Americas Urban History

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    • Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
    • By: Khalil Gibran Muhammad
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Lynch mobs, chain gangs, and popular views of black Southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow South are well known. We know less about the role of the urban North in shaping views of race....

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    • How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
    • By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 24-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Narrating the story of a sea-change in housing policy and its dire impact on African Americans, Race for Profit reveals how the urban core was transformed into a new frontier of cynical extraction....

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    • The Strange History of New York's Oldest Street
    • By: Stephen Paul DeVillo
    • Narrated by: Daniel Henning
    • Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 29-06-21
    • Language: English
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    • It was the street your mother warned you about - even if you lived in San Francisco. Long associated with skid row, saloons, freak shows, violence, and vice, the Bowery often showed the worst New York City had to offer. Yet there were times when it showed its best as well....

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    • One Man and the Battle for Rio
    • By: Misha Glenny
    • Narrated by: Misha Glenny
    • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 17-09-15
    • Language: English
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    • Nemesis is the story of an ordinary man who became the king of the largest slum in Rio, the head of a drug cartel and perhaps Brazil’s most wanted criminal....

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    • The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America's Bohemian Music Capital
    • By: David Browne
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 17-09-24
    • Language: English
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    • The definitive history of the rise and heyday of the revolutionary Greenwich Village music scene, based on new research and first-hand interviews with many of its legendary performers.

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    • The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America
    • By: Gene Weingarten
    • Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
    • Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 22-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • One Day asks and answers the question of whether there is even such a thing as "ordinary" when we are talking about how we all lurch and stumble our way through the daily, daunting challenge of being human....

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    • Good Neighbourhoods, Crazy Politics and the Ivention of Toronto
    • By: Edward Keenan
    • Narrated by: Adam Paul
    • Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 30-10-13
    • Language: English
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    • Since 2010, Toronto's headlines have been consumed by the outrageous personal foibles and government-slashing, anti-urbanist policies of Mayor Rob Ford....

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    • A Study in Urban Revolution
    • By: Dan Georgakas, Marvin Surkin
    • Narrated by: Brian Jones, David Sadzin, Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 25-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • This new South End Press edition makes available the full text of this out-of-print classic - along with a new foreword by Manning Marable, interviews with participants in DRUM, and reflections on political developments over the past three decades by Georgakas and Surkin....

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    • Fast Times, Wild Rides, and the Untold Story of America's Most Dangerous Amusement Park
    • By: Andy Mulvihill, Jake Rossen
    • Narrated by: Michael Satow
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 30-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • The outlandish, hilarious, terrifying, and almost impossible-to-believe story of the legendary, dangerous amusement park where millions were entertained and almost as many bruises were sustained, told through the eyes of the founder's son....

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    • By: Joan Didion
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck
    • Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Miami is not just a portrait of a city, but a masterly study of immigration and exile, passion, hypocrisy, and political violence....

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    • An Olfactory History of 19th-Century Urban America (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
    • By: Melanie A. Kiechle
    • Narrated by: Dana Brewer Harris
    • Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 22-11-17
    • Language: English
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    • What did 19th-century cities smell like? And how did odors matter in the formation of a modern environmental consciousness? Smell Detectives follows the 19th-century Americans who used their noses to make sense of the sanitary challenges caused by rapid urban and industrial growth....

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    • Coming to Terms with Los Angeles
    • By: David Ulin
    • Narrated by: LJ Ganser
    • Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 01-04-16
    • Language: English
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    • David L. Ulin offers a compelling inquiry into the evolving landscape of Los Angeles. Part personal narrative, part investigation of the city as both idea and environment, Sidewalking is many things....

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    • The Rise of Cities and the Fall of Cars
    • By: Samuel I. Schwartz, William Rosen - contributor
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 15-09-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • With wit and sharp insight, former Traffic Commissioner of New York City, Sam Schwartz a.k.a. "Gridlock Sam", uncovers how American cities became so beholden to cars....

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    • Transience and San Francisco's Urban History, 1848–1917
    • By: James Mallery
    • Narrated by: Chaz Allen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 29-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • San Francisco’s reputation for accommodating progressive and unconventional identities can find its roots in the waves of transients and migrants that flocked to San Francisco between the gold rush and World War I.

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    • The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago
    • By: Gary Krist
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 17-04-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • When 1919 began, the city of Chicago seemed on the verge of transformation....

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    • Early American Studies
    • By: Marisa J. Fuentes
    • Narrated by: Carrie Burgess
    • Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 15-11-18
    • Language: English
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    • In the 18th century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Marisa J. Fuentes creates a portrait of urban Caribbean slavery in this colonial town from the perspective of these women whose stories appear only briefly in historical records....

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    • A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America
    • By: Kali Nicole Gross
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 17-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Shortly after a dismembered torso was discovered by a pond outside Philadelphia in 1887, investigators homed in on two suspects: Hannah Mary Tabbs, a married, working-class Black woman, and George Wilson, a former neighbor whom Tabbs implicated after her arrest....

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