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- De ROGER QUESADA en 08-03-20
De: Jeffrey D. Sachs
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Capitalism and Slavery
- Third Edition
- De: Eric Williams
- Narrado por: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Duración: 9 h
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Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide. Eric Williams advanced these powerful ideas in Capitalism and Slavery, published in 1944. Years ahead of its time, his profound critique became the foundation for studies of imperialism and economic development.
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Excellent Historical Reading for the Caribbean
- De Trinirastawoman en 06-01-22
De: Eric Williams
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The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
- Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
- De: David S. Landes
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
- Duración: 21 h y 47 m
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The Wealth and Poverty of Nations is David S. Landes' acclaimed, best-selling exploration of one of the most contentious and hotly debated questions of our time: Why do some nations achieve economic success while others remain mired in poverty? The answer, as Landes definitively illustrates, is a complex interplay of cultural mores and historical circumstance.
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A detailed explanation
- De Kaarlis en 12-07-21
De: David S. Landes
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Animal, Vegetable, Junk
- A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
- De: Mark Bittman
- Narrado por: Mark Bittman
- Duración: 12 h y 53 m
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The story of humankind is usually told as one of technological innovation and economic influence—of arrowheads and atomic bombs, settlers and stock markets. But behind it all, there is an even more fundamental driver: Food. In Animal, Vegetable, Junk, trusted food authority Mark Bittman offers a panoramic view of how the frenzy for food has driven human history to some of its most catastrophic moments.
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Mostly Junk
- De Daniel Ducat en 05-22-21
De: Mark Bittman
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Owning the Earth
- The Transforming History of Land Ownership
- De: Andro Linklater
- Narrado por: J. Paul Guimont
- Duración: 17 h y 9 m
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The history and evolution of land ownership is a fascinating chronicle in the history of civilization, offering unexpected insights about how various forms of democracy and capitalism developed, as well as a revealing analysis of a future where the Earth must sustain nine billion lives. Seen through the eyes of remarkable individuals - Chinese emperors; German peasants; the 17th century English surveyor William Petty, who first saw the connection between private property and free-market capitalism.
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Interesting
- De S. Olsen en 06-30-15
De: Andro Linklater
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
- De: Walter Rodney, Angela Y. Davis - foreword
- Narrado por: Mirron Willis
- Duración: 13 h y 21 m
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Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution. In 1980, shortly after founding of the Working People's Alliance in Guyana, the 38-year-old Rodney would be assassinated. In his magnum opus, Rodney incisively argues that grasping "the great divergence" between the West and the rest can only be explained as the exploitation of the latter by the former. This meticulously researched analysis of the repercussions of European colonialism in Africa remains an indispensable study for grasping global inequality today.
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A Superb must read for everyone
- De Joy en 04-16-19
De: Walter Rodney, y otros
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Coffeeland
- One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug
- De: Augustine Sedgewick
- Narrado por: Jason Culp
- Duración: 14 h y 56 m
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Coffee is an indispensable part of daily life for billions of people around the world - one of the most valuable commodities in the history of global capitalism, the leading source of the world's most popular drug, and perhaps the most widespread word on the planet. Augustine Sedgewick's Coffeeland tells the hidden and surprising story of how this came to be, tracing coffee's 500-year transformation from a mysterious Muslim ritual into an everyday necessity.
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Unfortunately
- De Brian en 06-06-20
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Sugar
- The World Corrupted from Slavery to Obesity
- De: James Walvin
- Narrado por: Roger Davis
- Duración: 10 h y 45 m
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How did a simple commodity, once the prized monopoly of kings and princes, become an essential ingredient in the lives of millions, before mutating yet again into the cause of a global health epidemic? Prior to 1600, sugar was a costly luxury, the domain of the rich. But with the rise of the sugar colonies in the New World over the following century, sugar became cheap, ubiquitous, and an everyday necessity. Less than 50 years ago, few people suggested that sugar posed a global health problem.
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I should have listened to the other reviews
- De L. Bergman en 12-31-18
De: James Walvin
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An Empire of Wealth
- The Epic History of American Economic Power
- De: John Steele Gordon
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 14 h y 24 m
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Throughout time, from ancient Rome to modern Britain, the great empires built and maintained their domination through force of arms and political power. But not the United States. America has dominated the world in a new, peaceful, and pervasive way - through the continued creation of staggering wealth. In this authoritative, engrossing history, John Steele Gordon captures as never before the true source of our nation's global influence: wealth and the capacity to create more of it.
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KNOW YOUR HISTORY!
- De CP Guy en 12-22-20
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Slavery's Capitalism
- A New History of American Economic Development
- De: Sven Beckert - editor, Seth Rockman - editor
- Narrado por: William Hughes, Kevin Kenerly, Bahni Turpin, y otros
- Duración: 13 h y 49 m
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During the 19th century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism argues for slavery's centrality to the emergence of American capitalism in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War.
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The volume is so low I can't hear it.
- De Anonymous User en 01-30-18
De: Sven Beckert - editor, y otros
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Late Victorian Holocausts
- El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
- De: Mike Davis
- Narrado por: James Patrick Cronin
- Duración: 15 h y 41 m
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Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history. Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine: India, Northern China, and Northeastern Brazil.
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Mike Davis on Audible!
- De Nathan D. Backlund en 09-02-17
De: Mike Davis
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Blood and Money
- War, Slavery, Finance, and Empire
- De: David McNally
- Narrado por: Tim Getman
- Duración: 11 h y 59 m
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In most accounts of the origins of money, we are offered pleasant tales in which it arises to the mutual benefit of all parties as a result of barter. In this groundbreaking study David McNally reveals the true story of money's origins and development as one of violence and human bondage. Money's emergence and its transformation are shown to be intimately connected to the buying and selling of slaves and the waging of war.
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Blood Money
- De Tyrone en 03-19-22
De: David McNally
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An Edible History of Humanity
- De: Tom Standage
- Narrado por: George K. Wilson
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
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Throughout history, food has acted as a catalyst of social change, political organization, geopolitical competition, industrial development, military conflict, and economic expansion. An Edible History of Humanity is a pithy, entertaining account of how a series of changes---caused, enabled, or influenced by food---has helped to shape and transform societies around the world.
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Flawed, but worthwhile
- De Ary Shalizi en 12-28-17
De: Tom Standage
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Brazil
- The Troubled Rise of a Global Power
- De: Michael Reid
- Narrado por: Michael Healy
- Duración: 16 h y 38 m
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Experts believe that Brazil, the world's fifth largest country and its seventh largest economy, will be one of the most important global powers by the year 2030. Yet far more attention has been paid to the other rising behemoths: Russia, India, and China. Often ignored and underappreciated, Brazil, according to renowned, award-winning journalist Michael Reid, has finally begun to live up to its potential but faces important challenges before it becomes a nation of substantial global significance.
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Good short history of Brazil, lame pronunciation
- De Bubu Mungani en 07-21-19
De: Michael Reid
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- 11-05-23
Important work well-told
Very comprehensive account and analysis from the angles and perspectives of the underside of history. You have to love historical details to stay tuned as it can be a tad dry in places, but it’s thematic arcs and socio-economic critique are poignant and much needed
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