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How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation
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Honey bees - and the qualities associated with them - have quietly influenced American values for four centuries. During every major period in the country's history, bees and beekeepers have represented order and stability in a country without a national religion, political party, or language. Bees in America is an enlightening cultural history of bees and beekeeping in the United States. Tammy Horn, herself a beekeeper, offers a varied social and technological history from the colonial period, when the British first introduced bees to the New World, to the present, when bees are being used by the American military to detect bombs. Still a powerful representation of success, the industrious honey bee continues to serve both as a source of income and a metaphor for globalization as America emerges as a leader in the Information Age.
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The World That Made New Orleans
- From Spanish Silver to Congo Square
- By: Ned Sublette
- Narrated by: Sean Crisden
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
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Offering a new perspective on the unique cultural influences of New Orleans, this entertaining history captures the soul of the city and reveals its impact on the rest of the nation. Focused on New Orleans' first century of existence, a comprehensive, chronological narrative of the political, cultural, and musical development of Louisiana's early years is presented.
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great book; terrible "performance"
- By WGNYC on 11-28-17
By: Ned Sublette
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A Different Mirror
- A History of Multicultural America
- By: Ronald Takaki
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 18 hrs and 35 mins
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Upon its first publication, A Different Mirror was hailed by critics and academics everywhere as a dramatic new retelling of our nation's past. Beginning with the colonization of the New World, it recounts the history of America in the voice of the non-Anglo peoples of the United States---Native Americans, African Americans, Jews, Irish Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, and others---groups who helped create this country's rich mosaic culture.
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All mirrors distort
- By Michael on 04-02-17
By: Ronald Takaki
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Chocolate Wars
- The 150-Year Rivalry Between the World's Greatest Chocolate Makers
- By: Deborah Cadbury
- Narrated by: Deborah Cadbury
- Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
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With a cast of characters that wouldnt be out of place in a Victorian novel, Chocolate Wars tells the story of the great chocolatier dynasties, through the prism of the Cadburys. Chocolate was consumed unrefined and unprocessed as a rather bitter, fatty drink for the wealthy elite until the late 19th century, when the Swiss discovered a way to blend it with milk and unleashed a product that would conquer every market in the world.
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The World of Chocolate
- By Jean on 11-05-14
By: Deborah Cadbury
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Holding Our World Together
- Ojibwe Women and the Survival of the Community
- By: Brenda J. Child, Colin Calloway
- Narrated by: Alma Cuervo
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
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In this fascinating work, Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Minnesota and Red Lake Ojibwe Nation member Brenda J. Child spotlights the remarkable women of the Ojibwe Nation. A stunning look at a seldom explored subject in history, Holding Our World Together shows how American Indian women have profoundly influenced Native American life - from the days of the European fur trade to the present - in activism, community, and beyond.
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Great book! Great narrator!
- By Briana Matrious on 10-03-18
By: Brenda J. Child, and others
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
- Native America from 1890 to the Present
- By: David Treuer
- Narrated by: Tanis Parenteau
- Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
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The received idea of Native American history - as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - has been that American Indian history essentially ended with the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. Not only did 150 Sioux die at the hands of the US Cavalry, the sense was, but Native civilization did as well. Growing up Ojibwe on a reservation in Minnesota, training as an anthropologist, and researching Native life past and present for his nonfiction and novels, David Treuer has uncovered a different narrative.
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excellent text, awful narrator
- By D. Rubinstein on 12-01-19
By: David Treuer
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American Slavery, American Freedom
- By: Edmund S. Morgan
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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"If it is possible to understand the American paradox, the marriage of slavery and freedom, Virginia is surely the place to begin," writes Edmund S. Morgan in American Slavery, American Freedom, a study of the tragic contradiction at the core of America. Morgan finds the key to this central paradox in the people and politics of the state that was both the birthplace of the revolution and the largest slaveholding state in the country.
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Explaining the great American contradiction
- By Roger on 09-16-14
By: Edmund S. Morgan
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African Founders
- How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals
- By: David Hackett Fischer
- Narrated by: Lamarr Gulley
- Length: 35 hrs and 55 mins
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African Founders explores the little-known history of how enslaved people from different regions of Africa interacted with colonists of European origins to create new regional cultures in the colonial United States. The Africans brought with them linguistic skills, novel techniques of animal husbandry and farming, and generations-old ethical principles, among other attributes. This startling history reveals how much our country was shaped by these African influences in its early years, producing a new distinctly American culture.
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faux vocalizations
- By Porter on 08-19-22
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Millennium
- From Religion to Revolution: How Civilization Has Changed over a Thousand Years
- By: Ian Mortimer
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
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In Millennium, best-selling historian Ian Mortimer takes the listener on a whirlwind tour of the last 10 centuries of Western history. It is a journey into a past vividly brought to life and bursting with ideas, that pits one century against another in his quest to measure which century saw the greatest change. We journey from a time when there was a fair chance of your village being burned to the ground by invaders - and dried human dung was a recommended cure for cancer - to a world in which explorers sailed into the unknown and civilizations came into conflict.
