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“[A] sophisticated, complex work.... Deeply researched with a well-proven argument, [The Heartland] will attract many scholars as well as general readers who like innovative, challenging history.” (Publishers Weekly)
“A revelatory examination... [A] brilliantly reasoned, meticulously researched book, which refreshingly pushes against stereotypes at every turn.... With lively prose, Hoganson delivers an eye-opening, outside-the-box book that is mind-bending in all the right ways.” (Kirkus)
“Fascinating and convincing...Hoganson is a marvelous writer...[a] considerable achievement.” (The Wall Street Journal)
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- Duración: 21 h y 46 m
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This carefully researched exploration of Native American culture investigates the complex, often misunderstood histories of hundreds of indigenous peoples. Author James Wilson has drawn from ethnographic and archaeological studies, historical texts, and the rich written and oral traditions of Native Americans to complete this important work.
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Please re-record this well written book
- De Violet en 03-16-13
De: James Wilson
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An Edible History of Humanity
- De: Tom Standage
- Narrado por: George K. Wilson
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
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Throughout history, food has acted as a catalyst of social change, political organization, geopolitical competition, industrial development, military conflict, and economic expansion. An Edible History of Humanity is a pithy, entertaining account of how a series of changes---caused, enabled, or influenced by food---has helped to shape and transform societies around the world.
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Flawed, but worthwhile
- De Ary Shalizi en 12-28-17
De: Tom Standage
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Born in Blackness
- Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
- De: Howard W. French
- Narrado por: James Fouhey
- Duración: 16 h y 49 m
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Born in Blackness vitally reframes the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the economic ascendancy of Europe, the anchoring of democracy in the West, and the fulfillment of so-called Enlightenment ideals all grew out of Europe's dehumanizing engagement with the "dark" continent. In fact, French reveals, the first impetus for the Age of Discovery was not—as we are so often told, even today—Europe's yearning for ties with Asia, but rather its centuries-old desire to forge a trade in gold with legendarily rich Black societies in the heart of West Africa.
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American History World History Our History
- De Bill en 06-13-22
De: Howard W. French
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Fordlandia
- The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City
- De: Greg Grandin
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 15 h y 25 m
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Fordlandia by National Book Award finalist Greg Grandin tells the enthralling tale of Henry Ford’s failed attempts to transform a Connecticut-sized chunk of Brazilian rainforest into a homespun slice of American utopia.
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An eye-opening account of an arrogant man's folly
- De Melissa en 09-17-13
De: Greg Grandin
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The Other Slavery
- The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
- De: Andrés Reséndez
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 12 h y 38 m
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Since the time of Columbus, Indian slavery was illegal in much of the American continent. Yet, as Andrés Reséndez illuminates in his myth-shattering The Other Slavery, it was practiced for centuries as an open secret. There was no abolitionist movement to protect the tens of thousands of natives who were kidnapped and enslaved by the conquistadors, then forced to descend into the "mouth of hell" of 18th-century silver mines or, later, made to serve as domestics for Mormon settlers and rich Anglos.
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overall a good book
- De Paola V. Hidalgo en 01-23-17
De: Andrés Reséndez
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The Strange Career of William Ellis
- The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire
- De: Karl Jacoby
- Narrado por: JD Jackson
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
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To his contemporaries in Gilded Age Manhattan, Guillermo Eliseo was a fantastically wealthy Mexican, the proud owner of a luxury apartment overlooking Central Park, a busy Wall Street office, and scores of mines and haciendas in Mexico. But for all his obvious riches and his elegant appearance, Eliseo was also the possessor of a devastating secret: He was not, in fact, from Mexico at all. Rather, he had begun life as a slave named William Ellis, born on a cotton plantation in Texas during the waning years of King Cotton.
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Fascinating Tale of Racial Passing
- De Steven Schuster en 06-10-16
De: Karl Jacoby
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Encounters at the Heart of the World
- A History of the Mandan People
- De: Elizabeth A. Fenn
- Narrado por: Christine Marshall
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
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Encounters at the Heart of the World concerns the Mandan Indians, iconic Plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were, for centuries, at the center of the North American universe. We know of them mostly because Lewis and Clark spent the winter of 1804-1805 with them, but why don't we know more? Who were they really? In this extraordinary book, Elizabeth A. Fenn retrieves their history by piecing together important new discoveries in archaeology, anthropology, geology, climatology, epidemiology, and nutritional science.
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Just okay
- De Chris en 11-03-15
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
- Native America from 1890 to the Present
- De: David Treuer
- Narrado por: Tanis Parenteau
- Duración: 17 h y 44 m
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The received idea of Native American history - as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - has been that American Indian history essentially ended with the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. Not only did 150 Sioux die at the hands of the US Cavalry, the sense was, but Native civilization did as well. Growing up Ojibwe on a reservation in Minnesota, training as an anthropologist, and researching Native life past and present for his nonfiction and novels, David Treuer has uncovered a different narrative.
