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  • Property Values

    The Rise and Fall of the American Homeowner

    de Joshua Specht ...
    A wide-ranging history of American land ownership, from westward expansion to the suburban housing crisisFrom its very beginnings, the United States has defined itself by its relationship to land. Settlers saw the continent as the raw material for building a prosperous life while their leaders viewed it as a means for building a people. In the 1950s, the suburban home became a place for Americans ... Leer más

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  • An Analysis of Alfred W. Crosby's The Columbian Exchange

    Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492

    Series series The Macat Library
    One criticism of history is that historians all too often study it in isolation, failing to take advantage of models and evidence from scholars in other disciplines. This is not a charge that can be laid at the door of Alfred Crosby. His book The Columbian Exchange not only incorporates the results of wide reading in the hard sciences, anthropology and geography, but also stands as one of the ... Leer más

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  • An Analysis of Bernard Bailyn's The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

    Series series The Macat Library
    Historians of the American Revolution had always seen the struggle for independence either as a conflict sparked by heavyweight ideology, or as a war between opposing social groups acting out of self-interest.In The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, Bernard Bailyn begged to differ, re-examining familiar evidence to establish new connections that in turn allowed him to generate fresh ... Leer más

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  • Red Meat Republic

    A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America

    de Joshua Specht ...
    Series series Histories of Economic Life
    How beef conquered America and gave rise to the modern industrial food complexBy the late nineteenth century, Americans rich and poor had come to expect high-quality fresh beef with almost every meal. Beef production in the United States had gone from small-scale, localized operations to a highly centralized industry spanning the country, with cattle bred on ranches in the rural West, slaughtered ... Leer más

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    Red Meat Republic

    A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America

    de Joshua Specht ...
    Narrado por John Chancer ...
    Series series Histories of Economic Life

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    9 hora 28 minutos

    In this audiobook, John Chancer narrates the story of how beef conquered America and gave rise to the modern industrial food complexBy the late nineteenth century, Americans rich and poor had come to expect high-quality fresh beef with almost every meal. Beef production in the United States had gone from small-scale, localized operations to a highly centralized industry spanning the country, with ... Leer más

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    The Macat Analysis of Alfred W. Crosby's The Columbian Exchange

    de Joshua Specht ...
    Narrado por John Chancer ...

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    1 horas 39 minutos

    Crosby’s landmark 1972 work argues that environmental factors shape our history just as much as—and sometimes more than—human factors. While earlier scholars emphasized cultural and technological factors as defining the way our world developed, Crosby claims that nonhuman factors, such as the exchange of plants, animals, and microbes between the Old and New Worlds, had greater overall impact. ¶One ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

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    The Macat Analysis of Bernard Bailyn's The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

    de Joshua Specht ...
    Narrado por John Chancer ...

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    1 horas 55 minutos

    Before Bailyn’s 1967 work, it was generally accepted that the American Revolution was driven by social conflict between settlers and the British government and class conflict in American society. However, Bailyn’s Pulitzer-winning work proposed that radical ideas, not social conflict, fired the American Revolution, and it was an ideological, constitutional, and political struggle. He showed how ... Leer más

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  • The Kansas Beef Industry

    This book relates the modern development of the Kansas beef cattle industry, combining both the history of production—including specific business problems and the significant work in upbreeding—and an examination of the marketing aspects of the industry that became so important during the twentieth century. Sharpest focus is on the period 1890 to 1940, after the Western beef industry had passed ... Leer más

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