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- The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
- De: Russell Shorto
- Narrado por: Russell Shorto
- Duración: 14 h y 33 m
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In a landmark work of history, Russell Shorto presents astonishing information on the founding of our nation and reveals in riveting detail the crucial role of the Dutch in making America what it is today.
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Incomplete history, but fun. Performance is poor.
- De Matthew en 11-27-18
De: Russell Shorto
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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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Toussaint Louverture
- A Revolutionary Life
- De: Philippe Girard
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 10 h y 26 m
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Philippe Girard shows how Toussaint Louverture transformed himself from lowly freedman into revolutionary hero as the mastermind of the bloody slave revolt of 1791. By 1801, Louverture was governor of the colony where he had once been a slave. But his lifelong quest to be accepted as a member of the colonial elite ended in despair: he spent the last year of his life in a French prison cell. His example nevertheless inspired anticolonial and Black nationalist movements well into the 20th century.
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very powerful story
- De jim en 01-06-17
De: Philippe Girard
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Empire's Crossroads
- A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day
- De: Carrie Gibson
- Narrado por: Romy Nordlinger
- Duración: 17 h y 50 m
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Ever since Christopher Columbus stepped off the Santa Maria onto what is today San Salvador, in the Bahamas, and announced that he had arrived in the Orient, the Caribbean has been a stage for projected fantasies and competition between world powers. In Empire’s Crossroads, British American historian Carrie Gibson traces the story of this coveted area from the northern rim of South America up to Cuba, and from discovery through colonialism to today, offering a vivid, panoramic view of this complex region and its rich, important history.
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Careless production mars storytelling
- De Brenda Thomas en 03-31-16
De: Carrie Gibson
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This Land Is Their Land
- The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving
- De: David J. Silverman
- Narrado por: William Roberts
- Duración: 14 h y 55 m
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In March 1621, when Plymouth’s survival was hanging in the balance, the Wampanoag sachem (or chief), Ousamequin (Massasoit), and Plymouth’s governor, John Carver, declared their people’s friendship for each other and a commitment to mutual defense. Later that autumn, the English gathered their first successful harvest and lifted the specter of starvation. Ousamequin and 90 of his men then visited Plymouth for the 'First Thanksgiving'. The treaty remained operative until King Philip’s War in 1675, when 50 years of uneasy peace between the two parties would come to an end.
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This factual presentation is lasting
- De marwalk en 04-10-20
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Empire
- De: Niall Ferguson
- Narrado por: Sean Barrett
- Duración: 15 h y 13 m
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The British Empire was the largest in all history: the nearest thing to global domination ever achieved. The world we know today is in large measure the product of Britain's age of empire. The global spread of capitalism, telecommunications, the English language, and the institutions of representative government - all these can be traced back to the extraordinary expansion of Britain's economy, population, and culture from the 17th century until the mid-20th. On a vast and vividly colored canvas, Empire shows how the British Empire acted as midwife to modernity.
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Not Balanced till Conclusion
- De Hectoris en 08-13-20
De: Niall Ferguson
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The Mayflower
- The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America
- De: Rebecca Fraser
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 15 h y 28 m
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The voyage of the Mayflower and the founding of Plymouth Colony is one of the seminal events in world history. But the poorly equipped group of English Puritans who ventured across the Atlantic in the early autumn of 1620 had no sense they would pass into legend. They had 80 casks of butter and two dogs but no cattle for milk, meat, or ploughing. They were ill prepared for the brutal journey and the new land that few of them could comprehend.
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I kept saying "Oh My Goodness!"
- De Midwestern en 11-29-19
De: Rebecca Fraser
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Ebony and Ivy
- Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities
- De: Craig Steven Wilder
- Narrado por: Corey Allen
- Duración: 10 h y 53 m
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A 2006 report commissioned by Brown University revealed that institution's complex and contested involvement in slavery - setting off a controversy that leapt from the ivory tower to make headlines across the country. But Brown's troubling past was far from unique. In Ebony and Ivy, Craig Steven Wilder, a rising star in the profession of history, lays bare uncomfortable truths about race, slavery, and the American academy.
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Detailed chronicle of ed & Slavery's entwinement
- De Scott en 07-23-16
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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
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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....
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One of a Kind Masterpiece
- De Theo Horesh en 02-28-13
De: Colin Woodard
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Empire
- How Britain Made the Modern World
- De: Niall Ferguson
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 16 h y 11 m
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Once vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red, and Britannia ruled not just the waves but the prairies of America, the plains of Asia, the jungles of Africa and the deserts of Arabia. Just how did a small, rainy island in the North Atlantic achieve all this? And why did the empire on which the sun literally never set finally decline and fall? Niall Ferguson's acclaimed Empire brilliantly unfolds the imperial story in all its splendours and its miseries.
