Smashing the Liquor Machine
A Global History of Prohibition
No se pudo agregar al carrito
Add to Cart failed.
Error al Agregar a Lista de Deseos.
Error al eliminar de la lista de deseos.
Error al añadir a tu biblioteca
Error al seguir el podcast
Error al dejar de seguir el podcast
Exclusivo para miembros Prime: ¿Nuevo en Audible? Obtén 2 audiolibros gratis con tu prueba.
Smashing the Liquor Machine
Compra ahora por $30.09
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
-
Narrado por:
-
Tom Perkins
Acerca de esta escucha
When most people think of the prohibition era, they think of speakeasies, rum runners, and backwoods fundamentalists railing about the ills of strong drink. In other words, in the popular imagination, it is a peculiarly American history.
Yet, as Mark Lawrence Schrad shows in Smashing the Liquor Machine, the conventional scholarship on prohibition is extremely misleading for a simple reason: American prohibition was just one piece of a global phenomenon. Schrad's pathbreaking history of prohibition looks at the anti-alcohol movement around the globe through the experiences of pro-temperance leaders like Vladimir Lenin, Leo Tolstoy, Thomás Masaryk, Kemal Atatürk, Mahatma Gandhi, and anti-colonial activists across Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Schrad argues that temperance wasn't "American exceptionalism" at all, but rather one of the most broad-based and successful transnational social movements of the modern era.
Unlike many traditional "dry" histories, Smashing the Liquor Machine gives voice to minority and subaltern figures who resisted the global liquor industry, and further highlights that the impulses that led to the temperance movement were far more progressive and variegated than Americans have been led to believe.
©2021 Oxford University Press (P)2022 TantorLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
-
Judgment at Tokyo
- World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
- De: Gary J. Bass
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 31 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 104
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 87
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 87
In the weeks after Japan finally surrendered to the Allies to end World War II, the world turned to the question of how to move on from years of carnage and destruction. For Harry Truman, Douglas MacArthur, Chiang Kai-shek, and their fellow victors, the question of justice seemed clear: Japan’s militaristic leaders needed to be tried and punished for the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor.
-
1 out of 5 stars
-
Biased revisionist history
- De Amazon Customer en 12-31-23
De: Gary J. Bass
-
Vodka Politics
- Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State
- De: Mark Lawrence Schrad
- Narrado por: Noah Michael Levine
- Duración: 18 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 87
-
Narración:4 out of 5 stars 73
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 74
Russia is famous for its vodka, and its culture of extreme intoxication. But just as vodka is central to the lives of many Russians, it is also central to understanding Russian history and politics. In Vodka Politics, Mark Lawrence Schrad argues that debilitating societal alcoholism is not hard-wired into Russians' genetic code, but rather their autocratic political system, which has long wielded vodka as a tool of statecraft. Through a series of historical investigations stretching from Ivan the Terrible through Vladimir Putin, Vodka Politics presents the secret history of the Russian state itself.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
Look Natasha! Moose and Squirrel are drunk!
- De The Crunge en 09-07-16
-
Last Call
- The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
- De: Daniel Okrent
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 17 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 485
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 423
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 425
A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America’s most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the U.S. Constitution was amended to restrict one of America’s favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages. Okrent reveals how Prohibition marked a confluence of diverse forces, including the growing political power of the women’s suffrage movement and the fear of small-town, native-stock Protestants that they were losing control of their country to the immigrants of the large cities.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Very Thorough Historical Review
- De Pierre en 11-12-12
De: Daniel Okrent
-
The Arc of a Covenant
- The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People
- De: Walter Russell Mead
- Narrado por: Josh Bloomberg
- Duración: 26 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 29
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 29
In this bold examination of the Israeli-American relationship, Walter Russell Mead demolishes the myths that both pro-Zionists and anti-Zionists have fostered over the years. He makes clear that Zionism has always been a divisive subject in the American Jewish community, and that American Christians have often been the most fervent supporters of a Jewish state, citing examples from the time of J. P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller to the present day.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
A phenomenal history lesson
- De B. A. Whitehouse II en 11-11-24
-
Gangsters of Capitalism
- Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire
- De: Jonathan M. Katz
- Narrado por: Adam Barr
- Duración: 14 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 675
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 600
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 603
Smedley Butler was the most celebrated warfighter of his time. Best-selling books were written about him. Hollywood adored him. Wherever the flag went, “The Fighting Quaker” went - serving in nearly every major overseas conflict from the Spanish War of 1898 until the eve of World War II.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
nostalgic melancholy sadness of yet another time
- De Robert Eaton Jr. en 01-29-22
De: Jonathan M. Katz
-
Vanished Kingdoms
- The Rise and Fall of States and Nations
- De: Norman Davies
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 30 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 231
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 187
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 185
There is something profoundly romantic about lost civilizations. Davies peers through the cracks in the mainstream accounts of modern-day states to dazzle us with extraordinary stories of barely remembered pasts, and of the traces they left behind. This is Norman Davies at his best: sweeping narrative history packed with unexpected insights. Vanished Kingdoms will appeal to all fans of unconventional and thought-provoking history, from listeners of Niall Ferguson to Jared Diamond.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
needs a good editor.
