10 Best Economic History, History Books
Economic History, History is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Economic History, History audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 10 Economic History, History audiobooks below.
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The Half Has Never Been Told
- By: Edward E Baptist
- Narrator: Ron Butler
- Length: 19 hours 47 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: September 14, 2021
- Language: English
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4.46(4157 ratings)
4.46(4157 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0038.99 USDWinner of the 2015 Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American HistoriansWinner of the 2015 Sidney Hillman PrizeA groundbreaking history demonstrating that America’s economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslavedWinner of the 2015 Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American Historians
Winner of the 2015 Sidney Hillman Prize
A groundbreaking history demonstrating that America’s economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people
Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution — the nation’s original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America’s later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy. As historian Edward E. Baptist reveals in The Half Has Never Been Told, the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States. In the span of a single lifetime, the South grew from a narrow coastal strip of worn-out tobacco plantations to a continental cotton empire, and the United States grew into a modern, industrial, and capitalist economy.
Told through the intimate testimonies of survivors of slavery, plantation records, newspapers, as well as the words of politicians and entrepreneurs, The Half Has Never Been Told offers a radical new interpretation of American history.
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Broken Bargain
- By: Kathleen Day
- Narrator: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 15 hours 41 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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4.39(25 ratings)
4.39(25 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDA history of major financial crises—and how taxpayers have been left with the bill In the 1930s, battered and humbled by the Great Depression, the US financial sector struck a grand bargain with the federal government. Bankers gained a safetyA history of major financial crises—and how taxpayers have been left with the bill
In the 1930s, battered and humbled by the Great Depression, the US financial sector struck a grand bargain with the federal government. Bankers gained a safety net in exchange for certain curbs on their freedom: transparency rules, record-keeping and anti-fraud measures, and fiduciary responsibilities. Despite subsequent periodic changes in these regulations, the underlying bargain played a major role in preserving the stability of the financial markets as well as the larger economy. By the free-market era of the 1980s and 90s, however, Wall Street argued that rules embodied in New Deal–era regulations to protect consumers and ultimately taxpayers were no longer needed—and government agreed.
This engaging history documents the country’s financial crises, focusing on those of the 1920s, the 1980s, and the 2000s, and reveals how the two more recent crises arose from the neglect of this fundamental bargain.
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The Unwinding
- By: George Packer
- Narrator: Robert Fass
- Length: 18 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: May 21, 2013
- Language: English
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4.13(9070 ratings)
4.13(9070 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0032.99 USDNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKAN NPR BEST BOOK Selected by New York Times‘ critic Dwight Garner as a Favorite Book A Washington Post Best Political Book A New Republic Best BookA rivetingNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
AN NPR BEST BOOKSelected by New York Times‘ critic Dwight Garner as a Favorite Book
A Washington Post Best Political Book
A New Republic Best Book
A riveting examination of a nation in crisis, from one of the finest political journalists of our generationAmerican democracy is beset by a sense of crisis. Seismic shifts during a single generation have created a country of winners and losers, allowing unprecedented freedom while rending the social contract, driving the political system to the verge of breakdown, and setting citizens adrift to find new paths forward. In The Unwinding, George Packer, author of The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq, tells the story of the United States over the past three decades in an utterly original way, with his characteristically sharp eye for detail and gift for weaving together complex narratives.
The Unwinding journeys through the lives of several Americans, including Dean Price, the son of tobacco farmers, who becomes an evangelist for a new economy in the rural South; Tammy Thomas, a factory worker in the Rust Belt trying to survive the collapse of her city; Jeff Connaughton, a Washington insider oscillating between political idealism and the lure of organized money; and Peter Thiel, a Silicon Valley billionaire who questions the Internet’s significance and arrives at a radical vision of the future. Packer interweaves these intimate stories with biographical sketches of the era’s leading public figures, from Newt Gingrich to Jay-Z, and collages made from newspaper headlines, advertising slogans, and song lyrics that capture the flow of events and their undercurrents.
The Unwinding portrays a superpower in danger of coming apart at the seams, its elites no longer elite, its institutions no longer working, its ordinary people left to improvise their own schemes for success and salvation. Packer’s novelistic and kaleidoscopic history of the new America is his most ambitious work to date.