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Such a great listen - What a History Lesson
- De Dorothy en 11-04-17
De: Niall Ferguson
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To the original text of what has become a classic of American historical literature, Bernard Bailyn adds a substantial essay, "Fulfillment", as a postscript. Here he discusses the intense nationwide debate on the ratification of the Constitution, stressing the continuities between that struggle over the foundations of the national government and the original principles of the Revolution.
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Most Americans believe that slavery was a creature of the South, and that Northern states and territories provided stops on the Underground Railroad for fugitive slaves on their way to Canada. In this paradigm-shifting book, celebrated historian Tiya Miles reveals that slavery was at the heart of the Midwest's iconic city: Detroit. In this richly researched and eye-opening book, Miles has pieced together the experience of the unfree - both native and African American - in the frontier outpost of Detroit.
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American Colonies: The Settling of North America
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In the first volume in the Penguin History of the United States series, edited by Eric Foner, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history by examining the many cultures that helped make America, from the native inhabitants from millennia past through the decades of Western colonization and conquest and across the entire continent, all the way to the Pacific coast.
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Crucible of War
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We all know the great American origin story: It begins with an exodus. Fleeing religious persecution, the hardworking, pious Pilgrims thrived in the wilds of New England, where they built their fabled "shining city on a hill". Legend goes that the colony in Jamestown was a false start, offering a cautionary tale of lazy louts who hunted gold till they starved and shiftless settlers who had to be rescued by English food and the hard discipline of martial law.
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Indigenous Continent
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In Indigenous Continent, acclaimed historian Pekka Hämäläinen presents a sweeping counternarrative that shatters the most basic assumptions about American history. Shifting our perspective away from Jamestown, Plymouth Rock, the Revolution, and other well-trodden episodes on the conventional timeline, he depicts a sovereign world of Native nations whose members, far from helpless victims of colonial violence, dominated the continent for centuries after the first European arrivals.
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An acclaimed book and widely acknowledged classic, The Middle Ground steps outside the simple stories of Indian-white relations—stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence. It is, instead, about a search for accommodation and common meaning. It tells how Europeans and Indians met, regarding each other as alien, as other, as virtually nonhuman, and how between 1650 and 1815 they constructed a common mutually comprehensible world in the region around the Great Lakes that the French called pays d'en haut.
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Massacre on the Merrimack
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- De: Jay Atkinson
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
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Early on March 15, 1697, a band of Abenaki warriors in service to the French raided the English frontier village of Haverhill, Massachusetts. Striking swiftly, the Abenaki killed 27 men, women, and children, and took 13 captives, including 39-year-old Hannah Duston and her week-old daughter, Martha. A short distance from the village, one of the warriors murdered the squalling infant. After witnessing her infant's murder, Duston resolved to get even.
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Fabulous!
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Bloody Mohawk
- The French and Indian War & American Revolution on New York's Frontier
- De: Richard Berleth
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In this narrative history of the Mohawk River Valley and surrounding region from 1713 to 1794, Professor Richard Berleth charts the passage of the valley from a fast-growing agrarian region streaming with colonial traffic to a war-ravaged wasteland. The valley's diverse cultural mix of Iroquois Indians, Palatine Germans, Scots-Irish, Dutch, English, and Highland Scots played as much of a role as its unique geography in the cataclysmic events of the 1700s - the French and Indian Wars and the battles of the American Revolution.
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excellent
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The Apache Wars
- The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History
- De: Paul Andrew Hutton
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
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They called him Mickey Free. His kidnapping started the longest war in American history, and both sides - the Apaches and the white invaders - blamed him for it. A mixed-blood warrior who moved uneasily between the worlds of the Apaches and the American soldiers, he was never trusted by either but desperately needed by both. He was the only man Geronimo ever feared. He played a pivotal role in this long war for the desert Southwest from its beginning in 1861 until its end in 1890 with his pursuit of the renegade scout Apache Kid.
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Ruined by the Narrator
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That Dark and Bloody River
- Chronicles of the Ohio River Valley
- De: Allan W. Eckert
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
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They came on foot and by horseback, in wagons and on rafts, singly and by the score, restless, adventurous, enterprising, relentless, seeking a foothold on the future. European immigrants and American colonists, settlers and speculators, soldiers and missionaries, fugitives from justice and from despair-pioneers all, in the great and inexorable westward expansion defined at its heart by the majestic flow of the Ohio River. This is their story, a chronicle of monumental dimension, of resounding drama and impact set during a pivotal era in our history: the birth and growth of a nation.