- De Ryan Anderson en 09-25-21
De: Norman Davies
-
Judgment at Tokyo
- World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
- De: Gary J. Bass
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 31 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 104
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 87
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 87
In the weeks after Japan finally surrendered to the Allies to end World War II, the world turned to the question of how to move on from years of carnage and destruction. For Harry Truman, Douglas MacArthur, Chiang Kai-shek, and their fellow victors, the question of justice seemed clear: Japan’s militaristic leaders needed to be tried and punished for the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor.
-
1 out of 5 stars
-
Biased revisionist history
- De Amazon Customer en 12-31-23
De: Gary J. Bass
-
Vodka Politics
- Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State
- De: Mark Lawrence Schrad
- Narrado por: Noah Michael Levine
- Duración: 18 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 87
-
Narración:4 out of 5 stars 73
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 74
Russia is famous for its vodka, and its culture of extreme intoxication. But just as vodka is central to the lives of many Russians, it is also central to understanding Russian history and politics. In Vodka Politics, Mark Lawrence Schrad argues that debilitating societal alcoholism is not hard-wired into Russians' genetic code, but rather their autocratic political system, which has long wielded vodka as a tool of statecraft. Through a series of historical investigations stretching from Ivan the Terrible through Vladimir Putin, Vodka Politics presents the secret history of the Russian state itself.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
Look Natasha! Moose and Squirrel are drunk!
- De The Crunge en 09-07-16
-
Last Call
- The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
- De: Daniel Okrent
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 17 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 485
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 423
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 425
A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America’s most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the U.S. Constitution was amended to restrict one of America’s favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages. Okrent reveals how Prohibition marked a confluence of diverse forces, including the growing political power of the women’s suffrage movement and the fear of small-town, native-stock Protestants that they were losing control of their country to the immigrants of the large cities.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Very Thorough Historical Review
- De Pierre en 11-12-12
De: Daniel Okrent
-
The Arc of a Covenant
- The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People
- De: Walter Russell Mead
- Narrado por: Josh Bloomberg
- Duración: 26 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 29
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 29
In this bold examination of the Israeli-American relationship, Walter Russell Mead demolishes the myths that both pro-Zionists and anti-Zionists have fostered over the years. He makes clear that Zionism has always been a divisive subject in the American Jewish community, and that American Christians have often been the most fervent supporters of a Jewish state, citing examples from the time of J. P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller to the present day.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
A phenomenal history lesson
- De B. A. Whitehouse II en 11-11-24
-
Gangsters of Capitalism
- Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire
- De: Jonathan M. Katz
- Narrado por: Adam Barr
- Duración: 14 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 675
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 600
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 603
Smedley Butler was the most celebrated warfighter of his time. Best-selling books were written about him. Hollywood adored him. Wherever the flag went, “The Fighting Quaker” went - serving in nearly every major overseas conflict from the Spanish War of 1898 until the eve of World War II.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
nostalgic melancholy sadness of yet another time
- De Robert Eaton Jr. en 01-29-22
De: Jonathan M. Katz
-
Vanished Kingdoms
- The Rise and Fall of States and Nations
- De: Norman Davies
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 30 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 231
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 187
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 185
There is something profoundly romantic about lost civilizations. Davies peers through the cracks in the mainstream accounts of modern-day states to dazzle us with extraordinary stories of barely remembered pasts, and of the traces they left behind. This is Norman Davies at his best: sweeping narrative history packed with unexpected insights. Vanished Kingdoms will appeal to all fans of unconventional and thought-provoking history, from listeners of Niall Ferguson to Jared Diamond.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
needs a good editor.
