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The Industrial Revolution
- A History from Beginning to End
- Narrado por: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
- Duración: 1 h y 6 m
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The Industrial Revolution, which took place in Great Britain between the middle of the 18th century and the middle of the 19th, transformed British industry and society and made Great Britain the most powerful nation in the world.
The Industrial Revolution didn’t happen due to one, single factor but rather to a number of separate, yet, related developments which interacted to change the world profoundly and completely. Improvements in the production of iron allowed the construction of efficient, reliable steam engines. These steam engines were then used in the production of iron to improve the quality and quantity of iron production even further. Manufacturing became concentrated in factories filled with automated machinery while canals and improved roads allowed raw materials to be brought to these factories and for finished products to be distributed.
Inside you will learn about:
- Transport and the rise of global trade
- The iron heart of the Industrial Revolution
- The Power of Steam
- The lives of workers during the Industrial Revolution
- The rise of labor movements
- And much more!
During the the Industrial Revolution, people became used to the availability of cheap, mass-produced items transported to the point of sale from other parts of the country or even other parts of the world. However, people also became used to living in large cities and working in factories and mills, often for meager wages and in dangerous and exhausting conditions. Progress made a small number of people very wealthy, but it also condemned a large portion of the British population to living and working in danger and squalor.
Opposition to the Industrial Revolution came from skilled workers who saw their jobs being replaced by machines and from influential poets who deplored the loss of what they regarded as an idyllic, rural, and agrarian way of life. This opposition was brutally repressed, and even those who tried to champion the rights of workers sometimes found themselves under attack by the British Army.
The Industrial Revolution changed almost everything about the British way of life, and it spread from Great Britain to most of the developed countries of the world. This is the story of a revolution which continues to affect all of us in the modern world.
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- De: Barbara Freese
- Narrado por: Shelly Frasier
- Duración: 7 h y 29 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 375
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 182
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 188
The fascinating, often surprising story of how a simple black rock altered the course of history. Yet the mundane mineral that built our global economy, and even today powers our electrical plants, has also caused death, disease, and environmental destruction. In this remarkable book, Barbara Freese takes us on a rich historical journey that begins three hundred million years ago and spans the globe.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Uses Coal to push her Political Agenda
- De Kismet en 08-22-06
De: Barbara Freese
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The Most Powerful Idea in the World
- A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention
- De: William Rosen
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 13 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 192
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 144
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 143
Award-winning author William Rosen tells the story of the men responsible for the Industrial Revolution and the machine that drove it: the steam engine.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Revelation about a Revolution
- De Roy en 08-01-10
De: William Rosen
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Empire of Cotton
- A Global History
- De: Sven Beckert
- Narrado por: Jim Frangione
- Duración: 20 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 554
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 488
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 483
Here is the story of how, beginning well before the advent of machine production in the 1780s, these men captured ancient trades and skills in Asia, combined them with the expropriation of lands in the Americas and the enslavement of African workers to crucially recast the disparate realms of cotton that had existed for millennia. We see how industrial capitalism then reshaped these worlds of cotton into an empire, and how this empire transformed the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A New History of Global Capitalism
- De Lucian of Samosata en 03-17-15
De: Sven Beckert
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Millennium
- From Religion to Revolution: How Civilization Has Changed over a Thousand Years
- De: Ian Mortimer
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 15 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 76
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 77
In Millennium, best-selling historian Ian Mortimer takes the listener on a whirlwind tour of the last 10 centuries of Western history. It is a journey into a past vividly brought to life and bursting with ideas, that pits one century against another in his quest to measure which century saw the greatest change. We journey from a time when there was a fair chance of your village being burned to the ground by invaders - and dried human dung was a recommended cure for cancer - to a world in which explorers sailed into the unknown and civilizations came into conflict.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Bad ending - literally
- De John Gordon en 12-14-16
De: Ian Mortimer
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Nature's Metropolis
- Chicago and the Great West
- De: William Cronon
- Narrado por: Jonah Cummings
- Duración: 18 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 168
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 143
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 143
In this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of nineteenth-century America. By exploring the ecological and economic changes that made Chicago America's most dynamic city and the Great West its hinterland, Mr. Cronon opens a new window onto our national past. This is the story of city and country becoming ever more tightly bound in a system so powerful that it reshaped the American landscape and transformed American culture. The world that emerged is our own.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Moving
- De JB en 02-09-18
De: William Cronon
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A Shorter History of Australia
- De: Geoffrey Blainey
- Narrado por: Humphrey Bower
- Duración: 10 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 207
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 152
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 153
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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1 out of 5 stars
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Just couldn't stand the paternalism
- De Matthew en 04-02-14
De: Geoffrey Blainey
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Energy
- A Human History
- De: Richard Rhodes
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
- Duración: 11 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 752
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 639
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 638
Through an unforgettable cast of characters, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes explains how wood gave way to coal and coal made room for oil, as we now turn to natural gas, nuclear power, and renewable energy. Rhodes looks back on five centuries of progress, through such influential figures as Queen Elizabeth I, King James I, Benjamin Franklin, Herman Melville, John D. Rockefeller, and Henry Ford.
