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The Project-State and Its Rivals
- A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
- Narrado por: Stephen Caffrey
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We thought we knew the story of the twentieth century. For many in the West, after the two world conflicts and the long cold war, the verdict was clear: democratic values had prevailed over dictatorship. But if the twentieth century meant the triumph of liberalism, as many intellectuals proclaimed, why have the era's darker impulses—ethnic nationalism, racist violence, and populist authoritarianism—revived?
The Project-State and Its Rivals offers a radical alternative interpretation that takes us from the transforming challenges of the world wars to our own time. Charles S. Maier looks to the political and economic impulses that propelled societies through a century when territorial states and transnational forces both claimed power, engaging sometimes as rivals and sometimes as allies. Maier focuses on recurring institutional constellations: project-states including both democracies and dictatorships; new forms of imperial domination; global networks of finance; and the international associations, foundations, and NGOs that tried to shape public life.
In this account, Maier invites a rethinking of the long twentieth century. His history of state entanglements with capital, the decline of public projects, and the fragility of governance explains the fraying of our own civic culture—but also allows hope for its recovery.
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The Alternative
- How to Build a Just Economy
- De: Nick Romeo
- Narrado por: Jamie Renell
- Duración: 10 h y 49 m
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Confronted by the terrifying trends of the early twenty-first century – widening inequality, environmental destruction, and the immiseration of millions of workers around the world – many economists and business leaders still preach dogmas that lack evidence and create political catastrophe: Private markets are always more efficient than public ones; investment capital flows efficiently to necessary projects; massive inequality is the unavoidable side effect of economic growth; people are selfish and will only behave well with the right incentives.
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Very interesting; a little long
- De janet en 03-30-24
De: Nick Romeo
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The Rise of American Civilization, Vol. 1
- The Agricultural Era
- De: Charles A. Beard, Mary R. Beard
- Narrado por: Joseph Tabler
- Duración: 30 h y 58 m
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Charles A. Beard, a proponent of the “New History", emphasized the importance of cultural economic developments as opposed to just warfare and diplomacy.
De: Charles A. Beard, y otros
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Putin and the Return of History
- How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold War
- De: Martin Sixsmith, Daniel Sixsmith - contributor
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 10 h y 42 m
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Vladimir Putin is a paradox. In the early years of his presidency, he appeared to commit himself to friendship with the West, suggesting that Russia could join the European Union or even NATO. He said he supported free-market democracy and civil rights. But the Putin of those years is unrecognisable today. The Putin of the 2020s is an autocratic nationalist, dedicated to repression at home and anti-Western militarism abroad.
De: Martin Sixsmith, y otros
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Narcotopia
- In Search of the Asian Drug Cartel That Survived the CIA
- De: Patrick Winn
- Narrado por: Patrick Winn
- Duración: 15 h y 30 m
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In Asia’s narcotics-producing heartland, the Wa reign supreme. They dominate the Golden Triangle, a mountainous stretch of Burma between Thailand and China. Their 30,000-strong army, wielding missiles and attack drones, makes Mexican cartels look like street gangs.
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A must listen for Asia history buffs
- De philip beere en 03-01-24
De: Patrick Winn
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The Blazing World
- A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689
- De: Jonathan Healey
- Narrado por: Oliver Hembrough
- Duración: 19 h y 42 m
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The seventeenth century was a revolutionary age for the English. It started as they suddenly found themselves ruled by a Scotsman, and it ended in the shadow of an invasion by the Dutch. Under James I, England suffered terrorism and witch panics. Under his son Charles, state and society collapsed into civil war, to be followed by an army coup and regicide. For a short time—for the only time in history—England was a republic. There were bitter struggles over faith and Parliament asserted itself like never before. There were no boundaries to politics.
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Been looking for this book for a long time
- De cmurrell en 07-30-23
De: Jonathan Healey
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The Rediscovery of America
- Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)
- De: Ned Blackhawk
- Narrado por: Jason Grasl
- Duración: 17 h y 18 m
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The most enduring feature of US history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, with a new generation of scholars insists that any full American history address the struggle, survival, and resurgence of American Indian nations. Indigenous history is essential to understanding the evolution of modern America.
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Interesting book marred by poor reading
- De Nathaniel Sterling en 03-04-24
De: Ned Blackhawk