- De Ryan Anderson en 09-25-21
De: Norman Davies
-
The Great War
- A Combat History of the First World War
- De: Peter Hart
- Narrado por: Roger Davis
- Duración: 22 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 131
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 118
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 117
World War I altered the landscape of the modern world in every conceivable arena. Millions died; empires collapsed; new ideologies and political movements arose; poison gas, warplanes, tanks, submarines, and other technologies appeared. "Total war" emerged as a grim, mature reality. In The Great War, Peter Hart provides a masterful combat history of this global conflict.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Horrible Listen
- De Eric Ring en 11-16-21
De: Peter Hart
-
Index, a History of The
- A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
- De: Dennis Duncan
- Narrado por: Neil Gardner
- Duración: 8 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 35
-
Narración:4 out of 5 stars 28
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 27
Most of us give little thought to the back of the book - it's just where you go to look things up. But as Dennis Duncan reveals in this delightful and witty history, hiding in plain sight is an unlikely realm of ambition and obsession, sparring and politicking, pleasure and play. In the pages of the index, we might find "Butchers, to be avoided", or "Cows that shite Fire", or even catch "Calvin in his chamber with a Nonne". Here, for the first time, is the secret world of the index: an unsung but extraordinary everyday tool, with an illustrious but little-known past.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Maybe a book that should be read rather than listened to
- De Amazon Customer en 11-09-22
De: Dennis Duncan
-
Super-Infinite
- The Transformations of John Donne
- De: Katherine Rundell
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 7 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
-
General5 out of 5 stars 81
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 72
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 71
Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing. In his myriad lives he was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, a priest, an MP—and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language. Along the way he converted from Catholicism to Protestantism, was imprisoned for marrying a sixteen-year old girl without her father’s consent, struggled to feed a family of ten children, and was often ill and in pain.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Oh but the narration…
- De David Benjamin en 01-01-23
-
Con/Artist
- The Life and Crimes of the World's Greatest Art Forger
- De: Tony Tetro, Giampiero Ambrosi
- Narrado por: Richard Ferrone, Tony Tetro, Giampiero Ambrosi
- Duración: 8 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 290
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 231
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 231
The art world is a much dirtier, nastier business than you might expect. Tony Tetro, one of the most renowned art forgers in history, will make you question every masterpiece you’ve ever seen in a museum, gallery, or private collection. Tetro’s “Rembrandts,” “Caravaggios,” “Miros,” and hundreds of other works now hang on walls around the globe.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Incredibly interesting!
- De Carole Wooten en 12-07-22
De: Tony Tetro, y otros
-
The Strategy of Denial
- American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict
- De: Elbridge A. Colby
- Narrado por: Mike Lenz
- Duración: 13 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 99
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 77
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 78
Elbridge A. Colby was the lead architect of the 2018 National Defense Strategy, the most significant revision of US defense strategy in a generation. Here he lays out how America's defense must change to address China's growing power and ambition. Based firmly in the realist tradition but deeply engaged in current policy, this book offers a clear framework for what America's goals in confronting China must be, how its military strategy must change, and how it must prioritize these goals over its lesser interests.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
A Rational Liberalist Approach in a Realists World
- De Joshua Carroll en 06-23-23
-
Stamped from the Beginning
- The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
- De: Ibram X. Kendi
- Narrado por: Christopher Dontrell Piper
- Duración: 19 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
-
General5 out of 5 stars 4,100
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,583
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 3,551
Some Americans cling desperately to the myth that we are living in a post-racial society, that the election of the first Black president spelled the doom of racism. In fact, racist thought is alive and well in America - more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues in Stamped from the Beginning, if we have any hope of grappling with this stark reality, we must first understand how racist ideas were developed, disseminated, and enshrined in American society.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Fabulous book, poor reader
- De EBMason en 11-15-17
De: Ibram X. Kendi
-
White Freedom
- The Racial History of an Idea
- De: Tyler Stovall
- Narrado por: Ako Mitchell
- Duración: 14 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
-
General5 out of 5 stars 15
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 11
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 11
The era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern conceptions of freedom and democracy, was also the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. America, a nation founded on the principle of liberty, is also a nation built on African slavery, Native American genocide, and systematic racial discrimination. White Freedom traces the complex relationship between freedom and race from the 18th century to today, revealing how being free has meant being white.
