Industrial History

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    • Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
    • By: Stacy Horn
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 400 ratings
    • Today it is known as Roosevelt Island. In 1828, when New York City purchased this narrow, two-mile-long island in the East River, it was called Blackwell's Island. There, over the next hundred years, the city would build a lunatic asylum, prison, hospital, workhouse, and almshouse....

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    • The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America
    • By: Jack Kelly
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 100 ratings
    • The dramatic story of the explosive 1894 clash of industry, labor, and government that shook the nation and marked a turning point for America. The Edge of Anarchy offers a vivid account of the greatest uprising of working people in American history....

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    • Past, Present, and Future
    • By: Michael B. A. Oldstone
    • Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
    • Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 549 ratings
    • The story of viruses and humanity is a story of fear and ignorance, of grief and heartbreak, and of great bravery and sacrifice. Michael Oldstone tells all these stories as he illuminates the history of the devastating diseases that have tormented humanity....

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    • The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America
    • By: Christopher Leonard
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 23 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 735 ratings
    • Christopher Leonard’s Kochland uses the extraordinary account of how the biggest private company in the world grew to be that big to tell the story of modern corporate America....

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    • The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766
    • By: Fred Anderson
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 29 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 624 ratings
    • In this vivid and compelling narrative, the Seven Years' War - long seen as a mere backdrop to the American Revolution - takes on a whole new significance. Relating the history of the war as it developed, Anderson shows how the complex array of forces brought into conflict helped both....

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    • On (Not) Getting By in America
    • By: Barbara Ehrenreich
    • Narrated by: Cristine McMurdo-Wallis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,573 ratings
    • This engrossing piece of undercover reportage has been a fixture on the New York Times best seller list since its publication....

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    • How the Unsolved Murder of a Doctor, a Secret Laboratory in New Orleans and Cancer-Causing Monkey Viruses Are Linked to Lee Harvey Oswald, the JFK Assassination, and Emerging Global Epidemics
    • By: Edward T. Haslam
    • Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
    • Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 782 ratings
    • The 1964 murder of a nationally known cancer researcher sets the stage for this gripping exposé of medical professionals enmeshed in covert government operations....

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    • The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America
    • By: Mark A. Bradley
    • Narrated by: Perry Daniels
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • Blood Runs Coal sheds light on the far-reaching effects of industrial and socioeconomic change that unfold across America to this day....

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    • Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance
    • By: Noam Chomsky, Marv Waterstone
    • Narrated by: Donald Corren
    • Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 398 ratings
    • Is there an alternative to capitalism? In this landmark text Chomsky and Waterstone chart a critical map for a more just and sustainable society....

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    • Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle
    • By: Thea Cooper, Arthur Ainsberg
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Relive the heartwarming true story of the discovery of insulin as it's never been told before. Written with authentic detail and suspense, and featuring walk-ons by William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, and Eli Lilly himself, among many others....

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    • How Medical Detectives Save Lives Threatened by Killer Pandemics, Exotic Viruses, and Drug-Resistant Parasites
    • By: Alexandra Levitt
    • Narrated by: Julie McKay
    • Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 385 ratings
    • Take a visit to the frontline as scientists fight to solve medical mysteries....

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    • Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering
    • By: Norman G. Finkelstein
    • Narrated by: Barry Abrams
    • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-24
    • Language: English
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    • This iconoclastic study was one of the most widely debated books of 2000. Finkelstein indicts with vigor and honesty those who exploit the tragedy of the Holocaust for their own personal political and financial gain.

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    • Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation
    • By: Carl Benedikt Frey
    • Narrated by: Richard Lyddon
    • Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 124 ratings
    • The Technology Trap reveals how the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand economic and political polarization in the age of automation....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: William Bynum
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
    • Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, this Very Short Introduction surveys the history of medicine from classical times to the present....

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    • By: William Knox PhD
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • Scottish History for Dummies pulls back the curtain on how the story of Scotland has shaped the world far beyond its borders. From its turbulent past to the present day, this informative guide sheds a new and timely light on the story of Scotland and its people....

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    • Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II
    • By: Evelyn M. Monahan, Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 21 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 115 ratings
    • From the North African and Italian campaigns to the liberation of France and the conquest of Germany, Army nurses rose to the demands of war on the front lines with grit, humor, and great heroism. And If I Perish is also a powerful tribute to these women and their inspiring legacy....

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    • An Informal History of the 1920s
    • By: Frederick Lewis Allen
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 372 ratings
    • In this span between armistice and depression, Americans were kicking up their heels....

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    • A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry
    • By: Ned Sublette, Constance Sublette
    • Narrated by: Robin Eller
    • Length: 30 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 155 ratings
    • The American Slave Coast is an alternative history of the United States that presents the slavery business, as well as familiar historical figures and events, in a revealing new light....

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    • Disease and the Course of Human History
    • By: Kyle Harper
    • Narrated by: Tim Fannon
    • Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 88 ratings
    • Plagues upon the Earth tells the story of how pathogenic microbes have been an intimate part of human history from the beginning - and how our deadliest germs and biggest pandemics are the product of our success as a species....

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