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A people's history of the United States : 1492-present / Howard Zinn.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Harper Perennial modern classicsPublication details: New York : HarperPerennial, 2003.Description: 729 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0060838655 (pbk.)
  • 9780060838652 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 973.92 ZIN 22
LOC classification:
  • E178 .Z75 2005
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."
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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Book Book The Mico University College General Stacks Non-fiction 973.92 ZIN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 74401

"P.S., Insights, interviews & more ..."--Cover.

This ed. originally published: c2003.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [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."

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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