De: Tyler Stovall
-
A People's History of the United States
- De: Howard Zinn
- Narrado por: Jeff Zinn
- Duración: 34 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 9,121
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7,686
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 7,701
For much of his life, historian Howard Zinn chronicled American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version taught in schools - with its emphasis on great men in high places - to focus on the street, the home, and the workplace. Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the United States is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of - and in the words of - America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
Amateur hour in the production booth
- De Thomas en 11-09-10
De: Howard Zinn
-
The Great Air Race
- Death, Glory, and the Dawn of American Aviation
- De: John Lancaster
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 10 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 115
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 86
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 85
The incredible, untold story of the men who risked their lives in the first transcontinental air contest—and put American aviation on the map.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
Very entertaining/informative book
- De D. Littman en 12-09-22
De: John Lancaster
-
The Napoleonic Wars
- De: Alexander Mikaberidze
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 35 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 403
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 327
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 324
The Napoleonic Wars saw fighting on an unprecedented scale in Europe and the Americas. It took the wealth of the British Empire, combined with the might of the continental armies, almost two decades to bring down one of the world's greatest military leaders and the empire that he had created. Napoleon's ultimate defeat was to determine the history of Europe for almost 100 years. From the frozen wastelands of Russia, through the brutal fighting in the Peninsula to the blood-soaked battlefield of Waterloo, this book tells the story of the dramatic rise and fall of the Napoleonic Empire.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
No description of battles
- De John Gaston en 01-15-21
-
G-Man (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
- J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
- De: Beverly Gage
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 36 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 615
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 525
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 525
A major new biography of J Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a groundbreaking portrait of a colossus who dominated half a century of American history and planted the seeds for much of today's conservative political landscape.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Amazing!
- De Jessica Armas en 12-06-22
De: Beverly Gage
-
King Leopold's Ghost
- A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
- De: Adam Hochschild
- Narrado por: Geoffrey Howard
- Duración: 12 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,948
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,620
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,621
In the late 1890s, Edmund Dene Morel, a young British shipping company agent, noticed something strange about the cargoes of his company's ships as they arrived from and departed for the Congo. Incoming ships were crammed with valuable ivory and rubber. Outbound ships carried little more than soldiers and firearms. Correctly concluding that only slave labor could account for these cargoes, Morel almost singlehandedly made this slave-labor regime the premier human rights story in the world.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Fascinating
- De Edith en 01-20-11
De: Adam Hochschild
Relacionado con este tema
-
A History of the American People
- De: Paul Johnson
- Narrado por: Nadia May
- Duración: 48 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 699
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 492
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 492
Johnson's monumental history of the United States, from the first settlers to the Clinton administration, covers every aspect of American culture: politics, business, art, literature, science, society and customs, complex traditions, and religious beliefs. The story is told in terms of the men and women who shaped and led the nation and the ordinary people who collectively created its unique character.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
A British conservative's view of American history.