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Fascinating Look at a forgotten chapter of history
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- wylie smith
- 04-03-23
brilliant and fascinating
Bailyn has constructed a book that is extremely well organized and loaded with details that flesh out the basic story of America' beginning European settlements. Bailyn uses the available statistical data to show that the settlers of Virginia are a completely different set of Englishmen than those that settled New England. I found that Bailyn's point that the early English saw themselves as natives of the west country, the north, the midlands, etc. rather than as English - until they had define themselves against other peoples. A melting pot indeed. And he points out that the Dutch only started become 'Dutch' when they were conquered by the English.
This book let me look at the early settlers in a nre light, or rather from a different angle. I was sorry to see the book end.
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- L. Greene
- 10-13-23
Excellent Listen
Bailyn added details to the past I wasn’t aware of. The reader did a fine job of cadence & as far as I could tell only mispronounced one English word. If you want to understand America’s founding past, this is an excellent read.
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- Mike Tolhurst
- 01-18-20
Great for going deep on American history
Not for a casual listen - this book is a comprehensive look at British North America in the first 70 years. It stands at an intermediary level between a high level survey and diving into local histories of early american towns. Great for knowledge hounds. Because it focuses on the political history it is, as was the politics of the time, grim. But it is not simply knee jerk revisionist to fit a simplistic narrative of America being founded in evil - the reasons and causal factors of why history played out like it did are fully explored in detail with no prearranged moral being sought.
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- JanaMacEye
- 10-19-22
Had to stop about half way through.
The book and narration started out balanced. But the narrator clearly became more prejudiced against the colonists. Despite the author’s efforts to balance every horrific, savage action by the indigenous people with a reactionary behavior by the colonists, the narrator’s sneering voice came through and spoiled any balance the author attempted to make.
I could not stomach any more of it. A shame.
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- Jane Regan
- 11-08-22
Long but excellent and worth it
The storytelling of Bernard Baylin. The excellent narration. the barbarity of the stories make this book worth listening to and reading.
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- Anonymous User
- 11-04-23
First rate history.
Probably the best book you can read on the earliest English settlers to North America.
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- Jeff Lacy
- 11-21-22
A bold historiography supported by a well-modulated Audible performance
Henry Strozier, whose rich voice is a mix of Walt Disney and Walter Cronkite gives a well-modulated performance of Bernard Bailyn’s vastly researched, detailed, and boldly sophisticated historiography of the population and development of America’s colonization (through the English and Dutch Indies Companies) during the seventeenth century. Not the Thanksgiving myth of the peaceful coming together of the English pilgrims and the native Indians, but a barbarous period for survival.
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- judithh
- 07-21-16
A feast for genealogy/history buffs
Would you consider the audio edition of The Barbarous Years to be better than the print version?
After listening to the audio edition, I purchased a paperback copy because I have been working on family genealogy for over 10 years and the information about religion, birthplace of immigrants and where they chose to settle in British America is priceless to my understanding of several generations of my family.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Finally a clear description of the sometimes subtle differences between Puritans, Pilgrims, Anabaptists, Quakers and other religious groups.
What about Henry Strozier’s performance did you like?
Easy to listen to, appropriate gravitas for the subject matter.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Much too much information for one sitting or even several. I have listened to it twice and will listen to portions again. A treasure trove that helps to explain how we got to where we are in America today.
Any additional comments?
Not a book for the faint hearted. Very long, very detailed but one of my favorites ever.
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- Kindle Customer
- 09-08-21
A Text Book
The book is filled with unnecessary flowery vocabulary. It is on a reading level of a Masters Degree. The author seems to think the bigger the word, the better it is. There is some interesting information if you can persevere through the rest. The narrator can put you to sleep. Some words were mispronounced. That leaves doubt about other words whose pronunciation is unknown to me. Some of these are Indian tribe names. Here is how it comes across to me: The supercilious pomposity demonstrated by this author - narrator team is unsurpassed. They may have impressed someone, but not me.
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- Adam
- 10-11-13
Disjointed and overly detailed
After listening to this book, I am starting to realize that Pulitzer Prize-winning histories are hit or miss. The subject of this book could be extremely interesting, but unfortunately Professor Bailyn's delivery is very disjointed and replete with details that keep the listener wondering how the travails of various settlers fit into the larger context of colonization.
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