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A people's history of the United States / Howard Zinn.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Harper Perennial modern classicsEdition: First Harper Perennial Modern Classics deluxe editionDescription: 729, 16 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780061965586
  • 0061965588
  • 9780061965593
  • 0061965596
  • 9780062693013
  • 0062693018
  • 9780060838652
  • 0060838655
  • 9780062397348
  • 0062397346
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 973 22
LOC classification:
  • E178 .Z75 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Columbus, the Indians, and human progress -- Drawing the color line -- Persons of mean and vile condition -- Tyranny is tyranny -- A kind of revolution -- The intimately oppressed -- As long as grass grows or water runs -- We take nothing by conquest, thank God -- Slavery without submission, emancipation without freedom -- The other civil war -- Robber barons and rebels -- The empire and the people -- The socialist challenge -- War is the health of the state -- Self-help in hard times -- A people's war? -- "Or does it explode?" -- The impossible victory : Vietnam -- Surprises -- The seventies : under control? -- Carter-Reagan-Bush : the bipartisan consensus -- The unreported resistance -- The coming revolt of the guards -- The Clinton presidency -- The 2000 election and the "war on terrorism." -- Afterword.
Summary: Presents the history of the United States from the point of view of those who were exploited in the name of American progress.
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First Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition published in 2005.

Originally published: New York : Harper & Row, 1980.

"P.S.: insights, interviews & more ..."--16 pages following main text.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 689-708) and index.

Columbus, the Indians, and human progress -- Drawing the color line -- Persons of mean and vile condition -- Tyranny is tyranny -- A kind of revolution -- The intimately oppressed -- As long as grass grows or water runs -- We take nothing by conquest, thank God -- Slavery without submission, emancipation without freedom -- The other civil war -- Robber barons and rebels -- The empire and the people -- The socialist challenge -- War is the health of the state -- Self-help in hard times -- A people's war? -- "Or does it explode?" -- The impossible victory : Vietnam -- Surprises -- The seventies : under control? -- Carter-Reagan-Bush : the bipartisan consensus -- The unreported resistance -- The coming revolt of the guards -- The Clinton presidency -- The 2000 election and the "war on terrorism." -- Afterword.

Presents the history of the United States from the point of view of those who were exploited in the name of American progress.

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