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Book

A people's history of the United States

Call Number

  • 973 Z78 2003 (CEN)

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Edition

Abridged teaching edition, revised and updated.

Publication Information

New York : New Press, ©2003.

Physical Description

xv, 619 pages ; 24 cm

Summary

A social and cultural history of the United States, beginning with the arrival of Columbus in the Bahamas in 1492 and continuing through the 2000 presidential election and war on terrorism, focusing on the human cost of the decisions made by politicians and businessmen, and including a bibliography and index.

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."

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