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What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza's Thinking About History, a general introduction to the field of history that revels in its eclecticism and highlights the inherent tensions and controversies that shape it.
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What does it mean to label someone a fascist? Today, it is equated with denouncing him or her as a Nazi. But as intellectual historian Paul E. Gottfried writes in this provocative yet even-handed study, the term's meaning has evolved over the years. Gottfried examines the semantic twists and turns the term has endured since the 1930s and traces the word's polemical function within the context of present ideological struggles.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Refreshing scholarly treatment of a widely misused concept
- De Minister of the Posterior en 01-15-24
De: Paul Gottfried
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The Dawn of Everything
- A New History of Humanity
- De: David Graeber, David Wengrow
- Narrado por: Mark Williams
- Duración: 24 h y 13 m
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A trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of "the state", political violence, and social inequality—and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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exactly what I've been looking for
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De: David Graeber, y otros
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Orientalism
- De: Edward Said
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim
- Duración: 19 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 470
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This landmark book, first published in 1978, remains one of the most influential books in the Social Sciences, particularly Ethnic Studies and Postcolonialism. Said is best known for describing and critiquing "Orientalism", which he perceived as a constellation of false assumptions underlying Western attitudes toward the East. In Orientalism Said claimed a "subtle and persistent Eurocentric prejudice against Arabo-Islamic peoples and their culture."
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5 out of 5 stars
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We're lucky to have this on audio
- De Delano en 02-27-13
De: Edward Said
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The Chalice and the Blade
- Our History, Our Future
- De: Riane Eisler
- Narrado por: Riane Eisler
- Duración: 2 h y 52 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 292
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 246
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 244
Riane Eisler believes that war and the "war of the sexes" are concepts neither divinely nor biologically ordained. Join the author as she reconstructs a prehistoric culture based on partnership rather than domination and traces the roots of the global shift to patriarchy. Eisler, an acclaimed scholar, futurist, and activist, also presents new scripts for living based on a more socially, economically, ecologically, personally, and spiritually balanced society. This script is in direct opposition to the tension and violence typical of what she calls the dominator model. Her vision is the partnership model, which today is struggling to reemerge. This program is an important contribution to that struggle.
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1 out of 5 stars
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the chalice and the blade
- De Anne en 07-25-08
De: Riane Eisler
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Slavery and Islam
- De: Jonathan A.C. Brown
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 14 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 40
What happens when authorities you venerate condone something you know is wrong? What does this mean about what you’ve been venerating? No issue brings this question into starker contrast than slavery. Every major religion and philosophy condoned or approved of it, but in modern times there is nothing seen as more evil. Americans confront this crisis of authority when they erect statues of Founding Fathers who slept with their slaves. And Muslims faced it when ISIS revived sex slavery, justifying it with verses from the Quran and the practice of Muhammad.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Bold and Broad Study of a Difficult Topic
- De Rob Squires en 02-21-20
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Racecraft
- The Soul of Inequality in American Life
- De: Karen E. Fields, Barbara J. Fields
- Narrado por: Karen Chilton
- Duración: 10 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Most people assume that racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives rise to the practice of racism. Sociologist Karen E. Fields and historian Barbara J. Fields argue otherwise: the practice of racism produces the illusion of race, through what they call “racecraft.” And this phenomenon is intimately entwined with other forms of inequality in American life. So pervasive are the devices of racecraft in American history, economic doctrine, politics, and everyday thinking that the presence of racecraft itself goes unnoticed.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A loose collection of essays
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Irrationality
- A History of the Dark Side of Reason
- De: Justin E. H. Smith
- Narrado por: Jeff Harding
- Duración: 13 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 32
Discovering that reason is the defining feature of our species, we named ourselves the “rational animal”. But is this flattering story itself rational? In this sweeping account of irrationality from antiquity to today - from the fifth-century BC murder of Hippasus for revealing the existence of irrational numbers to the rise of Twitter mobs and the election of Donald Trump - Justin Smith says the evidence suggests the opposite.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A good brain workout
- De ThomasC en 04-09-19
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Why You Think the Way You Do
- The Story of Western Worldviews from Rome to Home
- De: Glenn S. Sunshine
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 8 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 124
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 91
Why You Think the Way You Do traces the development of the worldviews that underpin the Western world. Professor and historian Glenn S. Sunshine demonstrates the decisive impact that the growth of Christianity had in transforming the outlook of pagan Roman culture into one that—based on biblical concepts of humanity and its relationship with God—established virtually all the positive aspects of Western civilization.