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Bad ending - literally
- By John Gordon on 12-14-16
By: Ian Mortimer
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Indian Givers
- How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World
- By: Jack Weatherford
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
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After 500 years, the world's huge debt to the wisdom of the Indians of the Americas has finally been explored in all its vivid drama by anthropologist Jack Weatherford. He traces the crucial contributions made by the Indians to our federal system of government, our democratic institutions, modern medicine, agriculture, architecture, and ecology, and in this astonishing, ground-breaking book takes a giant step toward recovering a true American history.
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All things Jack Weatherford
- By Robert on 06-03-10
By: Jack Weatherford
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Strangers from a Different Shore
- A History of Asian Americans
- By: Ronald Takaki
- Narrated by: David Shih
- Length: 24 hrs and 41 mins
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In an extraordinary blend of narrative history, personal recollection, and oral testimony, the author presents a sweeping history of Asian Americans. This is a powerful and moving work that will resonate for all Americans, who together make up a nation of immigrants from other shores.
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Eye opening to the way immigrants are treated
- By Amazon Customer on 10-06-20
By: Ronald Takaki
What listeners say about Bees in America
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- Tim H.
- 09-19-17
informative and interesting
a lot of great information. Will need to listen several times to retain some of it.
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- James Morris
- 11-21-15
Beekeeping changed America
If you like the development or understanding of American history. This book does a wonderful job explaining how it developed American ideas and philosophy of independence and individualism
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- Drone Boy
- 11-25-20
Sweetness And Light
This is the best introduction to the cultural history of bees in America, period! Horn's history is also highly inclusive and ends with an eye to the future of beekeeping. A must read for those who love bees and are interested in their cultural importance.
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- Jason
- 06-23-21
Annoying narrator
The content of the book is fascinating, and presented well, but the reader could use some practice. I could overlook the mispronunciations, but the constant taking of breaths mid-sentence is very distracting.
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- David B
- 03-10-14
Very thorough
Would you try another book from Tammy Horn and/or Laura Jennings?
I would not try to listen to another reading from Laura Jennings. She never takes a breath. On and on and on! Very little phrasing, very little variation in tone. It took everything I had to listen to the end.
What was one of the most memorable moments of Bees in America?
The book itself must have been a doctoral thesis. IT is so very complete. I was more interested in the science and it was very complete. It gave history and special developments in modern bee keeping. I thought that it was fascinating how one researcher found out how close to place the frames in the hive so that the bees would build on the frames themselves. It allowed the honey and combs to be easily removed and harvested.
Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Laura Jennings?
I don't know, but it seemed like she was under some time compulsion. Maybe she was trying to drone on like the sound of the bees!?!
Did Bees in America inspire you to do anything?
I have thought that it would be interesting to keep bees some day. It makes you think that there could be a small living from it.
Any additional comments?
I liked most of the book. The author delved deeply into cultural elements and how the image and concept of the bee was used in marketing and music. I was less interested in this and more interested in the science.
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- DaughterB
- 04-10-20
Much Research
Much research went into this book. I look forward to reading it a second time.
You will walk away with an inclusive history of our country. Bees in America continuously captives the listener. I thoroughly enjoyed this book.
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- Filipe Antunes
- 07-11-20
worth reading
Really interesting not only for the bee inclined person. For me was also an introduction to the agrarian history of America. On my list to have a second listen as in this first I'm afraid I missed a lot. As a secondary point of interest a set of clues on literature related to bees. Definitely worth the time.
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- Chris
- 09-11-18
Unbearable
I generally don't rate audiobooks by the quality of performance. It doesn't seem quite fair to evaluate the written work by the skills of the reader.
This is an exception.
How on earth did Audible allow such a poor reading onto its site? I can promise, I'm not going to pay for it. As soon as I'm finished with this review, I'll begin seeking a refund.
It may be that there is a language where rhythm doesn't count, but it does in English. So. If I. Arbitrarily break sentences into phrases. Of a predetermined number of syllables that appears to vary by line. It WillBeVeryConfusingForMyAuditorsAndWillUndermineTheStorytelling. It. Doesn't seem. ThatIShouldHave. ToExpllainThisToACompany. Where.
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As if the horrible pacing weren't bad enough, the reader delivers her work in a monotone.
Is this an experiment in machine reading?
OneMystery is. HowComeThisAppalinglyIneptWorkDidn'tComeThrough. In the preview.
It didn't. Don't be fooled. Don't buy this book. Again, I think it's only fair to require competent work.
I have given the story two stars because the writer had an interesting idea that I would have been delighted to hear. I'll bet she would have developed it. Unfortunately, it's as though she had taken her galleys to a printing press where all the plates had been ruined by fire and that was incapable of printing anything except blurry pages.
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