Book
A people's history of the United States
Edition
Harper hardcover edition.
Publication Information
[New York, NY] : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]
Physical Description
xx, 729 pages ; 24 cm
Summary
Presents the history of the United States from the point of view of those who were exploited in the name of American progress.
Notes
"With a new introduction by Anthony Arnove"--Cover.
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."