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2 out of 5 stars
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"Christian's view of the western world"
- De Bradley en 03-21-10
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Fools, Frauds and Firebrands
- Thinkers of the New Left
- De: Roger Scruton
- Narrado por: Rory Barnett
- Duración: 13 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 110
From one of the leading critics of leftist orientations comes a study of the thinkers who have most influenced the attitudes of the New Left. Beginning with a ruthless analysis of New Leftism and concluding with a critique of the key strands in its thinking, Roger Scruton conducts a reappraisal of such major left-wing thinkers as E. P. Thompson, Ronald Dworkin, R. D. Laing, Jurgen Habermas, Gyorgy Lukacs, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Derrida, Slavoj Žižek, Ralph Milliband, and Eric Hobsbawm. Scruton delivers a critique of modern left-wing thinking.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Deconstructing the New Left
- De Wayne en 01-17-20
De: Roger Scruton
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The Lies That Bind
- Rethinking Identity
- De: Kwame Anthony Appiah
- Narrado por: Kwame Anthony Appiah
- Duración: 7 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 193
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 163
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 163
We all know how identities - notably, those of nationality, class, culture, race, and religion - are at the root of global conflict, but the more elusive truth is that these identities are created by conflict in the first place. In provocative, entertaining chapters, Kwame Anthony Appiah interweaves keen-edged argument with engrossing historical tales and reveals the tangled contradictions within the stories that define us.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not full of SJW nonsense
- De Frank en 10-22-18
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World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction
- A John Hope Franklin Center Book
- De: Immanuel Wallerstein
- Narrado por: Fred Filbrich
- Duración: 4 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 79
In World-Systems Analysis, Immanuel Wallerstein provides a concise and accessible introduction to the comprehensive approach that he pioneered 30 years ago to understanding the history and development of the modern world. Since Wallerstein first developed world-systems analysis, it has become a widely utilized methodology within the historical social sciences and a common point of reference in discussions of globalization.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Uneven, but Ambitious
- De Logical Paradox en 08-27-14
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African Europeans
- An Untold History
- De: Olivette Otele
- Narrado por: Olivette Otele
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 59
Conventional wisdom holds that Africans are only a recent presence in Europe. But in African Europeans, renowned historian Olivette Otele debunks this and uncovers a long history of Europeans of African descent. From the third century, when the Egyptian Saint Maurice became the leader of a Roman legion, all the way up to the present, Otele explores encounters between those defined as "Africans" and those called "Europeans."
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4 out of 5 stars
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A fascinating overview of overlooked history
- De Scott GG Haller en 09-25-21
De: Olivette Otele
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Native American DNA
- Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science
- De: Kim TallBear
- Narrado por: Donna Postel
- Duración: 10 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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In Native American DNA, Kim TallBear shows how DNA testing is a powerful - and problematic - scientific process that is useful in determining close biological relatives. But tribal membership is a legal category that has developed in dependence on certain social understandings and historical contexts, a set of concepts that entangles genetic information in a web of family relations, reservation histories, tribal rules, and government regulations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Intelligent, thought provoking
- De k g en 05-24-24
De: Kim TallBear
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The Nutmeg's Curse
- Parables for a Planet in Crisis
- De: Amitav Ghosh
- Narrado por: Sam Dastor
- Duración: 10 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 53
A powerful work of history, essay, testimony, and polemic, The Nutmeg’s Curse argues that the dynamics of climate change today are rooted in a centuries-old geopolitical order constructed by Western colonialism. At the center of Ghosh’s narrative is the now-ubiquitous spice nutmeg. The history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation—of both human life and the natural environment. In Ghosh’s hands, the story of the nutmeg becomes a parable for our environmental crisis.
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5 out of 5 stars
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performance....
- De Bonnie en 11-15-22
De: Amitav Ghosh
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Giving the Devil His Due
- Reflections of a Scientific Humanist
- De: Michael Shermer
- Narrado por: Michael Shermer
- Duración: 13 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 153
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 127
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 124
Who is the "Devil"? And what is he due? The devil is anyone who disagrees with you. And what he is due is the right to speak his mind. He must have this for your own safety's sake, because his freedom is inextricably tied to your own. If he can be censored, why shouldn't you be censored? If we put barriers up to silence "unpleasant" ideas, what's to stop the silencing of any discussion? This book is a full-throated defense of free speech and open inquiry in politics, science, and culture by the New York Times best-selling author and skeptic Michael Shermer.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Flawed Audio
- De Private en 04-10-20
De: Michael Shermer
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