- De Mike From Mesa en 06-17-09
De: Paul Johnson
-
An African American and Latinx History of the United States
- De: Paul Ortiz
- Narrado por: J. D. Jackson
- Duración: 9 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 455
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 400
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 395
Spanning more than 200 years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history arguing that the "Global South" was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Ortiz challenges the notion of westward progress, and shows how placing African American, Latinx, and Indigenous voices unapologetically front and center transforms American history into the story of the working class organizing against imperialism.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
I had to return
- De Andrew Alvarez en 05-19-20
De: Paul Ortiz
-
The American Experiment
- De: James MacGregor Burns
- Narrado por: Mark Ashby
- Duración: 88 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 167
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 148
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 149
James MacGregor Burns’s stunning trilogy of American history, spanning the birth of the Constitution to the final days of the Cold War. In these three volumes, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner James MacGregor Burns chronicles with depth and narrative panache the most significant cultural, economic, and political events of American history.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
American History ABCs
- De Michael en 06-16-15
-
A People's History of the United States
- De: Howard Zinn
- Narrado por: Jeff Zinn
- Duración: 34 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 9,121
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7,686
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 7,701
For much of his life, historian Howard Zinn chronicled American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version taught in schools - with its emphasis on great men in high places - to focus on the street, the home, and the workplace. Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the United States is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of - and in the words of - America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
Amateur hour in the production booth
- De Thomas en 11-09-10
De: Howard Zinn
-
The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution: 1763-1789
- De: Robert Middlekauff
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 26 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,301
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,103
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,098
The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically-acclaimed volume - a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize - offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the American republic.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Strong History Rich With Behind The Scenes Details
- De John en 10-06-11
-
Vodka Politics
- Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State
- De: Mark Lawrence Schrad
- Narrado por: Noah Michael Levine
- Duración: 18 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 87
-
Narración:4 out of 5 stars 73
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 74
Russia is famous for its vodka, and its culture of extreme intoxication. But just as vodka is central to the lives of many Russians, it is also central to understanding Russian history and politics. In Vodka Politics, Mark Lawrence Schrad argues that debilitating societal alcoholism is not hard-wired into Russians' genetic code, but rather their autocratic political system, which has long wielded vodka as a tool of statecraft. Through a series of historical investigations stretching from Ivan the Terrible through Vladimir Putin, Vodka Politics presents the secret history of the Russian state itself.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
Look Natasha! Moose and Squirrel are drunk!
- De The Crunge en 09-07-16
-
A History of the American People
- De: Paul Johnson
- Narrado por: Nadia May
- Duración: 48 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 699
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 492
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 492
Johnson's monumental history of the United States, from the first settlers to the Clinton administration, covers every aspect of American culture: politics, business, art, literature, science, society and customs, complex traditions, and religious beliefs. The story is told in terms of the men and women who shaped and led the nation and the ordinary people who collectively created its unique character.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
A British conservative's view of American history.
- De Mike From Mesa en 06-17-09
De: Paul Johnson
-
An African American and Latinx History of the United States
- De: Paul Ortiz
- Narrado por: J. D. Jackson
- Duración: 9 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 455
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 400
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 395
Spanning more than 200 years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history arguing that the "Global South" was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Ortiz challenges the notion of westward progress, and shows how placing African American, Latinx, and Indigenous voices unapologetically front and center transforms American history into the story of the working class organizing against imperialism.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
I had to return
- De Andrew Alvarez en 05-19-20
De: Paul Ortiz
-
The American Experiment
- De: James MacGregor Burns
- Narrado por: Mark Ashby
- Duración: 88 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 167
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 148
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 149
James MacGregor Burns’s stunning trilogy of American history, spanning the birth of the Constitution to the final days of the Cold War. In these three volumes, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner James MacGregor Burns chronicles with depth and narrative panache the most significant cultural, economic, and political events of American history.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
American History ABCs
- De Michael en 06-16-15
-
A People's History of the United States
- De: Howard Zinn
- Narrado por: Jeff Zinn
- Duración: 34 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 9,121
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7,686
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 7,701
For much of his life, historian Howard Zinn chronicled American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version taught in schools - with its emphasis on great men in high places - to focus on the street, the home, and the workplace. Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the United States is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of - and in the words of - America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
Amateur hour in the production booth
- De Thomas en 11-09-10
De: Howard Zinn
-
The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution: 1763-1789
- De: Robert Middlekauff
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 26 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,301
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,103
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,098
The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically-acclaimed volume - a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize - offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the American republic.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Strong History Rich With Behind The Scenes Details
- De John en 10-06-11
-
Vodka Politics
- Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State
- De: Mark Lawrence Schrad
- Narrado por: Noah Michael Levine
- Duración: 18 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 87
-
Narración:4 out of 5 stars 73
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 74
Russia is famous for its vodka, and its culture of extreme intoxication. But just as vodka is central to the lives of many Russians, it is also central to understanding Russian history and politics. In Vodka Politics, Mark Lawrence Schrad argues that debilitating societal alcoholism is not hard-wired into Russians' genetic code, but rather their autocratic political system, which has long wielded vodka as a tool of statecraft. Through a series of historical investigations stretching from Ivan the Terrible through Vladimir Putin, Vodka Politics presents the secret history of the Russian state itself.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
Look Natasha! Moose and Squirrel are drunk!