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4 out of 5 stars
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No more accents, please!
- De Ned Gulley en 08-30-18
De: Richard Rhodes
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Americana
- A 400-Year History of American Capitalism
- De: Bhu Srinivasan
- Narrado por: Scott Brick, Bhu Srinivasan
- Duración: 21 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 623
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 543
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 534
From the days of the Mayflower and the Virginia Company, America has been a place for people to dream, invent, build, tinker, and bet the farm in pursuit of a better life. Americana takes us on a 400-year journey of this spirit of innovation and ambition through a series of Next Big Things - the inventions, techniques, and industries that drove American history forward: from the telegraph, the railroad, guns, radio, and banking, to flight, suburbia, and sneakers, culminating with the Internet and mobile technology at the turn of the 21st century.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent history!
- De L. Maranto en 10-14-17
De: Bhu Srinivasan
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The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States
- De: Mark Fiege
- Narrado por: William Bahl
- Duración: 19 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 98
In the dramatic narratives that comprise The Republic of Nature, Mark Fiege reframes the canonical account of American history based on the simple but radical premise that nothing in the nation's past can be considered apart from the natural circumstances in which it occurred. Revisiting historical icons so familiar that schoolchildren learn to take them for granted, he makes surprising connections that enable readers to see old stories in a new light.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Will surely listen to it many times over.
- De Thomas Lopez en 01-24-20
De: Mark Fiege
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Triumph of the City
- How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
- De: Edward Glaeser
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
- Duración: 12 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 422
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 349
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 344
America is an urban nation. More than two thirds of us live on the three percent of land that contains our cities. Yet cities get a bad rap: they're dirty, poor, unhealthy, crime ridden, expensive, environmentally unfriendly. Or are they? As Edward Glaeser proves in this myth-shattering book, cities are actually the healthiest, greenest, and richest (in cultural and economic terms) places to live.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Urbanophile Brain Candy
- De Clay Downing en 12-18-15
De: Edward Glaeser
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A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things
- A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet
- De: Raj Patel, Jason W. Moore
- Narrado por: Simon Mattacks
- Duración: 6 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 85
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 74
Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. Bringing the latest ecological research together with histories of colonialism, indigenous struggles, slave revolts, and other rebellions and uprisings, Patel and Moore demonstrate that throughout history, crises have always prompted fresh strategies to make the world cheap and safe for capitalism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A remarkable exposé & synthesis of the Ponzi scheme that capitalism is and always has been.
- De Scott en 02-10-18
De: Raj Patel, y otros
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A Splendid Exchange
- How Trade Shaped the World
- De: William J. Bernstein
- Narrado por: Mel Foster
- Duración: 17 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 383
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 241
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 248
In A Splendid Exchange, William J. Bernstein tells the extraordinary story of global commerce from its prehistoric origins to the myriad controversies surrounding it today. He transports listeners from ancient sailing ships that brought the silk trade from China to Rome in the second century to the rise and fall of the Portuguese monopoly in spices in the 16th.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very interesting and Germane to Today's World
- De Mark en 07-18-08
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Open Veins of Latin America
- Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
- De: Eduardo Galeano, Isabel Allende - Foreward
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 14 h y 30 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,255
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 974
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 964
Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx. Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Please up-date the addition
- De fishrock en 02-20-10
De: Eduardo Galeano, y otros
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Ramp Hollow
- The Ordeal of Appalachia
- De: Steven Stoll
- Narrado por: Brian Sutherland
- Duración: 13 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 90
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 79
Appalachia - among the most storied and yet least understood regions in America - has long been associated with poverty and backwardness. But how did this image arise, and what exactly does it mean? In Ramp Hollow, Steven Stoll launches an original investigation into the history of Appalachia and its place in US history, with a special emphasis on how generations of its inhabitants lived, worked, survived, and depended on natural resources held in common.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Almost unlistenable
- De Golf Fan en 09-13-18
De: Steven Stoll
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The Alchemy of Air
- A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler
- De: Thomas Hager
- Narrado por: Adam Verner
- Duración: 10 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,556
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,328
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,324
At the dawn of the 20th century, humanity was facing global disaster. Mass starvation, long predicted for the fast-growing population, was about to become a reality. A call went out to the worlds scientists to find a solution. This is the story of the two enormously gifted, fatally flawed men who found it: the brilliant, self-important Fritz Haber and the reclusive, alcoholic Carl Bosch. Together they discovered a way to make bread out of air, built city-sized factories, controlled world markets, and saved millions of lives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Book Thoroughly Researched
- De Terry A. Gray en 10-21-11
De: Thomas Hager
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Industrial Revolution
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- Planedoc
- 11-05-23
a thorough waste of time and money. superficial.
a thorough waste of time and money. a very superficial book, written on a grade school level.
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