, mid-Brexit and with Nationalism on the rise, we stand on the precipice of an uncertain future, and Enemies of the People details those who have stuffed us on the bus and driven us there. Not all are monsters, but whether through malice, bad driving or accidentally taking a wrong turn, these are the culprits responsible for landing us on this dizzying and windswept cliff edge.
Remember, though - they say history is written by the victors, and fortunately many of those currently winning can't seem to write more than 140 characters at a time. This gives us the golden opportunity to set the record straight and snatch back the narrative. But if we've any chance of victory, we first need to know our enemy. -
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Title: The Bastard of Fort Stikine
Subtitle: The Hudson's Bay Company and the Murder of John McLoughlin Jr.
Author: Debra Komar
Narrator: Matthew Josdal
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-08-17
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: History, World
Publisher's Summary:
Is it possible to reach back in time and solve an unsolved murder, more than 170 years after it was committed?
Just after midnight on April 21, 1842, John McLoughlin, Jr. - the chief trader for the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Stikine, in the northwest corner of the territory that would later become British Columbia - was shot to death by his own men. They claimed it was an act of self-defence, their only means of stopping the violent rampage of their drunk and abusive leader. Sir George Simpson, the HBC's Overseas Governor, took the men of Stikine at their word, and the Company closed the book on the matter. The case never saw the inside of a courtroom, and no one was ever charged or punished for the crime. To this day, the killing remains the Honorable Company's dirtiest unaired laundry and one of the darkest pages in the annals of our nation's history. Now, exhaustive archival research and modern forensic science - including ballistics, virtual autopsy, and crime scene reconstruction - unlock the mystery of what really happened the night McLoughlin died. Using her formidable talents as a writer, researcher, and forensic scientist, Debra Komar weaves a tale that could almost be fiction, with larger-than-life characters and dramatic tension. In telling the story of John McLoughlin, Jr., Komar also tells the story of Canada's north and its connection to the Hudson's Bay Company.
Cover design by Chris Tompkins. Cover images (beaver dam) by Jason Drury (500px.com/jasondrury) and (fire arm) courtesy of Fredericton Region Museum. Reproduced by permission of Goose Lane Editions. -
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Title: The Storied City
Subtitle: The Quest for Timbuktu and the Fantastic Mission to Save Its Past
Author: Charlie English
Narrator: Enn Reitel
Format: Unabridged
Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-02-17
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes
Genres: History, World
Publisher's Summary:
To Westerners, the name Timbuktu long conjured a tantalizing paradise, an African El Dorado where even the slaves wore gold. Beginning in the late 18th century, a series of explorers gripped by the fever for "discovery" tried repeatedly to reach the fabled city. But one expedition after another went disastrously awry, succumbing to attack, the climate, and disease.
Timbuktu was rich in another way, too. A medieval center of learning, it was home to tens of thousands - according to some, hundreds of thousands - of ancient manuscripts on subjects ranging from religion to poetry, law to history, pharmacology, and astronomy. When al-Qaeda-linked jihadists surged across Mali in 2012, threatening the existence of these precious documents, a remarkable thing happened: a team of librarians and archivists joined forces to spirit the manuscripts into hiding.
Relying on extensive research and firsthand reporting, Charlie English expertly twines these two suspenseful strands into a fraught and fascinating account of one of the planet's extraordinary places and the myths from which it has become inseparable. -
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Title: Late Victorian Holocausts
Subtitle: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
Author: Mike Davis
Narrator: James Patrick Cronin
Format: Unabridged
Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-30-17
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes
Genres: History, World
Publisher's Summary:
Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history. Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine: India, Northern China, and Northeastern Brazil. All were affected by the same global climatic factors that caused massive crop failures, and all experienced brutal famines that decimated local populations. But the effects of drought were magnified in each case because of singularly destructive policies promulgated by different ruling elites. Davis argues that the seeds of underdevelopment in what later became known as the Third World were sown in this era of High Imperialism, as the price for capitalist modernization was paid in the currency of millions of peasants' lives. - Visa fler