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Escape from Rome
- By: Walter Scheidel
- Length: 21 hours 39 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: October 15, 2019
- Language: English
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4.05(244 ratings)
4.05(244 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.99 USDThe gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern world The fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one of the greatest disasters in history. But in this groundbreaking book, Walter Scheidel argues thatThe gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern world The fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one of the greatest disasters in history. But in this groundbreaking book, Walter Scheidel argues that Rome’s dramatic collapse was actually the best thing that ever happened, clearing the path for Europe’s economic rise and the creation of the modern age. Ranging across the entire premodern world, Escape from Rome offers new answers to some of the biggest questions in history: Why did the Roman Empire appear? Why did nothing like it ever return to Europe? And, above all, why did Europeans come to dominate the world? In an absorbing narrative that begins with ancient Rome but stretches far beyond it, from Byzantium to China and from Genghis Khan to Napoleon, Scheidel shows how the demise of Rome and the enduring failure of empire-building on European soil ensured competitive fragmentation between and within states. This rich diversity encouraged political, economic, scientific, and technological breakthroughs that allowed Europe to surge ahead while other parts of the world lagged behind, burdened as they were by traditional empires and predatory regimes that lived by conquest. It wasn’t until Europe “escaped” from Rome that it launched an economic transformation that changed the continent and ultimately the world. What has the Roman Empire ever done for us? Fall and go away.
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Putinomics
- By: Chris Miller
- Narrator: Traber Burns
- Length: 8 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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3.96(211 ratings)
3.96(211 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDWhen Vladimir Putin first took power in 1999, he was a little-known figure ruling a country that was reeling from a decade and a half of crisis. In the years since, he has reestablished Russia as a great power. How did he do it? What principles haveWhen Vladimir Putin first took power in 1999, he was a little-known figure ruling a country that was reeling from a decade and a half of crisis. In the years since, he has reestablished Russia as a great power. How did he do it? What principles have guided Putin’s economic policies? What patterns can be discerned? In this new analysis of Putin’s Russia, Chris Miller examines its economic policy and the tools Russia’s elite have used to achieve its goals. Miller argues that despite Russia’s corruption, cronyism, and overdependence on oil as an economic driver, Putin’s economic strategy has been surprisingly successful.
Explaining the economic policies that underwrote Putin’s two-decades-long rule, Miller shows how, at every juncture, Putinomics has served Putin’s needs by guaranteeing economic stability and supporting his accumulation of power. Even in the face of Western financial sanctions and low oil prices, Putin has never been more relevant on the world stage.
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Empire of Democracy
- By: Simon Reid-Henry
- Narrator: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 34 hours 33 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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3.91(65 ratings)
3.91(65 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0039.99 USDThe first panoramic history of the Western world from the 1970s to the present day–from the Cold War to the 2008 financial crisis and wars in the Middle East–Empire of Democracy is “a superbly informed and riveting historicalThe first panoramic history of the Western world from the 1970s to the present day–from the Cold War to the 2008 financial crisis and wars in the Middle East–Empire of Democracy is “a superbly informed and riveting historical analysis of our contemporary era” (Charles S. Maier, Harvard University).
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Half a century ago, at the height of the Cold War and amidst a world economic crisis, the Western democracies were forced to undergo a profound transformation. Against what some saw as a full-scale “crisis of democracy”–with race riots, anti-Vietnam marches and a wave of worker discontent sowing crisis from one nation to the next–a new political-economic order was devised and the postwar social contract was torn up and written anew.
In this epic narrative of the events that have shaped our own times, Simon Reid-Henry shows how liberal democracy, and western history with it, was profoundly reimagined when the postwar Golden Age ended. As the institutions of liberal rule were reinvented, a new generation of politicians emerged: Thatcher, Reagan, Mitterrand, Kohl. The late twentieth century heyday they oversaw carried the Western democracies triumphantly to victory in the Cold War and into the economic boom of the 1990s. But equally it led them into the fiasco of Iraq, to the high drama of the financial crisis in 2007/8, and ultimately to the anti-liberal surge of our own times.
The present crisis of liberalism is leading us toward as yet unscripted decades. The era we have all been living through is closing out, and democracy is turning on its axis once again. “Brilliantly, Reid-Henry calls for the salvation of democracy from the choices of its own leaders if it is to survive” (Samuel Moyn, Yale University). -
The New Deal
- By: Michael Hiltzik
- Narrator: Traber Burns
- Length: 19 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2011
- Language: English
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3.85(179 ratings)
3.85(179 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0031.95 USDNew York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Michael Hiltzik tells the epic story of the New Deal through the outsized personalities of the people who fought for it, opposed it, and benefited from it, rendering vitalNew York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Michael Hiltzik tells the epic story of the New Deal through the outsized personalities of the people who fought for it, opposed it, and benefited from it, rendering vital lessons for our own time.