- De The Crunge en 09-07-16
-
American Nations
- A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
- De: Colin Woodard
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
- Duración: 12 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,503
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,036
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,033
North America was settled by people with distinct religious, political, and ethnographic characteristics, creating regional cultures that have been at odds with one another ever since. Subsequent immigrants didn't confront or assimilate into an "American" or "Canadian" culture, but rather into one of the 11 distinct regional ones that spread over the continent each staking out mutually exclusive territory. In American Nations, Colin Woodard leads us on a journey through the history of our fractured continent....
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
One of a Kind Masterpiece
- De Theo Horesh en 02-28-13
De: Colin Woodard
-
Why Liberals Win the Culture Wars (Even When They Lose Elections)
- The Battles That Define America from Jefferson's Heresies to Gay Marriage
- De: Stephen Prothero
- Narrado por: Tristan Morris
- Duración: 10 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 55
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 48
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 48
Though they may seem to be dividing the country irreparably, today's heated cultural and political battles between right and left, progressives and the Tea Party, religious and secular are far from unprecedented. In this engaging and important work, Stephen Prothero reframes the current debate, viewing it as the latest in a number of flashpoints that have shaped our national identity.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Resistance to Change
- De Joanne en 04-07-16
De: Stephen Prothero
-
Machine Made
- Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern American Politics
- De: Terry Golway
- Narrado por: Adam Grupper
- Duración: 13 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 73
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 70
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 68
For decades, history has considered Tammany Hall, New York's famous political machine, shorthand for the worst of urban politics: graft, crime, and patronage personified by notoriously corrupt characters. Infamous crooks like William "Boss" Tweed dominate traditional histories of Tammany, distorting our understanding of a critical chapter of American political history. In Machine Made, historian and New York City journalist Terry Golway convincingly dismantles these stereotypes.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
A missed opportunity
- De Kathy en 05-27-15
De: Terry Golway
-
The Real Lincoln
- A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War
- De: Thomas J. Dilorenzo
- Narrado por: Charles Constant
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 528
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 468
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 468
Most Americans consider Abraham Lincoln to be the greatest president in history. His legend as the Great Emancipator has grown to mythic proportions as hundreds of books, a national holiday, and a monument in Washington, D.C., extol his heroism and martyrdom. But what if most everything you knew about Lincoln were false? What if, instead of an American hero who sought to free the slaves, Lincoln were in fact a calculating politician who waged the bloodiest war in American history in order to build an empire that rivaled Great Britain's?
-
1 out of 5 stars
-
OpEd Disguised as History
- De John McDowell en 10-30-18
-
A Young People's History of the United States
- De: Rebecca Stefoff, Howard Zinn
- Narrado por: Jeff Zinn
- Duración: 7 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 248
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 200
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 199
Beginning with a look at Christopher Columbus’s arrival through the eyes of the Arawak Indians, then leading the reader through the struggles for workers’ rights, women’s rights, and civil rights during the 19th and 20th centuries, and ending with the current protests against continued American imperialism, Zinn in the volumes of A Young People’s History of the United States presents a radical new way of understanding America’s history. In so doing, he reminds listeners that America’s true greatness is shaped by our dissident voices, not our military generals.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
An Inclusive History for Young People
- De Susie en 03-17-14
De: Rebecca Stefoff, y otros
-
The End of the Myth
- From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
- De: Greg Grandin
- Narrado por: Eric Pollins
- Duración: 13 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 274
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 229
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 228
From a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a new and eye-opening interpretation of the meaning of the frontier, from early westward expansion to Trump’s border wall.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
The chickens are coming home to roost
- De MJ en 04-21-19
De: Greg Grandin
-
The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History
- De: Thomas E. Woods Jr.
