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Corsets and Codpieces
- A History of Outrageous Fashion, from Roman Times to the Modern Era
- De: Karen Bowman
- Narrado por: Susan Duerden
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 103
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 93
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 90
Have you ever wondered why we wear the type of clothes we do? Packed with outlandish outfits, this exciting history of fashion trends reveals the flamboyant fashions adopted (and discarded) by our ancestors. In the days before cosmetic surgery, people used bum rolls and bombastic breeches to augment their figures, painted their faces with poisonous concoctions, and doused themselves with scent to cover body odor.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A poorly researched and weirdly sexist read
- De Interregnum Rex en 08-26-17
- Corsets and Codpieces
- A History of Outrageous Fashion, from Roman Times to the Modern Era
- De: Karen Bowman
- Narrado por: Susan Duerden
A poorly researched and weirdly sexist read
Revisado: 08-26-17
Let's put aside the complete historical apocrypha frequently referenced as fact throughout and address the author's homophobia (in their disgust for the 'foppishness' of previous ages) and sexism. It's pretty bizarre that the author of a treatise on the history of fashion would spend almost all their time discussing the male reaction to women's fashion choices, particularly in the 19th century section, with absolutely zero critical eye on why these comments were being made, and almost no references to what the women themselves thought at the time. The chunk on crinolines is the most extreme example. It lacks any historical context, and implies women who died by accidentally burning to death were at fault, offering up a single article by a woman in defence if the fashion after running through literally an entire chapter of male voices decrying them and mocking women who died while wearing them. Gross.
Acknowledgement of women's contributions to a heavily female-focused art form are cursory - with the author vastly preferring to spend a majority of her time discussing the reactions of male preachers and politicians to fashion. That would be fine if she made an effort to offer any historical context of any kind, which she does not. Where sexism is acknowledged, it somehow also manages to be very strange and gross - a preacher is "within his bounds" to say bobbing a woman's hair is disgusting according to scripture, but goes "a sexist step too far" only when he makes a separate comment. I think this is an attempt by the author to acknowledge historical context, but even so, it's clumsily done and doesn't make whatever point she was driving at.
At its best the book is sometimes entertaining, but it is consistently poorly written and researched. A waste of time for anyone interested in serious discussions of fashion history in a social context.
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The Courtiers
- Splendor and Intrigue in the Georgian Court at Kensington Palace
- De: Lucy Worsley
- Narrado por: Heather Wilds
- Duración: 10 h y 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 321
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 290
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 288
Kensington Palace is now most famous as the former home of Diana, Princess of Wales, but the palace's glory days came between 1714 and 1760, during the reigns of George I and II. In the 18th century, this palace was a world of skullduggery, intrigue, politicking, etiquette, wigs, and beauty spots, where fans whistled open like switchblades and unusual people were kept as curiosities. Lucy Worsley's The Courtiers charts the trajectory of the fantastically quarrelsome Hanovers and the last great gasp of British court life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good Social Overview
- De Teadrinker en 08-05-14
- The Courtiers
- Splendor and Intrigue in the Georgian Court at Kensington Palace
- De: Lucy Worsley
- Narrado por: Heather Wilds
Lucy worsley rocks, deserves a better narrator
Revisado: 03-03-17
An excellent book, well up to the usual, wonderful standards of Worsley's chatty histories. The narrator left a lot to be desired, however. Her accent was strangely awkward, and I was convinced it was fake until she did an impressively bad American accent halfway through the book. Her accents, on the whole, we're comical, though her German accent was passingly okay. Next time let Worsley read her own book in that delightfully plummy voice of hers!
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The Medici
- Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance
- De: Paul Strathern
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 16 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,597
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,389
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,383
Against the background of an age that saw the rebirth of ancient and classical learning, Paul Strathern explores the intensely dramatic rise and fall of the Medici family in Florence as well as the Italian Renaissance, which they did so much to sponsor and encourage. Interwoven into the narrative are the lives of many of the great Renaissance artists with whom the Medici had dealings, including Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Donatello as well as scientists like Galileo and Pico della Mirandola.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Fun Story Bad History
- De Elizabeth Barrett en 05-09-16
- The Medici
- Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance
- De: Paul Strathern
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
Greay story marred by inaccuracy and homophobia
Revisado: 02-08-17
Overall, this is a gripping and well told history of the Medici. Its largest issues are in its reliance on apocryphal, since disproven stories and ideas, and its author's clear distaste and antiquated ideas of the many homosexual and bisexual men in his story. When a historian puts forward the theory, in all seriousness, that someone's overbearing mother "made them a homosexual," they lose all credit for me as an academic. Combine this with some inaccuracies and apocrypha mentioned as fact, and I just can't take it seriously. A real shame.
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Undisclosed Files of the Police
- Cases from the Archives of the NYPD from 1831 to the Present
- De: Bernard Whalen, Philip Messing, Robert Mladinich
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim
- Duración: 10 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 121
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 110
More than 175 years of true crimes culled from the city's police blotter, told through an insightful text by two NYPD officers and a NYC crime reporter. From atrocities that occurred before the establishment of New York's police force in 1845 through the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in 2001 to the present day, this audio is an insider's look at more than 80 real-life crimes that shocked the nation, from arson to gangland murders, robberies, serial killers, bombings, and kidnappings.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good History of Crime in NYC
- De Bob Shinders en 03-10-17
- Undisclosed Files of the Police
- Cases from the Archives of the NYPD from 1831 to the Present
- De: Bernard Whalen, Philip Messing, Robert Mladinich
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim
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Revisado: 01-22-17
Bad editing at the beginning - heard the author clear his throat at the end of the introduction. Reader was excellent. Book was a bit thin on the research and obviously focused on lionizing the NYPD, but entertaining on the whole.
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