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excellent text, awful narrator
- De D. Rubinstein en 12-01-19
De: David Treuer
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Banana
- The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
- De: Dan Koeppel
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 7 h y 45 m
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Banana combines a pop-science journey around the globe, a fascinating tale of an iconic American business enterprise, and a look into the alternately tragic and hilarious banana subculture (one does exist) - ultimately taking us to the high-tech labs where new bananas are literally being built in test tubes, in a race to save the world's most beloved fruit.
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Very Good Book - History, Science, and Economics
- De Jose en 11-08-17
De: Dan Koeppel
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El Norte
- The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America
- De: Carrie Gibson
- Narrado por: Thom Rivera
- Duración: 21 h y 20 m
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Because of our shared English language, as well as the celebrated origin tales of the Mayflower and the rebellion of the British colonies, the United States has prized its Anglo heritage above all others. However, as Carrie Gibson explains with great depth and clarity in El Norte, the nation has much older Spanish roots - ones that have long been unacknowledged or marginalized. The Hispanic past of the United States predates the arrival of the Pilgrims by a century, and has been every bit as important in shaping the nation as it exists today.
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Chicken Noodle History
- De Jose en 10-30-19
De: Carrie Gibson
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The Worlds the Shawnees Made
- Migration and Violence in Early America
- De: Stephen Warren
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 10 h y 19 m
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In 1779, Shawnees from Chillicothe, a community in the Ohio country, told the British, "We have always been the frontier." Their statement challenges an oft-held belief that American Indians derive their unique identities from longstanding ties to native lands. By tracking Shawnee people and migrations from 1400 to 1754, Stephen Warren illustrates how Shawnees made a life for themselves at the crossroads of empires and competing tribes, embracing mobility and often moving willingly toward violent borderlands.
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Yawn
- De dagsog en 12-23-14
De: Stephen Warren
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A Shorter History of Australia
- De: Geoffrey Blainey
- Narrado por: Humphrey Bower
- Duración: 10 h y 59 m
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After a lifetime of research and debate on Australian and international history, Geoffrey Blainey is well-placed to introduce us to the people who have played a part and to guide us through the events which have created the Australian identity: the mania for spectator sport, the suspicion of the tall poppy, the rivalries of Catholic and Protestant, Sydney and Melbourne, new and old homelands, the conflicts of war abroad and race at home, the importance of technology, the recognition of our Aboriginal past and Native Title.
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Just couldn't stand the paternalism
- De Matthew en 04-02-14
De: Geoffrey Blainey
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Lakotas and the Black Hills
- The Struggle for Sacred Ground (Penguin Library of American Indian History)
- De: Jeff Ostler
- Narrado por: George Wilson
- Duración: 8 h y 17 m
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In this enthralling narrative, professor and award-winning author Jeffrey Ostler recounts the Lakota Sioux’s loss of their spiritual homeland and their remarkable legal battle to regain it. Moving easily from battlefields to reservations to Supreme Court chambers, Ostler captures the strength that bore the Lakotas through the worst times and kept alive the dream of reclaiming their cherished lands.
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Excellent. Exactly what I was looking for.
- De Gregory E Benoit en 08-24-23
De: Jeff Ostler
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Heartland
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- Elliot Ketter
- 05-22-19
Very Specific Book
This book is a history of agriculture in Illinois and it and the University of Illinois’ connection to the rest of the globe. The first segment is a history of the Kickapoo. I enjoyed this book and learned a lot, but I am not sure a broad audience will love it.
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- Monica!
- 08-28-19
As an introduction to the development of the heartland...
...overall, worth it. I was hoping for a more economic focus, but the anthropological bent focusing mainly on moving peoples ancillarily included discussion on economic and political events. A good and engaging introduction, if here is where you start; more than a few narrower directions and questions to consider for those further researching.
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- Marjorie
- 01-21-21
the important history of fly-over country
Great history of the European settlers who made the mid-West into the breadbasket of the country and of the Native Americans they displaced and destroyed, all told through the lens of a southern Illinois county and old articles from local newspapers.
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- Cleve
- 07-01-19
Probably not worth the time unless you love minutia.
Here’s the book in a nutshell:
Midwesterners treated Native American badly and stole their land.
Many midwesterners traveled internationally, traded internationally, and had lots of international contacts, Particularly when it came to agriculture.
If you need excruciating detail to accept the aforementioned conclusions then get the book. Otherwise, save your time.
Oh yeah, one more thing. Nothing of interest happened in the Midwest after 1918 except for further abuse of native Americans in Oklahoma and Mexico.
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