As America struggles with an economic debacle akin to the Great Depression, nothing could be timelier than an authoritative account of the New Deal, masterfully written by Michael Hiltzik, author of the acclaimed history of the Hoover Dam, Colossus.
In this richly peopled, vividly rendered narrative, Hiltzik describes how the urgent short-term relief measures of Franklin Roosevelt’s Hundred Days evolved into a transformative concept of the federal role in American life. Rather than the product of a single ideology, the New Deal emerged from the clash of ideas held by advisors from very different backgrounds. With historical and psychological insight, Hiltzik sheds light on the lives of the gargantuan characters who fought for and against it: Herbert Hoover, whose own administration gave birth to many of the programs that would become part of the New Deal; General Hugh Johnson, the West Pointer whose pugnacious leadership of the National Recovery Administration symbolized the New Deal for millions of Americans; Harry Hopkins, whose closeness to Roosevelt earned him the moniker “deputy president”; and many other fascinating figures. What emerges is a saga of how FDR managed to recast the federal government into something that still inspires: a unifying structure with the concept of social justice at its heart.
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Merchant, Soldier, Sage
- By: David Priestland
- Narrator: John Keating
- Length: 13 hours 12 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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3.61(110 ratings)
3.61(110 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDA bold new interpretation of modern history as a struggle between three economic groups We are now living in an age of merchants, but it was not always so. The history of civilization, in large part, is a story of a battle between agrarianA bold new interpretation of modern history as a struggle between three economic groups
We are now living in an age of merchants, but it was not always so. The history of civilization, in large part, is a story of a battle between agrarian aristocracy, the military, and a class of learned experts, or priests. Yet in seventeenth-century England and in the Netherlands, another group entered the melee for power: the merchants. For the last four decades, the merchant’s power has been unfettered.
In Merchant, Soldier, Sage, acclaimed Oxford scholar David Priestland proposes a radical new approach to understanding today’s balance of power and analyzes the societal and economic historical conditions required for one of these three value systems to dominate. Priestland asserts that, in the wake of the Great Recession, the weakened and discredited merchant still clings to power–but the world is again in the midst of a period of upheaval.
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Shock of Gray
- By: Ted Fishman
- Narrator: Ted Fishman
- Length: 16 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: February 18, 2010
- Language: English
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3.49(168 ratings)
3.49(168 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.99 USDNew York Times best-selling author Ted C. Fishman reveals the stunning challenges of a world awash with seasoned citizens. By 2030, those over 50 will outnumber people under 17 for the first time in history. Fishman explores the resulting impact onNew York Times best-selling author Ted C. Fishman reveals the stunning challenges of a world awash with seasoned citizens. By 2030, those over 50 will outnumber people under 17 for the first time in history. Fishman explores the resulting impact on families, businesses, nations, and medical care.
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The End of Power
- By: Moises Naim
- Narrator: Matt Kugler
- Length: 12 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: January 28, 2020
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USDThe provocative bestseller explaining the decline of power in the twenty-first century — in government, business, and beyond.br> Power is shifting — from large, stable armies to loose bands of insurgents, from corporate leviathans toThe provocative bestseller explaining the decline of power in the twenty-first century — in government, business, and beyond.
br> Power is shifting — from large, stable armies to loose bands of insurgents, from corporate leviathans to nimble start-ups, and from presidential palaces to public squares. But power is also changing, becoming harder to use and easier to lose. In The End of Power, award-winning columnist and former Foreign Policy editor MoisA(c)NaAilluminates the struggle between once-dominant megaplayers and the new micropowers challenging them in every field of human endeavor. Drawing on provocative, original research and a lifetime of experience in global affairs, NaAexplains how the end of power is reconfiguring our world.“The End of Power will . . . change the way you look at the world.” — Bill Clinton
“Extraordinary.” — George Soros
“Compelling and original.” — Arianna Huffington
“A fascinating new perspective . . . NaAmakes eye-opening connections.” — Francis Fukuyama
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