- Narrado por: Barrett Whitener
- Duración: 8 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,531
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,121
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,115
Everything, well, almost everything, you know about American history is wrong because most textbooks and popular history books are written by left-wing academic historians who treat their biases as fact. But fear not; Professor Thomas Woods refutes the popular myths in The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Highly recommended! Not for the faint of heart!
- De RAC en 12-12-05
-
A Patriot’s History of the United States, Updated Edition
- From Columbus's Great Discovery to America's Age of Entitlement
- De: Larry Schweikart, Michael Allen
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 55 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 687
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 589
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 589
Over the past decade, A Patriot's History of the United States has become the definitive conservative history of our country, correcting the biases of historians and other intellectuals who downplay the greatness of America's patriots. Professors Schweikart and Allen have now revised, updated, and expanded their book, which covers America's long history with an appreciation for the values that made this nation uniquely successful.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
A Fox News Version of American History
- De Stephen en 05-16-21
De: Larry Schweikart, y otros
-
American Heritage History of the United States
- De: Douglas Brinkley
- Narrado por: Eric Martin
- Duración: 23 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 52
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 40
Douglas Brinkley takes us on the incredible journey of the United States - a nation formed from a vast countryside on whose fringes 13 small British colonies fought for their freedom, then established a democratic nation that spanned the continent and went on to become a world power. This book will be treasured by anyone interested in the story of America.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Highly recommended!
- De M. Hu en 08-04-17
De: Douglas Brinkley
-
Black Reconstruction in America
- De: W. E. B. Du Bois, David Levering Lewis
- Narrado por: Mirron Willis
- Duración: 37 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
-
General5 out of 5 stars 358
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 300
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 297
This pioneering work was the first full-length study of the role black Americans played in the crucial period after the Civil War, when the slaves had been freed and the attempt was made to reconstruct American society. Hailed at the time, Black Reconstruction in America has justly been called a classic.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
The textbook you should have had in high school.
- De Saleh en 05-06-18
De: W. E. B. Du Bois, y otros
-
America Aflame
- How the Civil War Created a Nation
- De: David Goldfield
- Narrado por: David Drummond
- Duración: 27 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 53
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 46
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 44
In this spellbinding new history, David Goldfield offers the first major new interpretation of the Civil War era since James M. McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom. Where past scholars have interpreted the war as a triumph of freedom, Goldfield sees it as America's greatest failure: the result of a breakdown caused by the infusion of evangelical religion into the public sphere.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Great and indepth
- De Kindle Customer en 06-02-14
De: David Goldfield
-
Stamped from the Beginning
- The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
- De: Ibram X. Kendi
- Narrado por: Christopher Dontrell Piper
- Duración: 19 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
-
General5 out of 5 stars 4,100
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,583
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 3,551
Some Americans cling desperately to the myth that we are living in a post-racial society, that the election of the first Black president spelled the doom of racism. In fact, racist thought is alive and well in America - more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues in Stamped from the Beginning, if we have any hope of grappling with this stark reality, we must first understand how racist ideas were developed, disseminated, and enshrined in American society.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Fabulous book, poor reader
- De EBMason en 11-15-17
De: Ibram X. Kendi
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Smashing the Liquor Machine
Calificaciones medias de los clientesReseñas - Selecciona las pestañas a continuación para cambiar el origen de las reseñas.
-
Total5 out of 5 stars
-
Ejecución5 out of 5 stars
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars
- L. King
- 04-05-23
I’d love to say it takes a hatchet to temperance myths…
But the book is actually more of a scalpel that carefully, methodically, and completely disassembles those myths then just as carefully assembles a more accurate narrative. And that narrative is a revelation—and not just for people interested in history. I strongly recommend this book to people renegotiating their own relationships with alcohol, not because it pushes sobriety ( it absolutely doesn’t), but because it sheds so much light on how powerful commercial and government interests engineer addiction for profit. And on how some of the greatest men and women in history have fought back.
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña
esto le resultó útil a 1 persona