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UP Colony
- The Story of Resource Exploitation in Upper Michigan
- By: Phil Bellfy
- Narrated by: Rory Young
- Length: 2 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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In the 1980s, Phil Bellfy pondered the question: Why does Sault, Ontario, appear to be so prosperous, while the "Sault" on the American side has fallen into such a deplorable state? Could the answer be that the "American side" was little more than a "resource colony"--or to use the academic jargon of "Conflict and Change" Sociology--an "Internal Colony."
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UP Colony
- The Story of Resource Exploitation in Upper Michigan
- Narrated by: Rory Young
- Length: 2 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 27-08-25
- Language: English
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Remembering Peasants
- A Personal History of a Vanished World
- By: Patrick Joyce
- Narrated by: Philip Bird
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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A way of life that once encompassed most of humanity is vanishing in one of the greatest transformations of our time: the eclipse of the rural world by the urban. In this new history of peasantry, Patrick Joyce tells the story of this lost world and its people. In contrast to the usual insulting stereotypes, we discover a rich and complex culture: traditions, songs, celebrations, and revolts, across Europe from the plains of Poland to the farmsteads and villages of Italy and Ireland, through the 19th century to the present day.
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Superb!
- By Martin and Sofia Carter on 21-06-25
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Remembering Peasants
- A Personal History of a Vanished World
- Narrated by: Philip Bird
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 15-02-24
- Language: English
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Land Rich, Cash Poor
- My Family's Hope and the Untold History of the Disappearing American Farmer
- By: Brian Reisinger
- Narrated by: Brian Reisinger
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Taking on this story of heart and hardship, award-winning journalist Brian Reisinger weaves forgotten eras of American history with his own family’s four-generation fight for survival in Midwestern farm country. Listeners learn the truth about America’s most detrimental and unexplained socioeconomic crisis: How the family farms that feed us went from cutting a middle-class path through the Great Depression to barely making ends meet in modern America.
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Land Rich, Cash Poor
- My Family's Hope and the Untold History of the Disappearing American Farmer
- Narrated by: Brian Reisinger
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 13-08-24
- Language: English
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Remembering Peasants
- A Personal History of a Vanished World
- By: Patrick Joyce
- Narrated by: Philip Bird
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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“I had been waiting for much of my life to read this extraordinary book…there are clues and messages for every fortunate reader who picks it up.” —Annie Proulx *A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice* A landmark history of the peasant experience, exploring a now neglected way of...
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Remembering Peasants
- A Personal History of a Vanished World
- Narrated by: Philip Bird
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 20-02-24
- Language: English
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The Heartland
- An American History
- By: Kristin L. Hoganson
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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A history of a quintessentially American place--the rural and small town heartland--that uncovers deep yet hidden currents of connection with the world. When Kristin L. Hoganson arrived in Champaign, Illinois, after teaching at Harvard, studying at Yale, and living in the D.C. metro area with...
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The Heartland
- An American History
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 23-04-19
- Language: English
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The Countryside
- Ten Rural Walks Through Britain and Its Hidden History of Empire
- By: Corinne Fowler
- Narrated by: Corinne Fowler
- Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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An Air Mail Editors’ Pick Ten walks through idyllic scenery reveal rural Britain’s forgotten links to transatlantic slavery and colonialism—a “revelatory travelogue-cum-exposé” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) that will transform our understanding of the English countryside and its...
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The Countryside
- Ten Rural Walks Through Britain and Its Hidden History of Empire
- Narrated by: Corinne Fowler
- Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 11-06-24
- Language: English
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